Bradford Opportunity Area: Lessons and recommendations for improving social mobility

Read our new report evaluating the Bradford Opportunity Area

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Bradford wins city of culture 2025!

CAER and Born in Bradford will play a crucial role

Child of the North - Building a Fairer Future after COVID-19

Read the report that CAER researchers colloborated on which details the inequalities between children growing up in the North and South of England.

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The Centre for Applied Education Research (CAER) is committed to improving educational outcomes for children and young people (CYP) through the power of science.

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Our Vision : CAER seeks to empower educational settings (schools, nurseries, early year providers) to use evidence-based approaches to identify and remove all barriers to learning.

Our Mission : CAER seeks to realise its vision through the creation of a ‘community of practice’ throughout the UK.

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Our Methodology

All CAER research follows an 'education translation pipeline' to ensure that promising scientific research is translated rapidly but safely into policy, identifying important contextual factors for effective implementation, and allowing the best possible evidence to underpin decision making.

Fundamental Research

Core Science

Fundamental Research

Discovery and Design

Translate

Trials and Assessment

Implement

Large Randomised Controlled Trial

Scale-up

Regional Rollout

National

Evidence-based Policy

Evidence-based Practice

Our eight themes of work were developed on the basis of the evidence and insights provided by teachers and schools to the Royal Society and British Academy in a series of focus group sessions published in 2017.

Our themes and place-based working ensures that we have evidence at the heart of our whole system approach to tackling structural inequalities and supporting children and young people from 0-25 years of age in partnership with communities and educational organisations.

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Latest Blogs & Events

Blog Aug 5, 2022 Schools

INSCHOOL Project

We are now 1 year into the INSCHOOL project, and I want to share our newsletter with you all. It is a brief summary of the work we have done...
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Dr. Simon Pini

Leeds Institute of Health Sciences - NIHR Senior Research Fellow

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Support for Schools

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Living Well Schools

Find out about the Living Well Schools offer on transforming the health and wellbeing of pupils.

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Evidence Active Schools

Find out more about our work on upskilling school staff to engage with research and evidence.

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Webinars

Find out more about our upcoming webinar events.

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Healthy Minds

Find out about our School Staff Welfare Scheme.

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