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Research centre
Leadership, Effective Education and Policy (LEEP)
We bring together colleagues to research the areas of leadership, school improvement, educational effectiveness and policy.
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We aim to influence policy, practice and research methodology across a range of educational contexts and sectors. This includes schools, further education and higher education.
With the support of government agencies, charities and research councils, we have had leading roles in advising policy-makers across the world.
LEEP's main research interests are:
- educational effectiveness
- management, leadership and improvement
- employment policy, lifelong learning and the labour market
- teacher training and teacher effectiveness
- equity, equality and competition
Our research is informed by our focus on:
- advanced quantitative methods
- qualitative approaches, including case-studies of educational organisations
- policy
- social network analysis
- randomised control trials
- conceptual testing
Members perform roles including journal editing, serving on editorial boards and taking leadership roles within the academic community.
People, projects and publications
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Research projects
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MENTOR-EASE
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Privatisation in ESOL: Four-nation comparison
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Post-16 Educational Trajectories and Social Inequalities in Political Engagement
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The Ideas Informed Society
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Recent Graduates' Career Decisions and Outcomes
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Value for Money in Schools
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Publications
Jiayi Cen, Nora McIntyre & Christian Bokhove,
2025
Type: conference
Nora McIntyre,
2025
Type: conference
Rachele Newman, Achala Gupta, Tim Andrews, Alex Boulton, Liam Nicol & Sally Wheeler,
2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/P1228
Type: book
Qun Zheng & Tae-Hee Choi,
2024, Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 9(1)
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My research interests include educational effectiveness and improvement, and the development and use of value-added progress measures in education.