Education

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  SHOWCASE:

  Relative Age Effects of school year groups

  A team of researchers from our Carnegie Faculty are raising awareness about developmental differences of children in the same year group and looking at what can be done to tackle the problem.
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  Case Study: Back to Front: Front Gardens that Look and Taste Better

  Leeds Metropolitan University have completed the Back to Front manual to promote front garden food growing. This successful project was driven in partnership with Leeds City Council and NHS Leeds.
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  Applying Research to Inform the Employment, Learning and Skills Agendas

  Leeds Metropolitan is a key influencer in policy-making. Research undertaken for Kirklees Council on the Kirklees Labour Market and Skills Strategy discovered how to improve the skills base of the local economy.
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  Enhancing Assessment, Learning and Teaching

  The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) centre uses research to improve assessment, learning and teaching at Leeds Metropolitan. We run a wide-range of project-based practical research that leads sustainable projects across the university.
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  SHOWCASE:

  Getting Sorted: Created by Young People for Young People

  The award-winning project, Getting Sorted, was created by our Childhood research centre to facilitate workshops and training for young people with long-term health conditions.

• Centre for Academic Practice and Research in Internationalisation

  Capri seeks to revolutionise thinking through the development of a community of practitioners focusing on a forward-looking research, implementation and evaluation agenda.
• Active Lifestyles

  The Active Lifestyles research group takes a holistic approach to public health, exploring how physical activity impacts on physical, social and mental health, as well as responses to physical activity.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  The Centre for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion engages in critical research & analysis that aims to redress inequalities across the broad areas of sport, leisure, physical education, schooling and education.
• Technology Enhanced Learning – TEL

  The Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) team seeks to enhance the student educational experience through embedding the appropriate use of technology in the support and delivery of learning and teaching.
• Sport and Physical Education Pedagogy

  Our research on Sport and Physical Education Pedagogy is organised around a broad and inclusive concept of learning and pedagogy.
• Higher Education

  The Centre is a cross-university initiative which brings together researchers from many disciplines interested in research into higher education policy and practice.
• Pedagogy, Leadership, and Professional Learning

  We inform the development of educational practice and the enhancement of learning experiences. A key feature of our work is the development of school and university research partnerships.
• Childhood

  Our research explores childhood from educational, developmental, health and social policy perspectives, with a key focus on birth to 17 years, including research on how childhood connects with adulthood.