Research–practice partnerships
Questions, evidence and interpretation are developed through reciprocal collaboration.
The Flourish ProjectLearning Lab
Research
Research & Knowledge Creation
Researching with schools, practitioners and young people — not simply on them.
A reciprocal relationship
Schools are places of knowledge creation.
Schools contain enormous amounts of knowledge about learning, relationships, culture, development and change. Too often, that knowledge remains within individual institutions — or schools become simply the subjects of research conducted elsewhere.
The Learning Lab connects academic inquiry, practitioner knowledge and the perspectives of children and young people. Participants can help shape questions, interpret findings and contribute to the knowledge produced.
Approaches
Rigour that remains close to lived experience.
Practitioner inquiry
Professional experience becomes an active source of disciplined learning.
Participatory research
Young people and communities help shape what is studied and how meaning is made.
Developmental evaluation
Evidence supports learning and adaptation within complex, evolving settings.
Learning that can travel
Knowledge takes many forms — and serves more than one audience.
School learning reports, cases, tools and professional resources
Academic papers, comparative inquiry and research synthesis
Policy briefings, conferences and accessible public scholarship
Evidence should serve learning, not surveillance.
The aim is not to find a universal model, but to understand what different contexts can teach us about the conditions that enable flourishing. Research should be useful to schools, credible to researchers and respectful of participating communities.
Help create knowledge worth sharing.
Research collaborations are developed according to the question, partners, capacity and resources involved.
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