Creativeworks London is the new Knowledge Exchange hub for London, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. It brings new collaborative research opportunities to London’s creative businesses. The Institute of Education is one of thirty-eight London-based universities, colleges, museums, libraries and archives. Together we have unrivalled skills and expertise that can be of benefit to SMEs who are interested in exploring areas
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The ‘Childhoods and Play‘ project is focused on the archival collection of Iona (1923) and Peter Opie (1918-1982) relating to the play and traditions of children. The internationally significant collection contains information contributed by some 20,000 British children, as well as the Opies’ own observations and sound recordings, and is distributed between the Bodleian Libraries, the Folklore Society archives, and
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This project, funded by the European Commission, was a study of film education in 32 EU member states. The project was conducted by the BFI, the UCL Institute of Education, and Film Education. It studied a range of questions, including how film education is perceived in the different countries, what kinds of provision are made and for whom, and where
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MODE is the ESRC research methods node for multimodal methodologies and digital environments. Led by Carey Jewitt at the Institute of Education, University of London, it developed and disseminated expertise across of range of methodological themes, including embodiment, transcription methodologies, social networking and digital video data. Andrew Burn led on mixed methods approaches to multimodal analysis, and on the development of
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This project was funded as one of 30 pilots under the AHRC’s Digital Transformations programme. It developed an authoring tool for young people to use to make computer games based on Macbeth. It was a collaboration between the DARE research centre at the UCL Institute of Education, Shakespeare’s Globe, Immersive Education Ltd, and Coleridge Community College in Cambridge, a campus
Read moreThe Culture Capital Exchange (CCE), based at Somerset House, specialises in Knowledge Exchange in the Arts: they are well-networked and broker relationships between academics, cultural institutions and the creative industries. They hold events such as networking opportunities at private views. The Institute of Education is a subscribing member of this network and Lesley Burgess, Andy Ash, Dominic Wyse, Andrew Burn,
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Professor Andrew Burn, Dr John Potter and Dr Becky Parry won a grant from First Light to make and research young people’s film-making in London, Cambridge and Sheffield. The project is a collaboration with Mark Reid and Michelle Cannon at the BFI, the Sheffield Showroom, the University of Leeds, James Durran from Parkside Federation, the Cambridge Film Consortium, and the
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