Listen Imagine Compose
The project seeks to address weaknesses in current secondary school music provision.
Read moreWe are currently working on a number of projects within CSPACE. View our current research projects below. You can also see our past projects or view our individual research groups to see a filtered list of projects aligned to our specialisms.
The project seeks to address weaknesses in current secondary school music provision.
Read moreThis project aims to unpack the benefits of Conductive Education (CE) by working with a CE centre in Birmingham.
Read moreWhat has been the impact of the Uni Connect programme across the West Midlands partnership on participating students, t...
Read moreBirmingham City University is proud to partner with the University of Wolverhampton to deliver That’s Me! Eliminatin...
Read moreImproving youth voice and youth-led approaches across Music Education Hubs in the West Midlands to increase engagement ...
Read moreThis project aims to improve the lives of children with complex disabilities by trailing early intervention methods ...
Read moreUnderstanding the impact and effectiveness of the Aim Higher Plus partnership relations and how these contribute to the...
Read moreThis PAR project aims to build a new practitioner research team to generate meaningful research evidence on the barrier...
Read moreWorking with Birmingham Music Education Partnership to assess the music education pupils in primary and secondary scho...
Read moreSex and Relationship Education in schools will always be a contentious topic but to what extent do a teacher’s own vie...
Read moreThis project is supporting pedagogical universities in Viet Nam to provide digital resources and skills to meet the nee...
Read moreCan getting young people involved in musical activities help those at risk of low attainment or exclusion?
Read moreFree school meals can be a vital lifeline for economically disadvantaged families but during the school holidays child...
Read moreA practice-led project that is underpinned by the belief that improving the student learning experience starts by impr...
Read moreExploring the performance of music education hubs across the country
Read moreExploring the early care and education experiences of children born prematurely through reports from parents.
Read moreExploring children's right to make choices and engage in playful activities in restricted environments through music a...
Read moreWhat does classical music mean to today's generation?
Read moreEarly intervention services have the capacity to make big improvements to children's outcomes, but how might these ser...
Read moreExperiences, expectations and possibilities for learning and engagement in education. This research examines students’ ...
Read moreSound Connections, a leading music charity based in London, approached BCU to act as the data analysis partner in an e...
Read moreBirmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.
Read moreRaising awareness of the Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools
Read moreThis project aims to understand how the very youngest children (0 - 3 year olds) are using touchscreen technology in h...
Read moreHow do we asses music proficiency across the world?
Read moreTo examine how drama in schools can be used to explore different subjects to create democratic spaces.
Read moreInvestigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.
Read moreThe Human Spaces research project is a small scale evaluative case study.
Read moreEvaluating music education in projects with specialised instruments for those with upper-limb disabilities.
Read moreThe project harnesses the child’s voice to help resolve their specific experiences of school bullying.
Read moreIdentifying regional contrasts in A-level music provision, and to understand the contexts within which the downturn in ...
Read moreInvestigating a unified, integrated approach to educating children with disabilities
Read moreHighlighting key themes in music education for young people
Read moreThe pilot project set out to capture the rhythmic fluctuations and orientations of BCU’s campuses.
Read moreWorking in partnership with Sound and Music to understand more regarding musical learning through composing
Read moreCreating a common assessment tool that could be used by all professionals in a way that empowers parents and children.
Read moreExamining the impact the Singing School model has on the educational outcomes of children and young people
Read moreThis study aims to build on previous research about home schooling / home education more generally to explore and reco...
Read moreHow successful is Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)?
Read moreThe evaluative report undertaken by Birmingham City University detailed a variety of perspectives on the Teach Through...
Read moreBCU has pioneered an innovative ‘close to practice’ professional doctorate programme in Education, the EdD, and the UK...
Read moreImagine Compose explored how groups of beginner instrumentalists up to Grade 3, can compose within a “Wider Opportunit...
Read moreEvaluating the influence that fostering support programme, FosterTalk, has on foster carer retention and developing re...
Read moreThe Socially Distant Stories is an ethnographic exploration about the impact of a hybrid theatre in education approach ...
Read moreThis research will develop understandings of how to use repertoire as a stimulus that opens the composing horizons for...
Read moreInvestigating the experiences of postgraduate researchers and the effects of those experiences on their mental healt...
Read moreThe terms cross-, multi-, inter- and trans- (disciplinary practice and working) are used interchangeably in research a...
Read moreWorking with young people to create new music around the theme of auto-immune disease.
Read moreThe research will explore which strategies and resources are being used and how useful these are to student outcomes. ...
Read moreUnderstanding the impact of whole school curriculum models on music subject leader practices.
Read moreA small-scale international project focus ing on children’s experiences at home during the C...
Read moreImproving music activities to engage young people with special educational needs, and / or disabilities and enhancing t...
Read moreInvestigating how young children watch, understand and engage with digital content on YouTube and YouTube kids. ...
Read moreThe Co-MAP project responds to the urgent need to understand the impacts of Covid-19 in relation to the most vulnerabl...
Read moreAs a London-based music organisation expands its outreach, BCU has partnered with them to ensure their work - promotin...
Read moreThe planned research project aims to explore the ways in which practising educators contribute to the governance of Bir...
Read moreResponding the recorded lack of diversity in classical music education, this study aims to investigate the lived exper...
Read moreThere is robust empirical evidence that students lacking a “sense of belonging” within higher education is one of the m...
Read moreComparing cultural differences and sharing best practice around the teaching of music composition in the UK and Germany...
Read moreThis project will explore the interaction between STEAM subjects and their inherent creativity to better understand th...
Read moreExploring how schools interpret music education policy to assess the state of music education in primary schools.
Read moreResearchers in BMERG have been investigating the decline of young people choosing music as an A Level subject, and whe...
Read moreWorking with international partners to investigate what music teachers think is important in assessments.
Read moreWorking with Billesley Primary School, the academic team will evaluate the Arts Council England Creativity Collaborati...
Read moreBirmingham Art School (BAS) connects schools and arts organisations - including music , dance, theatre and visual arts ...
Read moreThe research explores how undergraduate conservatoire students can develop pedagogical knowledge.
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