CSPACE research projects

The project seeks to address weaknesses in current secondary school music provision.

What has been the impact of the Uni Connect programme across the West Midlands partnership on participating students, t...

This project aims to improve the lives of children with complex disabilities by trailing early intervention methods ...

This PAR project aims to build a new practitioner research team to generate meaningful research evidence on the barrier...

Understanding the impact and effectiveness of the Aim Higher Plus partnership relations and how these contribute to the...

Improving youth voice and youth-led approaches across Music Education Hubs in the West Midlands to increase engagement ...

Sex and Relationship Education in schools will always be a contentious topic but to what extent do a teacher’s own vie...

Working with Birmingham Music Education Partnership to assess the music education pupils in primary and secondary scho...

This project is supporting pedagogical universities in Viet Nam to provide digital resources and skills to meet the nee...

Free school meals can be a vital lifeline for economically disadvantaged families but during the school holidays child...

Can getting young people involved in musical activities help those at risk of low attainment or exclusion?

A practice-led project that is underpinned by the belief that improving the student learning experience starts by impr...

Exploring the early care and education experiences of children born prematurely through reports from parents.

Exploring the performance of music education hubs across the country

Exploring children's right to make choices and engage in playful activities in restricted environments through music a...

This project seeks to provide a holistic approach to the elimination of barriers to successfully accessing postgraduate...

Early intervention services have the capacity to make big improvements to childrens' outcomes, but how might these ser...

What does classical music mean to today's generation?

Experiences, expectations and possibilities for learning and engagement in education. This research examines students’ ...

Birmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.

Sound Connections, a leading music charity based in London, approached BCU to act as the data analysis partner in an e...

This project aims to understand how the very youngest children (0 - 3 year olds) are using touchscreen technology in h...

Raising awareness of the Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools

To examine how drama in schools can be used to explore different subjects to create democratic spaces.

How do we asses music proficiency across the world?

The Human Spaces research project is a small scale evaluative case study.

Investigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.

Evaluating music education in projects with specialised instruments for those with upper-limb disabilities.

The project harnesses the child’s voice to help resolve their specific experiences of school bullying.

Identifying regional contrasts in A-level music provision, and to understand the contexts within which the downturn in ...

Investigating a unified, integrated approach to educating children with disabilities

Highlighting key themes in music education for young people

The pilot project set out to capture the rhythmic fluctuations and orientations of BCU’s campuses.

Working in partnership with Sound and Music to understand more regarding musical learning through composing

Creating a common assessment tool that could be used by all professionals in a way that empowers parents and children.

Examining the impact the Singing School model has on the educational outcomes of children and young people

This study aims to build on previous research about home schooling / home education more generally to explore and reco...

How successful is Whole Class Ensemble Teaching (WCET)?

The evaluative report undertaken by Birmingham City University detailed a variety of perspectives on the Teach Through...

BCU has pioneered an innovative ‘close to practice’ professional doctorate programme in Education, the EdD, and the UK...

Imagine Compose explored how groups of beginner instrumentalists up to Grade 3, can compose within a “Wider Opportunit...

Evaluating the influence that fostering support programme, FosterTalk, has on foster carer retention and developing re...

The Socially Distant Stories is an ethnographic exploration about the impact of a hybrid theatre in education approach ...

This research will develop understandings of how to use repertoire as a stimulus that opens the composing horizons for...

Investigating the experiences of postgraduate researchers and the effects of those experiences on their mental healt...

Working with young people to create new music around the theme of auto-immune disease.

The research will explore which strategies and resources are being used and how useful these are to student outcomes. ...

Understanding the impact of whole school curriculum models on music subject leader practices.

A small-scale international project focus ing on children’s experiences at home during the C...

The Co-MAP project responds to the urgent need to understand the impacts of Covid-19 in relation to the most vulnerabl...

Improving music activites to e ngage young people with special educational needs, and / or disabilities and enhanci...

Investigating how young children watch, understand and engage with digital content on YouTube and YouTube kids. ...

As a London-based music organisation expands its outreach, BCU has partnered with them to ensure their work - promotin...

The planned research project aims to explore the ways in which practising educators contribute to the governance of Bir...

Responding the recorded lack of diversity in classical music education, this study aims to investigate the lived exper...

Comparing cultural differences and sharing best practice around the teaching of music composition in the UK and Germany...

This project will explore the interaction between STEAM subjects and their inherent creativity to better understand th...

Exploring how schools interpret music education policy to assess the state of music education in primary schools.

Researchers in BMERG have been investigating the decline of young people choosing music as an A Level subject, and whe...

Working with international partners to investigate what music teachers think is important in assessments.

Working with Billesley Primary School, the academic team will evaluate the Arts Council England Creativity Collaborati...

Birmingham Art School (BAS) connects schools and arts organisations - including music , dance, theatre and visual arts ...

CSPACE research projects

The social organisation of knowledge in a Conductive Education Centre in Birmingham

Listen Imagine Compose

Aimhigher Plus: Stakeholder project

Vocational training for physiotherapists

Building a Diverse Practitioner Learning Environment

Aimhigher Plus: The impact of regional partnership and collaboration

Music Makers of the Future

Examining Sex and Relationship Education

Birmingham Music Education Partnership

Teacher Educators Digital Hub (TEDH): Supporting the digital transformation of teacher education in Viet Nam

Evaluating Holiday Kitchen for Hungry Children

Youth Music: Exchanging Notes

Enhancing Learning and Teaching Quality through Collaborative Observation

Early care and education experiences of young children born prematurely

Arts Council England Music Education Hub data return analysis

Exploring Children’s Wellbeing through Music and Singing

That’s Me: Eliminating barriers to post graduate research study in the west midlands

Relationship-based early intervention services

AHRC Network - Representations of/in classical music

Pedagogies of hybridity in the post-pandemic university

Independent Evaluation of Fosterline England

Evaluation of BBC Ten Pieces initiative

Technobabies: the use of technology by children aged 0-3 years

Art Prize for Schools External Project Evaluation

Cross-cultural approaches for teachers across Europe

Global music examinations

Evaluating the work of the Big Brum Theatre in Education Company

Educational resilience through community arts education

Analysing accessible music education

Pupil-led anti-bullying interventions

Geographical and social demographic trends of A-level music students

Conductive education

Just Play

A Rhythmic Analysis of Teaching & Learning in HE: Space, Time, Affect

Go Compose

Photographs as a tool for young children with Down Syndrome

Voices Foundation Singing Schools Programme

Exploring home schooling experiences for children with SEND and their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic

Whole Class Ensemble Teaching Research Report

Teach Through Music

Digi-Doc: Digital Doctorate Training Hub

Imagine Compose

Independent Evaluation of FosterTalk Membership Services

Socially Distant Stories from Beyond the Screen

Through the Music Maze: Creative Composing for young children

Postgraduate Researchers Mental Health and Well-Being

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Resolution project

Using vignettes to explore how supervisors and students clarify expectations during doctoral studies

Curriculum models in school practices

Using rhythmanalysis to explore the synchronicities and disruptions in children’s everyday lives in England and Greece during the 2020 lockdown

Co-MAP: Investigating Covid-19's impact on vulnerable young people

MEHEM UpRising!

Resisting hyperreality?: talking to young children about YouTube and YouTube Kids

Musical Beacons

Educators In Educational Governance In Birmingham

Investigating how socio-economic background influences music students’ aspirations, sense of identity and belonging within UK conservatoires.

Comparing composition teaching and learning in secondary school education in the UK and Germany

Re-thinking curricula: STEAM education from early years through to higher education

Music Teaching Provision in Primary Schools

A Level music decline and disadvantage attainment gaps

Music teacher attitudes to assessment

Creativity Collaboratives Billesley Primary School

Birmingham Arts School Evaluation