CSPACE research projects

The research aimed to explore the challenges of putting together and delivering successful apprenticeship programmes. ...

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

Birmingham City University is undergoing research to critically evaluate the impact of the Professional Exchange Net...

Working with Birmingham Music Education Part nership to assess the music education pupils in primary and secondary sc...

Reducing disparities in learning outcomes for children from refugee, asylum seeker, and newly arrived migration context...

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

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

Focusing on colleges not just as a producers of human capital but rather, as important community resources.

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

Compassionate care is experiential and hard to teach, but VR could help prepare health students for their first engage...

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

Exploring the performance of music education hubs across the country

What is the relationship between leadership and improving teaching and learning?

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

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

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

An exploration of the impact and implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework

Birmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.

What does classical music mean to today's generation?

The primary aim of this project was to create a sustainable and collaborative model of observations.

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

Exploring how making a space in the curriculum for students to share aspects of their cultural background and identity ...

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

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

Raising awareness of the Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools

This study draws on Hill’s ‘cabaret’ research dissemination to develop a template to use for the range of exemplars.

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

How do we asses music proficiency across the world?

The researchers in this project are actively and proactively exploring creative modes of research dissemination.

The research is in its early stages and has already identified exemplars of creative modes of research dissemination. ...

Investigating the impact of community arts provision on educational resilience.

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

Researchers are providing an array of approaches to investigating research supervision.

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

Investigating a unified, integrated approach to educating children with disabilities

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

This research project aims to explore how further education leaders who have a self-professed history of commitment to...

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

Highlighting key themes in music education for young people

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

CSPACE research projects

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

The factors affecting the quality of the ‘off-the-job’ element of apprenticeships in the West Midlands region

Listen Imagine Compose

Evaluation of the Professional Exchange Network Programme

Birmingham Music Education Partnership

Open School Doors

Vocational training for physiotherapists

Youth Music: Exchanging Notes

Transforming Lives and Communities

Examining Sex and Relationship Education

Preparing students for patient engagement with VR

Evaluating Holiday Kitchen for Hungry Children

Arts Council England Music Education Hub data return analysis

Leadership and the quality of teaching and learning in FE

Exploring Children’s Wellbeing through Music and Singing

Early care and education experiences of young children born prematurely

Relationship-based early intervention services

The impact and implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework

Independent Evaluation of Fosterline England

AHRC Network - Representations of/in classical music

Improving learning and teaching through collaborative observation

Evaluation of BBC Ten Pieces initiative

Belonging and achieving at BCU: pedagogy for all

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

Cross-cultural approaches for teachers across Europe

Art Prize for Schools External Project Evaluation

Template for performative inquiry

Evaluating the work of the Big Brum Theatre in Education Company

Global music examinations

Using performative modes of research dissemination

Exemplars of performative inquiry

Educational resilience through community arts education

Pupil-led anti-bullying interventions

Communities of Practice around research supervision

Analysing accessible music education

Conductive education

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

Leadership, further education and social justice

Geographical and social demographic trends of A-level music students

Just Play

Photographs as a tool for young children with Down Syndrome

Go Compose

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

Voices Foundation Singing Schools Programme

Whole Class Ensemble Teaching Research Report

Teach Through Music

Imagine Compose

Through the Music Maze: Creative Composing for young children

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Resolution project