CSPACE research projects

This project aims to unpack the benefits of Conductive Education (CE) by working with a CE centre in Birmingham.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exploring the performance of music education hubs across the country

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

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

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

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

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

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

What does classical music mean to today's generation?

Birmingham City University researchers evaluate foster care service, Fosterline.

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...

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

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

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.

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

How do we asses music proficiency across the world?

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

The researchers in this project are actively and proactively exploring 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.

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

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

Investigating a unified, integrated approach to educating children with disabilities

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

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

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...

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.

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

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)?

Exploring the social inclusion of adults living with the effects of Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), with a...

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

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

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.

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

CSPACE research projects

Listen Imagine Compose

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

Evaluation of the Professional Exchange Network Programme

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

Birmingham Music Education Partnership

Vocational training for physiotherapists

Open School Doors

Youth Music: Exchanging Notes

Examining Sex and Relationship Education

Transforming Lives and Communities

Arts Council England Music Education Hub data return analysis

Evaluating Holiday Kitchen for Hungry Children

Preparing students for patient engagement with VR

Early care and education experiences of young children born prematurely

Exploring Children’s Wellbeing through Music and Singing

Leadership and the quality of teaching and learning in FE

Relationship-based early intervention services

The impact and implications of the Teaching Excellence Framework

AHRC Network - Representations of/in classical music

Independent Evaluation of Fosterline England

Improving learning and teaching through collaborative observation

Evaluation of BBC Ten Pieces initiative

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

Belonging and achieving at BCU: pedagogy for all

Art Prize for Schools External Project Evaluation

Cross-cultural approaches for teachers across Europe

Template for performative inquiry

Global music examinations

Evaluating the work of the Big Brum Theatre in Education Company

Using performative modes of research dissemination

Educational resilience through community arts education

Pupil-led anti-bullying interventions

Exemplars of performative inquiry

Analysing accessible music education

Conductive education

Communities of Practice around research supervision

Geographical and social demographic trends of A-level music students

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

Leadership, further education and social justice

Just Play

Photographs as a tool for young children with Down Syndrome

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

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

Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) in adulthood: An exploration of social inclusion and identity

Teach Through Music

Independent Evaluation of FosterTalk Membership Services

Imagine Compose

Through the Music Maze: Creative Composing for young children

Birmingham Contemporary Music Group: Resolution project

Curriculum models in school practices