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The FACE Research and Development Fund 2010
Call For Proposals - Deadline February 12th 2010
FACE recognizes the crucial role that research plays in Access and Continuing Education. It also recognizes the challenges that members often face in identifying the resources to deliver such research, especially when funding streams are often focused narrowly on particular themes or topics.
FACE is able to assist its members here through the annual FACE Research and Development Fund.
For the fourth year in succession FACE is able to support small pieces of research into Access and Continuing Education through its Research and Development Fund. In 2010 there will be 3 research grants available each with a value of £1500.
This year we wish to support projects on the theme of:
"Which way now for widening participation: the forces that will shape progression in the next five years"
We would welcome proposals in any area related to this topic. Research may examine:
- pedagogical developments
- innovations in practice and their impact
- work into the attitudes/behaviour of stakeholders, in particular future students and staff
- institutional practices and their projected evolution
- building future partnerships for lifelong learning and HE access
- changes/trajectories in Higher Education policy or broader policy changes per se
The maximum value of a proposal should not exceed £1500. All proposers must be FACE members. Institutions/individuals can join FACE at any time.
Application Details
All proposals must:
- Demonstrate that they will contribute to the organisations core commitment to social inclusion through the promotion of lifelong learning opportunities for all groups in society.
- Focus on research placed in a theoretical context which would be suitable for possible future publication. The intention is not to support work which is primarily an evaluation report on a particular project. Proposals which focus on particular projects will be considered, but they must place the impact of the work in its wider theoretical/policy context and illustrate appropriate methodological rigour.
- Lead to a final report/paper of between 3000 – 5000 words which has to be presented at the FACE Conference 30th June to 2nd July 2010 at Southampton Solent University.
- Be presented at a seminar bringing together the work funded in the stream in the first part of the 2010-11 academic year.
- Payment will be made on receipt of the full research publication and the submission of an approved invoice.
We would like to invite proposals for such research to be submitted via the proposal form attached. Proposals must be received to athertg@wmin.ac.uk by February 12th 2010 at 5.00 pm
f you have any enquiries regarding the Fund please contact Dr. Graeme Atherton on athertg@wmin.ac.uk Proposers will be informed by February 19th 2010 regarding the decision of the FACE Research and Development panel on their proposal. Details of successful proposals will be posted on this website.
Reports on previous FACE Research & Development Funded Research
FACE supported research for 2008 / 2009 Final Reports
"Are Access to HE learners being recruited onto Foundation Degrees."
Maree Walker, Open College Network London Region.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Equipped for learning?
A follow up of the effectiveness of an Access to HE delivery model for skills for participatory learning at university."
Anastasia Dimitriadou, Westminster Kingsway College.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"If they have got something to say, why can’t they just say it in English?"
Mary McKeever, University of Portsmouth.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
FACE supported research for 2007 / 2008 Final Reports
"Written off ? Learners perspectives on the efficacy of an intergenerational project ."
Angela Fish and Kathryn Addicott, University of Glamorgan
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Investigating the development of Skills for Independent Learning (SIL) in an FE Access to HE course."
Nick Davy,
Westminster Kingsway College
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"There’s more to learning than earning - the Wider Benefits of Lifelong Learning."
Sheila Mary Hughes,
Bangor University
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Not for the likes of us – White working class men’s journeys into HE."
Tony Hudson, University of East London
"Lifelong Learning Networks and Progression Agreements: Building the Model."
Sarah Adibi, South London Lifelong Learning Network, Kingston University
FACE supported research projects 2006 / 2007 Final Reports
"The Art of Smooth Transition"
Researcher: Janey Hagger, Central St. Martins School of Art and Design, University
of the Arts, London.
Nature of Research: A qualitative study evaluating non-traditional students’ experiences
of the transition from Further Education to Higher Education Art and Design
degree courses.
FACE Conference Workshop
Video Clip (Video download will take several minutes - 56Mb).
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Spring Board: enhancing academic
study skills"
Researchers: Margaret Rawlinson and Claire Penketh.
Institution: Edge Ahead Centre,
Edge Hill University.
Nature of Research: To what extent can the application of ‘Spring
Board:enhancing academic study skills’, and online study tool
enhance the inclusion of part time students within higher education.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Don’t forget us: The Lifelong Learner’s First year experience"
Researchers: Hazel Knox and Julie McAdrews.
Institutions: Centre for Learning and Teaching, University of Paisley
and University of Aberdeen.
Nature of Research: This project
explores the first year experience through the eyes of staff and students
involved in
lifelong learning through part-time study at two Scottish universities.
Despite
significant differences between the two institutions, many similarities
emerge in the factors which
influence the first year student experience.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Factors
that impact
on student choice, performance and retention."
Researcher: Caroline Jacobs, Department of Curriculum and Quality Enhancement, University
of Portsmouth.
Nature of Research: This project investigates the expectations and experiences
of widening participation
students and non-widening participation students, focussing on the views
and
perceptions of two groups of students i) learners at 3 local FE colleges
and ii) HE
students in the first year of university.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
"Not in employment or training but in community education: Young people’s
transitions in South Wales."
Researcher: Heather Pudner and
Alyce Von Rothkirch.
Institution: Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University
of Swansea.
Nature of Research: This project emerges from work conducted with the
New Learning Network (NLN), a partnership supporting community education
in Neath Port Talbot in South Wales.
A sizeable number of young people aged between 16 and 24 are engaged
in various forms of community education within the project. While these
young people cannot accurately be described as NEETs, the question remains
why these young people are not in full-time education, training programmes
or in employment.
DOWNLOAD FINAL REPORT AS A PDF FILE
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