The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation funds research into ‘Creating Citizenship Communities’
Posted on 10 December 2010
The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has awarded a grant of £77k for work on the project ‘Creating Citizenship Communities’. The project team emerges from a partnership between the Department of Education, University of York and the northern office of the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER). Gill Hampden Thompson, George Bramley, Ian Davies, Vanita Sundaram and Maria Tsouroufli will be working with a high profile Advisory Group involving Douglas Archibald (Royal Society of Arts), Tony Breslin (Human Scale Education; Breslin Public Policy Limited), Mark Chater (Citizenship Foundation), Joe Feeney (former member of UK Youth Parliament) and Estelle Morris (former Secretary of State for Education).The project will develop understanding and practice about and for community cohesion by identifying current thinking and practice in schools, exploring young people’s perceptions and practice, and, encouraging partnerships to be established between professionals and others.
The project team will complete a literature review, analyse secondary data sets, undertake a survey of schools, explore case studies in contrasting communities and produce a range of high impact learning resources as well as organising high profile events and sustainable structures for continued work in this field.
For further information please contact the Project Administrator: yvonne.mason@york.ac.uk