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How do we harness technological advances to support our sectors reduce exposure and vulnerability to climate risk?

Background

Our goal is to create a world-class school system that ensures every child is taught a broad and ambitious knowledge-rich curriculum by highly skilled teachers, so they can achieve their potential. We need to continue to develop the evidence base around effective teaching practice and curriculum design, with teaching increasingly viewed as an applied science (akin to medicine) where evidence-based approaches are widely utilised, and skilled teachers draw upon expert support and professional communities. We also need to build our understanding of how best to replicate the success of high performing schools, and how school trusts can improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their schools, including through management of the school estate. A key part of this is building evidence on the most successful school approaches to improving attendance.

Next steps

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Further development of an inclusive, interactive mobile app for young people to learn about energy and CO2.

    The Solar for Schools Education App delivers all it set out to deliver when it was first created in 2020\. It was designed using geo-functions on mobile phones to provide contextual/experiential learning that enabled pup...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SOLAR OPTIONS FOR SCHOOLS LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project provides an interactive mobile app for learning about energy and CO2, which partially addresses the question of harnessing technological advances for reducing climate risk.

  • Sustainable Offgrid EdTech for Education Continuity and Outcomes in the Developing World

    _SVRG develops and supplies technology solutions and business models for cross-cutting integrated rural development, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. The strength and USP of SVRG's solutions is this broad integrated a...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SMART VILLAGES RESEARCH GROUP LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing educational content that is language and curriculum neutral to support education continuity in developing countries, aligning with the goal of reducing vulnerability to climate risk.

  • Climate Spark Game - Net Zero User Led Design

    **Reaching Net Zero** "_With so much focus on children -- who will have to live with the consequences of climate breakdown and ecological disaster, species loss and pollution -- the role of education is key. But in...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: BRAINSPARK GAMES LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing an educational game to promote awareness of and action required to mitigate climate change, aligning with the goal of harnessing technological advances to support sectors in reducing exposure and vulnerability to climate risk.

  • Education app for students to engage in independent, project-based learning towards decarbonising their schools

    The key objectives of the Solar Options for Schools Ltd project are: * To develop and test an innovative Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) learning mobile App, which will be using geo-functions on mobile phone...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SOLAR OPTIONS FOR SCHOOLS LIMITED

  • Engaging pupils, teachers and governors in the science, engineering and technology of carbon neutral schools

    The project will work with teachers, governors, pupils, building designers, researchers and policy makers in Leicester over two academic years to engage with them in the science, engineering and technology of carbon neut...

    Funded by: EPSRC

    Lead research organisation: De Montfort University

  • Transforming Education Systems for Sustainable Development (TES4SD) Network Plus

    The Transforming Education Systems for Sustainable Development (TES4SD) Network Plus will develop sustainable institutional capacity in India, South Africa, Rwanda and Somalia to produce high quality research that will a...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Bristol

  • LEVERS - Learning Ventures for Climate Action.

    We live in an increasingly fragmented and unequal society. Democracy is in crisis, and mistrust in science is on the rise, yet the unprecedented challenges we face, such as the climate and biodiversity crises, require gr...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

  • School Buildings Adaptation, Resilience and Impacts on Decarbonisation in a Changing Climate (ARID)

    This project will provide tools and evidence to inform the Department for Education (DfE) policies and investment, by exploring the climate change risks and opportunities for new build and existing schools in the context...

    Funded by: SPF

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON

  • Eye-Inquire: Uncovering insights from expert teachers for effective Climate Change Education through Socio-Scientific Inquiry-Based Learning

    Climate change has been a global issue that warrants urgent research and educational attention. The complexity between science, human, and environment makes Climate Change a real socio-scientific issue enabling students ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Southampton