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Current and completed projects

Timescale	Lead researcher(s)	Project title or area of research
Ongoing	Howieson, Croxford	Widening Participation: The progression and outcomes of HN-qualified entrants to degree programmes in Scotland.
Ongoing	Croxford	Creating and accessible on-line Data Archive of the Scottish Young People's Surveys 1962-2005.
2015-17	Howieson, Croxford	Special edition of the Journal of Education and Work in honour of Professor David Raffe
2014-17	Croxford	Pupils as Citizens - pupils' views on school citizenship and the transition from primary to secondary school (project led by CREID)
2015-16	Howieson	Getting In and Getting On: students' experience of the transition from HN to degree.
2014-16	Croxford, Howieson	Tell Them from Me 1979-2014: the views of Scottish school-leavers - analysis of changing attitudes to school over 40 years, using survey data and back-page comments.
2014-15	Murphy, Croxford, Howieson, Raffe	All Our Future: the lessons from the first 50 years of Scottish comprehensive schooling, for Scotland, the UK and beyond (book)
2013-14	Howieson	The progression and outcomes of widening participation students at the University of Edinburgh: the staff perspective
2013-2014	Croxford, Raffe	Higher Education in Scotland, the Devolution Settlement and the Referendum on Independence
2010-2013	Croxford	Widening Participation at the University of Edinburgh: entry, progression and degree outcomes
2011-2012	Croxford, Raffe	Changing transitions to a differentiated higher education system
2012-2013	Howieson, Semple	What’s the evidence? Comparing the impact of career websites and other career support
2010-2013	Ozga	Governing by Inspection: School Inspection and Education Governance in Scotland, England and Sweden
2010-2012	Grek	Transnational Policy Learning: A comparative study of OECD and EU education policy in constructing the skills and competencies agenda
2010-2012	Howieson	Edinburgh and Lothians Regional Articulation Hub - the experience of HN students articulating to degree study
2010-2011	Howieson, McKechnie, Semple	To evaluate current arrangements for regulating the employment of children and explore the options for reform
2010-2011	Weir	Building Knowledge Exchange: Clinical Academic Posts for Nursing and Recognition of Knowledge between Health and Higher Education Systems
2010	Raffe	National Qualifications Frameworks: A Critical Analysis of an Important International Approach to Education Reform
2009-2011	Howieson, Raffe	Credit Systems for Lifelong Learning
2006-2011	Ozga	Knowledge and Policy: The role of knowledge in the construction and regulation of health and education policy in Europe: convergences and specificities among nations and sectors
2009-2010	Raffe, Howieson	Progression Scenarios for National 4 and 5
2009	Raffe	National Qualifications Frameworks: A Cross-National Study
2008-2010	Mostel	Post-enlargement migration, integration and Polish Nationals in Scotland
2009-2010	Shapira	The Educational Attainment of Migrants in Comparative Perspective: The importance of instituitional factors
2009	Howieson, Semple, Hart	Recognition of Achievement: National Evaluation of Collaborative Enquiry Projects
2009	Ozga	Feasibility Study on the Assurance of Quality in Knowledge Exchange in Higher Education in Scotland
2008-2009	Ozga	Europa Seminar Series: ‘Practicing EU Government: Problematisation, Mobilisation and Legitimation’
2008-2009	Howieson, Semple	Self-Help and Career Planning
2008-2009	Isaakyan	Exploring Academic Migration: Academic Mobility and Europeanisation
2008-2009	Ozga, Arnott	Education and Nationalism: the discourse of education policy in Scotland
2008-2009	Howieson	Reforming designs: education and training in Scotland and Higher Still
2007-2008	Shapira	Understanding the labour market impact of immigration in Britain
2007-2008	Ianelli, Paterson	The role of educational structure and content in the process of social mobility
2006-2009	Ozga	Fabricating quality in European education
2006-2009	Lawn	Reconstructing a ‘Scottish School of Educational Research’ 1925-1950
2006-2008	Croxford	Trends in secondary education in Scotland, 1985-2005
2006-2007	Howieson, Croxford, Howat	Meeting needs for longitudinal data on the transitions of young people in Scotland - an options appraisal
2006-2007	Raffe, Howieson	Preparation of issues paper on the development of vocational and pre-vocational courses for school age pupils
2006-2007	Shapira	Postdoctoral Fellowship: immigration, education and socio-econimic inequality
2006	Croxford	Exploring the impact of class size on Standard Grade performance in Scottish schools
2005-2006	Ozga, Byrne	Academic review in field of educational research and policy
2005	Howieson, Tinklin	Progression and pass rates in the new national qualifications
2004-2008	Raffe, Croxford	School management and governance
2004-2008	Ozga	Schools and social capital
2004-2005	Croxford	Value added in Edinburgh secondary schools
2004	Ozga	Knowledge transfer in HE in Scotland
2004	Hart, Howieson	How do Centres estimate pupils' attainment?
2004	Hart, Howieson	Unitisation — benefits and issues
2004	Raffe, Howieson, Byrne, Ozga	Establishing a UK 'home international' comparative research programme for post-compulsory learning
2003-2006	Howieson, Semple, McKechnie	Part-time employment and secondary education: the nature and implications of the part-time employment of school students
2003-2006	Raffe, Croxford et al	Education and youth transitions in England, Wales and Scotland 1984-2002
2002-2005	Iannelli	Education and social mobility in Scotland in the 20th century
2001-2004	Croxford, Ozga	Evaluation of education maintenance allowance pilots in Scotland: Phase 1 and 2
2001-2002	Iannelli	Evaluation and analyses of the LFS 2000 ad hoc module data on school-to-work transitions in Europe
2001	Raffe, Howieson	Value-added performance indicator in further education
2001	Raffe	Evaluation of Fast Trac
2000-2003	Raffe, Howieson	The introduction of a unified system of post-compulsory education in Scotland

projects pre-2000

1999-2001	Croxford	Evaluation of early intervention in Edinburgh primary schools
1998-2006	Raffe, Howieson, Croxford et al	Scottish School Leavers Survey: Special Studies
1998-2001	Iannelli	A comparative analysis of transitions from education to work in Europe
1998-2001	Croxford	National evaluation of early intervention programmes
1998-2001	Croxford	Aberdeen early intervention project
1997-2000	Raffe, Howieson	Unifying academic and vocational learning: Scottish and English/Welsh Approaches
1997-2000	Howieson, Semple	A longitudinal study of young people: their career aspirations and decision-making
1997-2000	Howieson, Semple	Effectiveness of the Careers Service

EPROS projects: 1997-2003

2000-2003	Lamb	Cluster of Data Collection Integration and Metadata Systems for Official Statistics
2000-2003	Lamb	A Software Suite and Extended Mark-up Language (xml) Standard for Intelligent Questionnaires
2000-2003	Lamb	A Network of Excellence for Harmonising and Synthesising the Development of Statistical Metadata
2000-2002	Lamb	Accompanying Measure to R+D in Statistics
2000-2002	Lamb	Multi-agent Integration of Shared Statistical Information over the inter(Net)
1998-2000	Lamb	Educational Multimedia in Compulsory School: From Pedagogical Assessment to Project Assessment
1998-2000	Lamb	An Object for Statisticians and Administrations
1997-2000	Lamb	Access to Distributed Data for Statistical Information and Analysis
1996-1998	Lamb	Integrated Documentation and Retrieval Environment for Statistical Aggregates

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EPROS projects: 1997-2003