ResearchED

ResearchED is a teacher-led organisation

established in 2013 by Tom Bennett that
aims to make teachers research literate
and pseudo-science proof.[1] It holds
teacher conferences throughout the UK
and internationally. Speakers have
included Daniel T. Willingham,[2] Daisy
Christodoulou,[3] Nick Gibb.[4], John
Sweller, John Hattie, Katharine Birbalsingh,
and Dylan Wiliam.[5]
 ResearchED

Formation 2013

Purpose To bridge the gap

between research
and practice in
education

Official language English

Directors Tom Bennett ·

Rebecca Allen · Daisy
Christodoulou · Sam
Freedman · Alex
Quigley · Dylan
Wiliam

Website researchED Home (ht

tps://researched.org.
uk)
Its official publication is the quarterly
journal ResearchED, published in
partnership with John Catt Educational
and founded in 2018. Contributors to the
first issue included Daisy Christodoulou,
John Sweller and Daniel T. Willingham,
who also featured on its front cover.[6][7][8]

Origins
ResearchED was founded by Tom Bennett
in 2013.[9] According to its website, the
organization came about after a
discussion between Bennett, Sam
Freedman, and science writer Ben
Goldacre.[10] It grew out of Bennett's
frustration that teachers "were not leaving
their initial training familiar with the best
and latest research on how to teach, the
way people learn, remember, focus and
behave".[11]

Conferences
ResearchED's conferences have grown
over time to more than 1,000 participants
by 2017.[12]

Reception
In a 2020 article published by the British
Educational Research Journal, academic
Steven Watson accused ResearchED of
astroturfing and as an 'outrider for
[Michael] Gove's education reforms'.[13]

Daniel T. Willingham, a guest speaker at a

ResearchED conference, refers to
ResearchED as an "organization by and for
practitioners, meant to bring education
research to the public via low-cost
conferences throughout the world, and
now a magazine",[14]

The UK Minister of State for Schools, Nick

Gibb, praised the organisation, calling it "a
grassroots, teacher-led revolt against the
old order in education".[12]

References
1. "About ResearchED"
g.uk/about/) (https://researched.or
. ResearchED. Retrieved
2 September 2020.

2. "Daniel Willingham – researchED" (https://r

esearched.org.uk/sessions/daniel-willingha
m/) . 20 April 2020. Retrieved 2 September
2020.

3. "Daisy Christodoulou – researchED" (http

s://researched.org.uk/sessions/daisy-christ
odoulou-2/) .

4. "Nick Gibb – researchED" (https://researche

d.org.uk/sessions/nick-gibb/) .

5. "Past events, ResearchED" (https://research

ed.org.uk/category/past-events/) .
6. Education (DfE), Department for (10
September 2018). "School Standards
Minister at ResearchED" (https://www.fene
ws.co.uk/press-releases/19509-speech-sch
ool-standards-minister-at-researched) . FE
News. Retrieved 20 November 2019.

7. "Magazine Launch – researchED" (https://re

searched.org.uk/pr/magazine-launch/) .
Retrieved 20 November 2019.

8. "The researchED series: Evidence-informed

guides for teachers" (http://www.johncattb
ookshop.com/books/the-researched-serie
s) . John Catt Bookshop. Retrieved
20 November 2019.

9. "About researchED" (https://researched.org.

uk/about/about-researched/) .
ResearchED. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
10. "Our Story – researchED" (https://web.archi
ve.org/web/20160920013316/https://resea
rched.org.uk/about/our-story/) . Archived
from the original (https://researched.org.u
k/about/our-story/) on 2016-09-20.
Retrieved 2 September 2020.

11. Rycroft-Smith, Lucy; Dutaut, Jean-Louis

(2017). Flip the system UK : a teachers'
manifesto (1st ed.). London. p. 8. ISBN 978-
1138214804.

12. Robertson, Alix (9 September 2017).

"Minister slams academics who won't
engage with researchED" (https://schoolsw
eek.co.uk/minister-slams-academics-who-
wont-engage-with-researched/) . Schools
Week. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
13. Watson, Steven (24 July 2020). "New Right
2.0: Teacher populism on social media in
England" (https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.
wiley.com/doi/10.1002/berj.3664) . British
Educational Research Journal.
doi:10.1002/berj.3664 (https://doi.org/10.1
002%2Fberj.3664) .

14. Daniel T. Willinghaman (2019). "Ask the

Cognitive Scientist: Should Teachers Know
the Basic Science of How Children Learn?"
(https://www.aft.org/ae/summer2019/willi
ngham) .

External links
ResearchED main page (https://research
ed.org.uk)
 ResearchED youtube (https://www.youtu
be.com/channel/UC3uPEgDH3pAhQe06
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