📣 School MOVES at the Children and Childhoods Conference 2026
We are delighted to be presenting at the seventh biennial Children and Childhoods Conference at the University of Suffolk in July 2026. Our presentation will focus on how schools can better support pupils who move outside standard transitions. Drawing on emerging findings from the qualitative and quantitative work packages, we will share insights into how school responses shape pupils’ learning, wellbeing, and sense of belonging, alongside examples of practices emerging from participating schools.
📣 School MOVES at the SPA Annual Conference 2026
We are really excited to be presenting at the Social Policy Association annual conference in Liverpool in July 2026. Our presentation will draw on emerging findings from our quantitative analyses of school data and mobility funding in England to critically examine different conceptualisations, operationalisations and measurements of pupil school mobility and their implications for how we analyse how children move through the school system.
📣 School MOVES at ECER 2026
We are delighted to report that we will be presenting the School Moves project at this year’s ECER conference in Tampere, Finland. Our presentation will be part of the thematic group on ‘Communities, Families, and Schooling in Educational Research’ and will be focusing on how non-standard school moves are experienced and approached by children, schools and local authorities in England.
📣 School MOVES at BERA 2026
We are happy to share the news that we will be presenting the project at this year’s BERA conference in Manchester. In our presentation we will be presenting key findings from our project, in particularly focusing on the lived experiences of pupil school mobility and best practices to address it within schools and local authorities. We look forward to sharing and discussing the findings and their implications with colleagues.
🏆 Best presentation prize
We are really proud to announce that our presentation ‘Pupil School Mobility – preliminary findings from a mixed-methods study into mobility types, pathways and implications for education’ won the ‘BERA Conference 2025 – SIG Best Presentation’ in the SIG: Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making.
📣 School MOVES at ECER Conference 2025
We would like to share the exciting news that we will be presenting some findings from the School MOVES project at European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2025 organised by the European Educational Research Association (EERA) between 9-12th September in Belgrade, Serbia.
Our paper is titled: Pupil School Mobility – Why do Pupils Move and What is the Impact on Their Educational Experiences?
We look forward to sharing insights from our systematic review of literature on school mobility. Hoping to make some great connections!
📣 School MOVES at BERA Conference 2025
We are delighted to share that the School MOVES research team will be presenting two papers at the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Conference between 9-11th September at the University of Sussex. We will be presenting the following papers:
- Pupil School Mobility – A mapping of the literature
- Pupil School Mobility – preliminary findings from a mixed-methods study into mobility types, pathways and implications for education