Institute of Education London

Research

The Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education hosts internationally recognised scholars and researchers who carry out research within and across countries on education, learning and training over the life course. The department is leader in comparative, qualitative and quantitative methods research in a wide-range of historical and contemporary fields such as: 

• Further, vocational, higher and workplace learning
• Professionalism, skill formation, employability and entrepreneuralism
• Adult literacy, language and numeracy
• Regional development, social cohesion, economic competiveness and innovation
• Civic co-operation and value diversity

The department plays a central role in generating new debates about skills as well as informing skills policies in Britain, and internationally, by shaping policy-makers understanding of the role of lifelong learning in promoting economic prosperity and mechanisms that hold societies together.

Current research projects:

Assessment Careers: enhancing learning pathways through assessment

Skills and Employment Survey

Internship in the Creative and Finance Sectors

Evaluations of Skillforce Zero Exclusions Pilot Project