Projects

These research projects are or have been undertaken at the School of Education as part of the Centre for Research in Language and Literacy.

Teaching narrative writing with digital resources and apps

Clare Dowdall

^{British Academy/ Leverhulme Small Research Grant | 2022 - 2024}

Metatalk for Writing

Ruth Newman

^{Economic and Social Research Council | 2020 - 2022}

Writing the Future

Esmaeel Abdollahzadeh, Debra Myhill

^{Qatar National Research Fund | 2019 - 2022}

Dialogue and Erasure

Debra Myhill

^{British Academy | 2018 - 2019}

Choice and Control in Writing

Debra Myhill

^{Education Endowment Foundation | 2016 - 2017}

Exetreme Imagination 2016

Debra Myhill

^{Arts Council England | 2016 - 2016}

Craft of Writing

Debra Myhill

^{EEF and the RSA | 2016 - 2018}

Innovation Schools

Debra Myhill

^{Youth Sport Trust | 2015 - 2018}

Teachers as Writers

Debra Myhill

^{Arts Council England | 2015 - 2017}

Growth in Grammar: A multi-dimensional analysis of student writing between 5 and 16

Philip Durrant

^{ESRC | 2015 - 2018}

Analysis of GCSE Scripts

Debra Myhill

^{Pearson Education | 2014 - 2015}

exetreme imagination 2014

Debra Myhill

^{Arts Council | 2014 - 2014}

Powerful Learning Conversations

Ruth Newman

^{Youth Sport Trust | 2014 - 2015}

Grammar at GCSE

Annabel Watson

^{Pearson | 2013 - 2014}

Development in Metalinguistic Understanding and its relationship to development in writing

Debra Myhill

^{ESRC | 2013 - 2017}

Choice and Control: Improving Writing Through Embedded Attention to Grammar

Debra Myhill

^{Education Endowment Fund (EEF) | 2013 - 2013}

Supporting Weaker Writers

Debra Myhill

^{Pearson Education Ltd | 2012 - 2013}

exetreme imagination 2013

Debra Myhill

^{Arts Council & Exeter City Council (5,000) | 2012 - 2013}

Grammar for Writing - Shaping Policy and Practice

Debra Myhill

^{ESRC | 2011 - 2012}

Children's Literature Festival: Writing for Children and Writing by Children

Debra Myhill

^{The Arts Council | 2010 - 2010}

Every Child a Writer

Ros Fisher

^{DCSF | 2009 - 2011}

Grammar for Writing? The impact of contextualised grammar teaching on pupils' writing and pupils' metalinguistic understanding.

Debra Myhill

^{Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | 2008 - 2011}

Review of Evidence on Effective Ways of Teaching Complex Expression in Writing to Secondary School Pupils

Debra Myhill

^{Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) | 2007 - 2007}

From Talk to Text: Using Talk to Support Writing

Ros Fisher

^{Esmée Fairbairn Foundation | 2004 - 2006}