Research thrives: Embedding a culture of practitioner-led research

This research was funded by the Laurel Trust, a charity working in partnership with schools. A summary of the project can be found here.  The ‘Research Thrives’ project aimed to understand the impact of embedding and extending a culture of practitioner-led research across schools in our alliance. It achieved this through the deployment of Research Teacher Leaders (RTL), who established in-school action researcher teams. They then collaborated across the network to share and develop practitioner research. The model was practitioner-led, supported by two RTLs and the University of Sussex Research Network. Research Thrives enabled teachers in each of the participating schools to explore features of their own practice within the framework of action research that was supported by two RTLs deployed by the Rother Teaching School Alliance (TSA). Rother TSA had an embedded research culture and had invested significantly in the two middle leaders through funding their Masters degre