Lucie Wheeler is the Founder of RECAP and a Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University. I visit and work with lots of different education settings, and one of the things I am always interested in is what a school feels like. Yes we know that policies are important, and the curriculum a school provides is key and the way they do their provision is huge. But there are some things that are much harder to capture on paper: the interactions in the corridors, the relationships bet

At RECAP, one of our core aims is to make research more accessible to families. Behind every study are passionate researchers working to better understand children, learning, development, and family life. In our Research Spotlight series, we introduce the people behind the research - sharing their work, insights, and why their findings matter in the real world for parents and carers. Today's work is from: Dr Poppy Gibson, Lecturer in Education, The Open University Dr Sagun S