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"So few consultants write clear to-the-point reports, so that was a great delight too."

Penny Jones,
Senior Adviser for Education,
Countryside Agency

 


"The report you produced is clear, concise and engaging for the reader in spite of the variety of mixed messages there were from participants about the progress of eep. Overall, CfBT is very pleased with the quality and standard of the work that was carried out during the project."

Elaine McCann,,
Development Manager: Research,
CfBT Education Trust

 


"For each research result reported, it was evident that an extremely thorough analysis had been done. Reliable, concise reporting with a lot of pain-staking analysis behind it. The final output was of high quality."

Barnaby Pelter,
Managing Editor Asia,
Oxford University Press

 


“Mark Rickinson was not only reliable and excellent in his management of relationships, he was also creative and conscientious in his work and produced first rate products. I would recommend him without reservation.”

Professor Chris Day,,
School of Education,
University of Nottingham

 

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Clear and accessible communication of research ideas is central to my work.  Here are some examples of different kinds of publications from recent projects.

1 Research Summaries and Toolkits
11 Research Reports
1 Books and book chapters
1 Journal Articles

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Research Summaries and Toolkits:
   
 

Beyond Survival: Teachers and Resilience (University of Nottingham, 2011, compiled and edited by Mark Rickinson)

Beyond Survival: Teachers and Resilience (University of Nottingham, 2011, compiled and edited by Mark Rickinson)

Growth through growing - Students with special educational needs and Growth through growing - Students with behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (DCSF/Growing Schools case study report, 2010)

Care Farming Case Studies (Council for Learning Outside the Classroom case study report, 2010)

Making a Difference: Collaborating with users to develop educational research.TLRP Research Briefing 76 (TLRP, 2008 with Anne Edwards and Judy Sebba)

Practitioners & Evidence: Designing R&D to influence practice(CfBT, 2007 with Andrew Morris and Janie Percy-Smith)

Topic Tool-kit 1: Planning Your Research Project (NFER, 2005)

Measuring Success. A Guide to Evaluating School Grounds Projects.(LTL, 2003 with Dawn Sanders, Barbara Chillman & Kate Sullivan)

Connecting Research and Practice: Education for Sustainable Development.(BERA, 2003 with Celia Aspinall, Andy Clark, Lara Dawson, Sandra McLeod, Prue Poulton, Jim Rogers & Julia Sargent)

Environmental Education: Recent Research on Learners(NFER, 2002)

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Research Reports:
   
 

Case study: Teach First, United Kingdom (Eurofound, 2011, Mark Rickinson)

Evaluation of the Skills for Life at Work Project (CfBT Education Trust research report, 2011 with Aynsley, S., Sheperd, J., Owen, J. & Brooks, G.)

Disability Equality in Higher Education: A Synthesis of Research. (Higher Education Academy research report, 2010)

Oxford University Press Global Teacher Survey Report and Oxford University Press Young Learner Survey Report. (OUP ELT research reports, 2010)

Tackling Bullying, Using Evidence, Learning Lessons (CfBT Education Trust, 2009 with Batch, L., Bell, L., Blinco, V., Brundrett, D., Edwards, S., Johnson, T., Perkins, A., Russell-Dudley, D., Scott, P. & Waters, J.)

The Relationship between Research, Policy and Practice in Education and Training within the EU (Unpublished working paper for the European Commission, 2007 with Tom Leney and Hannele Niemi)

Summary Report from the EU Peer Learning Activity on Evidence-based Policy and Practice (Unpublished working paper for the European Commission, 2007)

KEGS' Leading Edge Evaluation Reports: Impacts on Staff; Wider Impacts; Success Factors and Next Steps
(Unpublished reports for King Edward VI Grammar School, 2007)

How might we enhance the role of research in the development of Education for Sustainable Development? In: Drivers and Barriers for Implementing Learning for Sustainable Development (UNESCO, 2007)


Formative Evaluation of Accredited Programmes(HEA, 2006 with Mike Prosser, Valerie Bence, Andria Hanbury & Malgorzata Kulej)

Countryside Code Education Pack: External Evaluation Report (FACE, 2006)

Practitioners' Use of Research(NERF, 2005)

Practice-based D&R Networks:
A preliminary investigation.
(NERF, 2005)

Report of the Working Group on Student Behaviour(NERF, 2005 with Paul Logan)

Engaging and Learning with the Outdoors. The Final Report of the Outdoor Classroom in a Rural Context Action Research Project (NFER, 2005 with Justin Dillon, Marian Morris, Lisa O'Donnell, Alan Reid & William Scott)

Bringing the Classroom to the Countryside Evaluation. (Countryside Agency, 2005 with Alan Peacock)

Mid-term Review of the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme (NFER, 2005 with Matthew Walker & Peter Rudd)

Grounds for Improvement Secondary Action Research Programme(LTL, 2004)

A Review of Research on Outdoor Learning(Field Studies Council, 2004 with Justin Dillon, Kelly Teamey, Marian Morris, Mee Young Choi, Dawn Sanders & Pauline Benefield)

Improving the Understanding of Food, Farming and Land Management Amongst School-age Children: A Literature Review.(DfES, 2003 with Justin Dillon, Dawn Sanders, Kelly Teamey & Pauline Benefield)

 
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Books and book chapters
   
 

Improving Research through User Engagement (Routledge, 2011 with Sebba, J. & Edwards, A.)

Environmental Learning: Insights from research into the student experience (Springer, in press with Lundholm, C. & Hopwood, N.)

Exploring student learning and challenges in formal environmental education’ In: Engaging Environmental Education: Learning, Culture and Agency (Sense, 2010, with Lundholm, C.)

‘Researching and understanding environmental learning: hoped for the next ten years’ In: Researching Education and the Environment (Routledge, 2009, Edited Reid, A & Scott, W.)
 
‘Planning Your Research Project’ In: Research Tool-kit Volume 1 (NFER, 2008, Edited by Lawson, A.)

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Journal Articles:
   
 

Ananiadou, S., Thompson, P., Thomas, J., Tingting, M, Oliver, S., Rickinson, M., Sasaki, Y., Weissenbacher, D. & McNaught, J. (2010) ‘Supporting the education evidence portal via text mining’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 368, 3829-3844.

Rickinson, M. & Lundholm, C. (2008). ‘Exploring students’ learning challenges in environmental education’, Cambridge Journal of Education 38(3), 341-353.

Rickinson, M., Hanbury, A. & Prossser, M. (2008) The differential impact of UK accredited teaching development programmes on academics’ approaches to teaching. Studies in Higher Education 33 (4), 469-483

Edwards, A., Sebba, J. & Rickinson, M. (2007) ‘Working with users: the implications for educational research’, British Educational Research Journal 33 (5), 647-661

Dillon, J., Rickinson, M., Teamey, K., Morris, M. Choi, M., Sanders, D. & Benefield, P. (2006). 'The value of outdoor learning: evidence from research in the UK and elsewhere', School Science Review 87, 320, 107-111.

Dillon, J., Morris, M., O’Donnell, L., Reid, A., Scott, W. & Rickinson, M. (2006). 'Education! Education! Out! Out! Out!', Primary Science Review, 91, 4-6.

Rickinson, M. & Sanders, D. (2005). 'Secondary school students?participation in school grounds improvement: emerging findings from a study in England', Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 10, 256-272.

Dillon, J., Rickinson, M., Sanders, D. & Teamey, K. (2005). 'On food, farming and land management - towards a research agenda to reconnect urban and rural lives', International Journal of Science Education, 27, 11, 1359-1374.

Rickinson, M., Clark, A., Mcleod, S., Poulton, P. & Sargent, J. (2004). 'What on earth has research got to do with me?', Teacher Development, 8, 2&3, 201?20.

Rickinson, M. (2003). 'Reviewing research evidence in environmental education: some methodological reflections and challenges', Environmental Education Research, 9, 2, 257-271.

Rickinson, M. (2001). 'Learners and learning in environmental education: a critical review of the evidence', Environmental Education Research, 7, 3, 207-320.

Rickinson, M. & Rudd, P. (2001). 'The successes of Beacon partnerships', Education Journal 57, 30-32.

 

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