Development of the Capacity Building Strand of the TLRP

TLRP is committed to continuous improvement, particularly concerning the range of available skills, knowledge and confidence of researchers in tackling educational issues. This concern was shaped by an early survey by Donald and Anne McIntyre, and has continued through two phases of TLRP investment - led successively by Stephen Gorard, Gareth Rees (both then at the University of Cardiff) and Steve Baron (University of Strathclyde). It remains crucial today in light, for example, of ESRC’s 2006 Demographic Review of the UK Social Sciences.

TLRP’s present capacity building strategy is designed to support processes through which the activity becomes embedded within, and ‘owned’ by, the social networks of educational research communities - thus leaving a sustainable legacy once TLRP funding ceases at the end of 2008.

The initiatives and resources on this website are contributions to this ambition. Please contact James O'Toole with any comments, or suggestions or offers of help.

A brief review of TLRP capacity building strategies since 2000 has been provided by Stephen Baron in BERA's Research Intelligence