TVS Chief Investigators, Associate Professor Jenna Gillett-Swan and Dr Prudence Miles, presented at the 2023 European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Glasgow last month. Their paper, Student Experiences of Urban Vertical Schools: Diversity of Voices, stressed the importance of centring students in urban school design processes. This is necessary as schools are created for students and school core business is student learning and student outcomes. The researchers proposed that “Student voice is an opportunity to inform school design and empower students through inviting them to identify and examine important issues relevant to their school experience and taking these views seriously”.
An outline of the paper is available online at the ECER 2023 Conference website.