News and publications

Ushi Bagga, Head of Programme – Arts, and Nina White, Data and Information Officer, reflect on the results of our latest racial justice audit.

This week celebrates Refugee Week in the UK, and it also marks my last week at PHF as Head of Programme for Migration. I’ve learned a huge amount over the past seven years from the organisations we’ve had the privilege to partner with, so I thought I would use my remaining time at PHF to share a few reflections on ideas and themes that have really resonated with me recently.

Supported by the Teacher Development Fund, the WorldBuilders project is a two-year teacher development programme that aims to build teachers’ confidence in using media arts to teach digital literacies. Dr Becky Parry of University of Sheffield explores what they’ve learned so far.

Supported through the Teacher Development Fund (TDF), the Story Exchange project uses drama and storytelling to bring the curriculum to life with an explicit focus on children’s oracy and communication skills. Dr Lisa Stephenson of Leeds Beckett University shares their progress.

Round 4 of the Teacher Development Fund (TDF) has a specific focus on blended approaches to continuing professional development and learning (CPDL). As part of the programme, the Chartered College of Teaching and Sheffield Hallam University have been commissioned as learning partners. Their first task has been to undertake a literature review on this theme. Lisa-Maria Muller shares some of the findings.

Legal aid expert Dr Jo Wilding was commissioned by Refugee Action to research and write a report mapping legal aid provision for people seeking asylum across the UK.

This is the third of a series of essays looking at aspects of PHF’s strategy through the work we support. In this essay Naima Khan reflects on the strengths, nature and complexity of lived experience leadership.

Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums worked with seven schools from Newcastle and Tyneside to support teachers to develop pupils’ communication and enquiry skills through the visual arts, crafts and creative writing, supported by PHF’s Teacher Development Fund. Discover how they embraced collaboration and embedded new approaches in their work.

The White Horse Federation, a Multi-Academy Trust of 32 schools, joined forces with Prime Theatre to improve pupils’ literacy through drama and performance poetry. Dr Nicholas Capstick OBE, the Trust’s CEO, and Mark Powell, Prime Theatre’s Artistic Director, share the challenges they faced as they launched their joint TDF programme, the ways they’ve adapted delivery amidst Covid-19 and their plans for the future.