- Institute of Education,
University of London - University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Jena
- University of Tubingen
- Max Planck Institute
- University of Helsinki
- University of Stockholm
- Helsinki Collegium
for Advanced Studies
PI: Prof. Ingrid Schoon, PATHWAYS Programme Director
The Pathways program is run from within the Department of Quantitative Social Science (DoQSS), which is part of the Faculty of Policy and Society within the Institute of Education.
The Institute of Education is one of the world’s leading schools for education and social sciences and tops the league table for education research, according to the latest official audit of UK universities. The Institute achieved a superb result in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) with the highest proportion of world leading research in the field of education, placing it within the top 10 UK research universities. The IOE has an exceptionally strong track record of delivering high quality research projects, has considerable experience of collecting quantitative and qualitative data, analysing administrative data, and has conducted many large-scale evaluations of public policy for government and researchers at IOE.
The Faculty researches a wide range of topics in the education, social and health sciences adopting a wide range of theoretical, methodological, disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives, with a view to enhancing policy and practice. Its aim is to respond to the challenges of a dynamic social environment and to set the agenda for change in education and social policy. The Institute’s own established post doctoral fellowship programme provides experience and expertise in developing the area of international scholarship and training.
The Department (DoQSS) conducts world-leading multidisciplinary research which is typified by:
- academic excellence in the application of quantitative methodology in education, human development and social science
- to inform and influence policy, in order to develop and improve practice
- the analysis of large and complex data
All activities at DoQSS hold at their core the identification of critical evidence to address the nation's economic, social and educational well-being. The Department has recently received £ 2m funding for dedicated work to improve the analysis of longitudinal survey data by making use of linked administrative data (and vice versa) and to develop innovative methodological approaches for the analysis of large scale survey data with the aim develop better tools for researchers to provide more robust answers to key social questions. Fellows appointed to the Jacobs Foundation Program would thus be exposed to state-of the art training facilities and expertise.
Existing collaborations with the PATHWAYS partner institutions include an exchange of visiting scholars as well as institutional affiliations with the International Collaborative for the Analysis of Pathways from Childhood to Adulthood (CAPCA) organised by the University of Michigan. Prof. Schoon is member of CAPCA and is a visiting scholar to the Centre of Applied Developmental Science in Jena.
