Education & Skills Market Research

Education & Skills Market Research

Education & skills market research is a key offer for M·E·L Research and our team has extensive experience undertaking social research and evaluation across the entire education sector from compulsory education through to higher, vocational and executive education for instance. This includes studies:

• Undertaken on behalf of universities or academic institutions to support wider projects
• Engaging with students, stakeholders, alumni or partners within the higher and further education sector
• Engaging with teachers, head teachers/principals, parents, pupils or young people in the compulsory or further education sector
• Undertaking B2B research with schools or other educational establishments for suppliers to the sector including ed-tech
• Undertaking stakeholder engagement – for instance with regulators, support organisations, unions or other similar organisations including student housing and accommodation providers for instance

Our team have worked with clients including:

Some of our recent projects include:

• Unipol and the National Union for Students (NUS) Accommodation Costs Survey
• South Downs National Park Authority – review of schools perceptions of and engagement with the National Park
• UNBOXED: Creativity in the UK – engagement with teachers across the UK to understand the value of teaching resources and CPD provided as part of the UNBOXED commissions
• University of Liverpool – household survey of Liverpool residents to understand the wellbeing impacts of the Eurovision Song Contest and the value to community engagement
• University of Leeds Co-Power Study – a household survey of n=1000 Ethnic Minority residents of specific UK cities to understand the long-term impact of COVID-19
• University of Manchester – Study to understand use and impact of dating apps among LGBTQIA audiences
• LTE Group – public perceptions of prison education and potential reactions to policies
• CUBO – benchmark study to understand year on year trends around university income and expenditure on a range of commercial (non-tuition related) activities
• CUBO – stakeholder interviews and consultation to inform redesign of the UUK/GuildHE University Accommodation Code of Practice
• University of Hertfordshire – research with businesses in the West Midlands to understand and evaluate the impact of the University’s support programmes for staff mental wellbeing.

Our education & skills sector lead also has extensive wider experience and we have several team members with the requisite certification to work with children and young people – for instance DBS checks and experience of sign-posting where relevant, e.g. when discussing potentially sensitive subject matter.