Thomas Perry 🤔

Applied Educational and Social Science▪️ Reader (Associate Professor) @Warwick_Edu

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

Out today!: 📣 A Critical Guide to Evidence-Informed Education📖. A book on the challenges of using evidence to improve education policy and practice by @RE_Morris1 and me. 🎉 https://t.co/YS1MDUAliK

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

📣PhD Studentship Opportunity📣

Interested in education inequalities, policy, & quant methods?

Apply for this ESRC-funded PhD (Warwick & B'ham) on pupil school mobility + educational/labour-market trajectories in England.

Deadline: 27 April

Details: ⬇️
https://t.co/3Jrt4BUhZx

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

Laurence Lessard-Phillips and I will be supervising the research. Don't hesitate to get in touch with informal enquiries about whether this might be suitable for you.

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

📣PhD Studentship Opportunity📣

Interested in education inequalities, policy, & quant methods?

Apply for this ESRC-funded PhD (Warwick & B'ham) on pupil school mobility + educational/labour-market trajectories in England.

Deadline: 27 April

Details: ⬇️
https://t.co/3Jrt4BUhZx

[BERA @BERANews]

📝 NEW BLOG POST

Twenty years of methods use in education research: Are we moving in the right direction?
Emma Smith, @RE_Morris1 @TWPerry1 @uniofwarwick @Warwick_Edu
@SGorard @DUSofE
@JessBrown_UK @SOEBristol @BristolUni

Read here: https://t.co/1z0I0OCAAQ

[@mike_ed_doc @mikeeddoc1]

We’ve published our final report Sustainable School Leadership Final Report Published https://t.co/tfOP7haCv7

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

@C_Hendrick @johngelis I’d certainly agree that the family of approaches we label spaced retrieval practice r a gd bet and should b widely used. Also that we r getting better at codifying the nuance. But there's still a lot that needs an expert eye to get right which eludes even well controlled studies

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

@C_Hendrick @johngelis I think part of the difficulty is that it isn’t really an “it”. “Spaced”, “retrieval”, and even “practice” can each mean quite different things in classrooms; and if course “works” depends on what outcome, for which pupils, with what prior knowledge, content and design etc etc

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

Does spaced retrieval practice work in all subjects? New study suggests the honest answer is sometimes, and we do not yet fully know when. 🧵⬇️

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

Interested in edu inequalities, education policy, & quantitative methods?

We’re advertising an ESRC-funded PhD (Warwick & B'ham) on pupil school mobility and educational and labour-market trajectories in England.

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026.

Details here ⬇️
https://t.co/73S2rom5Nb

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

Interested in edu inequalities, education policy, & quantitative methods?

We’re advertising an ESRC-funded PhD (Warwick & B'ham) on pupil school mobility and educational and labour-market trajectories in England.

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026.

Details here ⬇️
https://t.co/73S2rom5Nb

[Research Papers in Education @ResPapersInEduc]

NOW PUBLISHED! 🚨#openaccess

‘Inhabiting uncertain terrain’: inequalities of access, experience, and outcomes for university education researchers in the UK

@JessBrown_UK @RE_Morris1 , Emma Smith, @TWPerry1

#highereducation #diversity #inclusion #workforce #ResPapersInEduc

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

@olicav @C_Hendrick As well as just trying to figure out replication (attempt/success) rates, we also found some of the difficulties of definition and what counts as direct/conceptual replication gave us food for thought and how slippery it is in more applied and complex research spaces like edu.

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

@cbokhove Yes, some really heavy hitters and great papers in that one! 😉

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

@C_Hendrick @teacherhead @BradleyKBusch Replication is unfortunately very rare in education https://t.co/zG5EcDtSzY

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

We launched our UK Survey report from the #esrc Sustainable School Leadership research project today.

Important findings on leaders' work (& workloads), wellbeing, career journeys & plans, professional learning, views on school contexts/ cultures & more! https://t.co/fCPfAhCBmS

[Dr Penny Rabiger (She/Her) @Penny_Ten]

Good morning 🌅
It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for another #Edujobs bulletin.

An hour of the latest jobs in education but not in school classrooms.

Shout if you land one of these, people do!
Share if I miss one you know of
Wave if you’re watching.

[Robert Coe @ProfCoe]

We are looking for a Research Statistician and Data Analyst, working with me and the @EvidenceInEdu team.
https://t.co/vVRDbnabLN

[Educational Review @EdReview]

Matt Horton, @TWPerry1, & Tracy Whatmore offer a validated Toolkit for Access and Participation Evaluation (TAPE). Learn how it can improve higher education access for under-represented groups 🗝️🎓
#HigherEd #SocialMobility #Research

https://t.co/BKXR5aG2NA

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

5/5
We know of over 100 HEIs and third sector organisations already using TAPE to strengthen their evaluation. If you’d like to join them or find out more, feel free to get in touch!
#evaluation #wideningparticipation #highereducation #schools #education #university

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

New paper validating the Toolkit for Access and Participation Evaluation (TAPE) now out! May be of interest to those working in widening participation and HE evaluation:
📄 You can access the full validation results in Educational Review Journal here: https://t.co/qowvP24M2d

[Thomas Perry 🤔 @TWPerry1]

4/5
💡 Why use TAPE?
- Free to use
- Accurately measures the impact of WP activities on pupil AABs
- The first toolkit to demonstrate predictive validity
- Provides a meaningful baseline to understand pupils’ strengths and barriers
- Supports targeted, preventative interventions