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As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, ½¿É«µ¼º½ has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research methodology and/or educational theory over the past 50 years.

In 2013, as ½¿É«µ¼º½ was approaching its 40th anniversary, we invited the membership to submit ideas of how this milestone could be commemorated. Inspired by the British Museum’sÌýA History of the World in 100 Objects,ÌýDr Tony Breslin proposed selecting 40 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research methodology and/or educational theory over the past 40 years.

As we approached the 50th anniversary, we decided to add 10 studies from the past decade using similar principles and approaches used to collate the original 40.

We are publishing this list of 50 studies and the accompanying narrative at the end of our 50th anniversary year. ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s vision is for ‘educational research to have a profound and positive influence on society across the four nations andÌý¾±²Ô³Ù±ð°ù²Ô²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô²¹±ô±ô²â’.ÌýWeÌýhopeÌýthatÌýtheseÌýstudiesÌý(andÌýindeedÌýtheÌýmanyÌýthatÌýdidÌýnotÌýmakeÌýtheÌýfinalÌýselection) demonstrate that vision in action.

Read and download ourÌý′50@50′Ìýpublication below, which provides details of the 10 most recent studies and the policy context in which they were published.

Click on the tiles further below to read and download summaries of the 40 earlier studies and the policy context in which they were published.