NEWS – Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai introduced his plan for his ESRC-funded UKRI Policy Fellowship project to England's Department for Education

​In January and February, Dr. Natthapoj Vincent Trakulphadetkrai presented – on separate occasions – his plan for his ESRC-funded UKRI Policy Fellowship project to various colleagues at England's Department for Education (DfE) as part of his project’s consultation stage.
 
In January, he got an opportunity to present his plan directly to the Chief Research Officer of the DfE’s Central Analysis and Research Division (CARD), and later in February with the Evaluation Lead and around 40 CARD research analysts. 

​Across these meetings, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai highlighted the importance of educational researchers (particularly those working on randomised controlled trials [or RCT] which usually require access to data across several hundreds of schools) to meet their trials’ school recruitment targets before outlining his project’s plan to identify tangible strategies to support school recruitment and retention efforts. These presentations and discussions were then followed by opportunities for the DfE colleagues to help shape the focus of his project. 
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