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Description: This collaborative project involves a team across Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), University of Manchester. There is an increasing focus on evidence based practice in education and this requires teachers and professionals in education to make decisions when selecting content for use in their setting. Teachers are recognised as having a demanding vocation with minimal time available to source and access research knowledge. It follows that evidence based practice marketed or recognised as being beneficial or effective is expected to be alluring. The first step of the project is to conduct a systematic review. MIE is rated as the top University provider of primary initial teacher training in the North West and has an established record of supporting students becoming teachers through multiple routes (PGCE primary, PGCE Secondary, School Direct, Teach First and through working with SCITTs (School-Centred Initial Teacher Training). This project will consider how MIE can capitalise on these routes and its relationship with a broad network of schools and educational organisations to consider how the research produced in and by MIE can have a more direct relationship with practice. Funder: University of Manchester PI Sarah MacQuarrie, Co-I Ann Lendrum RA Janine Zablocki. Collaborative research team also involves Elizabeth Birchinall, Rebecca Phillipps and Karen Kilkenny