Insight

Longitudinal Scoping Project

What happens after leaving residential childcare? This scoping project is planning the mixed methods design for a pilot study of young people's lived experiences and outcomes after leaving residential care at the Mulberry Bush.

Developing methodologies for tracking the social and emotional development of traumatised children

Awarded the Mulberry Bush Studentship 2022, this research is developing our understanding of how to assess children's social and emotional development, particularly for those who have experienced trauma, so that practitioners can understand and help a child in practical ways.

PLAY-toh and other thinklings – deepening the culture of inquiry in a children’s therapeutic community.

Critical thinking skills are crucial to education, as opposed to mere instruction, and to developing the civic qualities needed for effective participation in social life. This project is investigating how regular sessions of co-operative philosophical inquiry can deepen engagement and sustain a culture of inquiry within a living and learning environment.

The Mulberry Bush Nurturing Schools Project: The impact of embedding whole school nurturing practices including a nurture group on children’s progress and wellbeing and staff wellbeing.

The Mulberry Bush Organisation and Nurture UK have supported primary schools in Oxfordshire to embed nurturing practices at a whole school level, as well as through a targeted Key Stage One nurture group.