A research collaboration to inform UK soft power strategy.
October 2025
A guide to arts and culture opportunities in Mainland China
A practical guide to China’s fast-changing cultural landscape, offering insights, case studies and recommendations for UK artists and organisations.
October 2025
Towards building an automated scoring model for assessing appropriate use of metadiscourse markers in Aptis Writing across CEFR levels: A multidisciplinary study
Learn about our grant publication that explores the use of Metadiscourse Markers in L2 writing.
September 2025
Creating a school-child-family evaluation rubric for evaluating children's plurilingual and intercultural competence in a Catalan primary school
Through an Assessment Research Grant, this study tested a rubric to assess plurilingual and intercultural competence at a Catalan primary school.
September 2025
Equality, diversity and inclusion: Different varieties of accents in Aptis English listening tests
This Assessment Research Grant study examines the impact of English accent varieties on test-takers' performance in Aptis listening tasks and their attitudes towards EDI in language testing.
September 2025
Investigating the washback potential of an English speaking test in the Japanese university entrance exam context
This Assessment Research Grant report is a hypothetical qualitative study investigating the potential introduction of the BCT-S, a university entrance speaking assessment, in Japan.