Fair trials: why inclusive research is key to fairer futures

IES Trials Unit: reflections as we embrace year three

Early Talk Boost

Adult numeracy randomised controlled trials: Contextualised approach, Becci Newton, Seemanti Ghosh, Susie Bamford, Nick Litsardopoulos, Amy Fox, Kyla Ellis, Olivia Garner, Department for Education / Government Social Research, Jun 2026

Flexible Phonics: updated March 2024, Anneka Dawson, Clare Huxley, Kate Alexander, Susie Bamford, Institute for Employment Studies, Mar 2024

Lord, P., Styles, B., Morrison, J., White, R., Andrade, J., Bamford, S., Lushey, C.,Lucas, M., and Smith, R. (2018). Families and schools together (FAST): Evaluation report and executive summary. Slough: NFER.

Buchanan, E., Sharp, C., Worth, J., Martin, C., Bamford, S., and Des Clayes, Z. (2018). Evaluation of the Return to Teaching Pilot Programme. Slough: NFER.

Bamford, S. and Worth, J. (2017). Teacher Retention and Turnover Research. Research Update 3: Is the Grass Greener Beyond Teaching? Slough: NFER.

Straw, S., Bamford, S. and Styles, B. (2017). Randomised Controlled Trial and Process Evaluation of Code Clubs. Slough: NFER.

Hillary, J., Bamford, S., Bernardinelli, D. and Gee, G. (2017). A Tale of Eight Regions. Part 2: Challenge and Support Across the Regional Schools Commissioner Areas. Slough: NFER.

Straw, S., Bamford, S, C. and Martin, K. (2016). Evaluation of The SpringBoard Bursary Foundation: Year 3. Slough: NFER.

Lynch, S., Worth, J., Bamford, S. and Wespieser, K. (2016). Engaging Teachers: NFER Analysis of Teacher Retention. Slough: NFER.

McCrone, T. and Bamford, S. (2016). NEET Prevention: Keeping Students Engaged at Key Stage 4. Slough: NFER

Kwakye, I.N., Garner, M., Baldwin, D.S., Bamford, S., Pinkney, V., & Bishop, F.L. (2016) Altruism, personal benefit, and anxieties: a phenomenological study of healthy volunteers’ experiences in a placebo-controlled trial of duloxetine. Human Psychopharmacology Clinical and Experimental 31(4) DOI: 10.1002/hup.2543

Worth, J., Bamford, S. and Durbin, B. (2015). Should I Stay or Should I Go? NFER Analysis of Teachers Joining and Leaving the Profession. Slough: NFER.

Bamford, S., Penton Voak, I.P., Pinkney, V., Baldwin, D.S., Munafo, M.R., & Garner, M. (2015) Early Effects of Duloxetine on Emotion Recognition in Healthy Volunteers. Journal of Psychopharmacology 03/2015; DOI: 10.1177/0269881115570085.

Bamford, S., Broyd, S.J., Benikos, N., Ward, R., Wiersema, J.R., & Sonuga-Barke, E.J: (2015) The Late Positive Potential: A neural marker of the regulation of emotion-based approach-avoidance actions? Biological Psychology. 105:115-23. Doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2015.01.009.

Helps, S.K., Bamford, S., Sonuga-Barke, E.J & Soderlund, G., (2014). Different effects of adding White Noise on Performance of Sub-, Average and Super-Attentive School Children. PLoS One. 9(11): e112768. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0112768.

Pinkney, V., Wickens, R., Bamford, S., Baldwin, D.S. and Garner, M. (2014) Defensive eye-blink startle responses in a human experimental model of anxiety. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 28(9):874-80 doi: 10.1177/0269881114532858.

Broyd, S.J., Richards. H.J, Helps,S.K., Chronaki, G., Bamford, S. & Sonuga-Barke, E.J. (2012) An Electrophysiological monetary incentive delay (e-MID) task: A way to decompose the different components of neural response to positive and negative monetary reinforcement. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 209, 40-49.

Broyd, S.J., Richards. H.J., Helps,S.K., Chronaki, G., Bamford, S. & Sonuga-Barke, E.J. (2012) Electrophysiological markers of the motivational salience of delay imposition and escape. Neuropsychologia 50, 965-972.

Bamford, S., Turnbull, O., Coetzer, R., & Ward, R. (2009). To lose the frame of action: A selective deficit in avoiding unpleasant objects following unilateral temporal lobe lesion, Neurocase, 15 (4), 261-270.

Bamford, S., & Ward, R. (2008). Predispositions to approach and avoid are contextually sensitive and goal dependent. Emotion, 8, 174-183.

Ward, R., Danziger, S., & Bamford, S. (2005). Response to visual threat following damage to the pulvinar. Current Biology, 15, 571-573.