Research

• Absence & Attendance in School Commission on School Reform Briefing
• Attendance: the next pandemic?  The psychology of school attendance
• Burtonshaw, S. and Dorrell, E., Listening to, and learning from, parents in the attendance crisis (Public First, 2023)
• Education Scotland:  Improving Attendance:  Understanding the Issue Report
• Engagement with Learning – Being Fully Present rather tAttendance-Report-21092023.pdfhan Chronically Absent
• School absenteeism and educational attainment- The Evidence Base behind Attendance… | Durrington Research School Evidence from the Scottish Longitudinal Study
• School absences, academic achievement, and adolescents’ post-school destinations
• School Anxiety:  Is it all down to Mental Health?
• School Attendance and Academic Achievement: Understanding Variation across Family Socioeconomic Status
• School attendance: analysing causes and impact in pursuit of solutions
• Socioeconomic Disparities in School Absenteeism after the First Wave of COVID-19 School Closures in Scotland
• Socioeconomic status and school absenteeism a systematic review and narrative synthesis
• The Evidence Base behind Attendance Interventions
• The long-term consequences of early school absences for educational attainment and labour market outcomes
• The relationship between student’s perceptions of their school environment and academic achievement