“…However, the relationship between universities and education research is becoming increasingly precarious. For example, the English government's main education research funding body, the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), funds a narrow range of research, which has been described as overly instrumentalised, and reliant on a narrow range of research methodologies such as Randomised Control Trials (Ellis, Steadman, & Trippestad, 2018;Godfrey, 2017;Hulme, Wood, & Shi, 2020;Turvey, 2018;Turvey & Pachler, 2020). The types of research funded and produced by the EEF has been described by Turvey (2018) as dehumanising because of its overemphasis on data, and lack of recognition of the human dimension of education.…”