This site provides details of our own research and work in progress, as well as information on literacy research across the sector, via our comprehensive A-Z index of subject areas and sector listing.

NLT work in progress

Two pieces of research will be undertaken by us in 2008

• The impact of role models on children's and young people's literacy - this research includes a literature review of the relevant existing research as well as survey work that is going to be conducted this summer.
  A brief literature review is now available that will form the basis of our survey work into the impact of role models in the literacy context. It outlines current evidence drawing on a variety of sources and highlights exisiting gaps in the evidence base (April 2008).
• Book choice, choice strategies and self-awareness - this desk research will explore the importance of book choice in children's and young people's literacy lives, what choice strategies are and how book choice relates to interest and self-awareness

Latest NLT research

• Being a reader: The relationship with gender - this online article re-focuses our self-perception research and examines the link between gender and reader self-perception (April 2008)
• Young people's self-perceptions as readers - a survey of pupils at 29 primary and secondary schools, including family, peer and school influences (January 2008)
• What's hot, what's not 2008 - a policy-scoping survey of 35 leading literacy professionals that explored which literacy issues are currently hot or not hot and what 2008 might bring (December 2007).
• Demystifying the reluctant reader - an article that focuses on the so-called "reluctant" reader (December 2007)
  More NLT research

For further information or to tell us about your research email christina.clark@literacytrust.org.uk or call the National Literacy Trust on 020 7587 1842.