Acknowledgements
The authors would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank the Rt. Hon
Liam Byrne MP for helping to facilitate this research in his constituency, and for writing
the Foreword and launching this report. We would also like to thank members of our
advisory board for their valuable contributions and the John Templeton Foundation
whose generous funding made this research possible. The opinions expressed within this
report do not necessarily reflect the position of the John Templeton Foundation.
The authors wish to extend their warm and heartfelt gratitude to the schools, their staff
and students for accommodating the research project, for their commitment, active
participation and essential contributions, which made this project possible.
We would like to thank in particular Professor David Carr of the University of Edinburgh
and Professor Vivian Williams of St. Peter’s College, Oxford for their advice and
comments on early drafts of this report. We would also extend our thanks to Dr. Ruth
Deakin-Crick of the University of Bristol and Dr. Paul Warwick of the University of
Leicester for their contribution. In addition, we wish to thank members of the research
group: Dr. Kenneth Wilson, Professor Jon Davison, David Lorimer, Dr. Sacha Powell,
Professor Janet Tod, David Nicholls, Tom Harrison and Elizabeth Melville for their
contributions to reviewing this report.
Professor James Arthur
Director