Research

Commons Select Committee Enquiry into Adult Literacy 2014-15  

Committee calls for national campaign on adult literacy and numeracy.
On UN International Literacy Day (8 September), the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Select Committee publishes a video and report recommending the Government launch a high-profile campaign to tackle the alarmingly low levels of adult literacy and numeracy in England

Download the report Reading Force is referenced on page 37 and included in Appendix

Baverstock, A.(2016)

‘What are the barriers to reaching Forces families and to evaluating the impact of working with them? Assessing the effectiveness of Reading Force, a programme to promote shared reading within the Forces community’, Logos Volume: 27-4 (2016)

Baverstock, A. and Gordon, H. (2013)

‘Reading Force: can an experience of shared reading be used as a conduit to effective communication within both Services families and their wider communities?’
Children in War: The International Journal of Evacuee and War Child Studies, 1(10), pp. 77-88 ISSN (print) 1745-7211

Baverstock, A.(2013)

‘Reading Force: practice as research in the context of a shared reading project for Armed Forces families’, Logos Volume: 24-3 (2013)

Baverstock, A. (2013)

‘Promoting Shared Reading within Military Families: The Benefits and Barriers of Reading Force’, Journal of Military Experience, Volume 2

Baverstock, A. (2013)

‘The issues for Services families’, Education Conference for 145 Brigade, Sandhurst, May 2013

Baverstock, A. (2013)

‘Reading Force: the promotion of shared reading to foster effective communication within Forces families’, Conference: Practice, Process, Paradox, Roehampton University, 11/12th April 2013-11-18

Baverstock, A. (2012)

‘Postings: the family’s perspective’, Service children: mobility and transition, Services Children’s Support Network Conference, Birmingham 27th November 2012

Baverstock, A. (2011)

‘Reading Force: how can books help bridge the gap between Services families and theatre of war?’ 4th International War Child Conference: The lost childhoods of wartime, 7-9th September 2011