Leicester Vaughan College’s main object is to be a teaching, rather than research, College. However, we do carry out small research projects and also deliver and write academic papers.

Academic publications about cooperative and adult higher education

Miriam Gill and Lucy Faire, ‘Forced to Reimagine: Reflections on the Experience of Leicester Vaughan College Community Benefit Society’, Education Sciences, 15: 1 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15010093

Lucy Faire and Miriam Gill, ‘Phoenix from the Ashes: The Origins and Development of Leicester Vaughan College’, in Cilla Ross and Malcolm Noble, eds, Reclaiming the University for the Public Good: Experiments and Futures in Co-operative Higher Education (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Past research projects

Leicester Ageing Together (LAT) Community Explorers

The switch to online delivery as a result of Covid-19 and its impact on the experience and appreciation of face-to-face education

Co-operative Researchers Network (CORNet)