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ResearchED, is a teacher led organisation (and, since 2017, a Private Limited Company), established in 2013 by Tom Bennett that aims to make teachers research literate and pseudo-science proof. It holds teacher conferences throughout the UK and internationally.

Speakers have included Daniel T. Willingham, Daisy Christodoulou, Nick Gibb, Mark Lehain, Sam Freedman, Andrew Sabisky and Daniel Muijs.

Its official publication is the quarterly journal ResearchED, published in partnership with John Catt Educational and founded in 2018. Contributors to the first issue included Daisy Christodoulou, John Sweller and Daniel T. Willingham, who also featured on its front cover.

Origins
According to Bennett, ResearchED came about 'following a chance discussion' with Sam Freeman (former advisor to the Secretary of State for Education and later Director of Research and Impact at Teach First) and science writer Ben Goldacre. . It grew out of Bennett's frustration that teachers 'were not leaving their initial training familiar with the best and latest research on how to teach, the way people learn, remember, focus and behave'

Criticisms
ResearchED has been accused of astroturfing and as an 'outrider for [Michael] Gove's education reforms'

Prior to the first ResearchED conference in Canada in 2017, concerns had been raised about 'platforming consultants... whose independent research has been held to scrutiny for encouraging scientific racism'

In June 2020 the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation(OSSTF) severed ties with ResearchED, describing it as a 'divisive and populist organization' with values that did not align with those of the OSSTF