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Paul Curzon and Jo Brodie have been awarded a QMUL Impact grant of £8,712 to investigate the impact of Paul's research on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). Paul Curzon's research with Jane Waite and Karl Maton of the University of Sydney has shown how the Semantics dimension of LCT provides a way to reflect on and improve lesson plans and explanations. They initially focussed on Semantic profile and the importanceof semantic wave structures when teaching using unplugged computing. The ideas and approach, as aresult, have been adopted as best practice by Ofsted, the National Centre for Computing Education, Barefoot Computing and the Raspberry Pi foundation amongst others.

This grant will for example gather evidence for how the impact happened and the extent it is now being used in schools after an initial investigation suggested that primary schools were adopting it as good pedagogy.