The Research

Sylvia Green Director of Research set out the background to the study. She looked back at the initial foresight of the original study that captured a corpus of data of student's writing in formal exams from the 1980s and compared it to that of those in the 1990s.

Gill Elliott Principal Research Officer talked through the method of the 2014 phase of the cross sectional study. She also put into context the findings set out in the report.

Filio Constantinou Research Officer looked at the impact the ever increasing use of social media may or may not have had on students' writing.

Nicky Rushton Research Officer addressed the change in common misspellings by students between 1980 and 2014.