Lecture: SATNAV Project

This talk introduces the SATNAV project to all audiences. SATNAV is a comprehensive school-based programme of change with a focus on individual morality in combination with the moral context. This work has the potential to contribute to child development and improving school climates meaningfully and comprehensively to encourage positive decision-making to give children opportunities to reach their full potential. These impacts are expected to extend outside the school context and beyond compulsory education. The project is guided by Situational Action Theory, the well-evidenced link between antisocial morality and adolescent problem behaviour, and the increasingly apparent failings of punitive behaviour management practices in schools. SATNAV has a longitudinal, participatory, and co-produced research design and is being developed with continual practitioner collaboration. Rigorous and mixed-methods evaluation is embedded throughout all aspects of the project. This work to date involves targeted individual-level moral development interventions in three UK schools to date (SATNAV:Compass), being delivered simultaneously alongside thoroughly embedding prosocial moral values within the curricular and noncurricular aspects of the school (SATNAV:Climate). This work also involves adaptations to the wider school context, such as teacher-student relationships, staff hiring and training, and community engagement (SATNAV:Global), as well as other components (SATNAV:Skills, SATNAV:Enforce).

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Speaker Biographies:

Dr Hardie is the founder and Co-Principal Investigator of SATNAV and is also Managing Editor of The European Journal of Criminology. She is an associate member of the National Coalition of Independent Scholars (NCIS).

Dr Neema Trivedi-Bateman is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the Criminology, Sociology, and Social Policy department at Loughborough University, Co-Principal Investigator of SATNAV, and Principal Investigator of SATNAV:Compass. Dr Beth Hardie is a Senior Research and Innovation Associate of PADS+ Phase 3 at the Centre for Analytic Criminology, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge.