[5] 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.
[9] According to its website, the organization came about after a discussion between Bennett, Sam Freedman, and science writer Ben Goldacre.
[10] 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".
[13] Daniel T. Willingham, a guest speaker at a ResearchED conference, refers to ResearchED as an "organization by and for practitioners, meant to bring education research to the public via low-cost conferences throughout the world, and now a magazine",[14] The UK Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb, praised the organisation, calling it "a grassroots, teacher-led revolt against the old order in education".