The impact of Covid-19 and the UK public lockdown on postgraduate research students in the UK

While disruption to educational ‘norms’ has received coverage since the public lockdown, less attention has been shown to the impact of the public lockdown on postgraduate research students....

Is placing beginning teachers into challenging schools actually supporting school improvement, or is it jeopardising our future teachers?

The University of Exeter was selected to take part in the ‘Expanding ITE’ project, in which the Department for Education’s (DfE) aim was to ‘support our best teacher trainer providers ......

Advancing posthumanist perspectives on technology-rich learning

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Picture your favourite childhood toy. What was it? What did you learn from it? How did you know it was for you? These questions, and others like it, underpin the questions raised by posthumanist...

Education: An academic discipline or a field?

What is the problem? Education research has periodically been sharply criticised for being weak in comparison with research from other disciplines. Some of this criticism has implied, or...

Could Dido Harding move into education next?

Dido Harding was appointed as a Conservative peer (Baroness Harding of Winscombe) by then prime minister David Cameron in 2014. She is head of the NHS test and trace programme, and has been...

Beyond Britishness: Learning to become agents of change

It is time for education and the school curriculum in countries with colonial pasts such as Britain to take the knee: to recognise that we – particularly the young – need to see ourselves as...

The uncomfortable and destabilising realities for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students on an initial teacher education course

As a major provider of teacher education in the north west of England, we want to develop inclusive and anti-racist practices that will allow us to provide the best possible quality of experience...

#BlackLivesMatter in education: How can a hashtag help us understand exclusion inequalities in English schools?

The publicised deaths of Black people across the United States sparked a worldwide movement of protest against the historical inequalities and marginalisation experienced within the Black...

#BlackLivesMatter: Black female professionals’ experiences in the workplace

The devastating death of George Floyd, the Covid-19 pandemic, the #BlackLivesMatter movement and #TheSchoolThatTriedToEndRacism have excavated and highlighted various inequalities within our...