Jo Fletcher-Saxon is a PhD candidate with Sunderland University and an assistant principal and practitioner research lead at Ashton Sixth Form College. Jo’s remit at the college includes leadership of adult education, college-based higher education and teacher education as well as a proportion of 16–19 departments. Jo is active within the further education research community and is a convenor for the Learning and Skills Research Network. Jo is a podcaster, co-hosting a podcast series in which she interviews education researchers. Jo’s activities in education research have been recognised by Jisc with a Community Champion Award in 2023 and by the Edufuturists with an Excellence in Research Award in 2020. Her action research based PhD focuses on practitioner inquiry as professional learning for teachers in UK sixth form colleges. Jo is interested in creative methods and is using and exploring podcasting as method within her PhD.