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Rachel Shanks is a senior lecturer in education at the University of Aberdeen. In the 1990s she was a law lecturer and then worked for the TUC on its Bargaining for Skills project. She has also been a community education tutor and worked in the voluntary sector as an employment rights adviser. She moved into education research after doing a funded PhD on how new teachers learn in the workplace. Her current research is focused on children’s rights in education and school uniform/dress code policies.
This online event hosted by the social justice SIG will celebrate how colleagues have had an impact through their research and work. All change achieved through our research is important. ...
A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...
New teachers might have been expected to experience particular difficulties in moving to remote emergency teaching in March 2020. Funded by a BERA Covid-19 small grant project, we are exploring in...
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