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PESP Invisible College 2023

Kindly supported by the: School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences The event was completely FREE – thanks to the generosity of University of Birmingham* The Invisible College...

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

While Artificial Intelligence (AI), as an academic discipline, has been with us since the 1950s, knowledge of AI’s impact on formal education and all its stakeholders is in its infancy. To plug...

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education

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In the decade before the first Covid-19 lockdown, the numbers of children deregistered from school to begin home education increased annually (ADCS, 2021). Concomitantly – as noted by Ofsted...

Academic Writing Weekend – September 2023

Increasingly, researchers wish to make writing a focused social activity with regular breaks in a productive environment that is supportive. In it, you will find an environment to write, share and...

Sarah Gillie

Sarah Gillie is a former primary school teacher whose research interests relate to inclusion in education across and beyond ‘compulsory’ schooling. Family diagnoses of neurodivergence have...

Emma Rawlings Smith

Emma Rawlings Smith is Lecturer in Sustainability and Geography Education at the University of Southampton where she teaches across postgraduate programmes. She taught 11-18 school geography in...

Introducing the #baglady methodology

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Finding friends as an adult is really difficult. As a child it’s easy to approach someone, state your name, and ask if they want to play: sorted. As an adult such an approach might be frowned...

Scott Buckler

Scott is a Chartered Teacher and a Chartered Psychologist, with a career in primary and secondary education, eLearning, and various roles in higher education. He currently leads Computing and...

Harriett Moore

Harriett Moore has a diverse background in the fields of both education and research, originally studying animal behaviour before transferring her skills into human behaviour. She has worked as a...

Teachers seconded as teacher educators: Transformations and tensions

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Introduction In Ireland teacher continuing professional development is provided by national support services. These are staffed with teachers seconded annually from their schools for a maximum of...

Lauren Hennessy

My main area of interest is sustainable education and in particular the intersections with issues of social, racial and epistemic justice. I am interested in participatory approaches to research...

The problem of prejudice, discrimination and institutional racism in a post-92 higher education institution

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This blog post looks forward to the forthcoming symposium at BERA Conference 2023, which will present the findings from two studies that were developed to examine the problem of institutional...