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Vivienne John

Vivienne John is the programme director for PGCE secondary at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She is currently in the final stages of her professional doctorate which focusses on the role of...

Judith Kneen

Judith Kneen is programme leader for PGCE English at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research interests include the use of technology within English teaching, teaching literature and...

Emma Thayer

Emma Thayer is programme leader for PGCE secondary drama at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Emma’s research interests include drama pedagogy, cross-curricular pedagogy in the expressive arts,...

Stefan Kucharczyk

Stefan Kucharczyk is a primary school teacher and consultant with 10 years’ experience. In 2014, he founded an independent teaching consultancy, ARTiculate Education. He specialises in improving...

Sara Sintonen

Sara Sintonen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She holds the title of adjunct professor on media education (University of Helsinki) and on...

Quarantined at home? Craft productive learningscapes and workspaces through the use of recorded music

The Covid-19 pandemic means that countless students and educational staff are expected to continue their work from home. The worldwide quarantine has been a game-changer, blurring the boundaries...

Ross Goldstone

Ross Goldstone is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, where he is studying the relationship between social class and further education participation and...

Memory Malibha-Pinchbeck

Dr Memory Malibha-Pinchbeck is an early-career researcher and has recently completed her interdisciplinary PhD in sociology, education and ethnomusicology at the Open University. Prior to her...

What you need to know to get the best from online education: A BJET/JCAL virtual special issue

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re all going through a period unlike any we have ever experienced. With respect to teaching and learning, students can’t attend school and universities – and...

Covid-19, education and educational research

Covid-19 has transformed the way we live, work, research, teach and learn. This ongoing series of blogs addresses the crisis as it affects education in all its diversity.

Cormac Loane

Following his graduation from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, Cormac Loane worked as a saxophone player ‘on the boats’ and at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens during the late 1970s....

Going beyond the evidence: Research and the media

Covid-19, education and educational research

In a previous blog (published yesterday) I reflected on the danger of researchers going beyond the evidence in presenting policy-relevant findings: putting forward empirical conclusions as cogent...