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Learning to be alone: How positive solitude can benefit international students

International students experience loneliness regularly when living and studying abroad (Wawera & MacCamley, 2020), and the situation appears to have worsened during the pandemic. Since loneliness...

Covid-19 school closures, working from home and family challenges: A novel solution

Covid-19 presented a set of challenges for UK universities, and where ‘business as usual’ was expected, staff working practices intensified. The impact of this has not been equal, with the...

BJET Best EdTech Paper Award at the BERA Conference

The British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) judges this biennial award for the best presentation on an educational-technology-related topic to be delivered during the BERA Conference....

Jodie Pinnell

Jodie Pinnell is a senior lecturer, undergraduate course leader and senior tutor in the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. Her professional background is in further...

Catherine Carroll-Meehan

Dr Catherine Carroll-Meehan is head of the School of Education and Sociology at the University of Portsmouth. She is a principal fellow of the Higher Education Authority. Catherine has worked in...

How can we teach for transformative disciplinary learning in history and social studies in a high autonomy curriculum?

New Zealand’s 2007 curriculum reform has received international attention for its high level of curricular autonomy, learner-centred ideologies and adoption of 21st-century skills, competencies...

Cross Community Education in Divided Societies – Joanne Hughes and Rebecca Loader

Joanne Hughes is Director of the Centre for Shared Education at Queen’s University Belfast. She has led more than 20 research projects on these themes and has been awarded research grants from...

Joanne Hughes

Director of the Centre for Shared Education

Professor Joanne Hughes is head of Department and Director of the Centre for Shared Education at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University, Belfast. She also...

Rebecca Loader

Research Fellow

Dr Rebecca Loader is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen’s University Belfast, where her research focuses on education and...

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research – November

BERA ECR Network Symposium Series 2021: Overcoming challenges in educational research

The theme for 2021 is ‘Overcoming challenges in educational research’ Discussant: Professor Andrew Peterson, University of Birmingham Who is it for? The ECR Network’s symposia series is...

To EdD or not to EdD: Why is the Doctor of Education programme becoming increasingly popular among educational professionals?

The EdD has become increasingly popular as the route to a doctorate for the educational professional. When we embarked on our own EdDs some years ago there were not too many to choose from; now...

Claire Fox

Reader in Educational Psychology

I graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in Human Psychology from Aston University in 1996 and a PhD from Keele University in 2002. I re-joined the School of Psychology at Keele University in...