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Sally Baker

Dr Sally Baker is an Associate Professor in Migration and Education at the Australian National University. Her teaching and research interests centre on language, literacies, transitions, and...

Implementing citizenship education in a post-conflict society: Lessons from Northern Ireland

Citizenship education is intended to foster civic and political participation by encouraging students to critically reflect on and challenge established attitudes, values and behaviours (Niens,...

Moving with the times: Educational video games to improve children’s movement skills

Modern children are increasingly sedentary and spend an average of six hours a day in front of a screen (Barnett et al., 2018). This has a significant impact on the movement capabilities of...

Una O’Connor

Dr Una O’Connor is a senior lecturer, based in the UNESCO Centre, School of Education, Ulster University. Her teaching and research focus on improving educational outcomes for children and young...

Elizabeth Anderson Worden

Elizabeth Anderson Worden is an associate professor of education at American University in Washington, DC. She is a comparative and international education scholar who examines how governments...

Jessica Bates

Dr Jessica Bates is a senior lecturer in the School of Education, Ulster University (UU) where she undertakes research across education and library and information science. Her research interests...

Vanessa Gstrein

Vanessa Gstrein is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences at Ulster University. Vanessa has held senior management positions in the Australian Public...

Jayne Finlay

Dr Jayne Finlay is a research associate in the School of Education at Ulster University, where she undertakes research across the areas of education and library and information science. Her PhD...

Johann Issartel

Johann Issartel is an associate professor in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dublin City University. He has a background in behavioural neuroscience, motor development in children...

Jamie McGann

Jamie McGann is a research fellow in the School of Health and Human Performance and the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University. He has a background in education and educational technology design...

Exploring the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital(s) in survey research: Student participation in further education in England

Following engagement with Savage et al’s (2013) Great British Class Survey (GBCS), and subsequent criticisms of it – for instance, the selectivity of indicators of each capital (Bradley, 2014)...

Identifying the potential impacts of Covid-19 on school-based sexuality education

Covid-19, education and educational research

The ideas presented in this blog were developed in dialogue with a number of English sexuality education organizations, including acetUK, It Happens, Susie March, Think for Yourself, Teaching...