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Alison Glover

Alison Glover is the research associate for The Open University ITE Partnership PGCE programme in Wales. She has worked in outdoor education, the early years, and in the primary and secondary...

Pavla Boulton

Pavla Boulton is a senior lecturer in early years education at the University of South Wales. Pavla’s specialist interests include outdoor learning and play pedagogies; the collision between the...

Verity Jones

Verity Jones is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Verity leads the RESPECT team, and her research interests relate to social and environmental...

Mathew Jones

Mathew Jones is a primary subject tutor at the Open University in Wales and supports student teachers studying the part-time or salaried PGCE programme. Before joining the Open University, he was...

Anne Parfitt

Anne Parfitt is a research fellow in the School of Education at Bath Spa University. Anne’s research interests include the professional learning of early career teachers and the development of...

Paul Taylor-McCartney

Paul Taylor-McCartney is deputy programme manager of the Cornwall school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) and QA support tutor for the Department for Education’s ITT expansion pilot...

Yan Zhu

Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies

Yan is the ECR Regional Rep for the South East. Yan is a Lecturer in Education Studies at University College London. Yan was a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Programme Leader for MA...

Ingrid Schoon

Ingrid Schoon is chair of social policy at the Social Research Institute, University College London, Institute of Education. She is a fellow of the British Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) and...

Kate Sida-Nicholls

I was an English teacher for eighteen years before I began my role in ITE as the course leader for the secondary programme with Suffolk and Norfolk SCITT (one of the largest SCITTs in the country)...

Cassie Buchanan OBE

Executive Headteacher

Cassie Buchanan is the executive headteacher of Charles Dickens Primary School and Nursery based in Southwark, London and the CEO of The Charter Schools Educational Trust, a growing trust of...

Jean Gross CBE

Author and Independent Consultant

Jean Gross was formerly England’s Communication Champion for children and young people, responsible for promoting the importance of good language skills. She chaired the 2018 ‘Bercow: Ten...

Sandra Mathers

Senior Researcher

Sandra is known nationally and internationally for policy-relevant research on early years education and care (ECEC), with a strong focus on educational inequality. Her experience includes...