Spring 2022
Education for environmental sustainability Research Intelligence issue 150 This 150th issue of Research Intelligence reflects and builds upon the renewed focus on education for environmental...
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Call for abstracts: Theorising educational engagement, transitions & outcomes for care-experienced people
Editors Zoe Baker (University of York), Katie Ellis (University of Sheffield) and Neil Harrison (University of Oxford) are seeking high-quality, international contributions for a forthcoming...
The place of education in the government’s draft sustainability and climate change strategy
Recent research on climate change education in England indicates an absence of policy and pro-environmental ambition, and obstruction in relation to both environmental sustainability in general,...
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Graduating with another hole in your pocket
This blog post discusses how some families and supporters pay considerably more than others to attend UK graduation ceremonies. This much we already know: higher education is costly. According to...
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Dyslexia: To identify or ignore?
When it comes to identifying whether a child has dyslexic tendencies, parents/guardians and teachers can experience a combination of feelings about whether this is for the best. The principal...
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Free school meals: What can the UK learn from Portugal’s model?
Before the Covid-19 pandemic, over 4.2 million children in Britain were living in relative poverty. Since then, this figure has increased by 200,000 (McNeil et al., 2020). Rising levels of food...
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Rethinking how we can improve the diversity of the teaching workforce in England
The lack of black and minority ethnic (BAME) teachers and headteachers in English schools is a growing concern facing policymakers in England. In a recent conference of school leaders, Nadhim...
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Rent strikes and the continuing relevance of Paulo Freire at 100
Against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic, student rent strikes took place in many universities in England. Lockdowns and moves to online learning meant that students were at times required to...
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Loneliness and collegiality in the academy: Isolated by a neoliberal ideology
The problems of loneliness and isolation are often raised in academia. How can we understand loneliness and respond to it within the academic community of our time? I suggest that the ideology of...
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Has Athena Swan lost its way?
The Athena Swan charter was established in 2005 to advance the careers of female academics in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM). Yet it now discourages academic...
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Does money motivate teachers?
Labour economists have long been interested in investigating how wages affect worker productivity. Specifically, does paying a worker a higher wage make them work harder, or more productively, in...
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Social justice through non-violence: Not purely an intellectual endeavour
The issue of ‘violence-based inequality’ is a philosophical one that translates into more practical issues. In using this term, I borrow from Judith Butler’s The Force of Non-Violence (2020)...
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