Education in transition: Challenges and opportunities post-lockdown

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

The Covid-19 pandemic heralded a host of unexpected challenges and rapid changes for learners and educators worldwide and, more than two years on, continues to have a major influence on key...

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

It is important to mark the Covid-19 lockdown as a significant transition which educators and students experienced. We all, to varying degrees, experienced a range of social, cultural and...

From Zoom to room: The transition back to in-person learning in higher education

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

In March 2020, in the wake of a global health pandemic, universities worldwide were forced to close their campuses and switch rapidly to online methods so they could continue to provide teaching...

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown

The stresses and strains affecting the mental health and wellbeing of those working in education settings are well documented and were evident long before Covid-19 was placed into the mix (Kidger...

Call for papers: What place for activism in, for and as education?

A proposed special issue of the British Educational Research Journal

Ethnic capital and the role of British Kashmiri parents in the education of their children

This blog is based on research, conducted in 2021, which explored the concept of ‘ethnic capital’ through interviews with seven British Kashmiri academics whose qualifications ranged between...

Science communication: Creativity and empathy

My speaking invitations are normally limited to flies or dementia – it was therefore a refreshing change for me to be asked to talk about my teaching passion of science communication. It was a...

The un-decolonisation of the HE curriculum in the UK: How representative are the current reading lists in education graduate programmes?

The Global South is inhabited by roughly 75 per cent of the world’s population; it is expected that this number will increase to almost 88 per cent by the year 2100 (Solarz & Wojtaszczyk, 2015)....

What’s in it for employers?

While higher education (HE) is often framed as a vehicle for social mobility, there has emerged a paradoxical situation of graduates ending up in roles that do not match their educational...

Practice-based learning in a special school placement: How students with the most complex communication barriers teach social work students to overcome theirs

People with learning disabilities are one of the most disadvantaged groups in our society (EHRC, 2016); they experience the most barriers to schools, services and communities. They are often...

How should we prepare UK business students to become digital ready business leaders?

The background The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation of business processes across different sectors. This is because when businesses were forced to operate predominately...

‘Talking back’ to the securitisation of higher education classrooms

The alignment of education with actions to prevent radicalisation of young people is a global phenomenon and is reflected in the plethora of initiatives emerging from trans-European networks such...