From researching professional to professional researcher: Navigating the transition into academic via a professional doctorate (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Clark, T. (2023, October). From researching professional to professional researcher: Navigating the transition into academic via a professional doctorate. Paper presented at Researcher Education and Development Scholarship (REDS) International Conference, Online

The recent proliferation of professional doctorate routes (PD) internationally (Jones, 2018) coupled with the potential these offer to create pathways from various professional contexts into research roles within academic (Lundgren-Resenterra & Kahn,... Read More about From researching professional to professional researcher: Navigating the transition into academic via a professional doctorate.

Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education (2023)
Thesis
Bird, S. Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10395446

United Kingdom higher education institutions play a valuable role in preparing students for graduate roles through the development of employability skills and preparedness for employment. This study explores the impact of a transitional Community of... Read More about Community of Practice in a seminar setting: An action research approach to graduate employability and skills in higher education.

The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, C. (2023, September). The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association, Aston University

This paper is based on qualitative data gained from young working-class men with disabilities on the margins of Alternative Provisions (APs), located within a medium sized local authority in England. Young males are disproportionately placed into APs... Read More about The relationships of young disabled men on the margins of alternative provision.

Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium) (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Waller, R., Andrews, J., & Clark, T. (2023, September). Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium). Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Conference 2023, Aston University, Birmingham

This symposium, which showcases an edited collection of work by recent UK doctoral graduates (Authors, forthcoming), begins with a short introduction setting the scene for the wider project. It demonstrates the unique contribution of ‘insider’, pract... Read More about Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium).

An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Grant, W. (2023, September). An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share. Paper presented at British Educational Research Association Conference 2023, Aston University

Highly effective secondary school teachers work collegiately (Shah 2012), and increasingly do so outside of individual institutions (e.g. within MAT clusters [Birks 2019]). Beyond professional efficacy, learning to establish and maintain strong colle... Read More about An art and design initial teacher education student conference: Seeking value in inter-institutional ITE student knowledge share.

Relationships on the margins of alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, C. (2023, September). Relationships on the margins of alternative provision. Presented at Relationality in Alternative Provision, Leeds Beckett University

A style of work in education that prioritises the maintenance of helpful staff-student relations would hardly seem contentious. Such work might even be considered as crucial within settings that specifically set out to cater for students in the after... Read More about Relationships on the margins of alternative provision.

Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Gillie, S. (2023, September). Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education. Paper presented at BERA 2023 Conference, Conference Aston/Aston University

Recent years have seen families of certain schoolchildren encouraged to deregister and begin home education. Ofsted (2019) considers the practice to serve a school’s purposes rather than children’s best interests. The Children’s Commissioner (2019) s... Read More about Family transitions, ‘special’ education and home education.

The Other Side of the Bridge: Disability, Class and Social Exclusion (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, C. (2023, September). The Other Side of the Bridge: Disability, Class and Social Exclusion. Presented at Understanding disability, gender, class and educational attainment, NEON, London

Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Johnston, C. (2023, September). Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision. Presented at Driving Impact - Supporting the Educational Outcomes and Progression of Working-Class Boys Conference, Manchester Met University

In this paper, I explore aspects of alternative provision (AP), education settings created to provide short-term support for school-aged young people in England excluded from or unable to be placed in ‘regular’ schools. AP is an element of the Engli... Read More about Absence of value - Masculinity, disability and class in alternative provision.

Amplifying the voices of neurodivergent students in relation to higher education assessment at UWE Bristol (2023)
Report
Chicken, S., Fogg Rogers, L., Hobbs, L., Hunt-Fraisse, T., & Lewis, D. (2023). Amplifying the voices of neurodivergent students in relation to higher education assessment at UWE Bristol. UWE Bristol

This paper reports on a study funded by the UWE Pedagogical Project fund in 2021-2022, which aimed to amplify the voices of neurodivergent (referred to as ‘ND’) students in relation to lived experiences of Higher Education (HE) assessment practices w... Read More about Amplifying the voices of neurodivergent students in relation to higher education assessment at UWE Bristol.

Nurturing Professional Judgement (2023)
Book
Knight, B. (2023). I. Menter (Ed.), Nurturing Professional Judgement. St Albuns: Critical Publishing

Guides teacher educators and early carer teacher mentors how to nurture professional judgement in the complex, dynamic and unpredictable environments of classrooms. In-the-moment dilemmas and situation awareness are central to teachers' work, but... Read More about Nurturing Professional Judgement.

Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Carter, J. (2023, May). Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning. Presented at Strengthening Citizenship Education in Times of Conflict, Madrid

Minoritsed groups are not always comfortable engaging with schools through the traditional approaches used (Moll et al., 1992). Without the engagement and inclusion of all groups, mistrust and conflict is given the space to grow. We also know that be... Read More about Drawing on community knowledge to engage diverse communities with their children's learning.

The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE  (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lewis, F., Witt, M., & Wilkinson, A. (2023, May). The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE . Presented at TEAN Conference 2023, Manchester

This work focusses on pre-service teacher learning of curriculum subject knowledge content. The National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM) has trialled a pre-teaching approach to address mathematical subject knowledge an... Read More about The adoption of a pre-teach approach for HE ITE .

COVID–19, Education and learning: Amplifying young children’s voices (2023)
Report
Tyrie, J., Chicken, S., Knight, C., Manney, D., Tur Porres, G., Waites, T., …Westall, A. (2023). COVID–19, Education and learning: Amplifying young children’s voices. https://hwb.gov.wales: Welsh Government

The Coronavirus pandemic has caused the largest global disruption to world–wide education systems in history (Engzell et al., 2021; Pokhrel and Chhetri, 2021). It is estimated that around 1.6 billion children in more than 200 countries have experienc... Read More about COVID–19, Education and learning: Amplifying young children’s voices.

System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer (2023)
Journal Article
Grant, W., & Kidwell, A. (2023). System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer. AD Magazine, 37, 12-13

Since at least art educator Arthur Efland’s (1976) influential description of a standard ‘school art style’, art and design curricula has been criticised as perennially disconnected from contemporary artistic practice, the creative industries, and th... Read More about System change: The student teacher as agile curriculum designer.

Vocabulary development (2023)
Book Chapter
Carter, J. (2023). Vocabulary development. In D. Waugh, W. Jolliffe, & K. Allott (Eds.), Primary English for Trainee Teachers (47 to 66). (4). London: SAGE Publications (UK and US)

The chapter focuses on the importance of vocabulary knowledge in both the teaching and learning of reading and writing. It provides the theory that underpins practice, curriculum links, case studies and practical ideas for teaching. The book is a g... Read More about Vocabulary development.

Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education (2023)
Journal Article
Holford, J., Milana, M., Webb, S., Waller, R., Hodge, S., & Knight, E. (2023). Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education. International Journal of Lifelong Education, 41(1), 549-571. https://doi.org/10.1080/02601370.2022.2160020

The editors approached the 40th anniversary of the International Journal of Lifelong Education as an opportunity to consider the field by exploring how a corpus of 1462 articles (the first 40 volumes of the journal) questioned and shaped the field. A... Read More about Shaping the field of lifelong education through three critical debates in the International Journal of Lifelong Education.

Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement (2022)
Journal Article
Carter, J., Mohammad, H., & Aidid, F. (2022). Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement. Educational Futures, 13(2),

Identifying approaches to enable traditionally ‘hard to reach’ children and families engage with book choice, book sharing and reading, has been an area for research and development for some years. Ensuring families have access to books is an essenti... Read More about Somali 'influencers' in and beyond a school community using funds of knowledge to influence family and children's reading engagement.

Using community ‘influencers’ to spread the message about book browsing, borrowing and chatting: “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before!” (2022)
Journal Article
Carter, J. (2022). Using community ‘influencers’ to spread the message about book browsing, borrowing and chatting: “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before!”. UKLA English 4-11, 6 - 9

This article reports on a collaborative project between a school, the University of the West of England and Community Researchers seeking to reach into the community to encourage family engagement with the school library through the use of school and... Read More about Using community ‘influencers’ to spread the message about book browsing, borrowing and chatting: “I don’t know why we didn’t do this before!”.

Amplifying Young Children’s Voices: Educational Experiences of 3- to 7-year-olds in Wales During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Parnell, J., Tur Porres, G., Tyrie, J., Chicken, S., Waters- Davies, J., & Knight, C. (2022, August). Amplifying Young Children’s Voices: Educational Experiences of 3- to 7-year-olds in Wales During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Presented at 2022, 31st EECERA (European Early Childhood Education Research Association) Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, Glasgow

This Welsh Government-funded study aimed to capture the voices of young children during the COVID-19 pandemic regarding their educational experiences. Longitudinal research suggests young children’s early educational experiences shape their developme... Read More about Amplifying Young Children’s Voices: Educational Experiences of 3- to 7-year-olds in Wales During the COVID-19 Pandemic.