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Belonging Matters: The Experiences of Minoritised Pre-Service Teachers in Teacher Education (2025)
Digital Artefact

This study explores the experiences of minoritised pre-service teachers in England, focusing on how identity, belonging, and representation shape their journeys through teacher education. Drawing on focus groups with seven pre-service teachers minori... Read More about Belonging Matters: The Experiences of Minoritised Pre-Service Teachers in Teacher Education.

With the head in mind: Evaluating the efficacy of supportive structures for headteachers that mitigate the impact of vicarious trauma and protect mental health (2025)
Thesis

As the retention and recruitment crisis continues to grow within education, a focus on retaining experienced, dedicated and passionate headteachers is a national priority. A combination of safeguarding, dysregulated behaviours, mental health needs an... Read More about With the head in mind: Evaluating the efficacy of supportive structures for headteachers that mitigate the impact of vicarious trauma and protect mental health.

Local and global challenges for early career publishing (2025)
Book Chapter

Facilitating dialogic circles (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Facilitating a dialogic circle with delegates at a conference for Cardiff Interdisciplinary Research on Anti-Fascism and Anti-Racism (CIRAF)

Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food (2025)
Journal Article

Despite calls for curricula to be repurposed around environmental concerns, and the related significance of food-related emissions to global climate change, consideration of the wider impacts of the global food system (positive and negative) are freq... Read More about Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food.

Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming (2025)
Journal Article

Despite calls for curricula to be repurposed around environmental concerns, and the related significance of food-related emissions to global climate change, consideration of the wider impacts of the global food system (positive and negative) are freq... Read More about Learning to care in the food system: Education for sustainable development resources, food and farming.

Knowing or not knowing the rules of the game: Exploring the role of institutional habitus in shaping individual expectations and experience on talent management programmes (2025)
Journal Article

This paper applies the concept of institutional habitus to analyse the accounts of participants on a talent management (TM) programme that is underpinned by an Exclusive/Developed talent philosophy. In doing so we reveal the structural presence of th... Read More about Knowing or not knowing the rules of the game: Exploring the role of institutional habitus in shaping individual expectations and experience on talent management programmes.

Is it time to ditch old favourites: An alternative to Florence Nightingale (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will consider alternatives to favourite topics such as the Great Fire of London and Florence Nightingale at Key Stage 1. The concept of significance will be explored and Partington's criteria will be applied to a number of key indiv... Read More about Is it time to ditch old favourites: An alternative to Florence Nightingale.

Changing the script: Collective and creative possibilities (2025)
Book Chapter

Drawing on examples of creative non-fiction writing, this chapter seeks to capture and explore some illustrative experiences and reflections based on engagement in SUAW sessions. In doing so, it illuminates and provokes consideration of how and why s... Read More about Changing the script: Collective and creative possibilities.

“Someone wrote on his bones”: Object-based free-choice learning for primary age children visiting a UK museum (2025)
Thesis

This thesis views the museum as a context for learning, revisiting the value of authentic museum objects to informal free-choice family learning. The study seeks to identify and define examples of children’s learning that occur when children and thei... Read More about “Someone wrote on his bones”: Object-based free-choice learning for primary age children visiting a UK museum.

From the perspective of trees (2025)
Book Chapter

Tree cover is an issue which has prompted protest and activism in Bristol, as limited access to green space and clean air exacerbates racial and class inequalities. This chapter offers first an overview of local issues and social action, then conside... Read More about From the perspective of trees.

Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience (2025)
Digital Artefact

In this episode, host James Hazzard is joined by Antony Hill, Cathy Minett-Smith, and Jackie Rogers for a timely discussion on how universities are reimagining what it means to support, empower, and engage students in a post-pandemic world.

From p... Read More about Higher education matters vodcast: The evolution of the student experience.

Black teachers’ experiences of reporting racist incidents in English schools: Lessons for school leaders (2025)
Journal Article

In 2020, the Runnymede report Race and Racism in English Secondary Schools found that clear anti-racist policies were needed to address the institutional and systematic disadvantaging of racially minoritised staff and students. This article explores... Read More about Black teachers’ experiences of reporting racist incidents in English schools: Lessons for school leaders.

Tell it how it is: Princess & The Hustler in the secondary English classroom (2025)
Journal Article

The recent inclusion of texts by a range of Black British writers in GCSE English Literature syllabuses seems an attempt to rectify historical racial inequities in English curricula. In this paper, I argue that curricular change must move beyond dive... Read More about Tell it how it is: Princess & The Hustler in the secondary English classroom.

Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students' engagement with arts-based research (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry (Culshaw, 2019; Everley, 2021), limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctorate in... Read More about Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students' engagement with arts-based research.

Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure (2025)
Book

This essential book discusses what reading for pleasure is and what it is not, introducing some fundamental ideas about how we learn to read and how this process can impact on a child’s identity as a reader in classrooms that promote equality, inclus... Read More about Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Heart of Reading for Pleasure.

Children's participation in schools embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The following slides are from a presentation from the Children's Participation in Schools team given at a CRN Seminar.

Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure (2025)
Book Chapter

This chapter reflects on research using MG Leonard’s Beetle Boy to consider how reading for pleasure has the potential to impact upon social and environmental action. Research with children and teachers revealed how reading the book supported them to... Read More about Connecting people and planet through reading for pleasure.

Using play to kick-start history education (2025)
Digital Artefact

Play is widely acknowledged as central to children's learning, significantly influencing their cognitive, emotional, social and linguistic development (Moyles, 2010). In the early years, play facilitates creativity, curiosity and enquiry –skills crit... Read More about Using play to kick-start history education.

A systematic review of systems leadership in education: Taking a social justice lens (2025)
Journal Article

Early conceptual work on systems leadership in education emphasized social justice concerns, often through reference to the ‘moral purpose’ of those in positional authority. However, over time, we have seen a shift in focus from moral purpose to inst... Read More about A systematic review of systems leadership in education: Taking a social justice lens.