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How can we move from cold spots to hot spots? Learning from current practices which nurture languages education in the four nations of the United Kingdom (2025)
Journal Article

In this opinion piece, Jo Biddle and Jane Andrews consider a small set of examples of close-to-practice research from the four nations of the UK to learn from initiatives which have potential to be transferred into new contexts. Our focus on existing... Read More about How can we move from cold spots to hot spots? Learning from current practices which nurture languages education in the four nations of the United Kingdom.

The Bristol Bus Boycott (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Bristol Bus Boycott is a significant event that led to a change in legislation. Children in Bristol often know more about the American Civil Rights movement than they do about local history- this presentation explores how to teach this sensitive... Read More about The Bristol Bus Boycott.

Voices at the Margins: An exploration of the perceptions of 'vulnerable' children, their families’ and library professionals regarding reading for pleasure and public libraries (2025)
Thesis

Reading for pleasure is defined by Cremin (2014) as volitional, in which there is an anticipated satisfaction from such an activity. However, why children read and how it benefits them, has only been receiving attention in the policy space in the la... Read More about Voices at the Margins: An exploration of the perceptions of 'vulnerable' children, their families’ and library professionals regarding reading for pleasure and public libraries.

Children’s human rights and anti-racism in education: Contrasting approaches in Sweden and England and the challenges of empowering children’s voices (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper critically examines intersections of children’s human rights education and antiracist pedagogy in primary schools, exploring contrasting approaches in Sweden and England. Both contexts embrace human rights as a guiding principle: implement... Read More about Children’s human rights and anti-racism in education: Contrasting approaches in Sweden and England and the challenges of empowering children’s voices.

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.

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.

“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.