Outputs (47)

Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In the context of rising interest in Alternative Provisions (APs) amongst policymakers and researchers in England, this article examines social capital and accountability in this ‘new’ field of enquiry. APs stress the value of supportive relationship... Read More about Outcomes beyond evaluation: The impetus and measure of relationships within alternative provisions.

A Tale of Two Cities - Giving Youth a Fighting Chance (2025)
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Two seemingly unrelated organisations are finding innovative ways to support youth in vulnerable situations, and promote community safety. We hear from a youth boxing therapy charity from Bristol a... Read More about A Tale of Two Cities - Giving Youth a Fighting Chance.

Developing 14-18 year old’s interest and participation in physics by training them to deliver outreach to primary school children (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The physical sciences can struggle to engage teenagers, sometimes being perceived as complex or daunting. To combat this, Badminton School developed its ‘Science Outreach’ programme enabling students to deliver liquid nitrogen-based shows in 25 schoo... Read More about Developing 14-18 year old’s interest and participation in physics by training them to deliver outreach to primary school children.

Integrating students as academic partners in software engineering: A group software development case study (2025)
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Exploring the role of a Student as an Academic Partner (SAP) in software engineering education, this study investigates the interactions between students and faculty and evaluates the perceptions of students on SAP's integration within a Group Softwa... Read More about Integrating students as academic partners in software engineering: A group software development case study.

Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality (2024)
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School libraries contribute to student learning through accommodating the student self-directed activities (e.g. reading, studying, revising, drawing, etc) and interactions, all taking place during break-times. This research explores the design of sc... Read More about Student interactions and self-directed activities in School Libraries: The design potentiality vs operational actuality.

Working class men on care based degrees (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The talk explores as... Read More about Working class men on care based degrees.

Human rights education: Teachers’ perceptions about the value of children’s participation (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024 - this presentation focused on our findings from teachers in Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation in Schools project.

Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream (2024)
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This panel responds to February’s review of alternative provision in England (CQC & Ofsted, 2024) and June’s BBC investigation revealing that numbers of UK children moving from schools to home education are at their highest levels since covid (Hatten... Read More about Alternative education: Inclusion beyond the mainstream.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presented at BERA 2024, this presentation focused on the results of a legislative and policy analysis of Welsh educational documents as well as a survey administered to ITE providers across Wales

Exploring teacher understandings of participatory pedagogies via approaches to children's rights in Wales​ (2024)
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This presentation took place at EECERA 2024 in Brighton - the presentation was on initial findings from Work Package 2 of the Children's Participation In Schools Project

Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty (2024)
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The paper 'Exploring the Intersection of A.I. and Human Creativity: Empowering Agency in an Age of Uncertainty' will be presented at the Prisms Education Symposium, a component of ICON12 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) July 2024. This sympo... Read More about Exploring the intersection of A.I. and human creativity: Empowering agency in an age of uncertainty.

Swimming against the tide: Exploring alternative approaches for education (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Drawing on a lens of social justice and critical pedagogy, this workshop aims to unpack the relationship between educational practice and intersectional subjectification.

Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UK is experiencing a persistent skills gap which has grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. One factor that contributes toward the skill gap is university students graduating, but not being equipped with the necessary employability skills to meet gra... Read More about Disabled students and placements: Barriers and challenges.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
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Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation was delivered during a Welsh Government Lunch and Learn seminar session. The presentation focused on the Children's Participation in Schools project generally - including findings from our Work Package 1 as well as providing an over... Read More about Embedding children's participative rights in pedagogical practice in lower primary classrooms in Wales.

Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools (2024)
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Scientific literary materials (SLMs) present science content in genres such as narratives and poems as well as traditional non-fiction genres. SLMs have the potential to engage children and teachers who are non-science enthusiasts or specialists wit... Read More about Reading for Science: The use of scientific literary materials in primary schools.

Exploring the complex, emergent choreography of classroom teaching and learning (2024)
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Classroom learning is a complex, emergent phenomenon. Classroom teaching is a complex, dynamic activity. Together, learning and teaching occupy a complex, non-linear and relational space which is often oversimplified and misunderstood. This paper dra... Read More about Exploring the complex, emergent choreography of classroom teaching and learning.

Initial art and design teacher education: Transgression and flux (2023)
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Initial teacher education (ITE) is frequently considered a liminal space of flux where learners' knowledge, identity, and values are challenged and changed. Characteristics of this flux include navigation of new connections between personal and profe... Read More about Initial art and design teacher education: Transgression and flux.

The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline (2023)
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Both school exclusion, poverty and disability are prospective markers for increased risk of subsequent contact with criminal justice system in general and justice-involved samples. However, relationships between school exclusion and these factors hav... Read More about The pupil referral unit to prison pipeline.

Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward (2023)
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Surveying professions play an important role in ensuring the preservation and protection of land and property rights.
Governments across the world are changing their approaches to protect the public. Some keep leaning toward market deregulation wit... Read More about Regulation and accreditation of surveying professions – USA and UK - challenges going forward.