Outputs (146)

“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.

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.

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.

Immersive learning at Sparks, Bristol (2025)
Report

Sparks is a centre for sustainability, creativity and education in Bristol. It is located in a large building
formerly occupied by Marks & Spencer in the Broadmead precinct, a retail area in the city centre. Sparks
is run by a collaboration betwe... Read More about Immersive learning at Sparks, Bristol.