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Rapid research review: Creative and cultural practitioners working with young people and teachers in formal education (2025)
Report

Purpose, Context and Approach
This rapid research review was commissioned by West of England Music and Arts (WEMA) to identify learning about creative and cultural practitioners working with young people and teachers in formal education.
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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.

Hierarchies of professionalism in interprofessional partnerships for inclusion: Mapping the role and professional identities of early years educators (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite the rhetoric emphasising partnership working there has been a dearth of research related to the educational practices that reify interprofessional partnerships for young children with special educational needs. This doctoral study examined th... Read More about Hierarchies of professionalism in interprofessional partnerships for inclusion: Mapping the role and professional identities of early years educators.

Home language literacy learning as an extracurricular activity by pupils and parents: Do the findings warrant a case for introducing home language policy for primary education in England? (2024)
Book Chapter

Despite the fact that almost two million learners in state-funded schools in England learn English as an additional language DfE (2020), there is no official policy for developing home languages (HL), even though the use of HL in classrooms for acade... Read More about Home language literacy learning as an extracurricular activity by pupils and parents: Do the findings warrant a case for introducing home language policy for primary education in England?.

The impact of symbolic violence on the perceived choices of trainee primary school teachers: A poetic perspective (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter explores the theme of symbolic violence (Bourdieu, 2001; Thapar-Björkert et al., 2016), a central theme in my doctoral thesis.
My thesis looked at the experiences of a group of female undergraduate students in their first year of Initia... Read More about The impact of symbolic violence on the perceived choices of trainee primary school teachers: A poetic perspective.

Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice (2024)
Book Chapter

Abstract
This chapter is about primary and secondary school teachers of history in England, and how they negotiate policy in order to teach sensitive and controversial issues which feature as part of the history curriculum. We present research condu... Read More about Context, consciousness and caution: Teachers of history in England and the exploration of sensitive and controversial issues in practice.

Teacher training in England: Exploring trainee teachers' perspectives on their professional identity formation (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter outlines research conducted by Karan Vickers-Hulse (KVH) as part of an educational professional doctorate; Marcus Witt (MW) was one of her supervisory team. Participants were from two initial teacher education (ITE) routes (School Direct... Read More about Teacher training in England: Exploring trainee teachers' perspectives on their professional identity formation.

From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research (2023)
Book Chapter

In this quotation, Heugh critiques literature produced in the Global North which makes claims to promoting social justice while making invisible the sources of knowledge and languages to communicate about those ideas by people in the Global South. Th... Read More about From translanguaging to transknowledging: Exploring new epistemological and linguistic approaches in higher education research.

Critical perspectives on educational policies and professional identities: Lessons from doctoral studies (symposium) (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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).

Book Review – 2021 (2021)
Journal Article

The following publication contains book reviews of these titles:

Bearman, M., Dawson, P., Ajjawi, R., Tai, J., Boud, D. (eds.) (2020) Re-imagining university assessment in a digital world. The Enabling Power of Assessment 7. Springer, 296 pages, h... Read More about Book Review – 2021.

Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research? (2021)
Journal Article

In this article, we discuss how, as supervisors in largely Anglophone university contexts in England, we are trying to develop supervisory practices informed by the discussions of epistemic (in)justice and the languaging of research. Having rehearsed... Read More about Bringing the critical into doctoral supervision: What can we learn from debates about epistemic justice and the languaging of research?.