Local and global challenges for early career publishing
(2025)
Book Chapter
All Outputs (150)
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.
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.
“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.
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.
'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education (2025)
Journal Article
The rise in numbers of children experiencing school attendance difficulties in recent years makes this an important focus for UK school inclusion. Simultaneously, increases in school deregistration in favour of home education have caught media as wel... Read More about 'It feels like we're out of the rat race': Family reflections on traumatic school experiences leading to home education.
Young children’s participative rights in schools: Messages from phase two (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs (2025)
Journal Article
On International Women’s Day 2024, Pembrokeshire County Council joined Pembrokeshire College in the launch of the Sustainable Power, Renewables, and Construction (SPARC) Alliance. This new alliance promotes gender diversity in these underrepresented... Read More about Women in STEM: How one county is making SPARCs.
Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors? (2025)
Journal Article
Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning 'stick' for tutees and tutors?.
Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors? (2025)
Journal Article
Teaching reading is a key element of initial teacher education programmes in England. This study contributes to the research about the most effective way to ensure preservice teachers have the necessary skills and knowledge to teach reading. One-to-o... Read More about Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors?.
The future of a subject journal (2025)
Journal Article