All Outputs (121)

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.

Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry (Siegesmund & Cahnmann-Taylor, 2018), limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctora... Read More about Going against the grain? Exploring EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research.

"VR is more than game, it’s way too brilliant for that" – An illuminative mixed methods case study exploring virtual reality in FE health and social care curriculum (2024)
Thesis

With an increasing interest in digital technologies in education, new opportunities exist to bring real world contexts into the classroom setting using virtual reality.  Virtual reality (VR) is a new technology that can serve to enhance simulation-ba... Read More about "VR is more than game, it’s way too brilliant for that" – An illuminative mixed methods case study exploring virtual reality in FE health and social care curriculum.

School art 2024: Compliant conciliation or a quiet revolution? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In 2004 Downing and Watson published School Art: what’s in it? on the content of the taught curriculum in English secondary art and design education. They reported that, despite negligible prescribed content in the National Curriculum for Art and Des... Read More about School art 2024: Compliant conciliation or a quiet revolution?.

Malcolm Richards: Changemaker podcast series UWE Bristol (2024)
Digital Artefact

There are many people in and across the University who are driving change. In this special changemaker podcast series we shine a light on some of our Black academics and the excellent work they are doing in the university and outside to help drive ch... Read More about Malcolm Richards: Changemaker podcast series UWE Bristol.

Perspectives on transition from primary to secondary school from children in care and their corporate parents (2024)
Thesis

Transition to secondary school can be viewed as a rite of passage for children. It can also be a time of great change and therefore challenge. The study examines the unique perspectives of six Children in Care (CiC).

This study focuses on the tho... Read More about Perspectives on transition from primary to secondary school from children in care and their corporate parents.

Children’s perspectives of their wellbeing during the transition from primary school to secondary school (2024)
Thesis

Transitioning from Primary School to Secondary School is cited as one of the most challenging stages of a young person’s educational journey (Hopwood et al. 2016). Whilst the voice of the child is largely absent in existing literature, large scale q... Read More about Children’s perspectives of their wellbeing during the transition from primary school to secondary school.

From researching professional to professional researcher: Learning the rules of the game (2024)
Book Chapter

Professional doctorates have been characterised as distinct from traditional PhD routes due to their intended focus on developing ‘researching professionals’ as opposed to ‘professional researchers’ (Butcher & Sieminski, 2006). This chapter provides... Read More about From researching professional to professional researcher: Learning the rules of the game.

Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research (2024)
Journal Article

This paper draws on Bourdieusian social theory to reconceptualise graduate resilience in post-industrial societies to provide a fresh perspective on a concept that has gained increasing prominence in recent years. Through a review of sociological cri... Read More about Reconceptualising graduate resilience – an integrated multi-level framework for future research.

Going against the grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom (2024)
Journal Article

Despite growing interest in the potential value of arts-based research (ABR) for educational inquiry in the UK, limited consideration exists regarding its accessibility, and relevance, to practice-based professional doctoral researchers in this field... Read More about Going against the grain: EdD students’ engagement with arts-based research in the United Kingdom.

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Violence Enquiry: A national exploratory survey of Asking and Telling in Sexual Health Services in the UK (2024)
Journal Article

Background
Gender-based violence in the form of domestic and sexual abuse represent a worldwide public health and civil rights issue. Healthcare and sexual health have a central role to play in prevention, particularly in the identification of sexua... Read More about Violence Enquiry: A national exploratory survey of Asking and Telling in Sexual Health Services in the UK.

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

Human rights in early education: Teachers’ perceptions on embedding participation into their classrooms (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation took place at ECER at the University of Cyprus and focused on the methodology and findings of WP2 in the Children's Participation in Schools project.

How can teaching and learning experiences of secondary school teachers and students in England change so well-being can improve? (2024)
Thesis

This research contributes to the body of knowledge that currently exists around teacher and student well-being in secondary schools in England. It achieves this through the perceptions of both teachers and students and their joint engagement in conve... Read More about How can teaching and learning experiences of secondary school teachers and students in England change so well-being can improve?.

An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability (2024)
Journal Article

Assumptions about fostering human capital for national competitiveness underpin higher education policy drivers regarding employability. Departing from this focus on human capital development, research has highlighted the importance of relationality... Read More about An exploration of the impact of different peer learning activities utilised to develop student employability.

Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9- to 10-year-olds (2024)
Journal Article

The learning and social development benefits associated with pupils collaborating in small groups have been well documented over recent decades; however, research exploring personality as a mediating factor in small group learning is sparse. In this... Read More about Personality-sensitive pedagogies: A study of small group interactive behaviours among 9- to 10-year-olds.

Comparing the school curriculum across the UK (2024)
Report

The school curriculum in England is the responsibility of the Westminster Government. Since devolution (1997-99), the respective state school curriculums in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, have been a devolved matter. Education policy in Scotl... Read More about Comparing the school curriculum across the UK.