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Making environmental and health equal, diverse, and inclusive: Reflections from a Centre of Environment and Human Health (REACH) (2022)
Report
Richards, M., Gheemour, R., Verhaeghe, T., Allouche, S., Warmington, S., Reza, M., …Maguire, K. (2022). Making environmental and health equal, diverse, and inclusive: Reflections from a Centre of Environment and Human Health (REACH). UKRI: ERC

The REACH Project has allowed the Centre to take initial stock of current and future research and training as well as the Centre culture through a lens of decolonisation and anti-racism. The Reflections from a Centre of Environment and Human Heal... Read More about Making environmental and health equal, diverse, and inclusive: Reflections from a Centre of Environment and Human Health (REACH).

Primary pathways: elementary pupils’ aspiration to be engineers and STEM subject interest (2022)
Journal Article
Edmonds, J., Lewis, F., & Fogg Rogers, L. (2022). Primary pathways: elementary pupils’ aspiration to be engineers and STEM subject interest. International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 12(3), 221-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/21548455.2022.2067906

Across Europe, there is concern about the number and diversity of pupils taking study routes leading to Engineering. There is growing evidence that these career choices begin to form at elementary school age (Moote et al., 2020). Science, maths and d... Read More about Primary pathways: elementary pupils’ aspiration to be engineers and STEM subject interest.

Lived experience: The process of decolonising the curriculum (2022)
Book Chapter
Saleh, A. (2022). Lived experience: The process of decolonising the curriculum. In A. Thomas (Ed.), Representation Matters: Becoming an anti-racist educator. Bloomsbury Publishing, London: Bloomsbury Publishing

In this section, I define what is meant by 'decolonisation' of the curriculum, before going on to suggest ways this might be approached across different school subjects.

What is currently understood about the impact of sexual violence activism for higher education student sexual violence survivors? (2022)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., & Podpadec, T. (2023). What is currently understood about the impact of sexual violence activism for higher education student sexual violence survivors?. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse, 24(4), 2227-2242. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380221093691

Objective: This systematic literature review maps the landscape of higher education and student sexual violence survivors who become involved in sexual violence activism. It was undertaken to understand what drives student sexual violence survivors t... Read More about What is currently understood about the impact of sexual violence activism for higher education student sexual violence survivors?.

Theory of Change: Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education (2022)
Book
Dent, S., Mountford-Zimdars, A., & Burke, C. (Eds.). (2022). Theory of Change: Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education. Emerald

Theory of Change speaks to those looking for an academically rigorous discussion of the origins and debates around this approach in Higher Education. Melding together robust academic research with examples of practice, the book provides specific appl... Read More about Theory of Change: Debates and Applications to Access and Participation in Higher Education.

Combining drama with physical models to support understanding in science (2022)
Journal Article
Edmonds, J. (2022). Combining drama with physical models to support understanding in science. Primary Science, May/June 2022(173), 14-15

Many science concepts can be easily experienced in primary school science, such as cars travelling down ramps and plants growing. For other, more abstract, concepts, such as digestion, circulation and how sound travels through the air, it is challeng... Read More about Combining drama with physical models to support understanding in science.

Foundation Phase Teachers’ Understandings and Enactment of participation in school settings in Wales (2022)
Book Chapter
Murphy, A., Tyrie, J., Davies- Waters, J., Chicken, S., & Clement, J. (2022). Foundation Phase Teachers’ Understandings and Enactment of participation in school settings in Wales. In C. Conn, & A. Murphy (Eds.), Inclusive Pedagogies for Early Childhood Education: Respecting and Responding to Differences in Learning. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This essential textbook explores inclusive pedagogies by presenting theoretical viewpoints and research on everyday practices in early childhood education that affirm diversity in relation to learning, disability and culture. The authors consider... Read More about Foundation Phase Teachers’ Understandings and Enactment of participation in school settings in Wales.

Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices (2022)
Thesis
Gillie, S. Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices. (Thesis). The Open University. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9382178

This study investigates the processes leading certain UK families to home educate. The research focus is: What circumstances inform the transitions of families to home education? The analysis draws upon a large-scale online survey, face-to-face inter... Read More about Family transitions and home education: circumstances, processes and practices.

Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women (2022)
Journal Article
Bovill, H., McCartan, K., & Waller, R. (2022). Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women. Journal of International Women's Studies, 23(1),

Women’s safety from sexual violence whilst at university is a global issue and the UK is no exception. Whilst the authors of this paper acknowledge that sexual violence can occur across the gender spectrum, most sexual violence ‘victims’ are women an... Read More about Female undergraduates playing it 'safe' to stay 'safe': Further understanding sexual violence against women.

‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement (2022)
Journal Article
Witt, M., Lewis, F., & Knight, B. (2022). ‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement. Teaching and Teacher Education, 112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103642

Assertions that experiences of teaching abroad encourage professional growth for pre-service teachers (PSTs) are discussed, with reference to reflections from 20 PSTs from a British university after a volunteer teaching placement in South Africa (SA)... Read More about ‘I wasn't worried because I wasn't being judged’: The development of pre-service teacher professional capital, pedagogical instinct and discretionary judgement during an overseas teaching placement.

Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Jones, V., McEwen, L., Webber, A., Gorell Barnes, L., Gopinath, D., Hobbs, L., …Fogg Rogers, L. (2022, January). Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds. Presented at Geography Teacher Educators Conference, Online

This paper will draw on ongoing research funded by AHRC which works with 5 schools / Early Year centres in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of Bristol. It will reflect on how we have used maps as a way of exploring children's experi... Read More about Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds.

Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics Enriching Children's Mathematical Thinking (2022)
Book
Lewis, F., Wilkinson, A., & Witt, M. (2022). Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics Enriching Children's Mathematical Thinking. London: Routledge

The UK National Curriculum is clear about the importance of reasoning and problem-solving in mathematics. Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics aims to support trainee and established teachers to embed mathematical thinking into their lessons. The... Read More about Mastery and Depth in Primary Mathematics Enriching Children's Mathematical Thinking.

Making science work in the new curriculum for Wales (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2022). Making science work in the new curriculum for Wales. Primary Science, 27

Verity Jones outlines how the Darwin Experience has helped to provide scientific experiences that support the new Curriculum for Wales

‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England (2022)
Journal Article
Chicken, S. (2023). ‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England. Global Studies of Childhood, 13(4), 322-340. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106211068041

This paper begins a quarter of a century ago with the first visit to the UK of the Reggio Emilia exhibition ‘The Hundred Languages of Children’ and initial interest by some of the early education community in ‘doing Reggio’. Within the same period, t... Read More about ‘Doing Reggio?’ Exploring the complexity of ‘curriculum’ migration through a comparison of Reggio Emilia, Italy and the EYFS, England.