Outputs (214)

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.

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.

'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.

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?.

School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools (2024)
Report

In this innovative research study, Joanna Fursman, Will Grant, and Carol Wild begin by revisiting the work undertaken by Dick Downing and Ruth Watson in their Tate-sponsored 2004 School Art: What Is It? report. Twenty years later, they replicate the... Read More about School art: Where is it? (Re)exploring visual arts in secondary schools.

Working class men on care based degrees (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk draws on data from a small qualitative study of men on care-based degree pathways in one university in England. There is little research that specifically considers the experiences of working-class men on these courses. The talk explores as... Read More about Working class men on care based degrees.

'I want to move out of city due to knife crime' (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine

This piece is a discussion point that provides insights of serious youth violence in Bristol. This piece incorporates discussions from stakeholders in to serious youth violence in Bristol and possible solutions.
A focus on community engagement is re... Read More about 'I want to move out of city due to knife crime'.

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.

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.

Preservice teachers learning to teach reading using one-to-one tutoring: Does learning ‘stick’ for tutees and tutors? (2024)
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?.

Schools Under the Microscope: Children measuring airborne microplastics in the classroom - Final Report (2024)
Report

Schools Under the Microscope was a citizen science project which extended the learning and development undertaken during the HOMEs Under the Microscope project by applying and adapting methods developed during HOMEs to the school context, to facilita... Read More about Schools Under the Microscope: Children measuring airborne microplastics in the classroom - Final Report.

Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and through spaces of Higher Education (2024)
Book Chapter

The following chapter explores issues related to the underrepresentation of young working-class males in higher education (HE). The lack of working-class men in HE, in comparison to other social groups, has been a regular feature of the media and pol... Read More about Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and through spaces of Higher Education.

Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design (2024)
Journal Article

In this article we draw on our positionality as teacher educator and student teacher to reflect on initial art teacher education as a forum for novel disciplinary curriculum design. We describe how, without new system thinking, much taught school art... Read More about Initial teacher education as a dialogic space for agile art curriculum design.

Voices from the staffroom: Impacts of further education policy on CPD in the sector (2024)
Book Chapter

This chapter discusses the findings of doctoral research into further education lecturers' and middle managers' perceptions of how Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in the sector is planned and implemented. Thematic analysis revealed that man... Read More about Voices from the staffroom: Impacts of further education policy on CPD in the sector.

Demystifying executive function (2024)
Journal Article

Executive function (EF) is an umbrella term for a set of complex and nuanced cognitive processes believed to be uniquely human. EF allows for planning, adaptation and self-regulation to meet personal or imposed goals. It develops from early childhood... Read More about Demystifying executive function.

'You educate yourself on what you should be’: Digital citizenship and young people in England and Poland (2024)
Report

Traces of tolerance in European history: A student-oriented and educational approach (2024)
Report

This chapter and working group report is part of the outcomes of an Erasmus Plus funded project: Citizenship Education in the Context of European Values.
The teacher support materials found in this book are based on the work of an interdisciplinary... Read More about Traces of tolerance in European history: A student-oriented and educational approach.

Developing emotional preparedness and mental resilience through high-fidelity simulation: A ‘bridge too far’ for institutions teaching major trauma management and mass-casualty medicine? (2024)
Journal Article

Background: Clinical acumen represents only part of being adequately equipped to attend a major incident. The emotive sights, sounds and smells of these dynamic environments are all-encompassing experiences, and responders must also be armed with the... Read More about Developing emotional preparedness and mental resilience through high-fidelity simulation: A ‘bridge too far’ for institutions teaching major trauma management and mass-casualty medicine?.

Embedding early intervention at the heart of alternative provision (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Embedding Early Intervention at the Heart of Alternative Provision - Opportunities, Challenges and Future Pathways.

How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice (2024)
Journal Article

This article examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative (education) provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how AP can (re)engage school-aged young people in learning... Read More about How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice.