Lecturer at Perth College UHI & Open University
ɫ Annual Conference 2023 – SIG Best Presentation Award
The SIG convenors shortlisted then attended sessions for their SIG and judged these presentation. The ‘ɫ Annual Conference – SIG Best Presentation’ is then awarded.
You can view the full abstracts on the programme here.
Early Childhood Education and Care SIG
Shaddai Tembo and Simon Bateson – Diversity in Unity: nurturing anti-racist habits in play through Froebelian pedagogies
Lewis Fogarty– A New Understanding of Leadership in Early Years
Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG
Ben Lohmeyer – Informal Education, school bullying and ‘public executions’: young people’s experiences of the hierarchical nature of relationships in school
Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making
Kate Hoskins and Emma Wainwright– Engaging low-income families in education research: an interdisciplinary exploratory study
Educational Effectiveness and Improvement
Stephanie Flower– Does size matter? Centralised approaches to curriculum in multi-academy trusts: some practical implications
Practitioner Research
Elizabeth Hidson– From tiny acorns: a co-produced research project between Chinese teacher researchers and UK-based international initial teacher training academics.
Race, Ethnicity and Education
Penny Rabiger– Jumping and pushing through the cruel optimism of racial justice work in schools
Comparative and International Education
Bettina Teegen – African International Doctoral Students in the UK: A Study of Acculturation
Creativities in Education
Lisa Stephenson,Angela Colvert andRachel Lofthouse– Boundary crossings with artists, teachers and children: Integrating creative pedagogies for young people’s wellbeing
Higher Education
Paula Miles– Understanding and Improving the Wellbeing of Postgraduate Taught Students: A Longitudinal Study
Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education
Scott Buckler and Harriett Moore– Enhancing Children’s psychological Wellbeing through training in the martial arts of Wing Chun and Ba Gua
Nature, Outdoor Learning and Play
Nicola Parkin – “We were in the fresh air and we were living our best life”: an inductive thematic analysis of UK primary teachers’ experiences of taking part in a nature connection project with their class
Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy
Grace Cardiff– Learning how to implement student voice pedagogies and promote meaningful experiences in Primary Physical Education
Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning
Min-Chen Liu–Languages Provision in UK Further Education
Research Methodology in Education
Ben Knight– Personality differences and small group classroom interactions among 9-11 year olds: A mixed methods analysis deriving recommendations for more personality-sensitive pedagogies.
Social Theory and Education
Jan Hetherington andAndrew Wilkins– The rise of technocracy and the challenge to deliberative democracy: Using political theory to rethink spaces and practices of school governance

Reader at University of East London
Andrew Wilkins is Reader in Education and REF Impact Coordinator for UoA 23 Education in the Cass School of Education and Communities at the University of East London where he teaches research methods to undergraduate and postgraduate students....
Alternative Education
Jonah Ulebor – The role of black supplementary schools in the education of black children