Welcome to the inaugural ½¿É«µ¼º½ TEAN conference information. For colleagues who attended conferences past under the banner of the Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN), you can be assured that this new and exciting collaboration still has the TEAN ethos at heart.
In keeping with TEAN, the conference provides the opportunity to present your research in an encouraging and supportive space where you will meet experienced researchers together with those who are just embarking on their research journey. Our emphasis is on providing scholarly professional development for all teacher educators, to provoke curiosity and engage with new thinking in the discipline of teacher education. We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing you at our first ½¿É«µ¼º½ TEAN conference in Sheffield.
The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Teacher Education Advancement Network (TEAN) conference provides a powerful professional development experience for teacher educators and for researchers into teacher education and development. This includes teacher educators and educational researchers based in schools, colleges, and universities. The conference includes a range of presentations and workshops on critical evaluation of innovative practice and on research into teacher education and development.
Associate Professor at KU Leuven
Eline Vanassche is Associate Professor at KU Leuven Kulak (Belgium). She is a former Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the University of East London (UK) and Assistant Professor at Maastricht University (the Netherlands). Her research centers on...
Associate Professor Of Education at University of Oxford
I am an Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford. I have variously served as PGCE Course Director and as Director of the Oxford Education, Deanery, a partnership initiated with local schools, intended to support teachers’...
Professor in Education at University of Nottingham
Joanna McIntyre is Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham. Her research focuses on initial teacher education and refugee education, with a particular interest in how education can engage with and elevate the voices and...
Professor of Education and Head of MiE at University of Manchester
Dr Lisa Murtagh is Reader of Education and Deputy Head of the Manchester Institue of Education. From 2018 – 2022 she was Head of ITE, having originally been appointed as director of partnerships and teacher inquiry. Prior to this, Lisa was Head...
Senior Lecturer at University of Cumbria
Dr Pippa Leslie is a Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education and is Programme Leader for the MA Education at the University of Cumbria. She also currently leads a postgraduate ITE programme in Manchester that prepares pre-service teachers to teach...
Professor Emeritus at University of Cumbria
Pete Boyd taught for twelve years in high schools in Birkenhead and Bradford and three years in a field study and outdoor education centre in South Wales. He moved into higher education as a teacher educator, completed a part-time doctorate, and...
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