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Sam Akroyd is an aspiring educator, researcher and philosopher of education with a focus on the ethics of compulsory education. He is currently a teaching assistant at the Sir Karl Popper School, an experimental public school for highly gifted students in Vienna, Austria. He completed his MSc in Education at the University of Edinburgh in 2024 with distinction, specialising in philosophy of education. His dissertation, Toward a Critical-Ethical Framework for the Mitigation of the Social Injustice Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Students and Selfhoods, won the 2025 ½¿É«µ¼º½ Master’s Dissertation Award. Sam’s research draws on critical theory and existential phenomenology to interrogate the epistemological, ethical and ontological foundations of compulsory schooling. His work aims to deconstruct dominant educational paradigms and contribute to the imagining of more liberatory and ethical forms of education.