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Fiona King

Associate  Professor

Fiona King is an Associate Professor in the School of Inclusive and Special Education, Institute of Education, Dublin City University (DCU), Ireland. Fiona began her career as a primary teacher...

James Avis

Emeritus Professor

James Avis in an Emeritus Professor of the university of Huddersfield & Prof of post-compulsory education at the university of Derby. His research interests lie in post-compulsory/post-secondary...

Derek Boyle

Director

Derek Boyle has been the SCITT Director at Bromley Schools’ Collegiate since September 2013, but prior to this worked in a variety of teaching roles across a number of different schools in Kent....

Emmajane Milton

Reader in Education

Emmajane has worked in Education for 20 years, enjoying a wide range of senior leadership roles within academia, policy development and the statutory school sector. Emmajane is a National Teaching...

Katie Parsons

Katie Parsons is a transdisciplinary research associate at Loughborough University after completing her thesis on the lived experiences of children and young people and their experiences of the...

BAME Educators and Covid-19

This episode of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Podcast features an interview with Allana Gay, the founder of the BAMEeD Network.

What can multimodal data tell us about learning? Opportunities for positioning the learner as the real protagonist in learner-centred design

Contemporary educational technology research utilises data such as keystrokes, log files and clicks to interpret complex learning phenomena. In recent years, multimodal data’s potential to help...

Harnessing young people’s interest to boost learning and belonging in flexi schools

For young people in flexi schools, being interested in their school learning is often a novel experience, and one they value highly. Having been disengaged from and by conventional education,...

A case study of Self Directed Education

The role of self motivation (Gopalan et al, 2017)and self direction (Biesta, 2010) has long been recognised in children’s learning.  However, in tightly managed and timetabled state run...

Intergenerational Learning and Challenge in Informal Places

Intergenerational practice has seen a growth in popularity in recent years due to societal changes and in an aim to reconnect the generations (Vanderven, 2011; Vieira and Sousa, 2016). Although...

Spirituality and the Outdoor Space

The notion of spirituality as an ontological priority for children has become more prominent in academic literature in the past decade, not least due to its inclusion in the National Curriculum as...

Rejuvinating art-making as a site for education: The legitimacy of children’s participation

Engaging in arts practices is recognised as having potential benefit in terms of fostering self-esteem, well-being and happiness, social cohesion, creativity, agility as well as promoting academic...