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Abbie Cairns

Dr Abbie Cairns is an artist-teacher-researcher specialising in adult education in the UK. She works as a teacher-educator in a higher education in further education (HE in FE) context, delivering...

½¿É«µ¼º½ President

Following the completion of his Presidential seminar series, Marlon Moncrieffe has decided to step down from his role as ½¿É«µ¼º½ President at the end of March 2026. We thank Marlon for his service to...

2026/2027 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant: Navigating change: teacher agency in personal and social education 

Closes 3 Jun 2026

The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation.

From reparation to remigration: How the radical demands of Black Lives Matter were neutralised in the English literature curriculum

The powerful, student-led calls for a racially just English literature curriculum that emerged from the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have been systematically subdued (see Boakye, 2022)....

Teacher Recruitment and Retention and its links to attainment gaps in England

This event is being run by ½¿É«µ¼º½ in conjunction with the ESRC Education Research Programme. The focus will be on two inter-related topics. First, the issue of teacher recruitment and retention....

Adrian Fernandes

Adrian Fernandes teaches on the University of Oxford PGCE English course as a Doctoral Teaching Fellow. Adrian’s interest in curriculum change, social justice and representation was shaped by 12...

Programme

Programme

The need for a translanguaging stance in school-based research

Introduction Most school-based research is conducted monolingually. But in Northern Ireland, England and international contexts such as Australia, a significant, and increasing, number of school...

Promoting the place of reflective practice in primary schools

What are the challenges faced by professionals in primary schools? Concerns about teacher recruitment and retention are well established within the primary sector. While the Department for...

Racial literacy: Sustained practice for educators

Calls for racial literacy in education are growing louder across the UK (see for example Rabiger, 2025). Many agree that teachers must be ‘racially literate’ to practise safely and equitably;...

Thank you

Stephen Crinall

Stephen Crinall is Head of School at Laleham Primary School. With teaching experience across all phases of primary education, Stephen has particular expertise in teaching across key stage 2 and in...