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Mario Moya

Dr Mario Moya is the course leader of the MA in Education and a visiting lecturer at various local and international higher education institutions. His current research focuses on wellbeing and...

½¿É«µ¼º½ and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme Enquiries Meeting

The meeting will be held on Microsoft Teams on 5th September 2024 between 12:00 and 1:00pm   Join the meeting Meeting ID: 395 473 913 671 Passcode: a6UE2h

Ellen McHugh

Dr Ellen McHugh is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Brunel University London. Ellen’s research focuses on educational inequalities in higher education with particular reference to students from...

Judging teaching effectiveness during initial teacher education: Examining the duplexity of professional judgment and consistency

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In today’s educational landscape where accountability reigns, assessing teaching effectiveness has become a focal point in initial teacher education (ITE). With increased scrutiny and...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In this blog series, presenters from the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting, which took place 8 to 12 September 2024 at the University of Manchester, UK, share insights from the research...

Who really belongs in higher education? Insights from research with disabled staff and PhD students in the UK

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In this blog post we offer some insights from a recent study among disabled staff and PhD students in the UK to consider what it means to un/belong in the current higher education (HE)...

The extreme tipping point of disadvantage: Decolonial approaches to understand persistent gaps

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Across North America and the United Kingdom, children attending schools in urban, low-income, ethnically enriched neighbourhoods continue to experience significantly lower academic achievement in...

What makes school a good place for LGBTQ+ young people?

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The first phase of my PhD focused on what LGBTQ+ young people in the UK thought schools could do to make it a good place for LGBTQ+ students. I also sought the perspectives of secondary school...

Remaining hopeful: Countering the dominant narratives about teacher education

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Despite ‘teacher educators [being ] crucial players for maintaining – and improving – the high quality of the teaching workforce’ (European Commission, 2013, p. 4), the experiences of...

Reimagine essay-based assessment in higher education in the era of generative artificial intelligence

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has ignited extensive discussion surrounding the impact of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) on education and literacy practice (such as the...

Taiwan’s policy shift: Transitioning from the pursuit of world-class universities to addressing local needs

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

In this blog post, we want to share our different perspective on ‘space’ in higher education studies. One afternoon, while discussing a recent policy change in Taiwan and wrapping up our...

Imagining alternative futures for a sustainable world

½¿É«µ¼º½ Conference 2024 and WERA Focal Meeting

Imagine a world in which there is no war, poverty, inequality or global crises at all. The sun rises on landscapes untouched by the scars of conflict, every child sleeps soundly without the...