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Flipping the deficit narrative: Working-class people in UK higher education

Working-class people in UK higher education (UKHE) have historically been viewed through the lens of deficit (Crew, 2024), amid a shifting and transient understanding of what it means to be...

The wellbeing of student teachers

Professional learning for teacher educators: ��ɫ���� Small Grants Fund research reports

Co-created guidance for initial teacher education providers

Listening to young children: Are they happy in the nursery?

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For Aristotle, wellbeing and happiness (eudaimonia) are the ultimate end and purpose of human existence. Yet, the United Kingdom demonstrated lower levels of life satisfaction and poor mental...

What are Black British schoolgirls telling us?

Njilan Morris-Jarra’s and Ebinehita Iyere’s (2025) report See Us, Hear Us: The Perceptions and wellbeing of Black Girls in London secondary schools has been circulating around social media and...

Building resilience in Northern Ireland’s student teachers: The role of emotional intelligence

Practising teachers in Northern Ireland (NI) operate within an idiosyncratic sociopolitical context characterised by a legacy of conflict, socioeconomic inequalities and interruptions from...

Network mapping: Fostering student belonging through relationships in higher education

Fostering students’ sense of belonging in higher education (HE) is widely recognised as key to academic achievement, retention and wellbeing (Ajjawi et al., 2025; Blake et al., 2022). Though...

Autumn 2025

Research Intelligence issue 164: Education in prisons: Generating hope, escaping stereotypes

Controversial issues in schools: A consideration for staff wellbeing

Minoritised teachers are less likely to stay in teaching than their White counterparts, citing the added burden of racism as a contributing factor (Worth et al., 2022). Ethnic minoritised staff...

The ��ɫ���� Guide to Outdoor Learning

The ��ɫ���� Guides: Critical Insights into Educational Research and Practice

Place-Responsive Pedagogy in Educational Research and Practice

��ɫ���� Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

SIG Meet & Discuss: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education

We are having a SIG meeting to discuss our experiences of AI and impacts (positive, negative and neutral) on mental health and wellbeing. We will use some pre-reading from the ��ɫ���� blog:...

Managing complex pupil needs: A key factor influencing teacher resilience

In this blog post we share insights from ‘Decentring the “resilient teacher”’, a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). This project used a novel process of...