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SIG Meet & Discuss: Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education

18 Jul 2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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 ½¿É«µ¼º½ blog:...

We need a revolution in the primary curriculum for England, not an evolution

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Like many headteachers in the state sector, I was excited in 2024 when the newly elected Labour government called for a curriculum and assessment review. Many of us in the primary phase (ages...

½¿É«µ¼º½ celebrates 10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog

2025 marks 10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, and we’re so proud of all that it has accomplished! Thank you to all those who have contributed to the Blog, whether as authors, editors, or readers. The...

Education staff wellbeing and workload: ‘Causing concern’ in the proposed Ofsted inspection toolkits

We, like many of you, have been very interested in Ofsted’s current consultation on proposed changes to their inspections in England, following the biggest consultation Ofsted has ever...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites

Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...

School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...

Reframing health and wellbeing in schools: As pedagogy and as teacher identity

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health Promoting...

10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog

This blog series celebrates one decade of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

What do we know about widening participation at universities in Scotland: And why does it matter?

‘Widening participation’ (WP) or ‘fair access’ is a flagship initiative of the Scottish government and overseen by a Commissioner for Fair Access in Scotland, with a stated aim that ‘by...

Facilitating happy connections: Understanding GenAI’s links with social connectedness and mental wellbeing

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Introduction The rapid emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has already transformed the landscape of higher education (HE), offering learners resources to...

Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education – Call for SIG Convenor 2025-2028

The Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education SIG (launched in 2018) provides a dynamic and inclusive forum for academics, practitioners, researchers, students, and others passionate about education....

Maths homework doesn’t have to end in tears: There is another way

Parental engagement in a child’s education is associated with improved academic outcomes at all ages (EEF, 2018). However, with mathematics, this engagement mostly takes the form of homework...