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The educational imperatives of our time have led to major curriculum reviews in all four nations of the UK. Common themes across these curriculum reforms include a shift in focus from knowledge to...
Wales is a bilingual nation where Welsh, its historic but minoritised language, shares official status with English. The Welsh Government’s national strategy seeks to revitalise the language and...
Over the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a sterile...
Belonging is widely recognised as a foundation of student engagement, retention and success in higher education. Universities may implement broad diversity policies, but everyday actions are key...
Wales is a bilingual nation where Welsh, its historic but minoritised language, shares official status with English. The Welsh Government’s national strategy seeks to revitalise the language and...
Continue reading blog postBelonging is widely recognised as a foundation of student engagement, retention and success in higher education. Universities may implement broad diversity policies, but everyday actions are key...
Continue reading blog postOver the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a sterile...
Continue reading blog postSecond career academics, or ‘pracademics’ are ‘former or current practitioners who are now university academics’ (Dickinson et al., 2020, p. 290). They come from a wide variety of...
Continue reading blog postGen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, are often criticised for a perceived lack of professionalism and an inability to adapt to the demands of traditional workplaces (Knight, 2024). Department...
Continue reading blog postAround a quarter of new teachers in England leave the profession within three years, and a third do so within five years (DfE, 2025). My longitudinal PhD research with nine early career secondary...
Continue reading blog postThe Netflix-produced Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere aims to understand the extreme, misogynist fringes of the manosphere – an umbrella term for online masculinist subcultures – and the...
Continue reading blog postCognition and learning outcomes are known to be affected by childhood adversity (Lund et al., 2020) with trauma from sexual abuse categorised at the highest threat level and therefore linked to...
Continue reading blog postIn an increasingly globalised academic landscape, opportunities to conduct research in multilingual settings, or ‘researching multilingually’ (Holmes et al., 2013), has expanded....
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