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Sam Akroyd is an aspiring educator, researcher, and philosopher of education. He is currently studying for his PhD at the University of Edinburgh where he is recieving ESRC funding. His project focusses on confronting alienation in compulsory education using philsophical methods. He completed his MSc in Education at the University of Edinburgh in 2024 with distinction, specialising in the philosophy of education. His dissertation, Toward a Critical-Ethical Framework for the Mitigation of the Social Injustice Potential of Artificial Intelligence in Education: Students and Selfhoods, won the 2025 Â鶹ÒùÔº Master’s Dissertation Award. Sam’s research draws on critical theory and existential-phenomenology to interrogate the epistemological, ethical, and ontological foundations of compulsory schooling. His work aims to deconstruct dominant educational rationalities and to advance forms of education that confront conditions of alienation.