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New Chair of Â鶹ÒùԺ’s Conference & Events Committee

Â鶹ÒùÔº is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Aimee Quickfall as the next Chair of the Conference & Events Committee (CEC). She will take up the role on 1 January 2026, following the...

Elizabeth Pargeter-Takhar

Beth is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Hertfordshire, interested in the changing nature of the headteacher role and challenges leaders face in promoting social justice and health in...

Christopher Chivungo

Christopher Manuel Chivungo is the resident Policy Officer at The Black Curriculum, an organisation that has been campaigning for the past 5 years for Black British history to be part of the...

Katy Huxley

Katy Huxley is a Research Fellow at Cardiff University’s Social Science Park (SPARK). As a Co-Investigator with Administrative Data Research Wales (ADR Wales) her research focuses on transitions...

Terra Glowach

Terra Glowach is a Senior Lecturer in ITE at the University of the West of England. She researches teacher-led approaches to decolonising Secondary Education in England.

Muslim identity formation in London: The role of supplementary schools

Historically, education has played a vital role in identity formation, especially when looking at minority groups. Group threat theory (Stephen & Stephen, 2000) suggests that minority communities...

Academic Writing Retreat

This writing retreat will create a productive environment for participants to write. There are quiet spaces to write, with short spaces to share tips and tools, to overcome writing blocks, and to...

From compliance to conversation: New guidelines push for ethical reflection in research reporting

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Academic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public. Scholarly...

Professor Mhairi Beaton Announced as next Â鶹ÒùÔº President

The Â鶹ÒùÔº is delighted to announce that Professor Mhairi Beaton (Leeds Beckett University) has been elected as the next President of Â鶹ÒùÔº. She will assume...

Beyond navel-gazing: Why is there a lack of Black male teachers in the United Kingdom?

‘Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferals of information.’―Paulo Freire In this blog post, I will share how autoethnography has shaped my doctoral research on...

Ripple effects: From the ‘auto’ to wider narratives of social purpose

Historically, self-reflective work has been disparaged as narcissistic or uncritical. In this blog post, I outline two ways, drawn from my own research and practice, in which starting from an...

Autoethnography and stakeholder engagement

In this blog post I report on my Winston Churchill Foundation research fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care in 2023 (Ikomi, 2024). Adultification can occur in a...