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Nominations for Fellowship of AcSS

Â鶹ÒùÔº is looking for suggestions and nominations for members to become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. As an accredited learned society, we are entitled to make nominations that have the...

It’s not about ‘delay’, it’s about equality: The language of the summer-born admissions policy

While children in England are invited to join reception in the September following their fourth birthday, the child will not reach compulsory school age (CSA) until the term following their fifth...

RSA Winter Conference

12-13 November 2020, London, UK For more information click here

RSA President’s Event

12 November 2020, London, UK

Khadija Mohammed

Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Social Sciences

Professor Khadija Mohammed is Professor in Teacher Education and Associate Vice-Principal (Inclusivity), and a nationally recognised leader in anti-racism in education. Her research, policy and...

Jessica Tawn

Jessica Tawn is a PhD research student in the School of Education at the University of Birmingham. Her master’s dissertation explored compulsory school age reception admission for summer-born...

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak

Dr Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak is director of the Center for Young People’s Literature and Culture at the Institute of English Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland. She is the author of Yes to...

Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education

On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...

Reimaging mentoring and coaching for teacher trainees and newly qualified teachers post-Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic affected the development of initial teacher trainees (ITT) and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) in a variety of different ways. Teacher educators had to think of new ways to...

Joint Research Methodology in Education and Practitioner Research SIG newsletter

This joint newsletter is the result of a growing collaboration between our SIGs in the area of overlap between exploring and supporting research design and carrying out meaningful research in and...

The use of vlogs, blogs and podcasts in education research, teaching and professional development

The ubiquitous nature of the smart phone and the internet has meant that a new approach to seeking and managing information is emerging as part of our normal lives.  Vlogs, blogs and podcasts are...