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Time to consider a ‘career in education’, rather than a ‘teacher career’?

Although seminal teacher career models (Day, Sammons, Stobart, Kington, & Gu, 2007; Fessler & Christensen, 1992; Huberman, 1993; Sikes, Measor, & Woods, 1985) have established predetermined...

#BlackLivesMatter in education

The sickening death of African-American George Floyd by suffocation at the hands of a White-American policeman has justifiably fuelled the force of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the world....

Jon Rainford

Jon Rainford is Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Having worked across a range of educational settings, his doctoral research focused on exploring the gaps between policy and practice in...

Colin McCaig

Professor of Higher Education Policy

Colin has around 20 years’ experience as a WP researcher and evaluator, with a particular interest in higher education policy that impacts inequalities of access. He has been involved in large...

Researching the world in uncertain times: The role of bricolage

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Man finds himself living in an aleatory world; his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable.’ (Dewey, 1929,...

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New fund to support research on COVID-19 and education

As part of our response to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, Â鶹ÒùÔº is establishing a small grants fund for research into the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19). This fund aims to support a...

Anna Robb

Anna Robb currently works at the University of Dundee in the Division of Education and Society as Academic Lead for the MEd programme (online and on-campus) as well as supervising a number of...

Maxine Watkins

Maxine Watkins has a keen interest in the social psychology of education and teaching. Her PhD took a grounded theory approach to explore the dynamic nature of a teacher professional identity and...

Summer 2020

Research Intelligence Issue 143 is on the theme of 'Widening participation in practice'.

Lessons for adapting home learning from parents with children with special educational needs

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Doing less, making learning fun and looking after everyone’s wellbeing’

The rise of the flexible and remote teacher: A primary school’s response to the Covid-19 context in London

Covid-19, education and educational research

On Friday 29 May 2020, ITV ran a story on the London regional news about a primary school whose pupils were reported to be ‘traveling the world’ through the adoption of video conferencing (VC)...