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Warren Kidd

Senior Lecturer

Dr Warren Kidd is a senior lecturer at the University of East London (UEL), England, and honorary visiting research fellow at the University of Patras, Greece. An experienced author, he is a...

Hatice Yildirim

Hatice Yildirim taught as a teacher of the deaf/hard-of-hearing in educational settings in Turkey for six years. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter, exploring the coping...

Anna Mountford-Zimdars

Anna Mountford-Zimdars is a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Exeter and a principal fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is the founding and academic...

Curriculum reform and inequality: The challenges facing Wales

Wales is in the process of undertaking a major overhaul of its national curriculum. Until recently, the curriculum largely resembled that put in place by the 1988 Education Reform Act. The new...

Nigel Newton

Dr Nigel Newton works in the Cardiff School of Education and Social Policy at Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research interests include educational transitions, curriculum studies and school...

The 10 books that made me a sociologist of education

Over a period of 45 years working in higher education I have accumulated a lot of books. I am now sorting through that accumulation and trying to decide which I will keep and which I will pass on...

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

This series of blogs summarises new research featured in a special issue of the Curriculum Journal  (published simultaneously in English and Welsh), which explores the many issues that arise...

Sally Power

Sally Power is a professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and director of WISERD (Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data). She undertakes research on...

Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is a professor of social sciences at Cardiff University and the academic director for the Cardiff University Social Science Research Park. Chris has undertaken a wide range of...

Is there a tension between teaching and assessing critical-thinking skills?

The widely varying quality of responses to the global Coronavirus pandemic presents yet another example of the importance of critical-thinking skills among leaders and the public dealing with...

Stephen J Ball

Professor Stephen J Ball is emeritus professor of sociology of education at the UCL Institute of Education. His main areas of interest are in education policy analysis and social theory: –...

Jonathan Haber

Jonathan Haber is an educational researcher, writer and consultant whose work spans K-12 and higher education. His Degree of Freedom One Year BA project, which involved trying to learn the...