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Â鶹ÒùÔº Announces 2026 Â鶹ÒùÔº Academic Citizen of the Year

Â鶹ÒùÔº is delighted to announce James Noble-Rogers as the recipient of the 2026 Â鶹ÒùÔº Academic Citizen of the Year Award, recognising his outstanding contribution to education, his commitment to...

Beyond a pedagogy of endurance: Character education after neoliberalism

When Andy Burnham became UK prime minister, he argued that four decades of neoliberalism had failed the communities that built the Labour movement and called for a new economic path. Whether this...

Ofsted Research and Evaluation Team

The Research and Evaluation team at Ofsted delivers research and evaluation that informs inspection practice and helps assess Ofsted's impact. The team also manages Ofsted's engagement with...

Melanie Ehren

Professor Melanie Ehren is a professor in educational governance at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam with previous roles at University College London and visiting professorships at Harvard and...

Back to Learning: Tackling Emotionally Based Education Avoidance

Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) and emotionally based education avoidance (EBEA) are growing concerns across the education sector, affecting learners from primary school through to...

Alison Watson-Burge

Alison Watson-Burge is a special educational needs and disabilities practitioner and a master’s in character education student at the University of Birmingham. A former barrister, Alison writes...

Beyond ‘tick-boxes’: Using critical discourse analysis to listen to the ‘unspoken’ impact of curriculum reform

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a qualitative analytical framework which scrutinises language in use (see Fairclough, 2010). My research, conducted in secondary schools in the north-west of...

Gordon Baillie

Dr Gordon Baillie has been a senior lecturer in education practice in the School of Education at the University of Chester since 2018, leading on the Secondary English PGCE and teaching across a...

Â鶹ÒùÔº ECR Network Symposium Series 2026: Working With, Not On: Collaboration in Research Practice

Â鶹ÒùÔº ECR Network Symposium Series 2026: Working With, Not On: Collaboration in Research Practice

This symposium series explores the often-overlooked but essential dimension of research: working with people. From supervisors and collaborators to participants and co-authors, research is...

Call for Convenor: Physical Education Sport Pedagogy (PESP) SIG

We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the Physical Education Sport Pedagogy SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years.  Role & responsibilities of SIG Convenors: Plan & oversee SIG...

Creativity and the autistic researcher: A reflection

Creativity and the autistic researcher (Image by Anna Tarazevich on Pexels) As a child I was an avid day-dreamer, immersed in a world of adventures. Though frowned upon at school and at work,...

(Non)belonging: Navigating education and research as a neurodivergent academic

Founded in 2024, the Neurodivergent Researchers Network is a space for Â鶹ÒùÔº members – whether diagnosed or self-identifying as neurodivergent, or friends and allies – to share and reflect upon...