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Miriam Meyerhoff

Miriam Meyerhoff is professor of sociolinguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. Her research deals with language variation and change in...

Warren Speed

PhD Researcher

Warren is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Exeter. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and The University of Exeter, his PhD focuses on how schools in England...

Birmingham: A land of Trojan horses?

Birmingham has had many ethnic communities settling among its population, leading to the city becoming ‘superdiverse’ (Rex & Moore, 1967; Vertovec, 2007). British Pakistani children are close...

Emre Unlu

Emre Unlu has been a senior lecturer in Business Economics at Edge Hill University since 2015. He completed his PhD in Economics at Louisiana State University in 2012. He worked as a Lecturer of...

James Noble-Rogers

Executive Director

James Noble-Rogers was Executive Director of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) from 2004 until his retirement in April 2026. During this time he helped lead UCET and...

ITE content and the work of the content advisory group

Identifying components of initial teacher education (ITE) that all accredited ITE providers in England will have to adopt was never going to be an easy task. On the one hand, ITE providers must...

Annie Gowing

Dr Annie Gowing leads the Wellbeing Specialisation in the Master of Education at The University of Melbourne. With a background in both social work and education, she has been active in the area...

Emma Nenadic

Emma Nenadic is a doctoral student in music education at Birmingham City University. Her research is drawing on case studies of collaborative projects between musicians, teachers and pupils to...

Mandy Pierlejewski

Mandy Pierlejewski is a senior lecturer in early childhood education and course leader of the BA Primary Education 3-7 QTS degree at Leeds Beckett University. Before entering higher education,...

Matthew Dunn

Head of Programmes

Matthew Dunn taught in secondary schools for 23 years before moving into a career in teacher education and research. He is currently head of programmes (Secondary, FE, TESOL & Research Education)...

Mehmet Pinar

Mehmet Pinar is a professor of economics at Edge Hill University. His research and publications focus on analyses of the effect of policymakers’ normative decisions on the measurement of...

Making words stick is primary practice

The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) is responsible for inspecting the quality of education in a range of schools and settings in England, and for reporting its findings to government....