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Alumni at Manchester Institute of Education

This blog post was co-written by fellow alumni of Manchester Institute of Education: Anqi He, Chang Gao, Keyi Le, Yichen Liang, Ruohan Luo, Siran Wang, Xinyue Zhang, Lingyi Zhou

Sara Jackson

Sara Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Education at The University of Manchester, where she teaches across the BSc Education programme and teacher education programmes within the Manchester...

Surface certainty, knowledge substitution and the rise of the ‘shallow learner’

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT become embedded within higher education (HE), we must ask not only how they shape student practices but also how they shift our...

Claire Hadfield is a senior lecturer in education at Plymouth Marjon University. With a background in secondary English and Modern Languages, she now teaches on the Secondary PGCE course. Claire's...

Lai-Sang Iao

Dr Lai-Sang Iao is a chartered psychologist and the Lead of the Autism and Neurodiversity Research Group at Nottingham Trent University. Lai-Sang’s primary research focus is autism. Her research...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Sexualities and Gender

This Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a space to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform...

Katherine Davis-Wright

Katherine Davis-Wright is a final-year EdD student at the University of Sheffield, novelist and teacher of English at a state secondary school in the UK. Her doctoral research looks at the...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Skill Builder Series: Standardisation for Abstract Reviewers

This online session is aimed at those who:  are new to peer review Â鶹ÒùÔº abstracts would like to peer review for Â鶹ÒùÔº in future are more experienced but would like the reassurance of a...

A year in childcare: Reflections from the frontline

In January 2025, the BBC published an article about the paediatric mental health crisis in England (see Triggle, 2025). Official figures show that one in five children and young people between the...

Enhancing the research process through cross cultural collaboration

Cross-cultural collaboration in educational research is more than a methodological choice, it is a key pathway to understanding the diverse cultural meanings that shape early childhood....

Exiting the field: Reflections on research departures and lingering questions

Several years after ‘finishing’ collecting data for my ethnographic case study, I still can’t think about leaving the field without worrying about my exit. In 2020 I began my Education PhD,...

Josie Scammell

Josie Scammell is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of Oxford. Her current ESRC GUDTP funded DPhil research explores the processes of creating and sustaining a trauma-informed...