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A brokered bouquet of knowledge

Knowledge brokering – facilitating research into practice and policy – might be one of the most useful skills you’ve never heard of. During my career as a mathematics teacher, then writer...

Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research: Publication and dissemination practices 

How do researchers make ethical decisions about sharing their work, and who gets to access the knowledge they produce? In this episode, we explore alternative approaches to publication and...

2026 Â鶹ÒùÔº Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Editorial: Refugee education: Challenging stereotypes and deficiency approaches

This Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog Special Issue grows out of the distinct yet shared lived experiences of its authors. Each of us has witnessed how, across the UK and Europe, refugee education is too often shaped by...

Refugee education: Challenging stereotypes and deficiency approaches

This Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog Special Issue grows out of the distinct yet shared lived experiences of its authors. Each of us has witnessed how, across the UK and Europe, refugee education is too often shaped by...

What have we learned from a decade of arts-based refugee education?

Can art change refugees’ lives? The research suggests that with the right approach, creative practices such as drama, music and design can break down language barriers, help people express who...

Right, what are we doing to help the children?

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Call for Convenor: Arts Based Educational Research SIG

We are recruiting a SIG Convenor for the Â鶹ÒùÔº Arts Based Educational Research SIG to help lead the SIG over the next 3 years.  Role & responsibilities of SIG Convenors: Plan & oversee SIG...

Pracademics in transition: An arts-based exploration of the lived experience of second career academics

Second career academics, or ‘pracademics’ are ‘former or current practitioners who are now university academics’ (Dickinson et al., 2020, p. 290). They come from a wide variety of...

Getting creative in schools to improve young people’s wellbeing

Wellbeing is about feeling good and functioning well (Deighton, 2016). In the UK, young people’s wellbeing has been declining for the past two decades, and the prevalence of mental health...

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog: Highlights of 2025

Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the Â鶹ÒùÔº Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

Arts-based research and the ‘truth’: lessons from composing songs about and with research

In what ways does, or could,  arts-based research shape our understanding of ‘truth’? How can creative methodologies expand traditional research paradigms? This online workshop invites...