Diffractive memory-stories and response-activeness in teaching social justice (2021)
Journal Article

This article presents a diffractive arts-based narrative that results from a re-turn of our work with subjectivity and memory in relation to our involvement with teaching social justice and diversity in education. Through intra-action, we explore the... Read More about Diffractive memory-stories and response-activeness in teaching social justice.

Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings (2021)
Journal Article

Touch and silence are neglected across most disciplines, including within child-specific academic literature, and their interconnections have not been studied before. This article focuses on touch/silence convergences in residential childcare in Engl... Read More about Silencing Touch and Touching Silence? Understanding the Complex Links between Touch and Silence in Residential Child Care Settings.

The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next? (2021)
Journal Article

The current agenda for mental health in schools is considered in relation to the concept of mental health and how it has been iterated in schools in the UK. Key contributions from education pioneers are outlined, providing a time line for the first h... Read More about The evolution of mental health in schools: where from, where next?.

Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures. (2021)
Journal Article

'Global citizenship’ entered public parlance prominently during heightened globalisation. To be a citizen of this new globalised, interconnected world was to be a subject of capital. Like Janus, a subject of this neoliberal world order was to be both... Read More about Global Citizenship Education / Learning for Sustainability: tensions, 'flaws', and contradictions as critical moments of possibility and radical hope in educating for alternative futures..

'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter is an exploration of education and migration. The purpose of our exploration is twofold: firstly, to consider how the concepts of becoming, event and affect allow us to think differently about subjectivity in relation to education and mi... Read More about 'Do you miss kimchi?’: A collaborative arts-based narrative of education and migration.

Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work? (2021)
Book Chapter

Networks, collaborations and partnerships between schools can take multiple forms and achieve multiple objectives. This can make them hard to make sense of – and even harder to lead and manage. Nevertheless, this chapter argues that policy makers sho... Read More about Why is school-to-school collaboration important and how can we make it work?.

Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities (2021)
Journal Article

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s analysis of the competition for economic, social and cultural capitals within educational fields, this article reports empirical research from 49 in-depth interviews with graduate students at four elite universities in th... Read More about Cosmopolitan Brands: graduate students navigating the social space of elite global universities.

Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter traces the development of STEM advocacy as a globalizing modernist discourse based in national competitive wealth creation agendas. It therefore addresses the drivers for STEM in schools by way of understanding state and industry intenti... Read More about Unpacking the purposes and potential of interdisciplinary STEM.

The role of school leaders in reform (2020)
Working Paper

School leaders sit at the fulcrum of educational reform initiatives. This is particularly the case in decentralised school systems in which schools have relatively high levels of autonomy, or decision-making rights, in relation to operational and ins... Read More about The role of school leaders in reform.

Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis (2020)
Journal Article

Inclusive education is a global rights-based response to educational exclusion. It is communicated through a range of modalities, but analysis predominantly focuses on discourses constituted in written texts. Systematic research is needed to understa... Read More about Googling inclusive education: a critical visual analysis.

Self-policing or self-improving?: analysing peer reviews between schools in England through the lens of isomorphism (2020)
Book Chapter

Peer reviews are not compulsory for schools in England, but they have become increasingly common in recent years. There is no single model for how peer reviews operate, but they generally involve staff from at least one other school in reviewing pra... Read More about Self-policing or self-improving?: analysing peer reviews between schools in England through the lens of isomorphism.

Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses (2020)
Journal Article

Teacher educators are encouraged to promote evidence-based practice in teaching and to use evidence for their own teaching. In the present study, teacher educators' attitudes, perceived challenges, and uses regarding evidence-based practice are descr... Read More about Evidence-Based Practice in Higher Education: Teacher Educators' Attitudes, Challenges, and Uses.

Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy (2020)
Journal Article

Confronting issues of global climate change will require creative approaches to energy consumption across a range of human activities. This design case looks at the evolution of a physical/digital hybrid board game that we created to encourage famili... Read More about Fight the Power! Games, Thermostats, and the Energy Patriarchy.

The doing of ethnographies of eating: writing, observing, and eating chip butties during ethnographic research in primary schools in England (2020)
Journal Article

This paper explores the experience of researching food in schools. Food is personal. It is an ingested symbol of culture, family, tradition, ethnicity... What does this mean as a researcher? How do we navigate food relationships? How is this relation... Read More about The doing of ethnographies of eating: writing, observing, and eating chip butties during ethnographic research in primary schools in England.

Undergraduate Experiences Of The Research / Teaching Nexus Across The Student Lifecycle (2020)
Presentation / Conference

The interconnections between research and teaching in Higher Education is usually termed ‘the research/teaching nexus’ (RTN), exploring the association between research outputs of staff and teaching evaluations; the student experience of the nexus; a... Read More about Undergraduate Experiences Of The Research / Teaching Nexus Across The Student Lifecycle.

A Global Comparison of Initial Pharmacy Education Curricula: An Exploratory Study (2020)
Journal Article

Background: Time-tabled curricular contents and syllabi reflect the actual delivery of the academic programme and one of key quality components in healthcare professional education. There is a need of global evidence base of Initial Pharmacy Educatio... Read More about A Global Comparison of Initial Pharmacy Education Curricula: An Exploratory Study.

An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions (2019)
Journal Article

Since the 1990s an increasing body of genetic studies of Roma people has been conducted and used to understand their lives. This includes research on health issues such as genetic predispositions to obesity or high cholesterol levels and the migratio... Read More about An inheritance of exclusion: Roma education, genetics and the turn to biosocial solutions.

Approaches to scaling innovations across schools: an analysis of key theories and models (2019)
Book Chapter

The question of how to scale up successful innovations remains a key challenge for policy and practice in education (Hall, 2013). This article outlines three established ‘schools of thought’ around how to scale up successful innovations. The first... Read More about Approaches to scaling innovations across schools: an analysis of key theories and models.

Utilisation of an intervention to support students on the autism spectrum: examining teachers' responses to Finished! the On-task Toolkit (2019)
Journal Article

A number of studies have demonstrated visual schedules and work systems to be effective in assisting students on the autism spectrum to stay on-task and work independently in special-education settings. However, evidence of effectiveness does not ens... Read More about Utilisation of an intervention to support students on the autism spectrum: examining teachers' responses to Finished! the On-task Toolkit.

Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: from prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralised context (2019)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to present and discuss the findings from research on the relationship between leadership theory and policy reform in Malaysia. The research was conducted in two dissimilar Malaysian states. Research Design... Read More about Distributed leadership and the Malaysia Education Blueprint: from prescription to partial school-based enactment in a highly centralised context.