Compulsory languages teaching for primary teachers in Scotland Following the introduction of the Scottish Government’s 1+2 language policy in 2012, all primary teachers in Scotland are ...

Michèle Vincent is a lecturer in Modern Languages and Education and is the subject lead for Education at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Environmental Sustainability.

Historically, education has played a vital role in identity formation, especially when looking at minority groups. Group threat theory (Stephen & Stephen, 2000) suggests that minority ...

Alice Little is a part-time postgraduate researcher in her fourth year at York St John University. Her research explores how children and young people experience engaging as co-researchers and ...

Academic outputs, conference and journal papers, are the primary mode of communication for academics, whether with other researchers, policymakers, or practitioners and the wider public.

Telling stories has been part of my upbringing since birth. My Jamaican immigrant grandparents used stories to shape my identity, build character, and share their histories – stories of ...

Autoethnography holds significant relevance as a methodology in social justice work within educational research and practice (Boylorn, 2006; Ellis, 2002; Skousen, 2022). It is defined as ...

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health ...

Mel Green is a lecturer in Education Studies and EdD doctoral researcher at the Open University (OU). Her current EdD research explores the intersections of OU associate lecturers’ personal ...

Historically, self-reflective work has been disparaged as narcissistic or uncritical. In this blog post, I outline two ways, drawn from my own research and practice, in which starting from ...

In this blog post I report on my Winston Churchill Foundation research fellowship study on the adultification of Black girls in state care in 2023 (Ikomi, 2024). Adultification can occur in ...

In April and July of 2023, the BERA Social Justice special interest group (SIG) held an event titled ‘Beyond “Navel-gazing”: Autoethnography as a Catalyst for Change’. This event ...