Dr Anne Luke, Lecturer in Childhood Studies, University of Leeds, writes about her recent trip to Cuba to begin introductory work for a proposed project. I was awarded pump-priming funding by the School of Education Research Committee. The aim was to consolidate links and establish links for the new proposed project, titled ‘Social education,...
Dr Parinita Shetty, who was a member of ICY whilst she carried out her PhD here at the School of Education has been awarded the prestigious United Kingdom Literacy Association Student Research Prize for her thesis "Marginally Fannish: Fan Podcasts as Sites of Public Pedagogy and Intersectional Education". The panel said 'Committee members felt your...
Sociologist, Dr Delyth Edwards, shares insights from her research with women who grew up in a children’s home in Belfast between the 1940s and 1960s, and how Life Story Work becomes something shared with friends, family and children. Please click here to read Delyth's blog: Understanding Life Story Work as Family Practice - Blue Cabin...
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Congratulations to Dr Delyth Edwards on her recently published book, Sexual Misconduct in Academia: Informing an Ethics of Care in the University, with Dr Erin Pritchard. This book is about experiences of sexual misconduct in the everyday spaces of academia, and what and how we can learn from these experiences to inform an ethics of care...
Ruth Swanwick, Professor in Deaf Education, visited the project during October 2022. She explained: ”I was able to make a final project trip to Ghana to support the impact work associated with our collaborative project that examines the early education and support for young deaf children and their caregivers. This project was funded by the...
School of Education colleagues Professor Ruth Swanwick, Elettra Casellato, and Nathalie Czeke are involved in a large European Innovative Training Network (ITN) under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. It is called Comm4CHILD (Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimise Language Development) and involves the development of 15 early...
Dr Anne Luke, Dr Caroline Dyer, and Dr Narantuya Sanjaa have recently had their article published in the Journal of Childhood, Education & Society. Boarding schools in transition: A post-socialist analysis of “relevance” as an education policy problem in Mongolia | Journal of Childhood, Education & Society (j-ces.com) Abstract: The rural boarding schools that were established...
Dr Paula Clark and Dr Peter Hart launched the beginning of a new project looking at board games as a way to develop reading comprehension. Peter explains that while many children are able to use phonics to read complex words, we find that their understanding of the text can lag behind their ability to decode...
Dr Peter Hart and Dr Morgan Campbell (ITS), with Laura Cunliffe and two Laidlaw Scholars (Maria Gerella, Rebecca Hamer) launched an ‘Active Travel Toolkit’. Last summer, they worked with a group of young people from the Kentmere Community Centre to understand the barriers they faced to using active forms of travel. The report has been...