COP28 kicks off this week and education plays a crucial role in the conference
COP28 kicks off this week and education plays a crucial role in the conference…
Speaking volumes and silent echoes: uncovering government priorities for disabled young people in the SEND review
“Language exerts hidden power like the moon on the tides.” Rita Mae Brown (2011)In a recent paper from the Right to…
Writing on writing: five suggestions for challenging your writing practices
In this post I reflect on strategies that help me write. Of course, I still get stuck, distracted or temporarily disheartened, feeling that whatever I…
Writing the doctorate
Writing the doctorate is hard. I am reminded of this of late, as four of my doctoral students are in the mythical writing up stage.
Widening Participation in 2023: shifting policy drivers, shifting institutional responses
Widening participation is essentially about two things: 1) making it easier for underrepresented groups to access higher education than it would be otherwise – a…
Teachers of the world, we salute you!
To celebrate World Teachers’ Day 2023, colleagues at the Sheffield Institute of Education recall…
To decolonise or to diversify? Untangling the terminology of emancipatory curriculum design
“You cannot take authority over things that are not named.” Thus spoke Professor Udy Archibong, Pro-VC for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the University of…
Celebrating ten years of research and innovation in Sheffield Institute of Education
As the new academic year begins, we celebrate ten years of research and innovation in Sheffield Institute of Education, taking…
A year in a blog
I took over editorship of the SIoE blog at the start of this academic year with an idea of what I wanted it to be:…
Unlocking potential: navigating personal data sharing across multiple universities for enhanced collaboration
Are you or students you supervise involved in research collecting personal data across a number of different partners or institutions? Are you involved in collecting…
