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Congratulations to Adrian Fernandes on winning the 2025 @uklitassociation.bsky.social Student Research Prize for his MSc Education dissertation on how secondary school English teachers responded to the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.

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🎓 We're delighted to announce a new DPhil scholarship in memory of Professor Richard Pring.

Open for entry from October 2026, the scholarship is open to applicants worldwide, with preference for research in philosophy of education and vocational education.

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Photos of Nicole Dingwall, Cate Hamilton and Lulu Shi. Text: 2025 Teaching Excellence Awards

Congratulations to Dr Nicole Dingwall, Dr Cate Hamilton, and Dr Lulu Shi on receiving @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Awards today! 👏🎉

These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to education and teaching at @ox.ac.uk.

Read more on our website ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...

Abstract painting of a landscape overlaid with text. Ecologies, The 14th International Journal of Art and Design Education Conference. Online, Thursday 6 November 2025. Arnolfini, UWE Bristol, Saturday 8 November 2025. Registration and abstract submissions open now. Artwork: Untitled by Dr Rachel Payne (2025).

iJADE Conference 2025 | Ecologies

Registration and abstract submissions open now!

🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025
📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol

Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio
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#iJADE2025

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

@ginnybraun.bsky.social & I were interviewed by @nature.com for a feature on the Most-cited papers of all time. Our paper Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology is number 3! And the 9th most cited paper OF ALL TIME! Wow! Go qualitative research!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic In this paper, we show how positionality shapes caregivers’ decisions about children’s schooling, by expanding on research on Black families’ educational decision-making (Cooper, 2025; Posey-Maddox et...

New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social l + @ericaoturner.bsky.social : “Weighing Risks:
How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)

Professor Rebecca Eynon (Professor of Education, the Internet and Society), and Dr Alice Tawell & Teresa Williams (@reescentre.bsky.social) have been awarded SDG Impact Fund grants for their projects to advance the Sustainability Development Goal of 'Quality Education' 🎉

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/42ksJER

It discusses peer-reviewed articles 2000-2023, highlighting the benefits of RP in fostering inclusive networks and holistic development. However, it also identifies significant gaps, particularly the lack of young people's voices, and the need to address systemic issues relating to ableism.

Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study Restorative practice in schools has been seen to aid inclusive networks and the holistic development of young people; however, this scoping study of peer reviewed articles published between 2000 an...

I'm really pleased to share my new (open access) article ‘Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability

Why an EEF-style approach is of limited use for special schools Our learners' needs are labelled 'special' precisely because they can't be supported uniformly

The opinion is definitely more recent than that photo!!

Are you a practitioner, educator or policy worker looking to engage with the Department of Education? 🧑‍🏫

Join the #OxfordEdDeanery mailing list to get news of our events, workshops, and CPD courses for professionals, and termly digests of our research to your inbox ➡️ eepurl.com/iAtDik

Zaahida Nabagereka, Lesley Nelson-Addy and Velda Elliott in the sunshine in the Department of Education's garden

Graphic which reads: Impact Awards 2025 Velda Elliott, Zaahida Nabagereka, Lesley Nelson-Addy Highly Commended, Developing Impact, Lit in Colour

The Lit in Colour Pioneers pilot increased the number of students answering texts by writers of colour by 🌟100-fold🌟 since 2019

The research by @veldaelliott.bsky.social with Pearson Edexcel, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust is Highly Commended at the #SocialSciencesImpactAwards today 👏

what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...

Exploring the special schools workforce: What’s the current picture? In this first of a two part feature length blog post series on special schools, Senior Economist Michael Scott discusses the current workforce, teacher vacancy rates and data about teachers with quali...

Today we have published new research on the special schools workforce in England: an under-researched sector that can get neglected and misunderstood in policymaking.

Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀

www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor...

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The term ‘Assess don’t assume’ is one that I like and which should have universal value, although I’m not sure it necessarily has in either mainstream or Specialist.

Stop calling people 'morons', 'idiots' and 'retards'.

My new book (out in June from @Wildfirebks) tells how badly people with learning disabilities have been treated in the past, and the way that is embedded in everyday culture today.

Why SEMH support is schools’ biggest challenge Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs have been found to fare the worst in terms of getting SEND support. Why is this, and what can schools do with constrained resources?

SEND is in crisis – but pupils with SEMH needs are suffering the most in terms of not getting the right support. @johngroberts.bsky.social explores why this is the case and what schools can do ⬇️

Investigation: How EHCPs fail our most vulnerable children England now spends nearly £11 billion providing education for children with additional needs. But what does the funding in EHCPs actually get spent on?

Special investigation: Interventions lacking evidence, copy and paste plans, health and social care missing - Schools Week reveals how EHCPs are failing vulnerable children

<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library Teacher retention in England continues to be in a state of decline, with early career teachers (ECTs) most at risk of leaving the profession. High attrition rates create an unstable and unsustainable...

If you’re interested in #TeacherRetention maybe check out our new publication examining the motivational factors that shape #EarlyCareerTeachers career decision-making. Results show how #ProfessionalIdentity and #Belonging are key #AcademicSky bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

📢 Join Professor Cristina Mckean for her inaugural lecture on 3 March, 'Creating the conditions for robust early language development'

📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm

Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y

IJNE Volume 10 - 2024 - nurtureuk Explore the International Journal of Nurture in Education, a valuable resource for educators and researchers. Gain insights into nurturing approaches, social-emotional development, and promoting well-...

Volume 10 of the International Journal of Nurture in Education including my peer-reviewed thought piece on ‘behaviour as communication’ as a hinge commitment to whole school #nurture and #restorative practice. @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social www.nurtureuk.org/journal/volu... #AcademicSky

📣CALL FOR PAPERS: STORIES 2025 💡

STORIES (STudents’ Ongoing Research In Educational Studies), our annual student-run conference, will take place online on 10 April at 10am.

Find out more and submit your abstract - open worldwide! ➡️ bit.ly/3X7hDBg

This is definitely a conversation we need to be having about Special schools. A positive experience of being in school is necessary but not sufficient and should not be confused with a high quality of education. We need to be giving thoughtful consideration to what is our purpose and what is our 1/2

Are there ASL-based resources for discussing immigration rights and resources for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing students? Thanks for sharing!

Poster graphic with a pattern of curved overlapping lines. Overlaid text reads: The National Art and Design Education Conference 2025. Leading better practice for art, craft and design educators across the UK. Theme: Designing a learner-centred & contemporary curriculum. Thursday 19 June 2025, online.

📣 Save the Date!

We are pleased to announce the NSEAD conference will be returning for 2025. Taking place online, the National Art & Design Education Conference is the must-attend event for art, craft and design education training and curriculum insight.

#NSEADConference25

Revealed: the scale of the SEND crisis in numbers The huge shortfall in funding for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities is clear. But how many children now need support - and how has this figure increased in recent years? Tes analy...

Both major political parties agree that there is a crisis in funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). But just how many children are we talking about here? I analysed the latest DfE data to see the current extent of need www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Dr Jeremy Knox on stage at the UNESCO International Day of Education event

Last Friday, Dr Jeremy Knox delivered the closing keynote at UNESCO's #InternationalDayofEducation event, ‘AI and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation’ #edusky

Watch the keynote, 'Critical Perspectives: Towards human-centered AI in education' ➡️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJn...

📢 The AIEOU team are recruiting a part-time Research Assistant!

The RA will play a crucial role in helping to create a dynamic, global community of practice for AI in Education, led by @sararatner.bsky.social

Apply now (Deadline 14 Feb) ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

More on our new project… #VisualLiteracy #AcademiSky #EduSky

Great to part of this project in collaboration with Art UK and the Government Art Collection - considering how visual literacy can impact young people’s future successes. #AcademicSky #EduSky #Art #DowningStreet