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Ross Goldstone

Ross Goldstone is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, where he is studying the relationship between social class and further education participation and...

Sara Sintonen

Sara Sintonen is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the University of Helsinki. She holds the title of adjunct professor on media education (University of Helsinki) and on...

Memory Malibha-Pinchbeck

Dr Memory Malibha-Pinchbeck is an early-career researcher and has recently completed her interdisciplinary PhD in sociology, education and ethnomusicology at the Open University. Prior to her...

Cormac Loane

Following his graduation from Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, Cormac Loane worked as a saxophone player ‘on the boats’ and at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens during the late 1970s....

What you need to know to get the best from online education: A BJET/JCAL virtual special issue

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re all going through a period unlike any we have ever experienced. With respect to teaching and learning, students can’t attend school and universities – and...

Covid-19, education and educational research

Covid-19 has transformed the way we live, work, research, teach and learn. This ongoing series of blogs addresses the crisis as it affects education in all its diversity.

Going beyond the evidence: Research and the media

Covid-19, education and educational research

In a previous blog (published yesterday) I reflected on the danger of researchers going beyond the evidence in presenting policy-relevant findings: putting forward empirical conclusions as cogent...

Niall Winters

Niall Winters is professor of education and technology and a Fellow of Kellogg College at the University of Oxford. He researches technology-enhanced training programmes for healthcare workers...

Paul Kirschner

Paul A. Kirschner is emeritus professor of educational psychology at the Open University of the Netherlands, honorary doctor (doctor honoris causa) at the University of Oulu, Finland, and guest...

Is educational research evidence-based?

One issue raised in the debate over evidence-based policymaking and practice has been what should count as evidence. I was prompted to think further about this by a recent paper in the British...

John Gordon

Reader in English Education

I am Reader in English Education at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. I am an experienced English teacher educator, and came into teaching as a secondary-phase specialist in English and...

Education, children’s futures and Covid-19

Covid-19, education and educational research

Last year I conducted a research project with 12 early-career primary teachers. While exploring their sense of purpose, I found that many teachers were driven by a commitment to preparing their...