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Jamie McGann

Jamie McGann is a research fellow in the School of Health and Human Performance and the ADAPT Centre at Dublin City University. He has a background in education and educational technology design...

Exploring the application of Pierre Bourdieu’s capital(s) in survey research: Student participation in further education in England

Following engagement with Savage et al’s (2013) Great British Class Survey (GBCS), and subsequent criticisms of it – for instance, the selectivity of indicators of each capital (Bradley, 2014)...

Divya Jindal-Snape

Professor of Education, School of Education and Social Work

Professor Divya Jindal-Snape is Personal Chair of Education, Inclusion and Life Transitions in the School of Education and Social Work, at the University of Dundee. She gained her undergraduate...

Cate Neal

Project Manager (LHERI)

Cate Neal is a Project Manager based in the Lincoln Higher Education Research Institute. Cate is the overall Project Manager for the OfS funded project Transitioning Students Effectively: A...

Identifying the potential impacts of Covid-19 on school-based sexuality education

Covid-19, education and educational research

The ideas presented in this blog were developed in dialogue with a number of English sexuality education organizations, including acetUK, It Happens, Susie March, Think for Yourself, Teaching...

Time to consider a ‘career in education’, rather than a ‘teacher career’?

Although seminal teacher career models (Day, Sammons, Stobart, Kington, & Gu, 2007; Fessler & Christensen, 1992; Huberman, 1993; Sikes, Measor, & Woods, 1985) have established predetermined...

Jon Rainford

Dr Jon Rainford is an early career researcher working within the intersections between Sociology and Education. Having worked across a range of educational settings, his recently completed...

Colin McCaig

Professor of Higher Education Policy

Colin has around 20 years’ experience as a WP researcher and evaluator, with a particular interest in higher education policy that impacts inequalities of access. He has been involved in large...

#BlackLivesMatter in education

The sickening death of African-American George Floyd by suffocation at the hands of a White-American policeman has justifiably fuelled the force of the #BlackLivesMatter movement across the world....

Researching the world in uncertain times: The role of bricolage

Covid-19, education and educational research

‘Man finds himself living in an aleatory world; his existence involves, to put it baldly, a gamble. The world is a scene of risk; it is uncertain, unstable, uncannily unstable.’ (Dewey, 1929,...

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Summer 2020

Research Intelligence Issue 143 is on the theme of 'Widening participation in practice'.