New paper in School Psychology International Empathy is not the issue. Primary-aged children recognise bullying and understand harm. But defending is filtered through peer hierarchies, fear of retaliation, fairness judgements and reciprocity. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Children's perceptions of bullying, exclusion and defending in English primary schools: A qualitative study - Aneeza Pervez, Tanvi Masrani, Elle Pemberton, 2026

Bullying in primary school is experienced within peer relationships and classroom norms, yet less is known about how children themselves reason about whether an...

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New open access paper 📣: What Love Means IPA study showing love as negotiated - shaped by culture, gender, obligation, and emotional risk. Not always expressive. Not always reciprocal. Often morally complex. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What Love Means: Young Adults’ Lived Experiences Across Gendered and Cultural Contexts

This study explores how young adults interpret and navigate love within the intersecting contexts of culture, gender, and family. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with eight participants, and ...

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New paper 📣: staff perspectives of Emotionally Based School Avoidance in a Welsh primary school. EBSA is often framed as pupil anxiety. This study centres on relational strain and the emotional cost carried by staff‼️. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Staff perspectives on Emotionally Based School Avoidance: a case study in a Welsh primary school

Emotionally-Based School Avoidance (EBSA) is an increasing concern in UK schools, yet it remains inconsistently defined and is often framed through individualised or behavioural explanations. This ...

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Extraordinary conditions, ordinary fears… Dr @aneezapervez.bsky.social watches ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ @altitudefilms.bsky.social www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

Extraordinary conditions, ordinary fears | BPS

Aneeza Pervez watches ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’.

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💬 "International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education." Read Dr @mchankseliani.bsky.social's opinion piece in @nature.com ➡️ bit.ly/4lWgLcR #HigherEducation #Edusky @socsci.ox.ac.uk

What we stand to lose when foreign students are seen as a threat

International students enrich university communities and strengthen civic life. We must defend their place in global education.

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✨ New article published in Education 3–13: “Reimagining Curricula: A Case Study of a Game-Based Approach to Fostering Prosociality and Cross-Subject Learning in Primary Schools” Read here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #Education #Prosociality #ChildDevelopment #Curriculum

Reimagining curricula: a case study of a game-based approach to fostering prosociality and cross-subject learning in primary schools

National curricula increasingly face pressure to integrate academic learning with socio-emotional development, yet opportunities to embed prosociality—such as kindness, cooperation, and empathy—wit...

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Booking are now open for this years Summer Scientist Week. Make sure you get booked on, we can't wait to see you all so we can deliver a little dose of Science. www.summerscientist.org

Excited to share our new open access paper in British Educational Research Journal! We reviewed UK school responses to emotionally based school avoidance. The evidence is thin—and the punitive culture persists. Time to rethink. Read here: doi.org/10.1002/berj... #EBSA #EduResearch

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The Covid-19 pandemic and its sequalae mark the genesis of persistently high absenteeism in primary and secondary schools across the UK. Emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA) is documented as con...

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Full article: Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge

This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and infli...

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“At the center of the chaos and fear swirling around the administration’s dismantling of the academy is the same question that animates Finkelstein’s case: Will the freedoms guaranteed to professors for generations survive?”

A Professor Was Fired for Her Politics. Is That the Future of Academia?

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"Khawla and Alison are stretching language to its limits to try to convey the depth of despair for the human depravity. It is a conversation of sorts between the two scholars, a conversation that started in social media, after Khawla answered poetically the poetic prayers by Alison"

When there are no words, we’d better find some | BPS

Chartered Psychologist Dr Aspa Paltoglou on the responsibility of Psychologists to care about and speak up for the Palestinian people, through a book review.

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Just published a deeply personal piece: "Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge" It explores how institutional silence sustains settler colonialism and erases Palestinian voices. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1476...

Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge

This paper examines the complicity of academic institutions in the ongoing Palestinian genocide, arguing that silence actively sustains settler colonialism, erases Palestinian narratives, and infli...

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The great defenders of free speech! US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views

US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views

Decision sides with White House’s claim that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ were counter to US foreign policy interests

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1/ To mark Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Leda @kamenopoulou.bsky.social and Ben Watson break down six myths about accessibility. @ucl-ioe-phd.bsky.social Read in more detail on the #IOEBlog: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/03/...

Having investigated the Muslim identity as a key source of social belonging for pakistani youth its super interesting to see similar patterns across Muslim migrants across the world

Prof. Virginia Braun (she/her they/them)@ginnybraun.bsky.social · last yr.

“A new study has found links between being a young, religiously observant Muslim person and being Kiwi-as, uncovering a “fragile but unwavering” post-mosque attack sense of belonging.”

Amidst the evolution of Generative AI models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek, it's important to understand how AI impacts learning. Rose Luckin explores AI's ability to offer personalised, more accessible learning against its risks like data privacy and bias. l.linklyhq.com/l/23b06

Actually by me and @petraboynton.bsky.social for @lseimpactblog.bsky.social and references @uk.theconversation.com - worth a read if you're interested in research and inequality

Petra Boynton@petraboynton.bsky.social · 2y ago

@helenkennedy.bsky.social and I wrote about these inequalities and how they harm research more widely earlier this year blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... The Conversation was one of many areas that inspired this piece.

Pleased to see this is now published as online first: “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback” @ginnybraun.bsky.social @vicclarke.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social, LaMarre & Adams doi.org/10.1037/qup0...

For all the party poopers out there. Don't stop talking about violence. Don't stop talking about Palestine. About freedom for all oppressed & colonized peoples. Whenever, wherever, however. #FreePalestine #KilljoyTruths #SilenceAboutViolenceisViolence feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/party-poop...

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Or why we need to talk about the violence happening here

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