Lovely day to be at Old Trafford (the good one!) for the Tes SEND Show North - thanks for the invitation to talk about one of my favourite subjects!
Liz
@drlizgregory.bsky.social
Lecturer in Education at University of Manchester. Resistant to change but finally here.
An utterly shameless plug for this recent publication with @bloomsburyaced.bsky.social, aimed at teachers, school leaders, students and parents. We’ve already had really brilliant feedback about it being useful and practical - exactly our aim! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/supportin...
New article published today in the BERJ with @educationuom.bsky.social colleagues Mark Innes & Louisa Dawes, arguing that NPQs don’t provide teachers and leaders with opportunities to develop the intellectual dimension of their practice: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article considers how teachers' professional development could be redeveloped to help address the current crisis in teacher recruitment and retention by offering greater intellectual rigour and ....
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Latest collaborative publication from members of the Teacher Education and Professional Learning research and scholarship group, on the valuable contribution that RSGs can make by acting as catalysts for academic growth in university-led pre-service teacher education. www.ucet.ac.uk/blog/17240/b...
Blog: Bridging the Identity Gap: research and scholarship groups as catalysts for academic growth in university-led pre-service teacher education | UCET
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Do please join us for this fabulous event next week (Wed 3rd Dec). Prof Jean Murray is such an important champion for teacher educators, and always brings a productively critical eye to the ITE landscape. Plus, light refreshments available beforehand! All welcome 😊
Fantastic first meeting of MIE’s Qualitative Research Network for this academic year, discussing creative methodologies with children and young people. Lots of brilliant research going on! @rshargreaves.bsky.social @educationuom.bsky.social
More proposed changes to the post-16 sector announced on Monday, including new “V-levels” that are intended to replace BTECs. What do we think? Is this the answer? Will BTECs leave a huge gap? Will a change of government mean all of this comes to nothing anyway?🤷♀️ theconversation.com/what-are-v-l...
What are V-levels, England’s new post-16 qualification, and will they improve vocational education?
Students may be able to choose several V-levels in different subjects or even mix and match them with A-levels.
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The calm before the storm… It was wonderful to see so many new and returning students on campus yesterday - looking forward to round 2 today! 😎
Looking forward to seeing my book (on supporting educational transitions from ages 3-19) on this display next year!
Bloomsbury Academic Education@bloomsburyaced.bsky.social · 11mo agoWe're at #BERA2025 this week and are enjoying seeing many of you so far. If you haven't yet visited our stand, come and say hi to editors Mark and Al, and browse our latest books including recent BERA Book of the Year shortlistee, Pedagogies of Collapse, in prime position 🤩 @beranews.bsky.social
Had a fantastic time in Brighton this week for #BERA2025 - thanks to @murtaghlisa.bsky.social for the photos of our symposium on teacher professional development 🙌
Had a fabulous time in Vienna last week for the BSA Bourdieu Study Group Mid-Term International Conference - a beautiful city and a great selection of presentations and keynotes #Bourdieu25
Looking forward to the inaugural International Conference on Education and Life Transition (ICELT) later this week - it’s been a pleasure to work with such a brilliant team to put together a programme which is truly international, featuring presentations from a range of disciplines 🙌 #ICELT2025
Nice to be back on campus, particularly to meet with colleagues for lunch - and @kro-bar.bsky.social’s idea of a mezze platter for one is very much in keeping with my own. 🍽️
What’s that? You’d like an out-of-focus shot of the ice cream I was given at the @uomseed.bsky.social summer social today? I’m your girl!
MIE’s Professor of Higher Education @profstevenjones.bsky.social addressing @manchester.ac.uk’s annual Teaching and Learning Conference - great keynote questioning what excellence looks like in teaching in HE. Thanks too to the brilliant student panel!
Great keynote lecture by @markrpriestley.bsky.social at today’s LJMU Teacher Agency conference, problematising conceptualisations of teacher agency. One of those talks that genuinely makes you want to do some reading and thinking on the train home (I’ll probably nap when it comes to it, but still).
Absolutely loving the newly-opened Ellen Wilkinson Commons in our building at @educationuom.bsky.social - lots of areas for communal working and for socialising with colleagues. Not completely sure about the carpets but looking forward to getting my book on that shelf!
What a fantastic few days in Paris last week for the #IAFOR Education Conference - fabulous range of presentations and a great opportunity to chat with educators and researchers from around the world.
Thanks to @kirsty-finn-mcr.bsky.social and team for a really interesting lunchtime webinar outlining the findings of their Young Women’s Working Lives research: ‘Earning while Learning: student employment’ - great project that I’d like to know more about!
Delighted to have my say in the special issue of BERA’s Research Intelligence published today on (re)shaping the future of research in further education. I loved teaching and researching in FE but it’s definitely not without its challenges. www.bera.ac.uk/publication/...
Summer 2025
Research Intelligence issue 163: (Re)shaping the future of research in further education: Opportunities, barriers & beyond
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What a fantastic event to close the working day - looking at maps in the Map Room (who knew there was a Map Room!) at @manchester.ac.uk. Always fascinating to see different perspectives of the globe, plus I’ll never look at Stockport quite the same way again after seeing this amazing Emotion Map 🗺️
Wonderful to hear from our students this morning at our MIE Away Day - some really constructive feedback on what we do well and what we can do even better!
Congratulations to Mr Sporty Spider Crab at Manchester Museum @uniofmanchester.bsky.social for (apparently) completing yesterday’s marathon! 🦀🏃 #mcrmuseum #manchestermuseum
Lovely couple of days at @gladlib.bsky.social with the Teacher Education & Professional Learning RSG - got to work on several exciting projects in beautiful surroundings (and with its own honesty bar) 🙌
Lovely to hear Helen and her co-panelists talk about the book today! 📖🥂
Manchester Institute of Education (MIE)@educationuom.bsky.social · last yr.Congratulations to MIE’s Helen Beetham on the publication of her new co-edited book exploring the legacy of her late father, David Beetham. The book was launched today at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social’s Christie’s Bistro.
In other conference news, I’m excited to be off to Paris, Brighton and Vienna this summer - a far cry from last year, when I went to…Manchester. ✈️ 🚇 🧳 😎
Very productive planning meeting this morning with the #TCELT gang, working on August’s inaugural International Conference on Educational & Life Transitions Conference. Still time to submit an abstract before March 31st! www.dundee.ac.uk/events/inter...
International Conference on Educational and Life Transitions (ICELT) | University of Dundee, UK
Save the date of the inaugural conference of the research centre
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Tonight’s TEPL reading group is @iancushing.bsky.social’s chapter on language policing in ITE. As a former teacher of GCSE/A-Level English, I’m particularly interested to think about how deficit models of language (eg word gaps) relate to wider debates around how subjects are taught and assessed.
