By Emma Thomas, Terra Glowach, Kalpa Ghelani and Dr Verity Jones Over the coming months, we will host public workshops, ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education Recently, much of my thinking, particularly in collaboration with Chris Bear (Cardiff ...

By Dr Sarah Whitehouse, Programme Leader for the International Doctorate in Education, and Senior Lecturer : Education and Humanities I ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education The Climate Change Primary Education and Research Network (CCPERN) began 2026 with ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education The annual Geography Teacher Educator Conference took place in Manchester this year ...

By Dr Anish Harrison and Professor Alpesh Maisuria In November 2025, we submitted written evidence to the House of Commons ...

By Dr Claire Osborne, Senior Lecturer in Education The Labour government’s ‘Curriculum and Assessment Review’ (2025) is now out of ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education On 30 September 2025, Sparks Bristol was filled with energy and optimism ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education On 23 September 2025, Lambeth Palace hosted the launch of the Difference ...

By Dr Verity Jones, Associate Professor in Education Report launch This week sees the publication of the Climate Change and ...

By Ros Steward, Senior Lecturer in Education, UWE Bristol Art has been acknowledged (Hewlett & Unsworth in Driscoll, Lambirth & ...

By Stephen Beresford In early July, alongside fellow UWE Bristol PhD student, Anna Burchfiel, our supervisor and ECRG Lead, Professor ...

By Dr Verity Jones In the face of escalating ecological and social crises, education must evolve to equip the next ...

by Dr Karan Vickers-Hulse and Dr Sarah Whitehouse The importance of a diverse teaching workforce has been widely acknowledged, yet ...

By Dr Verity Jones (UWE Bristol) and Dr Chris Bear (Cardiff University) We are pleased to announce the publication of ...

Chloe Newman shares processes, findings and next steps of her research using Photovoice to advocate for the voices of children ...

This week, the serene landscapes of Pembrokeshire’s National Park will play host to one of the UK’s most uplifting wellness ...

By Dr Will Grant, Associate Director of the School of Arts, UWE Bristol, and ECRG member This blog post is ...

This blog was originally featured on UWE Bristol's Research and External Engagement blog on 21 March 2025. Date: Friday 11 ...

By Professor Alpesh Maisuria Co-hosted by: All-Party Parliamentary Group for Schools, Learning and Assessment & All-Party Parliamentary Group for Parent ...

By Dr Tim Clark (UWE Bristol/ECRG Strand Lead) and Professor Tom Dobson (York St John University) originally featured on the ...

Schools, Learning and Assessment APPG meeting with Becky Francis, February 2025. Source: X @Appg_Schools By Professor Alpesh Maisuria Speaker: Professor Becky ...

By Dr Jane Carter and Dr Sarah Whitehouse Thursday 16 January 2025 saw the successful launch of a children’s exhibition ...

On 15 January 2025, ECRG hosted Dr Roi Silberberg, Director of School for Peace - Wahat al-Salom - Neve Shalom, ...

By Terra Glowach, PGCE Tutor and Co-Programme Lead for Secondary PGCE; Senior Lecturer in Education On 14 October 2024, the ...

Once in a while, an opportunity presents itself to spend a few hours in the company of someone inspiring. For ...

By Stephen Beresford and Anna Burchfiel, PhD candidates and members of ECRG In July 2024, we were lucky enough, alongside ...

On 28 June 2024, UWE Bristol hosted the third annual South West Anti-Racist Education Forum (SWAREF), an event organised in ...

Doctorate in Education (EdD) student Ronnie Houselander reflects on her experience of presenting at the recent Education and Childhood Postgraduate ...

Tuesday 4th June 2024 - 4:30pm-5:30pm // free and online // Eventbrite registration required for non-UWE colleagues By Malcolm Richards ...

By Dr Verity Jones (verity6.jones@uwe.ac.uk) On the afternoon of 25 April 2024, just as children piled out of school, the ...

Tuesday 19th March 2024 - 4:15pm-5:30pm // free and online // Eventbrite registration required for non-UWE colleagues By Malcolm Richards ...

By Dr Tim Clark, ECRG Strand Leader as featured on the SRHE News Blog All doctoral students in the UK ...

By Will Grant - Associate Director of Postgraduate Study in the School of Arts, UWE Bristol. Linked closely with the ...

By Malcolm Richards – Senior Lecturer in Education, School of Education and Childhood Tuesday 30 January 2024 – 4:30pm-5:30pm // free and ...

The project – now officially branded as ‘Lit. Legacies’ – has come a long way since my last blog post ...

About Suzannah Harniman Until around 10 years ago, I was employed as a Registered Veterinary Nurse in a veterinary hospital ...

By Terra Glowach (UWE Bristol), Malcolm Richards (UWE Bristol), and Rafael Mitchell (University of Bristol) - as published by The ...

As Autumn stretches across the UK, many trees, once green and vibrant, now begin to turn into a kaleidoscope of ...

On Tuesday 7th November 2023, the Pedagogy Strand of the ECRG hosted a launch event for a new book by ...

Tuesday 12 December 2023 - 4:30pm-5:30pm // free and online // Eventbrite registration required for non-UWE colleagues An exciting collaboration ...

Dr Ben Knight - ECRG Pedagogy Strand Leader On Monday 5th June 2023, Dr Mark Hardman of UCL and Dr Lindsay ...

Malcolm Richards, Senior Lecturer in Education, Malcolm.Richards@uwe.ac.uk Black studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study ...

Laura Sheerman, EdD Student, Laura2.Sheerman@live.uwe.ac.uk In the realm of academia, the pursuit of knowledge is a ceaseless journey, with scholars ...

Associate Professor of Education, Verity Jones, announces new project - Education in Primary Schools: climate and craft (EPICC) Verity Jones, ...

Ms Terra Glowach, Terra.Glowach@uwe.ac.uk. On Friday 23 June, the South-West Anti Racist Education Forum (SWAREF) 2023 was hosted with the ...

Amy Saleh, Amy.Saleh@uwe.ac.uk In 2020, the absence of Black writers from GCSE English Literature set text lists was widely acknowledged ...

Dr Ben Knight, Benjamin3.Knight@uwe.ac.uk Dr Ben Knight, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education & Childhood has a new book ...

Mr Malcolm Richards, Malcolm.Richards@uwe.ac.uk. Equity in Education 2023 seeks to build on recent ECRG events and highlight the outstanding research ...

Dr Verity Jones, verity6.jones@uwe.ac.uk Sparks have been flying the last few months with some electrifying leaps in sustainable education in ...

What is a doctoral thesis in education? Dr Tim Clark (UWE Bristol) and Professor Tom Dobson (York St John University) ...

Dr Tim Clark, Tim.Clark@uwe.ac.uk and Rita Buehring. In this blog post we learn from, and about, Rita Buehring, a 2022 ...

Dr Ben Knight, Benjamin3.Knight@uwe.ac.uk. Architecture Media & Politics Society (AMPS) annual conference, Toronto, Canada. 26th-28th April 2023. Last month I ...

Education and Childhood Research Group (ECRG), School of Education and Childhood, College of Health, Science and Society, UWE Bristol In ...

In this article Katrina Diamond, a Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood at UWE, writes about an evidence-based mindfulness intervention, ...

In this blog Dr Tim Clark, Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood at UWE discusses his research which focuses on ...

Fay Lewis, Amanda Wilkinson and Marcus Witt, all Senior Lecturers in the Department of Education and Childhood at UWE Bristol ...

This article is a guest blog from Louise Couceiro, a PhD Researcher at the University of Glasgow. Louise's research explores ...

In this article, Dr Alexandra Morfaki, Nursery Manager at The Students' Union at UWE, discusses her doctoral research which focused ...

In Mental Health Awareness week, Dr Verity Jones, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Childhood at UWE Bristol ...

Dr Sarah Chicken Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Education at UWE marks Neurodiversity Celebration Week (15-21 March 2021) by taking ...

Dr Fay Lewis, Programme Leader MA - Education in the Department of Education and Childhood at UWE Bristol, describes how ...

Despite the pandemic, approximately sixty primary schools, took part in an engineering challenge as part of British Science week supporting ...

Over the last few years we have watched the sound of young people’s voices get louder in response to global ...

Recently The Guardian reported on how some universities are ‘bowing’ to student pressure and including classes on climate throughout all ...

Education Research from UWE reaches around the globe... In this article, Dr Smith draws on her doctoral research, carried out ...

“It is clear from the evidence we have collected that 1 June is simply too early to go back. By ...

Equality of learning in lockdown … In the seventh in a series of blog posts, Dr Verity Jones, Senior Lecturer ...

Dr Fay Lewis Programme Leader for the MA Education at UWE explores ways in which older teenagers can maintain a ...

Need a new book? In the sixth in a series of blog posts, Dr Verity Jones, Senior Lecturer in the ...

The closure of schools as a result of Covid 19 has led to many parents and carers having to take ...

Planning for the post virus world… In the fifth in a series of blog posts, Dr Verity Jones, Senior Lecturer ...

The problem of unfairness in the education system is now unavoidable. Labour must initiate a comprehensive review of the role ...

Talking about values and developing heroes while at home. In the fourth in a series of blog posts, Dr Verity ...

How do we help our children keep well during lock down? In the third in a series of blog posts, ...

With all UK schools closed until further notice, except for the children of key workers and children who have been ...

How do we maintain home learners' focus? In this second in a series of blog posts, Dr Verity Jones, Senior ...

A focus on domestic violence. During Coronavirus (Covid19) UWE continues to support students to create an inclusive campus where diversity ...

How do we encourage continuing engagement with learning when schools and colleges are shut? In this first in a series ...

The Department of Education and Childhood is very pleased to celebrate the doctoral success of Dr Jane Carter, Dr Juliet ...

The field of autism and technology, or put another way technology used to help support autistic groups and individuals, is ...

Late last year, when Education Secretary Damian Hinds told universities and schools in the north-east of England that they had ...

Cost - £30 To make a booking visit our CPD online booking system at http://cpd.sgsts.org.uk and quote conference ref number ...

UWE Bristol is taking a pro-active action and working collaboratively with students, UWE Student Union, staff and the city of ...

Let’s get to know some of the people in the Department of Education and Childhood, ACE Faculty a little better ...

Primary Schools are excellent places for child development, learning and socialisation, but unfortunately can also be hubs for bullying, social ...

The Department of Education and Childhood, Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE), is pleased to have Dr Jessica Gagnon ...

The Department of Education and Childhood Presents: The Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) Project Zulu Research Seminar 2nd ...

Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) invites you to a lunchtime seminar on Monday, 4th March 2019 — 12noon-1pm ...

The Education Research Network (ERNie) has forthcoming interesting and varied events that will be of interest. They include talks, discussions, ...

For most of us, a visit to the museum is a chance to relax, to learn interesting stories from our ...

‘Digital transformation Machine’ . Photo by Flickr ID Bryan Mathers (CC) Published in Bourdieu, Civil Society, Critical pedagogy, Culture, Latest Posts, Theory by Cristina Costa on January 24, 2019 ...

Tuesday 27th November 2018 was the culmination of over four years of work – the awarding of my Education Doctorate ...

BRIDGE is pleased to invite you to the Paired Peers Twilight event. This event is on 14 Feb, 16:30-18:30, Room 2S704, Frenchay ...

The Department of Education and Childhood, Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) invites you to this seminar on 21st ...

This post was originally published on The British Educational Research Association on 18 December, 2018. ‘Aspirations’ are a wonderfully simple ...

Changing a life is easy. Start by watching this short film. Changing a life is as simple as sharing a ...

Bristol Inter-disciplinary Group for Education Research (BRIDGE) invites you to a lunchtime seminar on 13 December, 12-1pm, Room 2S601. Our ...

I recently delivered some lectures to PGCE Secondary Students in the Department of education and Childhood at UWE, regarding recent ...

Encouraging disadvantaged young people to participate in higher education has been a priority for successive governments over the last 20 ...

What’s the project about? Dr Jane Andrews and Dr Maryam Almohammad at the University of the West of England, Bristol ...

University of the West of England (UWE) December 4th 2018 The aim of the conference is to bring together leading researchers from ...

Children as Engineers, a collaboration between the UWE Bristol Department of Education and Childhood and Department of Engineering, Design and ...

How much do you value science? That will depend on your “science capital”, that is, how much science you’ve been ...

Since January 2018, we have been exploring the experiences of ‘Estranged Students’ in Higher Education and this week we presented ...

Violence prevention in a Global and Multi-cultural context: UK, US and Kenya perspectives. Sexual violence has been in the spotlight ...

I am the mother of three small children and a research fellow based in the North West of England. My ...

Over the past decade, apprenticeship policy has changed dramatically; with an increase in participation and an expansion in opportunities at ...

Book Launch  Evaluating Equity & Widening Participation in Higher Education 18 September 2018 from 4.30 - 6.00 University of Bath ...

International gender and sexual violence prevention researchers: Dr Helen Bovill, Professor Victoria Banyard, Dr Sarah McMahon, and Dr Katie Edwards ...

Mark Jones, Senior Lecturer in Geography Education at the Department of Education and Childhood, and Professor David Lambert (UCL, Institute of Education)  ...

Fashion Revolution follows the mantra: be curious, find out and do something. As I write this, we are at the ...

The University of the West of England Thursday 12th July 2018 Time Talks and Workshops  Room 8.45 am Registration, Tea/Coffee ...

 Richard Waller, Associate Professor of the Sociology of Education at the Department of Education and Childhood,  has just published a ...

There has long been a social policy concern about groups of young people who do not have ready access to ...

The death toll from Bangladesh's worst industrial accident has passed 1,000 as recovery teams continue to find more bodies in ...

EAL and Creativity – Using Arts-Based Methods for Supporting Learners of English as an Additional Language Thursday 12th July 2018 ...

In UK primary schools there are very few teachers who have any scientific qualifications above GCSE level.  Many also report ...

You may have heard the expression “never work with children or animals” and having been a primary school teacher and ...

After being invited to contribute to the Think Human Festival, organised by Professor Simon Kövesi, Laura Baldock and their colleagues ...