Today is International Day of Education. A day to celebrate educators and the power of education. #Teaching #Teachers #Education

The new BERA publication, Guide to Practitioner Research: Developing Professional Knowledge in Educational Research and Practice, is another essential for #furtereducation practitioners interested in research & professional practice. Awesome ed. team and chapter writers. @drjoycechen.bsky.social

My inaugural lecture is now online 🥰 media.ed.ac.uk/media/Profes... #sociophonetics #sociolinguistics #linguistics #phonetics #semiotics #Peirce #indexicality #social #meaning #research #academic #academia #lecture #Arizona #SanFrancisco #Gaelic #Gàidhlig #Scots #English #professor #babyphotos

We have just confirmed the date of the March @scrcm.bsky.social webinar. I will be presenting ideas from the forthcoming 2nd edition of Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach. Join us on Tues 17 March, 4-5.30. Sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

🏆 Recognise exceptional teaching expertise! Fellowship is an opportunity to amplify influence, collaborate with committed professionals, and shape educational policy. Know someone who deserves this recognition? Deadline: 5th February Nominate now: https://chartered.pulse.ly/j6rnbofmpy

Welcome back! We hope you had a restful break & are ready to dig back in. This busy January we have sessions exploring new resources, a bitesize lesson plan for Burns Night, & more! You can find our CLPL offer for January & beyond on Signposts: www.signpostsglobalcitizenship.org/current-clpl-offer

Just published: "Out of ‘Giám thị’ ‘heroic teachers’ will rise: pain, performance and pride while doing primary school ‘tests’ in Vietnam" by Thanh Nguyen, based on ethnographic fieldwork for his PhD project doi.org/10.1080/1745... Congratulations, Thanh! #TEAMStirling @scrcm.bsky.social

🎉 Ready for something new in 2026? Become a Young Advisor (ages 12–16) & work with the Commissioner to help make sure children’s voices are heard across Scotland. ✨ Learn new skills ✨ All backgrounds & accessibility needs welcome ✨ Make a difference Apply: bit.ly/4p2tz2r

✨️ Starting the new year with a new article by Dr Ben Matthews and colleagues: 'Understanding changing patterns of placement type stability in the first two years of placement for looked after children in Scotland: A sequence analysis' #children #CareExperience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The CfPs for LavLang32 at Edinburgh is now OPEN! A reminder of our stellar lineup: • Dr. Nikki Lane (Duke) • Dr. Kevin Guyan (UoE) • Prof. Erez Levon (Bern) • Dr. Stamatina Katsiveli (American College of Greece) • Dr. Eddie Ungless (UoE) Submit a paper here: lavlang32.ppls.ed.ac.uk?page_id=231

I love a bit of literary tourism - visiting places I know from stories in books and films. So what a joy it was to talk to Lee Jackson about #Dickensland! Join us for the start of the new season of #LifeandLanguage @victorianlondon.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0aB3...

Today is the final day to send us your abstracts! You have until midnight (UK time)! 😁 Here is the submission link: forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

We're delighted to announce 15 fully funded scholarships for English teachers from Bangladesh, India & Sri Lanka to join our MSc TESOL (Online) in Sept 2026, including a 2-week visit to Stirling! Funded by @britishcouncil.bsky.social. Further details: www.stir.ac.uk/scholarships... #TeamStirling

We're excited to re-launch the journal "Innovations in Linguistics Education", a forum for evidence-based research in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in linguistics! We open for submissions in January 2026. journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations/

An exciting development. Great to see it based in Scotland - maybe of interest to @langsocscot.bsky.social folks? 😊

We are happy to announce our Pre-Conference Event 2026: Teaching the Teachers: Innovation and Challenges in ESOL Pedagogy and Teacher Development Join us in Brighton on 20 April 2026! 👉 Register now: tdsig.org/pce #pce #brighton2026 #iatefl2026 #teacherdevelopment

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Recently qualified primary teacher or student primary teacher? Our online #ECT Signpost Sessions are for you! They offer advice on supporting multilingual pupils, teaching additional #languages and the chance to network. Sign up for our session on 28 Jan! https://loom.ly/HpIN0Uw

Leave notes, play games, go shopping: how to boost your child’s multilingual skills these holidays

If you'd like to offer learners a language qualification in #Mandarin but your department hasn't the capacity we can help! Our Discovering China online classes prepare learners in Scotland for National Qualifications. Register interest for 2026-27 now! https://loom.ly/6RAuz5U

So happy to say our book is now published! Working with the amazing editorial team has been a privilege, including @abihackett.bsky.social, @davidbenshannon.bsky.social, Vishnu Kkn, Christina MacRae, Rachel Holmes, @khawlabadwan.bsky.social, Rosie Flewitt and @wardasworld.bsky.social. Thanks all! 🌸

Making teaching an attractive profession: What are the challenges and opportunities for minority ethnic teachers in England? - Tereshchenko - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/be…

Book Review opportunity - Calling all PGRs and ECRS! Our Book Reviews Editor is looking for a researcher to write a 500 word book review for our journal, 'History of Education Researcher'. Interested? Check out our news article on this: historyofeducation.org.uk/bookreview20... #histed #edusky

Our next Language Ambassadors session is on 23 January. Join us online where your secondary learners will hear from near-peer role models and be inspired to choose #languages as part of their learning! https://loom.ly/WTS0ups

Check out Viola's book on surveillance discourses - it is the latest addition to the Corpus and Discourse series, and I highly recommend it!

Just submitted the final proofs for this book 😱 It's available to pre-order for March delivery if anyone is interested or wants to order it for a library ☺️ (Honestly had mixed feelings about not wanting to "let it go" but am also so ready to be done with it 🫣) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/exploring...

Join us for this free SDG series seminar discussing Carbon Colonialism with Dr Laurie Parsons. We will discuss how rich countries export environmental impact to poorer ones. ✔️ Discussion with Laurie ✔️ Global Citizenship resources and activities to explore the topic with learners buff.ly/xU8CGlh

Accussì se fa. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Way to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This new LOTM Starter Pack is slowly starting to grow. It takes some time and searching, but today, the latest additions are people who have been interviewed for the @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast. Key takeaways: there are quite a few episodes and only some are on Bluesky, but they include:

@christianilbury.bsky.social is another recent addition to the Starter Pack, and joined @brynnquick.bsky.social for an interview earlier this year to discuss his new book, Researching Language and Digital Communication: A Student Guide. A great discussion! www.languageonthemove.com/researching-...

Great to host this event! Really interesting interdisciplinary discussions on 'language and AI'. Keep an eye out for the details of our next @langsocscot.bsky.social meeting!

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the University of Edinburgh on Friday for lively discussions on the linguistic, economic and social dynamics of AI. Planning will begin for our next event before too long, so please tag or message us with ideas for your preferred topic or location!

@scrcm.bsky.social is delighted to welcome colleagues from the University of Glasgow to talk about their Camau i’r Dyfodol (Steps to the Future) curriculum and assessment project. Sign up now for this free webinar on Wednesday 18 February 2026, 4:00-5:30pm www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

Still tickets left for this free event - next Monday

We are delighted to host an important event at SCRCM - Educators’ Sense-Making of the Evolving Mathematics Curriculum in Scotland. Wed 20 May 2026 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM in Stirling Led by Sinem Hizli Alkan, Corinne Angier and Andy Brown Sign up at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

We did it! @drmaureenkmichael.bsky.social @rushtondr.bsky.social @stir.ac.uk

Workshop Hosts: Prof. Dr. Lizzie Rushton @rushtondr.bsky.social Dr. Viola Wiegand violawiegand.bsky.social Dr. Adnan Yilmaz from @stir.ac.uk and Prof. Dr. Anne Baron Onur Çiçek from @leuphana.bsky.social. 2/2

We really enjoyed today’s workshop, meeting our @leuphana.bsky.social collaborators & discussing diverse perspectives on sustainability with participants at our world cafe stations in the second half! Many thanks to @ecas-academia.org and @royalsoced.bsky.social making bringing us all together

Workshop 5 "Exploring the Nexus of Social Justice, Intercultural Communication, and Sustainability: Perspectives from Lower Saxony and Scotland" highlighted that students "are not the consumer of the knowledge some researcher produced for [them], but are also the researchers [themselves]." 1/2

And later, the next Language & Society Scotland (LASS) meeting on Language and AI: lasscotland.wordpress.com/events/ Looking forward to hearing about the amazing work being done on these topics.

Our @stirtesol.bsky.social & @leuphana.bsky.social workshop on social justice, intercultural communication and sustainability at the @royalsoced.bsky.social & @ecas-academia.org #Jointforum2025 has just kicked off 😊

Sign up for our December @scrcm.bsky.social free webinar - Alma Harris, Alan Gorman and Romina Madrid discuss their research on 'System Leadership Across Three Nations: Insights from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales'. Mon 8 Dec 2025 ,4:00-5:30pm More details at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

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Happy to share my new publication, co-authored with Prof @rushtondr.bsky.social 🤗👏🏻 It is open access, feel free to share it www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The next @scrcm.bsky.social webinar features @rushtondr.bsky.social - What kind of Climate Change and Sustainability Education do we need in complex times? Monday 24 Nov, 4-5.30pm. Sign up for this free event at www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...

I really like the title of this session focuses on #ClimateJustice and not climate change. We're way beyond just climate change now. We have to be honest about who is causing the problem and who is suffering and why. Sign up 👇🏽

For everything #equality #SocialJustice #GlobalCitizenship #Antiracism and #ScottishEducation, check out my linktr.ee/nuthmani

📅 Joint Forum 2025 – Day 2 🏛️ @royalsoced.bsky.social | 27–28 Nov Workshop 2: Educating for Responsible AI brings cross-cultural insights on AI ethics & literacy from UK, EU & beyond 🌍. #JointForum2025 #AILiteracy #EthicalAI #BuildingNewPartnerships #GeoAIEducation

📅 Joint Forum 2025 – Day 2 🏛️ Royal Society of Edinburgh | 27–28 Nov Workshop 5: Social Justice, Intercultural Communication & Sustainability unites voices from Scotland and Lower Saxony to co-create equitable, global solutions 🌍 Register free 👉 conftool.net/joint-forum-2025 #BuildingNewPartnerships

Join our own @adnanyilmaz.bsky.social and his international team online on Tuesday 18 November to hear all about their @britishcouncil.bsky.social ELTRA project @uofgtesol.bsky.social