In Chapter 15, Parents as Partners: School Resilience and Cohesion Post-COVID-19, Erica Fae Thomson, Samantha Mullin, Emily Milne & Karen Robson view parents as key partners to create more equitable, inclusive, and accessible post-pandemic educational opportunities link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 14, Storying Black and Indigenous Communities’ Place/Land Relations in Educational Engagement and Advocacy, Dana Nickson, Shaneé Washington, Kiana Smith & Sefanit Habtom show offer more expansive and just conceptions of family and community engagement link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 13 Dear Black Parents: Critical Counter-Stories and Messy Conversations About the Relationship Between Black Parents and Schooling, Nana Adu-Poku, Racquel Brown, Nanette Broadbelt & Vidya Shah highlight the agency, advocacy, and efficacy of Black parents link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 12, Family PhotoVoice Project as a Catalyst for Transformative Parent Engagement in Teacher Education, Emma Chen challenges traditional, top-down models of parent involvement by fostering authentic, reciprocal partnerships between educators & families link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Welcome to the Jan 30 (10am ET/3pm GMT) online book launch of our volume The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education. Register here bit.ly/4qrzpfu University of Glasgow Centre for Transformative Change in Schools

In Chapter 11, Parenting Strategies of the Middle Classes in China’s Greater Bay Area: Outsourced Concerted Cultivation and International Schooling, Ewan Wright, Ying Ma & Zhuoran Li further develop the concept of “outsourced concerted cultivation” link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

In Chapter 10, The “Excluded Elite”? A Bourdieusian Study of Chinese Parent Engagement in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Internal Assessments, Xuechen Zhang, Hannah Soong & Guanglun Michael Mu look at the role of parents in assessment as a social space link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 9, Parentocracy in the Spotlight: A Qualitative Study on Parents’ Wish and Wealth in Shaping Students’ Private Tutoring Experience in Hong Kong, Yvette Leung & Nutsa Kobakhidze show growing sense of students’ agency in parents’ selection of tutoring link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 8, How Does Intergenerational Engagement in Early Years and Childcare, and School Settings Inform Children’s Perspectives of Older Generations? Penny Anderson highlights the role of grandparents in parent engagement link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 7, Reframing Gendered Parent Engagement: How Do We Promote Social Justice Within a Discourse Which Overburdens Mothers? Rachel Lehner-Mear calls for reframing parent engagement so that children are supported without overburdening mothers link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

In Chapter 6, Mothering Discourses, Parent Engagement and Social Injustice in Scottish Early Years Professions, Penny Anderson & Marie McQuade challenge how pressures to conform to “good mother” ideals reproduce inequality and social injustice link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @glasgow.ac.uk

A look at how Canadian unis did in the big international rankings this past year. Mostly, it's an extension of long-standing patterns: U of T holding at the top, UWat gaining ground, and most lower-ranked institutions steadily losing ground to intl competitors. higheredstrategy.com/2026-ranking...

I'm glad to share this new book chapter, written with one of my undergrads. Drawing on interviews during/after Covid lockdowns, we show that moms varied in how they approached remote learning, and that intensive approaches led to more burnout, leading to more interest in a return to in-person school

In Chapter 5, Kaitlyn Orick & Jessica Calarco show how mothers who adopt intensive parenting responded to educational challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @jessicacalarco.com

In Chapter 4, “We’re Going to Burn Out Like This”: Muslim Mothers and the Invisible Labour in Parent Engagement, Suma Din highlights how systemic biases in English schools create additional labour for Muslim mothers link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Very pleased to see this in print! Thanks to @max-antony-newman.bsky.social for shepherding through the process! @max-antony-newman.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In Chapter 3, Addressing Emotional Health While Protecting Status: Asian American and White Parents in Suburban America, Natasha Warikoo looks at how white, Chinese, and Indian parents in the same suburban town think about and attend to their teenage children’s emotional health lnkd.in/ehcm-6bm

In Chapter 2 Teacher Beliefs About Parents: Deficits, Disregard and Denial link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... Janet Goodall employs CRT to shed light on the normalization of deficit views of parents and calls for action towards non-assimilationist practices that are co-constructed with families

Happy to share that our volume The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education has now been published lnkd.in/eEMuDZ6H Immensely grateful to authors of 16 chapters for their excellent contribution and publishers for their swift work!

And actually--Comet Pizza was a page out of a playbook that started with daycare decades before. In 1983, a California mom accused her son's childcare provider of subjecting children to Satanic rituals--like flushing them down toilets into secret basements where they were then filmed for porn. 1/🧵

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few. Democrats must remember this — and act on it.

Now published… We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

Over the past couple of years, I’ve accepted that having imposter syndrome doesn’t serve anybody well. If you know what you’re doing, act like you know what you’re doing. We need the people with competence to pushback against the RFKs and Trumps of the world. No time for doubt.

Thank you Will Brehm very much for the opportunity to discuss our project on the educational experiences of immigrant students with post-Soviet backgrounds in Canadian high schools as part of FreshEd podcast freshedpodcast.com/niyozov-bahr...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗮𝗹𝘀 for #𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗥𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗧𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗲 "𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩". 17 - 21 August 2026. Submission deadline: 31 January 2026 https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2026-tampere/ecer-2026-call-for-proposals-network-calls#𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗥𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲#EduSci

Looking for thought-provoking videos to watch during the winter break? Do not miss our 5 parent engagement webinars of this semester at University of Glasgow lnkd.in/eN7mZxPA Moreover, we have 16 videos in our archive lnkd.in/ejgaTgFc

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

The UK has confirmed it will rejoin Erasmus. This matters enormously because Erasmus lets students experience other societies from the inside, shaping judgement and civic understanding in ways no domestic scheme can. Rejoining it restores openness at the heart of higher education

If you’re wondering what “unlearning” means or whether it is even a helpful concept in social justice or decolonial discourses, this article is for you 👇 #openaccess #timetounlearnunlearning @baal-lesj-sig.bsky.social

Thank you Will Brehm very much for the opportunity to discuss our project on the educational experiences of immigrant students with post-Soviet backgrounds in Canadian high schools as part of FreshEd podcast freshedpodcast.com/niyozov-bahr...

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

Sometimes it feels like I’m writing for the same 5 people (and I love all 5 of you guys so much) but this is pretty nice to see, especially for this piece.

Are you raising a #bilingual child? I’d love to hear about your experiences. Here’s a link to a questionnaire for parents: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/cardiff/pi... I’m also interested in the children’s and young people’s (aged 10-22) views! Message me for a link!

Following on from last week I have a few pointers for writing about your researcher positionality patthomson.net/2025/12/07/w...

Let's begin. Perhaps begin. Again. Before selecting a supervisor / advisor, writing a proposal or choosing a university, there is a first key stage in approaching a doctorate. This week's Post organizes ourselves - our self. Our family. Friends. Lives. Let's begin - #phdsky - youtu.be/yBYAITCQ6Jg

Looking for thought-provoking videos to watch during the winter break? Do not miss our 5 parent engagement webinars of this semester at University of Glasgow lnkd.in/eN7mZxPA Moreover, we have 16 videos in our archive lnkd.in/ejgaTgFc

Grant Opportunity!!! The Norwegian Helsinki Committee is currently accepting small grant applications (up to US$10k) for projects that will promote human rights and democracy in Central Asia. Applications can be submitted in English or Russian until December 31, 2025. mailchi.mp/6f1e472e495b...

CIES Europe and Central Asia SIG is inviting applications for our awards and volunteer opportunities (see below for details) mailchi.mp/6f1e472e495b...

Do not miss the recording of our last parent engagement webinar of the semester - Engaging with Parents as Partners in Early Learning with Melanie Lynchuk youtu.be/eDSjxnbSD9A

The recording of our November 20 webinar Teaching in Partnership: Building Strong Communities Through Parent Engagement with Shelbi McKinnon is now available online. Watch if interested in practical recommendations on what teachers can do in the classroom youtu.be/aXxbWPWo7kQ

Watch the recording of our November 13 parent engagement webinar with Hanna Barkova - Ukrainian Parents' Views on the Impact of War and Displacement on Their Parenting Styles in Scotland www.youtube.com/watch?v=avru...

The latest episode of The #Identities Podcast is now live! Episode 8: Beyond the Border: Poetics of Refuge and Critical Classroom Praxis With @hyabyohannes.bsky.social & @teresap.bsky.social, Chaired by @nasarmeer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/epi...#Identities @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social

If you missed our November 6 parent engagement webinar Building Generational Power through Family Civics with Joanna Geller and Wendy Y. Perez, Ph.D. from @metronyu.bsky.social you can now watch the video recording on our YouTube channel lnkd.in/ggFavpuP @centcs.bsky.social

Does Nigel realise that children can speak MORE than 1 language?? That bilingual learners often outperform monolingual peers? That 1 in 3 Glasgow children may also include those speaking Gaelic or other European languages, maybe like his own German wife?? Farage is not welcome here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We look forward to the next #CenTCS Seminar: Thurs 4 Dec, 10.30 -11.30 St Andrews Building Room 334 #DrVictoriaRawlings Transforming school cultures of gender and sexuality through co-research with teachers, students, and leaders. @profbriannakennedy.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/univer...

"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world" Call for papers! #EduSky @edusky.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...