What are science identities, and why are they important? Here's my recent piece for Let's Talk Science, a charity who has been playing a role in young people's science identity across Canada for over 30 years letstalkscience.ca/news-media/d...

Pleased to see the Welsh Parliament's report on Teacher recruitment & retention Having researched *potential* teachers I especially support the recommendation to look at whether the costs of Initial Teacher Education bar entry into the profession for some laiddocuments.senedd.wales/cr-ld17778-e...

Wishing a happy new year to all from a beautiful and very snowy Québec ❄️

Interesting stat from today's release: more than half of physics trainees are now non-UK and non-EEA nationals. A remarkable shift from 6% of trainees in 2021 to 59% in 2025. Encouraged by the bursary eligibility change in 2022/23, but how many have gone on to state-sector employment?

'Teacher recruitment and retention are separate issues – they need tackling in different ways' My new article in @uk.theconversation.com is now out (1/5 🧵) theconversation.com/teacher-recr...

Great to see this new report from @theeef.bsky.social & @teachertapp.bsky.social adding to the evidence on teacher retention Teachers looking at adverts for new jobs valued the promise of more PPA time, smaller class sizes and healthcare offers educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/projects-and...

Good to see this analysis by Natasha Plaister @fftedudatalab.bsky.social showing consistent increases in the proportion of female students taking A-Level physics in the UK ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2025/10/has-...

Why do people enter and exit teaching? New analyses from @ambitioninstitute.bsky.social with @drsamsims.bsky.social report that professional development, flexible working and additional paid leave could be as valuable as pay rises for reducing teacher shortages www.ambition.org.uk/why-people-e...

*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?* I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching 🧵(1/11)

A great new paper out from Sophie Thompson-Lee & colleagues evidencing that financial incentives are not effective in recruiting more STEM teachers Teacher recruitment efforts need to focus on more than just 💰 stemeducationjournal.springeropen.com/articles/10....

Today marks my one year anniversary at @mcgill.ca ☀️

Love this piece on the impact of teachers on CBC News 🥰 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

📢 New @beranews.bsky.social blog out today, where I consider the impact of the idea that some teachers are 'born' to teach www.bera.ac.uk/blog/born-to...

Back home in Montréal after a fantastic time conferencing with my @eserasig5.bsky.social family 😍 ... And with a new obsession for Danish ice cream 🍧 @mariobarioberge.bsky.social @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social @allisongonsalves.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @emilysprowls.bsky.social

This week I'm in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 with wonderful McGill colleagues for the European Science Education Association conference #ESERA @eserasig5.bsky.social

Who Aspires to Become a Teacher? Findings from a Cohort Study Tracking Young People from Age 10/11 to Age 21/22 In this new paper we use survey data from the ASPIRES project to analyse teaching aspirations amongst young people in England (1/4 🧵) www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...

Hi SEEDS family! We are organizing a social meetup at ESERA for SEEDS members on 8.28. It will be a chance to chat and connect with other comrades and gente simpatica. We hope to see you there. For more info and to register login to your SEEDs account: seeds4equity.org/Sys/Login?Re...

Great to see this report out from the first RCT I worked on with colleagues @randeurope.org & @theeef.bsky.social We report on the impact of The ONE, a 12 week professional development programme for early years practitioners in England d2tic4wvo1iusb.cloudfront.net/production/d...

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Great to see this new report from @jackworth.bsky.social and colleagues on the ethnic disparities in England's teacher workforce. www.nfer.ac.uk/publications...

Are you presenting at the ESERA conference this August? Would you rather not be scrambling to finish your presentation the night before? Do you enjoy working with supportive colleagues—and being one yourself?

Very pleased to have a new chapter out with the wonderful @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social This is a kind of 'intro to' identity research in science education, including the story of @eserasig5.bsky.social so far If you can't access but want to read please reach out! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

UKRI-funded PhD students 🪧 The call for @ukri.org policy internships is now open. I got a secondment to the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Education Committee during my PhD thanks to this funding, and it was so valuable! www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Thank you to everyone who came to our @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca talk today 'Do science teachers count as scientists?' A full house and fruitful discussion!

Excited to be in sunny Toronto for @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca this week

A year since this happened! 🎓

PhD students in science education - Apply to be the next Board Member for the European Science Education Research Association! www.esera.org/esera-board-...

Really pleased to see this out in the world today! Our review with @randeurope.org identifying what needs to change to empower more education settings to reduce violence in England & Wales, with @youthendowmentfund.org.uk youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/educ... 🧵 (1/9)

Science identity researchers 📣 ESERA's SIG5 is hosting an online meet-and-greet with scholars from the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education on 13th May (time: 4pm CET / 10am EDT) All welcome - please share with colleagues and students who may be interested. Register below ⬇️

Montréal/Québec weather is wild

Old growth forests in eastern Canada show that the climate started changing almost 100 years ago

For my #AERA25 people, make sure you check out these #BlackepiSTEMologies sessions! There will be a lot of great information and insight shared!

🔈Science identity researchers 🔈Join us on 29th April to discuss Lulu Garah and Shulamit Kapon's article 'The reification of identity narratives in teacher–student discourse during an inquiry project' We will discuss in small groups & with the authors 11am EDT / 5pm CEST

Pourquoi le métier d'enseignant, qui est l'un des plus importants pour la société et l'un des plus gratifiants pour celles et ceux qui l'exercent, est-il désormais massivement déserté (grave pénurie de candidats, démissions en hausse) ? Un fil. 1/

The Science Teaching Survey closes 7 April! Have we heard from you yet? Science education needs to change – and as someone who works in education, your perspective matters more than anyone’s. Take part in the survey: buff.ly/FaqBZBb #ChemSky #SciTeachUK

I have a new #openaccess paper out on the discourse of teaching as a 'vocation' or 'calling'. You can read it here, but here’s a summary bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵(1/7)

Great to see that the Children, Young People and Education Committee of @senedd.wales is conducting an inquiry into teacher shortages in Wales. I look forward to seeing the evidence and how it's used to support Welsh schools and ITE providers. Deadline 6th June business.senedd.wales/mgConsultati...

Merci beaucoup à ma collègue Prof Jrène Rham et ses étudiants.es à #universitédemontréal pour l'opportunité de présenter mes recherches en français ce soir! If you had told the old high school French teacher me that I would be presenting my research in French one day I would not have believed it!

When people back in the UK ask me what the spring weather is like in Montréal 🤯

Now that we're *here* I want to re-share my PhD research 👩🏼‍🎓 You can read it here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... but it’s actually really long so here is a summary in case you don’t have time to read all 100,000 words 🧵(1/13)

This looks really useful event for early career researchers in education ⬇️ @aeraedresearch.bsky.social is hosting a free webinar on publishing research on globally pressing educational issues and how to submit manuscripts to their academic journal AERJ. Sign up here: aera.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Life in Montréal after 70cm of snow in the last four days ❄️

We’re hosting an ECR workshop with Michele Lamont on April 2nd at LSE. The workshop will draw on Lamont's recent research in comparative qualitative sociology and provide a forum for ECR qual researchers to come together. A few places still available, see here on how to attend: buff.ly/3EEwxZn

🥳The wonderful @teachertoolkit.bsky.social has written a fantastic summary of my research, on why some people become teachers and (importantly!) why others do not. Read it here - www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2025/02/06/o...

Appreciation post for the Academic Phrasebank from @official-uom.bsky.social I've been doing lots of writing recently and this has been such a useful tool in my Bookmarks tab - highly recommend for anyone writing a journal paper, thesis, dissertation etc. in English www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk

A great piece from @acs.org highlighting that it's no longer just the UK facing dire science teacher shortages, with contributions from @roysocchem.bsky.social, who co-funded my doctoral research in this area pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu @ucllifesciences.bsky.social, Professor Alison Fuller and Professor Louise Archer @ioe.bsky.social for being recognised in the King's New Year Honours 2025! www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/de...

Come work with @alinecourtois.bsky.social @rachelbrooks.bsky.social & myself on a new Open Research Area project, ‘Virtual Mobilities of International Students: towards a new model for the internationalisation of higher education?' www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... Deadline: 5 Jan 2025 Pls repost!

This Special Issue Call focuses on 'Bourdieu and intersectionality'-- see the details, share the call, and send your abstracts!

🙌 If you have an interest in schools policy, then you'll love our podcast series looking back on the past 10 years of education reform All our episodes are on this link schoolsweek.co.uk/the-schools-...