new article in British Educational Research Journal: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... we ran focus groups with 42 teacher educators in England, showing how recent teacher education policy reforms are a system of administrative compliance which governs through fear and control.

In conversation with Shon Faye. Premiering now: 👇🏼 youtu.be/3qkAGseHe3I?...

Couldn't agree with this more except the word 'unfortunately' - I think it's the best possible outcome right now. Union leadership needs to listen! There are lots of people making excellent points about why this wasn't going to work and they weren't being heard because the only option is STRIKE.

@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

President Catherine Connolly’s inaugural speech. “As I speak, I am acutely conscious of the 165 million people currently forcibly displaced from their homes and countries due to war, famine and climate change. We cannot turn back the clock nor close our eyes to these realities.”

Don't ask me to explain but Dublin, Belfast and Cork are all autumn cities but Galway is a summer city.

Last week on Wonkhe: Former Teaching Excellence Framework chair Chris Husbands and deputy chair Janice Kay unpick the Office for Students’ proposals for the future shape of the exercise

Irish Educational Studies is seeking to fill 2 co-editor positions. The new Co-editors will work alongside the editorial team of the journal, lead by General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan. Check out further details here: esai.ie/irish-educat... Deadline: 5pm, Fri 12th September 2025.

Wonderful to see this paper published! "Knowledge of autism and attitudes towards inclusive education for autistic pupils: a representative survey of school communities in Ireland." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I've signed up for online Irish language classes next semester! Looking forward to becoming a student again!

Artists were the canary in the coalmine

Alice Sullivan’s latest government-funded report into sex and gender research is a masterclass in trying to turn anti-trans perpetrators into victims. /1 www.sullivanreview.uk/barriers.pdf

NEW on Wonkhe: Academics are encouraged to be innovative in their pedagogy but Emma Thirkell and Kamilya Suleymenova argue that insufficient attention is paid to academic identity buff.ly/yBVu3qp

Veli-Mikko Kauppi and I recently edited a special issue of Ethics & Education, focused on the work of early career researchers. Check out our editorial introduction here: Education for a better future? Theory, practice, and social justice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm looking forward to present some of my research on queer thriving in Catholic schools at the Phillippine Society of Education and Philosophy next week! Tues 6th May, 10.30am BST.

Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminism. Wrote about the Gender Brexiteers.

NEW on Wonkhe: Nikolai Elkins notes that gay men consistently outperform their peers – and urges policymakers to adopt more nuanced, intersectional approaches to attainment buff.ly/KTLNUJd

This makes me laugh every year 🤣

The longer I live in Liverpool, the more like home it becomes. Easter clothes were also a thing for me growing up ... www.bbc.com/news/article...

They're not "protecting women". They're little servants of patriarchy and fascism that think they've a right to harass and attack anyone who doesn't fit their narrow, conservative view of womanhood and are delusional if they think the same gowls they're doing the legwork for won't come for them next

Categories used by the state to sort people into boxes are never neutral. Some thoughts on the UK Supreme Court case ruling and the wider anti-trans campaign to narrow sex and gender categories in policy, data and law. 📝 kevinguyan.com/2025/04/16/t...

Wonderful to be part of another annual meeting of @esai-irl.bsky.social last week! Highlights included IES updates from our General Editor, Prof. Audrey Bryan, as well as the IES/Taylor & Francis conference reception 🥂 Until next year! #esai25

Fascinating: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Pleased to have won a @culhamstgabriel.bsky.social grant with my colleague, Dr Francis Farrell. "Teaching through division" will engage with teachers, young people, and faith & community leaders to develop strategies for exploring pluralism and difference in religions & worldviews education.

Looking forward to attend #BERA2025 later this year. My colleague Carol Darbyshire and I will present our paper: "Re-experiencing the everyday: Provisional possibilities for undergraduate education studies." 🥳

Looking forward to speak about faith and LGBTQI+ identities at ShoutOut's "Faithfully Queer" event in Dublin today! www.eventbrite.com/e/faith-and-...

Get in touch if you'd like a book reviewed with IES!

academic.oup.com/jope/advance... Iris Bliss and I wrote this response to a paper that we didn’t think was very fair to trans activism a while ago. It feels like an important stand to have taken and I’m glad it’s finally available.

NEW EPISODE - Let’s Talk Education Research Audrey Bryan (@schoolhumandev.bsky.social) talks all things @iesjournal.bsky.social - from readership & scope of the journal, to advice on publishing. On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and @dcuioe.bsky.social website tinyurl.com/d4rz7jjn @dcuresearch.bsky.social

employers often complain about this to universities and: tough shit! don't whine that you can't be bothered to train your workers! do your job!

Check out this fully funded PhD opportunity on the experiences/exit of LGBTQ+ people in/from religious traditions, working alongside Prof Chris Greenough and me: www.edgehill.ac.uk/departments/...

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ english.elpais.com/culture/2024...

I'm delighted to share this new publication which is the editorial introduction to a special issue: "Mobilising Queer Joy: Establishing Queer Joy Studies." Please share (the joy) and help us spread word of this new area of study. @queerjoylab.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Could never marry an Englishman. Too many communication difficulties. Him repeatedly asking for pudding after dinner, me presenting him each time with a tube of congealed pig blood, both of us angrily weeping

The director of AHI @annahm.bsky.social is giving this talk tomorrow. All welcome! #maynooth #disability #cripstudies #criptime

📢 5th Doctoral Conference | June 15-18, 2025 Centre for Public Education and Pedagogy at Maynooth University is announcing its Fifth Doctoral Conference. 🔍 We invite research submissions exploring the public dimension of education in all contexts and frameworks. More info: lnkd.in/gkJ7-5ah

Guys think women want a muscular, macho, wealthy man, but that's not true. Women just want a man who's kind and funny and clearly communicates his affection and is interested in her life and helped orchestrate the Dublin Lock-Out and is socialist 1916 Rising leader James Connolly

A nice way to wrap up the week on BA Education at Edge Hill: a trip to the Manchester Art Gallery and Manchester Museum!

Wonderful to have visitors from Sandfield Park School with us at Edge Hill today to discuss their work as part of BA Education's integrated study week 😊

A day trip to Bath last weekend was fun!