Last night one of our academics, Dr Amber Fensham-Smith, appeared on BBC's The One Show to give to explain why more families are choosing to homeschool their children, and the potential benefits of doing so. 💡Learn more: wels.open.ac.uk/research/childrens-research-centre @ajfenshamsmith.bsky.social

One of our academics, Dr Amber Fensham-Smith will be appearing on tonight's episode of The One Show, discussing home schooling with presenter Angelica Bell 📚 You can watch Amber from 7pm and find out more about her research here: wels.open.ac.uk/research/chi... @ajfenshamsmith.bsky.social

Call for articles on children and youth engaged in paid employment while studying. For a special issue of the journal Work, Employment and Society. Papers are due by 27 February, 2026.

Join us for CRC Research Conversations; Giving up the 'Good Research Child'? Researcher's roundtable online event. Thursday 1st May 2025 15:00-16:30 BST Register for free via Eventbrite: bit.ly/4kWd4UK @childlawcentre.bsky.social @clpn.bsky.social @crecuk.bsky.social #childledresearch

Variety of researchers, educators & yp discussed: "It's plugging a gap"Fensham-Smith, co-director of the Open University's Children's Research Centre,"If your child is struggling with their mental health, you can't get an NHS referral and you want to keep them safe, what do you do?" #homeeducation

🔊 Call for papers! Join us for the @britsoci.bsky.social Presidential Event, in collaboration with the BSA Education Study Group. ⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2025 💬 Theme: The Future of the Sociology of Education 📅 Date: 6 June 2025 📍 Place: BSA Meeting Room, London 🔗 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Looking forward to visiting @uparisnanterre.bsky.social shortly to share and exchange- facilitating Photovoice with young people in #alternativeeducation photovox.sciencesconf.org/registration... #youthledresearch #Photovoice #ethicalreflections #participatoryactionresearch

Call for conference papers: "Through the generations: Youth, ageing, and African Studies collections" Abstracts due by 17 January, 2025. The conference will take place in June 2025 at the University of Oxford. scolma.org?p=3143

Join our webinar: Children's voices & experiences in sports & physical education. 🗓️Tuesday 3 December, 5pm (GMT). Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/webinar-ch... This is the kick-off for our "Children & Their Bodies" webinar series. Here's the full program: www.qmul.ac.uk/clpn/media/c...

Marking the 100th anniversary of the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child with some reflections on the child’s right to participation.

Our BERA case study considers the #ethicalissues when conducting #participatoryresearch with young people, the nuanced nature of participation preferences & #autonomy, #consent & #dissent in community research dissemination (Govaerts & Fensham-Smith, 2024) www.bera.ac.uk/publication/...

www.ft.com/content/364a... Rise in home education: a range of stakeholder voices, opportunities and challenges are represented in this piece. #homeeducation #educationotherwise #homeschooling #educationalternatives

Ever wonder why the Hungry caterpillar made a cocoon? The answer is here and its brilliant

Finally made a #Blackademics starter pack! Let continue to build community here. This is part of #Blacksky so please show your appreciation to the architect, @rudyfraser.com

Too early to mention that a copy of Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD might make a nice Christmas gift for a PhD student in your life? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Are you an educator, parent or young person interested or practicing home education? Head over to Open Learn Elective Home Education HUB: www.open.edu/openlearn/ed... free articles, short courses and resources 1/3 #homeeducation #alternativeeducation

Here’s a booklet I put together about creative methods I and collaborators have used in recent years - may be of interest for those researchers interested in creative methods simplysociology.wordpress.com/2024/09/25/n...

CfP: The Future of the Sociology of Education A BSA Presidential Event, in collaboration with the @britsoci.bsky.social Education Study Group 6 June 2025 (10:00-17:00) BSA Meeting Room, Imperial Wharf, London, UK Deadline for abstracts: 30 January www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

I’m back on here and giving it another go - great to see all the new people here sharing amazing stuff. Here’s a pic of my current view for a positive start - plenty of blue sky!

Delighted to have joined this rapidly growing platform, to make old and new connections, I'm a sociologist interested in alternative education, inequalities, youth transitions, creative pedagogy

Keep reading, keep downloading!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'If you’re an academic who is still using Twitter, I would gently suggest to you that it is time to let go. The platform will either fold, fade into irrelevance...or complete its evolution into the central engine of reactionary politics'. markcarrigan.net/2024/11/09/i...

It's been great to spend the morning sharing the work I've been doing over the past few years with neurodivergent students with colleagues from across the UK and Indonesia and hearing about neurodiversity in Indonesia.

Couple of highlights from the @suttontrust.bsky.social new report 'A Class Act: Social mobility and the creative industries' www.suttontrust.com/our-research... I'll focus on Higher Education (which @orianbrook.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I worked on)

Another fantastic Pedagogies of Hope session in our British Sociological Association Education study group series featuring Roberto Catello and Sharon Davidson