Dr Amanda Nuttall

I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.

Ever run researcher development sessions and noted a gender disparity? Our paper on this topic, simmering away since 2024, is out! Our fearless leader + heaviest lifter on this work is undeniably @drmeagantyler.bsky.social.

* insert 'We're not worthy' meme *

Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰

BERA Research Methodologies SIG & Social Justice SIG Blog Special Series Thank you to participants at BERA 2025 Conference at University of Sussex! We really enjoyed the energy and enthusiasm of delegates and presenters at our joint SIG workshop Beyond 'happily ever after...

📰BERA Research Methodologies SIG newsletter
Loved connecting with members at #BERA2025
Thanks to all who joined our workshop ❤️
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Reflecting on an inspiring time at the @ncrm.ac.uk Improvising Methods Forum
🧵Stitching together ideas or engaging with stillness amongst among the trees, every moment sparked new ways of thinking
💬 A real highlight was meeting new colleagues and collaborators who made the experience truly special

Aries: If you had a chance to do it all over again, you’d make the same fucked up choices.

Family of swans gliding on the canal in the sunshine

Stopped to capture the majestic beauty of this family scene. Not because I was about to die at 4km 🥵
#menopauserunners #10ktraining #leedsabbeydash

Friday.

BERA Research Methodologies SIG & Social Justice SIG Blog Special Series Thank you to participants at BERA 2025 Conference at University of Sussex! We really enjoyed the energy and enthusiasm of delegates and presenters at our joint SIG workshop Beyond 'happily ever after...

📰BERA Research Methodologies SIG newsletter
Loved connecting with members at #BERA2025
Thanks to all who joined our workshop ❤️
Contribute to our BERA Blog Special Issue proposal! Submit by Dec 15👉 forms.gle/poLnkRWtRpUf...
🗓️Check your inbox for more events & opportunities @erinearly.bsky.social

Philosophy of Education This textbook provides an introductory account of the philosophy of education, focussing on the questions raised by educational policy and practice.

Exciting news! Our textbook, Philosophy of Education, has been published with Palgrave!!

This is a contemporary, up-to-date, not old, male & stale introduction to our field.

Please spread the word & order the book for your library!
#philsky #academicsky

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing Despite the growing emphasis on research productivity and project development within academic institutions worldwide, the concept of academic wellbeing remains relatively underexplored. This study ...

Our new paper in Higher Education Research & Development! 🎉 “Between the pages: a qualitative inquiry into researcher wellbeing”

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We explore the lived experiences of researcher wellbeing. @herdjournal.bsky.social

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bookes are freakinge awesome

I can get behind this movement! And it's time soup got called out for masquerading as a meal. It's just a chewy drink that's too wet to be food.

How can research and initial teacher education institutions support research use? How can research and initial teacher education institutions become active drivers of evidence-informed policy and practice? Drawing on new data from the OECD’s 2023 Survey of Knowledge Mobilisation an...

How can research and initial teacher education institutions support research use?

New report just landed from the OECD.

#EducationalResearch

www.oecd.org/en/publicati...

*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

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I'm feeling very forswunk this week. Slightly concerned as it's only September and there's another 10 months of the academic year to go 🙈

Finding ways to make Bluesky work for me 🦦🦦🦦

Early morning sun on the canal, green trees, golden field, swans gliding on the water.

Reward for getting up and out early this morning 😍
#run #menorunner #10ktraining

Might have mildly dislocated my neck nodding along with everything! Love both the critical response to the avalanche of SSP in the reading curriculum and a call to action for more nuanced approaches and prioritising motivational and mattering.

Next up we have the inspiring, education rock star God (determined by @draimeequicks.bsky.social), @domwyse.bsky.social

I just wish my students looked at me with such love as they look at @hywelroberts.bsky.social 😂

An exciting morning of cross-phase teacher learning for primary and secondary ITE at @leedstrinity.bsky.social organised by the fabulous @aligriff.bsky.social and Jo Hopton. Staring with inspirational botheredness from @hywelroberts.bsky.social

This is great news 👏

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Education reform deserves language that reflects its complexity. When policy borrows corporate vocabulary, we risk reducing teaching to a transaction rather than a deeply human, transformative process, says Dr O'Donnell. #ECER2025 #EduSci...

Loved this session! It was great to work with such supportive colleagues and to feel so much joy in the room for narrative methods and social justice ❤️

<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper examines the implications of England's ‘golden thread’ policy framework for teacher education, which describes a state-mandated, linear model of professional learning from initial teacher ...

Happy to share that after an exciting collaboration (herding cats) with excellent co-authors @draimeequicks.bsky.social @edpodesta.bsky.social and Megan Stephenson our research paper on challenging the golden thread in ITE is now available open access 🎉
@beranews.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/berj...

Big paper and big pens at the ready!
Counting down to our workshop at #BERA2025. Hope to see lots of colleagues there for some story telling, networking and future planning 📚✏️

a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it . ALT: a man in a blue shirt and tie is pointing at a board with papers on it .

Live footage of the training for the new Ofsted framework....

This reminds me of one of my favourite organisational culture papers on 'functional stupidity'. We talk about this a lot in our PGCHE, and how culture change is so hard because those leading too often start with a collective memory of 'how things have always been done'.

The puppy would survive anything, even nuclear war. I think it might be possessed ☠️

Our office plant, looking very withered. And a Death Valley shot glass with a big skull on the front.

In a very fitting metaphor for July in academia I seem to have killed the office plant....
#academicsky