Dr Craig Johnston

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🚨🚨🚨 Edited Book on #AlternativeProvision - Call for 300 word abstracts for chapter contributions - Details here: lnkd.in/eVwrJJ4q Deadline November 17th 2025. Reposts welcomed 🙏 🚨🚨🚨

My father was raised in care (@Quarriers) until working age. I finally had a chance to look at what little notes there are of his 14 years there. Vivid insights into family life, poverty and the (lack of) standards of housing in a small industrial town, which led to the referral.

🚨🚨🚨 New Publication!!! 🚨🚨🚨 Joining the dots: part 2. #SEND and #alternativeprovision: creating a second schooling system.
Always enlightening to work with Prof Sally Tomlinson, especially around the history of SEND. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

15 years ago, I gained a #phd. Many years after being told to leave school as "you're not going to pass anything". A #workingclass kid fae the tenements.

A night at the House of Commons celebrating the launch of Boys' Impact with the excellent Dr Alex Blower and colleagues.

Image shows boy with glasses and crew cut doing school work

On SNJ Today: Why the current education system perpetuates a two-tier educational "subsystem", using alternative provision to remove children who can't thrive in mainstream, by Academic, @drcejohnston.bsky.social www.specialneedsjungle.com/a...

Good to be back in the toon

it was great to convene the first (working) Class staff/student event yesterday @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social One line that stuck out for me was "I am the first person from my #workingclass family to go to University and I worry I might also be the last".

PRU/AP to Prison Pipeline Looking beyond the tropes to better support children and young people

*FREE EVENT* for Bristol and South West #alternativeprovision / #PRU's and those working with/researching youth at risk of #schoolexclusion and crime. Discuss the PRU to Prison Pipeline, and hear from a range of #AP providers Wed June 4th in the Watershed. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1345442788...

What excluded children think about their education in alternative provision – and why it matters Young people in alternative provision question their education but want challenge.

A little food for thought around student voice:
theconversation.com/what-exclude...

Morning Birmingham

Proud to be shortlisted for the Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of the West of England, in amongst some brilliant and dedicated colleagues. @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social

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Editing the second part of Joining the Dots, written with Prof. Sally Tomlinson - this one is due out in the summer. #alternativeprovision #SEND

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all (working-class) women.

Lot's going on this week for me around #alternativeprovision, which has long been - and likely to long be - a contested space. Just finished the 2nd part of Joining the Dots (#SEND /#AP) with Prof. Sally Tomlinson, meetings with various stakeholders and a webinar by @apresearchnetwork.bsky.social

I am spending this evening examining the paperwork that gives some insight into why my father was made an orphan. Enlightening and quite shocking in equal measure.

Normal service resumes #scottish accent @Starbucks

It has been 6 years since the #disabled bad boys in #alternativeprovision paper was accepted for publication. Since then, AP has become a growing research area with these young people's voices as relevant today as they were then. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

For those undertaking sociological based research. #Highereducation #research #methodology *source unknown

After the positive reaction of the last article, it is a pleasure to work with Prof Sally Tomlinson again on Part 2 - (pt.1) uwe-repository.worktribe.com/index.php/ou...
#SEND #disability #alternativeprovision

How can Ofsted conceptualise ‘vulnerability’ in its work within the education and social care sectors? New dates added | Research in PracticeFacebook_SimpleTwitter_SimpleLinkedInMailLinkedInShare_Outl... We want to hear from professionals at all levels to learn how providers are meeting the needs of vulnerable children, learners and young people.

Honoured to be invited to join (with esteemed colleagues across the UK) an expert academic panel on how Ofsted can conceptualise ‘vulnerability’ (#inclusion) in its work within the education and social care sectors. #children #schools
www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/new...

Coming to the end of a project evaluating the work of US office for #violenceprevention organisations. The last meeting was this evening with the Department of Violence Prevention in Oakland. Great to hear how they apply a public health approach to violence prevention.

8 years ago, I left children's safeguarding and a 25-year career working with some of the most vulnerable children imaginable. I always find it interesting how those experiences often have little value in academia.

Great to see this book, with our chapter - Made for a Trade - heading to the printers. #workingclass #masculinity #highereducation #belonging

How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice This article examines how theory features in the research literatures concerning the English alternative (education) provision (AP) sector. Despite increasing interest over the past decade in how A...

We are proud to announce that th team's latest publication (free to read below)was REF rated 3* or of a quality that is INTERNATIONALLY EXCELLENT. #alternativeprovision #schoolexclusion #SEND
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Let battle commence #writing

I have been fortunate to work with thousands of children (and young people) for over 30 years. Let this day be one where we take a little more time to reflect on what they have to say. #listen #voice #worldchildrensday

The last of #autumn