Gurpinder Singh Lalli

Our first issue of 2026 is here! 📘
Featuring research on:
• Why students choose sociology
• Teachers & mental‑health literacy
• STEM belonging & impostor feelings
• Digital vs paper reading in 14 countries
• How time shapes classrooms
• And more!

Read now 👇
www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...

Thanks @britishacademy.bsky.social for hosting us! #schoolmeals #histed

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social @drjuliabish.bsky.social

Great lunchtime seminar in London today hosted by @britishacademy.bsky.social sharing @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social findings w. policymakers, academics, charities & school leaders. Strong appetite for long historical view in #schoolmeals policy 🍽🍎🥦

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org #histed

Arrived today 🙂

Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) in UK universities: coverage, omissions and orientations This article examines the teaching of comparative and international education (CIE) in undergraduate and master’s programmes in 30 UK universities via bibliometric and content analysis of the handb...

Published today! Teaching comparative and international education (CIE) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... pleasure working with great colleagues Leanne Cameron @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social Martin Preston @bristoluni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social #BAICE #SES

Great to be part of this visit yesterday and share findings with colleagues from @royalhistsoc.org, @ioe.bsky.social, @lshtmhistory.bsky.social and everyone who came to @heatherlwellis.bsky.social's lecture.

#histed #schoolmeals @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Great to see you as always Chris and thanks for your valuable input 🙏🏽

I’m very much looking forward to presenting my doctoral research to #EdD #ProfessionalDoctorate students @wlvuni.bsky.social this morning with @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social #research #doctorate #HE #LTHEchat

Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

@rituparna37.bsky.social & @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social's new book 'Food, Culture & Society in India: Social, Political, Economic & Cultural Perspectives' is out!
Link: doi.org/10.3167/9781...
Please find a chapter here by yours truly
Thank you @rituparna37.bsky.social @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social :D

FOOD, CULTURE AND SOCIETY IN INDIA: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Rituparna Patgiri and Gurpinder Singh Lalli @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social has now been published!

Find out more here: bit.ly/4nhfKMU

#FoodStudies #Sociology #Anthropology

🍽 ICYMI Our Policy Briefing on the history & future of school meals is now available to read & share.

Drawing on over a century of evidence and new oral histories, we show how mealtimes are about much more than nutrition.

@sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

#histed

The UK School Meals Service 1944–Present: A Sensory and Emotional Experience This article explores the sensory and emotional dimensions of the UK School Meals Service (SMS) since 1944, arguing that the lived experiences of pupils, teachers, parents, catering staff, and poli...

📢 Our first full-team article from the School Meals Project is now published 🎉

🍽️ "The UK School Meals Service, 1944–Present: A Sensory and Emotional Experience"

📖 Read it here: lnkd.in/eiWQT4fN

#histed @sheffielduni.bsky.social @ichre-ioe.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Pleased to share that our chapter on Schools and Food cowritten with @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social is finally out!

Christina Egelund opening ERC conference in Copenhage

Delighted to represent @eassh.bsky.social at the @erc.europa.eu Competitiveness Through Frontier Research conference in Copenhagen. Inspiring to hear Danish Minister Christina Egelund highlight society’s key role in shaping European research culture,values and outputs. @ecer-eera.bsky.social

✨ New chapter on Schools & Food ✨

Excellent new piece on school meals 🍽️ from our own @ellenlaurab.bsky.social & a colleague Gurpinder Singh Lalli 💪

Read in the 'Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society':
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Blue banner for the ECER 2025 Keynote featuring Ben Williamson with the keynote “The birth of the bio-edu-data-sciences: biology, data, and the consequences for educational research, policy and practice” Includes Ben’s portrait photo, and logos of EERA and University of Belgrade.

Learn about Ben Williamson's #ECER2025 Belgrade Keynote "The birth of the bio-edu-data-sciences: biology, data, and the consequences for educational research, policy and practice" https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers/ben-williamson

ECER 2025 bag, bottle, pen, notebook and venue booklet.

The last preparations for #ECER2025 are underway at the University of Belgrade. We are looking forward to welcoming 454 emerging researchers from 57 countries to the Emerging Researchers' Conference tomorrow and 2617 participants from 73 countries to ECER on Tuesday.

The branded participant #ecer2025

Keynote Speakers Keynotes confirmed

I am very much looking forward to being a keynote panelist at #BERA2025 alongside a stellar group of speakers www.bera.ac.uk/conference/b.... I’ll be speaking about our work at @morayhouse.bsky.social

Heading to ‪#BERA2025‬ (solidarity to GMT strikers in London) with @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and @hyabyohannes.bsky.social ‬ to deliver plenary together.

Out of Ashlaa’ أشلاء: Refugee Language Education in Times of Heartbreak and Failure

Determined to hold it together but have tissues in case.

ECER 2025 Belgrade Keynote Speakers Aleksandar Baucal, Karin Doolan, Tünde Kovács Cerović, Gabi Lombardo, Ben Williamson and Pavel Zgaga with profile pictures.

#ECER2025 Belgrade Keynotes will be livestreamed on Wednesday, 10 September and Thursday, 11 September 11:00 – 12:00 (CEST). Click here for info on the speakers and their keynotes and the links to the livestreams
https://eera-ecer.de/conferences/ecer-2025-belgrade/keynote-speakers

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴: Education researchers are increasingly turning to AI-based NLP tools for support with data analysis. Prof. Dr. Demir on opportunties and risks of AI. #ECER2025 #EduSci blog.eera-ecer.de/nlp-tools-for-education-research/

Pre-ERC at #ECER2025 impressions: the walking tour group and the ERG Link Convenor Lisa Bugno in front of the Faculty of Philosphy, the local volunteers, ERC pronoun pins and the Pop Up Playground in the Fac of Philosophy.

Prof Jasmine Fledderjohann has compiled a Starter Pack on Food Security and Nutrition – perfect for anyone looking to learn, connect with experts & engage in meaningful dialogue.

🔗 Explore the starter pack & follow the experts:
👉 go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ

#FoodSecurity #Nutrition #Inequality #FoodEquity

‘Our site is on a knife edge’: the school buildings crisis deepens Rusting fire escapes, legionella and classrooms that reach 53C: a lack of funding for buildings maintenance is putting pupils and staff at risk, leaders tell Ellen Peirson-Hagger. Will government…

‘Something has to go catastrophically wrong before you get funding to fix it’: leaders tell @ellencph.bsky.social about the safety hazards in their school buildings that they haven’t been able to tackle because of a lack of funding

More Testing ≠ The Testing Effect: What is the Testing Effect? The Testing Effect enhances long-term retention through retrieval practice, not frequent testing. Completing more tests doesn’t mean you’ll get the testing effect.

New Blog Post 📝

More Testing ≠ The Testing Effect

Some schools are testing their students too much and are collecting so much data, it's completely useless.

Here I go into what the testing effect is and tackle some of the misconceptions! 👇

inquestion.co.uk/2025/05/18/t...

Food, Culture and Society in India: Social, Political, Economic and Cultural Perspectives | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

Food, culture and society in India, available from November 2025. Pleasure working withDr Rituparna Patgiri and contributors on this critical work! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Patgir... @berghahnbooks.bsky.social‬ @wlvuni.bsky.social @britsoci.bsky.social @ifpri.org

To try and capture some of the key themes and ideas discussed at our end-of-project conference last Thursday, we worked with Jules from Illustrated Live who produced this great live illustration for us! #histed @ioe.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @wlvuni.bsky.social @histedsocuk.bsky.social

Universal free school meals are beneficial and popular – but the UK’s provision remains patchy Universal free school meals improve health, boost learning and tackle child poverty—yet England lags behind in rolling them out.

🍽️ Universal free school meals: a welfare policy or an investment in future generations?

In The Conversation, Prof. Kevin Morgan (@CardiffUni) explores why school meals are at the heart of social justice, public health & education reform.

📖 Read more: bit.ly/4c57uvk

Control, Resistance, and the Senses: Neurodivergent Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service; A Case Study The UK school meals service has a distinctive history shaped by early welfare policies, austerity measures, and the introduction of universal free school meals, thus making it a useful case study f...

📢 New OA article written with Isabelle Carter for the Oral History Review!

Control, Resistance, and the Senses: Neurodivergent Perspectives of the UK School Meals Service
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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