Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Manchester. Trustee for the UK Literacy Association. Poetry lover, children's literature obsessive. Child voice, picturebooks and human rights, social justice research. Land of the Peak. Views are my own.
Lecturer: Applied Lang & Lit Studies
@Strathclyde Institute of Ed (Glasgow, UK)
Queer Critical Literacies; Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis; Decoloniality; Social Semiotics; (Auto)Ethnography
UKLA Vice-Pres + ILA Co-editor: The Reading Teacher
Passionate about books and kids reading for pleasure Co Founder All Around Reading. Editorial Expert LoveReading4Kids. Put my energies into UKLA Book Awards, FCBG, YLG
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President Elect UKLA, Reader/Associate Professor University Sussex, FCCT, SFHEA
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Author of #WordPower, Lecturer in RfP for @OpenUni_RfP, Interested in reader identity and language development, Secondary school governor @The_UKLA
Prof UCL IOE. FD HHCP. Teach reading, writing, curriculum, pedagogy. Music.
PhD - reader identity, interested in reading, teaching reading and all things children's lit. Teach ITE, MA Education and MA CLL at Bishop Grosseteste University. UKLA regional rep for East Midlands region
Year 5/6 teacher and English lead. Children's books and reading mostly, Blake's 7 sometimes. Currently reading: The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good by Kirsty Applebaum.
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