UoN Education

Thinking of studying at postgraduate level with #UoNSoE? Join us at the #UoN Master's Open Day in June. Our team will be available to answer questions about our MA courses and also PGCE/PGCEi.

Register attendance at: nott.ac/masters-open-day

#WeAreUoN

Emancipation and Vocational Education: Skills, Bildung and the Subject This book challenges the economistic neoliberal rationale for vocational education by drawing critically on emancipatory theoretical approaches, especially a body of German theory neglected almost ent...

New book co-written by #UoNSoE's Professor Volker Wedekind is now available for pre-order.

#VocationalEducation

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What is a poem doing in a literature review? by Nguyen Phuong Le, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and Thang Long Nguyen If the phrase ‘write a poem’ makes your stomach do a tiny backflip, you are in good company. The three of us came to poetry from …

New post on @srhe.bsky.social from #UoNSoE's Professor Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan and alumna Nguyen Phuong Le (MA Digital Teaching and Learning), with Thang Long Nguyen (University College Dublin).

srheblog.com/2026/03/10/w...

Open to all education professionals, we envisage our new community will allow a better recognition and understanding of shared problems and challenges affecting the local region, offering the opportunity to work collectively toward solutions.

Join our launch event next week: bit.ly/4rH0hbs

And now we turn to our panel discussion. Brilliant and tough questions have been submitted by our KS5 students and teachers. For example:
In your research do you start with the sources or the historiography?
How do you form historical Interpretations and manage academic disagreement? 6/

Our final provocation comes from Dr Joe Merton considering New York City as a node of American imperial power.

Students and teachers will now consider some questions from the speakers and have an opportunity to ask their own questions during our panel discussion. 5/

Now we hear a provocation from Assoc Prof Maria Ryan as she explores the American 'Empire' from the perspective of its overseas Military Bases and American power that it derives from these (harnessing the zeitgeist!) through the lense of considering the US as having a “Pointillist Empire”. 4/

Now Assoc Prof Bevan Sewell explores how the United States became the United States in the Long 19th Century​ and offering a critique of Manifest Destiny. 3/

Brilliant opening from Assoc Prof Jake Hodder from our UoN School of Geography offering an historical Geography perspective on the notion of an American 'Empire'. 2/

And we're off!

Thrilled to welcome school colleagues &KS5 students to our @uonsoe.bsky.social #HistoryEducation #SIG in collaboration with @uonhumanities.bsky.social Centre for US in World Studies & @histassoc.bsky.social Nottingham #historyteacher Network.

Our focus feels very pertinent! 1/

Happening on Wednesday. Reminder to register if you haven't already: bit.ly/3OrRqfi

Then we'll also be attending an event with other East Midlands providers on Thursday.

Register: forms.monday.com/forms/22a50b...

Interested in training to teach? Our team will be available at two online events this week giving you the opportunity to hear more about our Ofsted-rated outstanding #PGCE courses.

Join us online tomorrow at our own event for an overview of courses and Q&A

Register by 2pm tomorrow: bit.ly/2ObzBwU

Using purpose not power to create a positive learning culture Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com Fernando, a brilliant mentor in our partnership, is often heard to say that his mentees, need to teach with ‘purpose not power’.  Beginning teachers often…

🚨NEW BLOG🚨

Thinking about #Behaviour #ClassroomManagement and its link to #teaching and #learning. One for #ITT #ECT #teachers struggling to establish a purposeful learning environment.

#TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation #UKTeaching #UKEd

uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/03/07/u...

getting comfortable with being uncomfortable Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

Academic writers often feel uncomfortable but that’s often OK Here’s why patthomson.net/2026/03/08/g...

There's a new post on the UoN primary blog today. Claire Shipley on the transformational power of PSHE for pupils with SEND. Find the whole series here: tinyurl.com/bdeb9998

The SSL Study is a valuable body of research & so aligned with our direct observations of L+D work alongside educational leaders. 'Care leadership' is weighty yet often unacknowledged & leaders need trusted, reflective spaces to unpack & explore the complexities of roles. #edusky

I love visiting our partnership schools! Brilliant young people, fab school-based colleagues.

It's a real privilege to feel like an extension to the department in so many places in our region.

#School #UKTeaching #UKEd #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring #historyteacher

@uonsoe.bsky.social

Sustainable School Leadership Final Report Published This week we have launched the final report from the Sustainable School Leadership research project at the end of our 3 year mixed methods study across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland, funde…

New blogpost announcing launch of our Sustainable School Leadership report: "Without greater attention to sustainable leadership the White Paper vision might never be fully realised." @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social @uonsoe.bsky.social sustainableschoolleadership.uk/2026/02/27/s...

Our selection panel met earlier this week to chose the four winners for our celebrating local teachers partnership with Notts County FC.

We were delighted to receive almost 1,000 nominations.

Winners announcement coming soon!

#WeAreUon #teachers

It's induction time for our #PGCEi Online 3 cohort. Welcome to your course, we hope you have a productive weekend and look forward to working with you over the next year.

Introducing our Community of Education, Inquiry and Practice #CEIP.

Join us as we launch a new collaboration between local education providers and organisations, and #UoN.

Visit event page for further #CEIP details and envisaged outcomes of this exciting new initiative: bit.ly/4rH0hbs

#WeAreUoN

In the Sustainable School Leadership report we include national dashboards for England, Scotland & Northern Ireland, drawing on existing data and findings from our research. We developed them with @tomcowhitt See the report for more! @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social @uonsoe.bsky.social

A #podcast series with guests including policy makers, researchers and school leaders discussing specific themes of the project is also available.

Visit the project website to access all reports and podcast.

sustainableschoolleadership.uk

This four-year project funded by @ukri.org and @erpioe.bsky.social explored the training, supply, retention, and wider sustainability of senior school leadership across England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. A national technical report has been published for each country.

The final report is now available for the Sustainable School Leadership project led by @tobygreany.bsky.social with @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social and Mike Collins.

sustainableschoolleadership.uk

Event for our #ScienceTeacher colleagues in partnership schools.

Please register attendance: bit.ly/4kRjCEN

riffing your way to meaning In blues, jazz, and music that traces its roots to those genres, the riff is a repeated chord progression or set of notes that ties a song together. A guitar riff returns again and again in a song …

Riffing as a strategy for academic writing, good for clarifying ideas patthomson.net/2026/02/21/r...

Final call for signups. #historyteacher #geographyteacher #politicsteacher #HistoryEducation

Our next Centre for Research in Human Flourishing #CRHF event is now open for registrations, with in person and online attendance options.

bit.ly/3OrRqfi

#counselling #psychotherapy