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Jane Perryman

@janeeperryman.bsky.social

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Professor of Sociology of Education at UCL IOE. Interests: policy sociology; teacher retention, policy enactment, school inspection, theorising using Foucault. And singing.

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Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · May 31

Definites Libby, Julia, Pippa, think also Caroline, Kate, Maria, Jo

Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · May 27

Thanks Dave - I have it - let's round up the gang(s)

Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · May 26

Our most recent paper:
Perryman, J., Bradbury, A., Calvert, G., & Kilian, K. (2025) ‘Headteachers and External Inspection in England’ Educational Management Administration and Leadership doi.org/10.1177/1741... @alicebradbury.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social

Headteachers and external inspection in England - Jane Perryman, Alice Bradbury, Graham Calvert, Katie Kilian, 2025

In December 2023 a UK Government Inquiry concluded that Ofsted, the English inspection regime, had ‘contributed’ to the death of a Headteacher, Ruth Perry, who ...

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Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · May 7

In the fourth open access paper from our Beyond Ofsted Inquiry Graham Calvert asks the question 'what it is about the inspection process that produces toxicity?' @ioe.bsky.social @alicebradbury.bsky.social
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Turning school inspections toxic: insights from an inquiry into Ofsted in England

Research has long suggested that the policy of school inspection, implemented through the Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) in England, has psychological and physical effects on teachers t...

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Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · Apr 16

In our latest open access Beyond Ofsted paper, Kate Killian argues that school improvement for the most vulnerable schools is incompatible with Ofsted’s culture of fear and deficit model of accountability

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Fearing the ‘Clipboard Police’: Exploring How Marginalised Schools Experience Ofsted Inspections in an Era of Precarity

Research suggests that the inspection service in England, Ofsted, has negative impacts on teachers and creates a culture of fear and performativity. Of particular concern is Ofsted’s potential to h...

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Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · Apr 7

I am involved in a Research Design for an Alternative Inspection System www.inspect4good.uk. Do get in touch via the website if you are interested to know more #ofsted

Transforming Inspection for Good

Proposal to transform educational inspection (Ofsted) in England

www.inspect4good.uk

Jane Perryman @janeeperryman.bsky.social · Dec 16

My first post here is a link to our new paper ‘A Tipping Point’ in Teacher Retention and Accountability: The Case of Inspection' which is now available open access.
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‘A Tipping Point’ in Teacher Retention and Accountability: The Case of Inspection

Accountability policy and its negative effects on teachers’ working lives and retention is internationally recognised as a problem in education with school evaluation and inspection being a particu...

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