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Rob Archer
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Critical realism, education policy, philosophy of social science, psychoanalysis, psychology, spirituality. Recent articles explore replication crisis in psychology & realist social theory and ed policy. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob-Archer-4
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Read for free ahead of the Article of the Year seminar! 📖

‘Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools’ by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan

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Educational Review Article of the Year Award announcement. Monday 15th December, 5-6pm GMT. Winner: "Thin places of resistance: a caring response to refugees in rural American schools" by Kerry Ann McKeon, Betty Merchant, Christopher Flanagan-Gonzales & Saleha Sultan. Discussants: Reza Gholami, University of Birmingham; Laurence Lessard-Phillips, University of Birmingham. Chair: Jane Martin, University of Birmingham, Executive Editor, Educational Review. Sponsored by Routledge. Event webpage and registration: https:bit.ly/AotY2025
December 8, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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grahamscambler.bsky.social
New book on Margaret Archer’s sociological theory delivered this morning, just in time for Christmas!
December 4, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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profstorm.bsky.social
I never get tired of talking about “The Myth of Disenchantment.” If you too are up for more, I had a great convo with Khalid Khatri on his Incisive Thoughts podcast. Give it a listen! : youtu.be/7gKeqOmL4bo
Science’s Hidden History of Magic and Spirits w/ Dr. Jason Josephson Storm
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December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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💬 'a theoretically ambitious reconceptualisation of dialogic education'

Read more from Nika Maglaperidze's #BookReview of 'Rethinking educational theory: education as expanding dialogue' by Rupert Wegerif 👇
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Book cover of 'Rethinking educational theory: education as expanding dialogue' by Rupert Wegerif
December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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aareruraled.bsky.social
New #RuralEd paper: “Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university, by H. Cuervo & N. Weerasuriya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university
Research studies have repeatedly reported the under-representation of rural youth in higher education, mainly focusing on their aspirations as well as opportunities and barriers to accessing univer...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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📘 The latest issue of Educational Review explores parental engagement, curriculum innovation, PE in alternative schools, wellbeing policy gaps, teacher identity, academic integrity, and more—across global contexts!
🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...
#EducationResearch
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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📚 'The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England' - an article in the @ucl.ac.uk UN #SDG4 Collection on #ScienceOpen:

🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England
Teachers and teacher education are often presented as “problems” to be solved, with policy solutions that focus on ways to make teachers “better” and improve teacher “quality” by introducing prescriptive strategies.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jamiejamescmet.bsky.social
Some working-class student teachers seem to act as ‘chameleons’ when training, occupying different social class-spaces and keeping a foot in all camps www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Working-class student teacher in Wales? Tell your story - [email protected].
Chameleoning to fit in? Working class student teachers in Ireland performing differential social class identities in their placement schools
This paper is about social class and the teaching profession. While class has long been a core focus in the Sociology of Education, little attention has been paid to how it is conceived and enacted...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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New paper! Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England.

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Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England
The last decade has seen a growth in school-based mental health promotion and prevention programmes alongside an increasing expectation that the design and research of such programmes should be co-...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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@jpelonga.bsky.social and I have written a blog about our newly published book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with thanks to @crnetwork.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for their support #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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🗣️ “We have no idea what she’s saying, but we’re really proud she’s saying it.”
This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it.
📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...
Educational Review journal title appears at the top. On the left, in white text on a bright blue background is the article title and author name(s): ‘“We have no idea what she’s saying, but we’re really proud she’s saying it”: exploring the experiences of non-Welsh speaking parents who chose Welsh-medium education for their children’ by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin. On the right is a an image of a child completing her Welsh homework with her parents watching proudly. The words “Open Access” appear in a red circle.
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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The marketisation of HE has destroyed the sense of being part of a 'community of scholars', replacing it with 'students as paying customers'.
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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The greatest trauma a child can experience.

Ronald Fairbairn.
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
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Our book in the @routledgebooks.bsky.social series in @crnetwork.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social More details at www.routledge.com/Educational-... including access to the opening chapter. Please tell your librarian. #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
Book cover of Educational Leadership and Critical Realism by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo in the Routledge Studies in Critical Realism series.
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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#Education and #wellbeing as silos: Siân Ephgrave & Lizzi O. Milligan call for integrated and relational approaches to learning and wellness in schools.
Read #OpenAccess 👇
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The background image shows two people, one representing wellbeing and the other representing education. This is overlaid with the ‘Educational Review’ journal title at the top. In the middle is the article title and author name(s): ‘The siloisation of wellbeing and education: global trends and lived experiences’ by Siân Ephgrave & Lizzi O. Milligan. The words “Open Access” appear in a red circle.
October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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A reminder that you have one month left to submit your abstract for our new handbook on research paradigms. Share your experience and help other researchers navigate the complexity of how philosophy shapes research practice. Read more below.

#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
Call for abstracts for our research paradigms handbook! – Dr Lynette Pretorius
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October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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In a powerful new article, Pandora Pound of @safermedicines.org uses sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on power and legitimacy to ask why animal experimentation still dominates academia—despite scientific advances and increasing external pressure for change.

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#sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪
Graphic titled, “Applying Bourdieu’s concepts to displacing animal experimentation in academia.” Adapted from Pound 2025, DOI: 10.1016/j.namjnl.2025.10005. Four concepts for action are discussed: dilute dominant powers; disrupt existing habitus; rethink scientific capital; and fully comply with laws. In the background are images of crumpled paper, a photo of a rat, and a hand holding a megaphone.
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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sussex.ac.uk
Dr Pratik Mishra is raising awareness about labourers under extreme heat in India. His research combines ethnography, temperature sensors, and intervention trials in garment factories, to push for policies that protect vulnerable workers from heat stress. Read more: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/glob...
Pratik Mishra: Working to bring attention to those labouring under extreme heat in India
Welcome Dr Pratik Mishra, a British Academy-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow working within the Department of Anthropology.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
drrobarcher.bsky.social
Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and the crisis of replication in psychology
In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.   *What is critical realism? *What is the role of ontology?...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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The co-deputy leaders have so much to say too: Rachel Millward from 9:45, Mothin Ali from 25:35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1w...
Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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October 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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edreview.bsky.social
🚨📣 FINAL BOOK! 📕
If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️

Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise:
[email protected]

#EduChat #BookReview
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Background border of blue book covers on shelves, with the Educational Review journal title in white text at the top. The heading of a white text box reads ‘Seeking book reviewers for:’, followed by a list of books for which the Educational Review journal is seeking reviewers and the process for interested reviewers. For the full list and instructions in an accessible format please contact the editorial office: educational-review@contacts.bham.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)

#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM