Adam Kirkbride

In the context of weight management, compassion-based interventions may help redirect maladaptive eating behaviours (e.g. binge eating) and weight-related self-evaluation towards better coping… – Duarte et al. (2) In this study, Duarte et al. examine whether adding online compassion-focused exercises into a commercial weight management programme affected self-evaluation, binge eating Read more…

Clegg believed caretakers played an important role in improving the physical environment for the better, something he was aware of from the example set by his father as a headteacher. By improving the quality of the environment the caretaker also contributes in ‘subtle’ and ‘powerful’ ways to the provision of education. – Read more…

one’s position as a researcher and the way this position is perceived by participants has a great influence on almost all aspects of the research… – Dr Chisato Danjo (106) In this chapter of Professor Jean Conteh’s book, Dr Chisato Danjo evaluates her role as a researcher who participated in Read more…

Establishing new out of hours services involved substantial change in local health services and provides a unique opportunity for planning more integrated care. – Dale et al. (1206) In this paper, Professor Jeremy Dale and colleagues (including York St John’s Lynne Lacock) undertake a district wide review of out of Read more…

We talked to Jenny Carpenter about her research, this is what we found out! What fascinates me the most is that there is never a final answer, simply a new approach to seeing what reality is all about. – Jenny Carpenter Jenny’s research is centred around co-creating a mathematics ITE Read more…

Our project focusses on two research questions: 1) Do any existing textbooks meet the needs of our students? 2) What content do our students need to prepare them for study abroad? Using the data gathered from the project we hope to be able to design tailor-made materials or a text Read more…

The authors construct a convincing argument which challenges a number of key assumptions in terms of markets, which they argue should be examined critically by all stakeholders. – Professor Jane Hemsley-Brown, University of Surrey In this chapter, Professor Stella Jones-Devitt and Dr Catherine Samiei consider the outcomes and unintended consequences Read more…

Matthew Clarke’s book brings a new and devastating critical perspective to bear on education policy … This is a telling and timely book that skilfully deploys psychoanalytic insights to unpack the fantasies that haunt and inhibit education policy – it is exciting, challenging, and important! – Professor Stephen Ball, University Read more…

whilst depressed individuals report similar numbers of future goals as their non-depressed counterparts, and attribute similar levels of importance to them, they predict that these goals are less likely to occur and that they have less control over their occurrence… – Boland et al. (3) In this article, Jennifer Boland Read more…