At the House of Lords this evening, speaking at an event for the Drive Forward Foundation about transitions to work for care-experienced young people, based on my 2023 report for @nuffieldfoundation.org...

Delighted to have contributed evidence to this really important report into how to improve transitions into adulthood for care-experienced young people in London...

A praxis-based perspective on supporting care-experienced students to thrive in higher education using the capabilities approach Students who spent time in state care as children, usually due to neglect or maltreatment, are a growing community within higher education in many countries. However, their participation rates gene...

And also this one...

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education - Higher Education There has been increasing interest in understanding the higher education experiences of students who spent time ‘in care’ as children, who tend to have to overcome strong barriers to educational succe...

I'm slowly moving my social media across from 'the other place'! There's a couple of journal articles that were printed late last year that I'd not gotten around to sharing (again)...

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very well thanks! How's Oxford?

I used to love walking through there...

Call for Abstracts: Chapters for 'The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities' Call for Contributions to an Edited Volume The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities Edited by Jenna Mittelmeier Contributions are sought for an edited volume focusing on the untold stor...

Call for chapter authors for the new book I'm editing! Abstracts due Feb 28.

'The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities'

Submission form and full book details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines Abstract. Linking adverbials is a crucial element in successful academic writing that is particularly challenging for both first and second-language learne

Our new paper out now in Applied Linguistics…

academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

Two million young people have self-diagnosed mental health problems Waiting lists for therapy mean many rely sites like TikTok for medical advice

Dr Will Shield from Educational Psychology discusses the dangers of self-diagnosing mental health problems using social media in this article

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Looking forward to giving 'oral evidence' about #careleavers and #cep accessing the labour market to the London Assembly Economy, Culture and Skills Committee this afternoon, drawing on our 2023 report for the Nuffield Foundation. Streamed live: webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Event…

Using my first Bluesky post to announce publication of new report: 'Improving the effectiveness of virtual schools'. Explores local disparities in educational outcomes for children in care. Collaboration with NAVSH and Rees Centre, funded by KPMG Foundation: education.exeter.ac.uk/research/pro...