📣New opportunity for children & young people to share their experiences of the justice system!
We're looking to speak to young people aged 14-26 about what their experiences are of what is fair and unfair in the justice system.
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📣 Article alert!
New excellent piece on predictors of school absence among secondary school pupils in 🏴 from our very own @silviab.bsky.social, @moragtreanor.bsky.social & colleagues 💪
Read #OpenAccess in British Educational Research Journal: bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Looking forward to participating in Pint of Science!
As part of the @scadrdata.bsky.social talks on "Data for a Fairer Future", I will present research on "Who gets excluded? Understanding exclusions in Scottish secondary schools". Come and join us on 20 May at the Old Bell Inn, #Edinburgh. #pint26
Our findings show that disadvantage, especially the combination of low income and poor mental health, has a strong impact on school attendance. To address these patterns, policy needs to target the combination of disadvantages, particularly poverty and mental health, on attendance at school.
Pupils experiencing poverty, additional support needs or mental health difficulties are more likely to miss school. Authorised absences tend to reflect health and learning needs, while unauthorised absences are more strongly associated with poverty, care experience and social-emotional factors.
In this paper, we investigate pupil-level factors associated with school absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland. Using linked administrative data and multilevel modelling, we predict probabilities of persistent absenteeism, and identify predictors of authorised and unauthorised absence.
New publication in @berj-2025.bsky.social: Predictors of authorised, unauthorised and persistent absence among secondary school pupils in Scotland - a collaborative paper by
@scadrdata.bsky.social's educational exclusions and absences team led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/berj...
Excellent opportunity - CoSS #PhD Scholarship - Getting There, Getting Ahead: the link between school non-attendance, transport mode and educational outcomes. #education #data @glasgow.ac.uk edin.ac/4sJFK6X @moragtreanor.bsky.social @silviab.bsky.social
"Research for the Association for Citizenship Teaching and for this book demonstrates that the GSCE in Citizenship Studies has a statistically significant impact in boosting young people’s political interest, confidence and participation, particularly among those from less advantaged backgrounds."
📣 Study with us at @uofgussp.bsky.social
🔎 Explore the link between school non-attendance, transport mode & educational outcomes
💰 Fully funded
💪 Work with @moragtreanor.bsky.social, @drdpmcarthur.bsky.social & @silviab.bsky.social
🗓️ Details & apply by *15 April*: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc...
📣 Join us!
Contribute to cutting-edge, policy-focused research at @scadrdata.bsky.social using linked administrative datasets related to education 🎓
🤓 Full time, up to 30mts
🗓️ Closing 13 Apr 2026
Contact @moragtreanor.bsky.social for enquiries about the role
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX709/r...
Honoured to be featured in @adr-uk.bsky.social's spotlight on women using data to improve lives across the UK to mark International Women's Day. @scadrdata.bsky.social, I analyse education, health and Census data from Scotland.
www.adruk.org/news-publica...
#IWD2026 #admindata #womenindatascience
The crochet kit was called Eleanor the Labrador, but I think he looks more like Rufus the Golden Retriever
New skill unlocked 🧶
#crochet
Collider bias: the gift that keeps giving.
This is brilliant news for students in the UK - and in the EU. As someone who has benefitted from the programme myself back in 2013/14 (me lo pasé muy bien en Madrid), I'm excited that future generations will be able to, too. #Erasmus #ErasmusGeneration #YouthMobility
🧵 Thread on new research on gender gaps in “don’t know” responses
Some of you will know that my stellar coauthors @hannahbunting.bsky.social @cerifowler.bsky.social @jess-smith.bsky.social @annasanders.bsky.social & I have been working on a large-scale project on “don’t know” responses in surveys.
#IPDLNConference26 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on July 13–16, 2026. FINAL CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for oral, poster, and rapid-fire presentations. Submissions are invited until December 14, 2025. ipdln.org/call-for-pap...
The hike in ASN records may also reflect socioeconomic inequalities which must be addressed at a structural level. Today's education statistics from Scotland show some positive signs, but what remains really crucial to find out is who gets left behind?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How come that journals want high-quality figures but then don't support the submission of vector files? #academicpublishing #AcademicBluesky
We are delighted to share this #sotl #advent #calendar with all of you #lthechat #edusky #academicsky uofgsotl.blog/12-days-of-s...
Last-minute room change (that my students knew about but I didn't) & no working IT in the room: this is how I ended up free-styling OLS regression diagnostics and R code on the whiteboard today. Luckily, I have amazing students who are such a joy to work with.
But I'm glad it's the weekend now 😅
Congratulations!
Pleased to see this out in print - detailing MAIHDA's desirable statistical properties.
"MAIHDA is especially valuable when inequalities are subtle or data for marginalised intersections are sparse - conditions common in practice"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@clarerevans.bsky.social
Big shoutout to our own Emma Russel & @silviab.bsky.social who recently presented their analysis of linked administrative data & the 'Growing Up in Scotland' cohort study at conferences in Fribourg 🇨🇭 & Cardiff 🏴
This work is led by @moragtreanor.bsky.social & is part of @scadrdata.bsky.social 💪
What an honour to see Diane Elson launch her book at the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social tonight. Her seminal work highlights the need to recognise unpaid work as part of the economy, including care, household labour and volunteering.
Graphic highlighting a new blog on the Enquire pages. The image is split into white for the bottom half and a rosy pink for the top half. On top sits an image. The image features colooured geometric shapes creating a rectangle. A dotted line winds it's way from a house shape in the bottom right of the rectangular shape up to a pale pink shape in the top right hand corner, indicative of a school. The image includes the Navigate logo - a heart shape made from a map pin and its shadow. Writing reads New blog care experience + education.
A quote from the Navigating care experience and education blog reads "Removing barriers to learning takes more than one service or one organisation's efforts. Navigate is rooted in a whole-community approach, highlighting existing resources and working alongside partner organisation." A photo accompanies the quote featuring a young man with dark hair wearing a navy blue top, smiling at the camera. He is identified as Robert Doyle, Digital Content Officer with Enquire who is author of the blog.
NEW BLOG: Navigating care experience and education
We share more about our new hub of practical tools, rights guidance and real stories – and how we built it.
Read here: enquire.org.uk/the-promise/...
#KeepThePromise #CareExperience #AdditionalSupportForLearning
Living in an unequal society, regardless of individual wealth, can lead to structural changes in the brains of children.
#ScienceatKings #PopulationHealth
Without action families with children will see their disposable income fall over this parliament. Couples with children £750 worse off, lone parents £780.That’s electorally perilous.
Scrapping the 2 child limit and creating a minimum floor in universal credit would offset the fall.
*PSA OPPORTUNITY* 🚨 Final Reminder 🚨 House of Commons internship opportunity. For PSA #EarlyCareer Network members who are currently studying towards their #PhD.
📆 Apply by 28 September 2025
➡️ Full details buff.ly/VsvdQQD
#Politics #Opportunity #PoliticalStudies