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Exploring the role of Positive Leadership for Mobilizing Innovative Practices: a social network approach (2021)
Journal Article
MacGregor, S., Brown, C., & Flood, J. (2021). Exploring the role of Positive Leadership for Mobilizing Innovative Practices: a social network approach. Studia paedagogica (Brno. On-line), 26(2), 31-48. https://doi.org/10.5817/sp2021-2-2

An emerging body of literature suggests the importance of positive leadership for school and district improvement (e.g., Cherkowski, 2018; Louis & Murphy, 2018). A number of lines of evidence have converged upon how positive leadership principles can... Read More about Exploring the role of Positive Leadership for Mobilizing Innovative Practices: a social network approach.

Professional Learning Networks: a conceptual model and research opportunities (2021)
Journal Article
Poortman, C., Brown, C., & Schildkamp, K. (2022). Professional Learning Networks: a conceptual model and research opportunities. Educational Research, 64(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131881.2021.1985398

Background: Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) of educators represent a promising approach to achieving continuous school improvement. At the same time, a range of studies in this area, including several systematic reviews and meta-analyses, repor... Read More about Professional Learning Networks: a conceptual model and research opportunities.

Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Brown, C., White, R., & Kelly, A. (2021). Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review. Emerald Open Research, 3(26), https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14385.1

Change agents are individuals who can successfully transform aspects of how organisations operate. In education, teachers as change agents are increasingly seen as vital to the successful operation of schools and self-improving school systems. To dat... Read More about Teachers as educational change agents: what do we currently know? findings from a systematic review.

Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Raaper, R., Brown, C., & Llewellyn, A. (2022). Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic. Educational Review, 74(3), 402-421. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131911.2021.1965960

The Covid-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis in higher education, affecting all aspects of university work and practices. This article focuses on student experiences in particular by problematising academic and wellbeing support available to non-... Read More about Student support as social network: Exploring non-traditional student experiences of academic and wellbeing support during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alharbi, K., Cristea, A. I., Shi, L., Tymms, P., & Brown, C. (2021). Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students. In A. I. Cristea, & C. Troussas (Eds.), Intelligent Tutoring Systems 17th International Conference, ITS 2021, Virtual Event, June 7–11, 2021, Proceedings (211-223). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80421-3_23

The classroom environment is a major contributor to the learning process in schools. Young students are affected by different details in their academic progress, be it their own characteristics, their teacher’s or their peers’. The combination of the... Read More about Agent-based Simulation of the Classroom Environment to Gauge the Effect of Inattentive or Disruptive Students.

Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life (2021)
Journal Article
Ridgway, J. (2021). Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life. Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Statistics and Data Science Teaching, 43(S1), S84-S92. https://doi.org/10.1111/test.12273

The Covid epidemic has provided an excellent example of the need to call on a wide variety of statistical tools to address a global problem, and can give students insights into some of the dimensions of data science. Here, we describe some of the cha... Read More about Covid and data science: Understanding R0 could change your life.

Climates of trust, innovation, and research use in fostering evidence-informed practice in French schools (2021)
Journal Article
Gaussel, M., MacGregor, S., Brown, C., & Piedfer-Quêney, L. (2021). Climates of trust, innovation, and research use in fostering evidence-informed practice in French schools. International Journal of Educational Research, 109, Article 101810. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2021.101810

In France as elsewhere, various arguments suggest that evidence-informed practice (EIP) in education may positively impact student outcomes. However, while these arguments are beginning to mature in countries such as England, uptake of EIP theories i... Read More about Climates of trust, innovation, and research use in fostering evidence-informed practice in French schools.

Agent-based Classroom Environment Simulation: the Effect of Disruptive Schoolchildren’s Behaviour versus Teacher Control over Neighbours (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Alharbi, K., Cristea, A. I., Shi, L., Tymms, P., & Brown, C. (2021). Agent-based Classroom Environment Simulation: the Effect of Disruptive Schoolchildren’s Behaviour versus Teacher Control over Neighbours. In I. Roll, M. Danielle, S. Sergey, L. Rose, & D. Vania (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education Lecture Notes in Computer Science (48-53). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_8

Schoolchildren's academic progress is known to be affected by the classroom environment. It is important for teachers and administrators to under-stand their pupils' status and how various factors in the classroom may affect them, as it can help them... Read More about Agent-based Classroom Environment Simulation: the Effect of Disruptive Schoolchildren’s Behaviour versus Teacher Control over Neighbours.

The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation (2021)
Journal Article
Ward, S., James, S., James, K., Brown, C., Kokotsaki, D., & Wigham, J. (2023). The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation. Arts Education Policy Review, 124(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1080/10632913.2021.1903640

This paper reports on the evaluation of the In2 music project in Darlington, England. The project ran for seven weeks from January – March 2020 and involved Year 6 pupils from four primary schools (n = 103) and Year 7 pupils from one secondary school... Read More about The Benefits of Music Workshop Participation for Pupils’ Wellbeing and Social Capital: The In2 Music Project Evaluation.

Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity (2021)
Journal Article
Rao, N., Hosein, A., & Raaper, R. (2021). Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(3), 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2021.1892058

Neoliberalisation of academia has led to an increasing recruitment of doctoral students in teaching roles. Whilst there is evidence of doctoral students being engaged in teaching roles and the reasons for doing so, there is a pressing need to underst... Read More about Doctoral students navigating the borderlands of academic teaching in an era of precarity.