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The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China (2025)
Book
Xu, C. L. (2025). The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China. State University of New York Press

Can a student inherit time? What difference does time make to their educational journeys and outcomes? The Time Inheritors draws on nearly a decade of field research with more than one hundred youth in China to argue that intergenerational transfers... Read More about The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China.

Quant Hub seminar: Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England. What have we learned from Pupil Parent Matched Data (PPMD)? (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Siddiqui, N. (2025, March). Quant Hub seminar: Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England. What have we learned from Pupil Parent Matched Data (PPMD)?. Presented at Quant Hub seminar, Oxford ,15 Norham Gardens

The introduction and nationwide implementation of the Pupil Premium policy in 2011 was a major policy initiative by the then Coalition Government to address socio-economic segregation between schools in England, and reduce the persistent attainment g... Read More about Quant Hub seminar: Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England. What have we learned from Pupil Parent Matched Data (PPMD)?.

Difficulties in making claims to knowledge in social science (2025)
Journal Article
Gorard, S. (2025). Difficulties in making claims to knowledge in social science. Research in Social Sciences, 8(2), 35-53. https://doi.org/10.53935/26415305.v8i2.340

This paper looks at the difficulties faced in making a knowledge claim, especially in social science. A knowledge claim is defined here as a justified belief, that would be open to change in the light of new evidence. The discussion is based on claim... Read More about Difficulties in making claims to knowledge in social science.

What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES) (2025)
Journal Article
MacCann, C., Double, K. S., Olderbak, S., Austin, E. J., Pinkus, R. T., Walker, S. A., Kunst, H., & Niven, K. (2025). What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES). Emotion, 25(2), 410-429. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001459

Theoretical models of interpersonal extrinsic emotion regulation (the regulation of others' emotions) recognize many different regulation strategies, yet existing assessments do not assess a wide number of strategies at a granular level. In the prese... Read More about What do we do to help others feel better? The eight strategies of the Regulating Others' Emotions Scale (ROES).

What helps to attract minority ethnic teachers in England?: Results from a national survey (2025)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Gao, Y., Huat See, B., Tereshchenko, A., Siddiqui, N., & Demie, F. (2025). What helps to attract minority ethnic teachers in England?: Results from a national survey. Review of Education Studies, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.71002/res.v5n1p50

This paper is concerned with the experiences and retention of minority ethnic teachers in England. There are proportionately many fewer minority ethnic teachers than there are pupils, and it is important to understand why and what can be done about i... Read More about What helps to attract minority ethnic teachers in England?: Results from a national survey.

The impact of student:teacher ethnic congruence on student treatment and relationships at school: an international review of evidence (2025)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Tereshchenko, A., Gao, Y., See, B., Siddiqui, N., & Demie, F. (2025). The impact of student:teacher ethnic congruence on student treatment and relationships at school: an international review of evidence. Review of Education Studies, 5(1), https://doi.org/10.71002/res.v5n1p9

There has been growing interest in and concern over the disproportionality of the ethnicity of school teachers compared to the ethnicity of the students they teach, especially in the US where much of the research is focussed. Similar issues arise in... Read More about The impact of student:teacher ethnic congruence on student treatment and relationships at school: an international review of evidence.

Academic Tracking in Germany as a Challenge to Children's Rights: Implications for School Leadership (2025)
Book Chapter
Pham Xuan, R., & Nguyen, D. (2025). Academic Tracking in Germany as a Challenge to Children's Rights: Implications for School Leadership. In Educational Leadership and Children's Rights? Kinderrechte als Führungsaufgabe?. Waxmann. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830998259_4

Academic tracking in education is the process of assigning students to different classes or schools based on an assessment of their abilities or interests. The aim of tracking policies is to improve the efficiency of the education system by grouping... Read More about Academic Tracking in Germany as a Challenge to Children's Rights: Implications for School Leadership.

Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England (2025)
Book Chapter
Siddiqui, N., & Gorard, S. (in press). Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England. In Perry, & Morris (Eds.), Education Policy 2010-2024. Routledge

The introduction and nationwide implementation of the Pupil Premium policy in 2011 was a major policy initiative by the then Coalition Government to address socioeconomic segregation between schools in England, and reduce the persistent attainment ga... Read More about Fifteen years of Pupil Premium policy in England.

Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond (2025)
Journal Article
Porto, M., Golubeva, I., & Byram, M. (2025). Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond. Social Sciences, 14(3), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14030135

The purpose of this article is to examine the ethical challenges that arise in the world language classroom and beyond from using intercultural citizenship pedagogy. Intercultural citizenship is, in general, seen as a recent and positive development... Read More about Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond.

No pain, no gain: Willingness to communicate vis-à-vis communication behaviour and their effects on language performance (2025)
Journal Article
Zhang, J., Beckmann, N., & Beckmann, J. F. (in press). No pain, no gain: Willingness to communicate vis-à-vis communication behaviour and their effects on language performance. Language Teaching Research Quarterly,

Active communication is an important element of second language (L2) learning, as it contributes to the acquisition of language competence. The prerequisite of L2 use is having the willingness to communicate (WTC). However, previous research tended t... Read More about No pain, no gain: Willingness to communicate vis-à-vis communication behaviour and their effects on language performance.

Getting the Right Mix Between Research and Teaching: A Cross‐National Study of University Teachers' Perspectives and Practices in Teacher Education and Education Studies (2025)
Journal Article
Arnau-Sabatés, L., Ion, G., Wang, L., & Kowalczuk-Walędziak, M. (in press). Getting the Right Mix Between Research and Teaching: A Cross‐National Study of University Teachers' Perspectives and Practices in Teacher Education and Education Studies. Higher Education Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1111/hequ.70019

Integrating research into teaching gives future practitioners the opportunity to inform and enhance their own professional capacities and practices with research. This study analyses integration practices currently employed by a sample of 124 univers... Read More about Getting the Right Mix Between Research and Teaching: A Cross‐National Study of University Teachers' Perspectives and Practices in Teacher Education and Education Studies.

How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India (2025)
Journal Article
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., Bulsari, S., See, B. H., Dixon, P., Saeed, S., Hamza, S., & Pandya, K. (in press). How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India. British Educational Research Journal,

This paper reports on the findings of a natural experiment based on a sample of 1,123 children aged 4 to 8 from the provinces of Punjab in Pakistan, and Gujarat in India. It looks at the impact of attendance (or not) in early schooling on the cogniti... Read More about How much does school matter for children’s cognitive and non-cognitive learning? Findings from a natural experiment in Pakistan and India.

Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship (2025)
Journal Article
Byram, M., Porto, M., & Wagner, M. (online). Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship. Language, Culture and Curriculum, https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2025.2462618

In this article, we discuss some ethical issues arising from teaching foreign or world languages for intercultural citizenship. From this perspective, language education engages students in critical investigations of social issues and in the applicat... Read More about Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship.

The changing landscape of doctoral education in the UK (2025)
Book Chapter
Taylor, S., & Wisker, G. (2025). The changing landscape of doctoral education in the UK. In S. Taylor, K. Holley, & M. Kiley (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Graduate and Doctoral Education: International Case Studies (156-171). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582335-15

As elsewhere across the globe, for the past two decades doctoral education in the UK has been in the throes of change. This article seeks to describe and analyse developments in 1) the national framework for doctoral education, 2) institutional struc... Read More about The changing landscape of doctoral education in the UK.

The changing landscape of doctoral education: Conclusions and further research (2025)
Book Chapter
Holley, K. A., Taylor, S., & Kiley, M. (2025). The changing landscape of doctoral education: Conclusions and further research. In S. Taylor, K. Holley, & M. Kiley (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Graduate and Doctoral Education: International Case Studies (181-189). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582335-17

The articles in this special issue of Innovations in Education and Teaching International provide a global snapshot of the current state of doctoral education. They show variation across national systems, and at the same time, demonstrate that simila... Read More about The changing landscape of doctoral education: Conclusions and further research.

The changing landscape of doctoral education: A framework for analysis and introduction to the Special Issue (2025)
Book Chapter
Taylor, S. (2025). The changing landscape of doctoral education: A framework for analysis and introduction to the Special Issue. In S. Taylor, K. Holley, & M. Kiley (Eds.), Global Perspectives on Graduate and Doctoral Education: International Case Studies (6-22). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003582335-2

Traditionally, doctoral education was a matter of the talented few being apprenticed to learn how to research from masters in their discipline; it was conducted in private in spaces far removed from normal teaching or industry or commerce; the only r... Read More about The changing landscape of doctoral education: A framework for analysis and introduction to the Special Issue.

What is the way forward for research-informed education? (2025)
Book Chapter
Gorard, S., & Chen, W. (in press). What is the way forward for research-informed education?. In D. Wyse, V. Baumfield, N. Mockler, & M. Reardon (Eds.), The BERA-Sage Handbook of Research-Informed Education Practice and Policy. BERA-Sage

This chapter looks at some of the key decisions to be faced in promoting the use of research evidence in policy and practice – the quality of the evidence to be used, and how that quality can be judged. Once the policy/school context has determined t... Read More about What is the way forward for research-informed education?.