ESRI seminar series archive

From Sabotage to Support: A New Vision for Feminist Solidarity in the Workplace 

• Joy L. Wiggins and Kami J. Anderson, Kennesaw State University, 24 June 2019

Mediating Binaries and Re-storying Helping Practices in the Early Years: Disrupting the power of chaos 

• Deborah James, Manchester Met, 20 March 2019

Muslims, Schooling and Security: Trojan Horse, Prevent and Racial Politics 

• Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield, 6 March 2019

(Re)imagining Research with Post Qualitative Inquiry Practices: Thinking with Literacy Desirings from Writers’ Studios 

• Candace Kuby, University of Missouri, 11 February 2019

Conversation as educational research 

• Emile Bojesen, University of Winchester, 16 January 2019

“Being braver and more cowardly than we imagined”: New materialisms, activist practices, and social haunting.

• Dr Geoff Bright, Manchester Met, 28 November 2018

The Butterfly Kiss: Exploring The Materiality, Affect and Performativity of contemporary arts practice within complex community settings

• Vic McEwan, The Cad Factory, 7 November 2018

Unpacking the imaginary, stepping into difference, and making literacy matter in pedagogies of globality and sustainability

• Dr Mia Perry, Glasgow University, 10 October 2018

Enhancing early literacy sessions at public libraries: A social semiotic framework

• Dr Emilia Djonov, Macquarie University, 26 September 2018

Creative Literary Geographies: Center Parcs, the Lake District, and the Mythologisation of Place

• David Cooper, Manchester Met, 20 June 2018

The Pedagogy of Work: Imagining a Workers Education in a Time of Social Fragmentation

• Matthew Carlin, Manchester Met, 23 May 2018

‘That’s me in the picture!’ Ethics, agency and voice in visual research with children and young people

• Prof Helen Lomax, University of Huddersfield, 9 May 2018

Theory that Cats Have: An Exploration of (Posthuman) Literacies and Author Bodies

• Dr Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu, 25 April 2018

Learning by Intertwining Mathematics, Body, Art, Materiality, Imagination

• Ricardo Nemirovsky, Manchester Met, 14 March 2018

“This Documentary Actually Makes Welland Look Good”: A documentary film project with teenagers in Canada

• Prof Jennifer Rowsell, Brock University, 26 February 2018

Sensing Scholarship: Sonic Methodologies for Social Justice Research with Vulnerable Populations

• Walter Gershon, Kent State University, 14 February 2018

Intimacy in an Age of Ubiquitous Listening

• Mickey Vallee, Athabasca University, 17 January 2018

Making and Unmaking Literacies: A turn of events

• Professor Cathy Burnett and Professor Guy Merchant, Sheffield Hallam University, 29 November 2017

Affective Methodologies in Early Childhood Research: adventures in ethical recklessness

• Dr Jayne Osgood, Middlesex University, 8 November 2017

Rewiring education: Building data infrastructure in schools and school systems

• Dr Sam Sellar, Manchester Met, 18 October 2017

Working from entanglement – developing moving and zooming approaches to children’s things and doings

• Dr Riikka Hohti, University of Oulu, 4 October 2017

• The Epigenetics of Early Life Stress: Emerging connections with biosocial research - Dr. Chris Murgatroyd, Manchester Met, 26 May
• School Toilets: Queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment  - Dr Charlotte Jones and Dr Jen Slater, Sheffield Hallam University, 10 May
• Anthropology and/as Education - Prof Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen, 26 April
• An Intellectual History of School Leadership - Prof Helen Gunter, University of Manchester, 22 March
• Beyond reproductive futurism and cruel optimism: Teaching-learning as world spectatorship - Prof Matthew Clarke, York St John University, Wed 8 March
• ‘The Scream’: Sociological reflections on the politics of voice and early childhood ‘soundscapes’ - Dr Rachel Rosen, University College London, UK, Wednesday, 15th February 2017

• Acting out: rhizovocality in post-graduate supervision practices; An ethno-drama in 3 parts - Dr Amanda French and Professor Alex Kendall, Birmingham City University, 16 November 
• Post-racial society as social fantasy: Black American and the struggle for political recognition of race and resistance - Dr Andreja Zevnik, University of Manchester, 7 December
• Disrupting conservatism in simulation pedagogy: a diffractive appeal to theory - Dr Nick Hopwood, University of Technology, Sydney, 2 November
• Alter-childhoods, After Childhood? (Re)Theorising the Geographies of Alternative Education - Prof Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham, 2 November
• Participation: A Horizon for Democratic Citizenship Education? - Dr Janet Batsleer, Manchester Met, 12 October
• Deleuze and The Cultural Politics of Childhood - Dr Anna Hickey-Moody, The University of Sydney, 22 June
• Qualitative methodology and the new materialisms: do we need a new conceptual vocabulary? - Maggie MacLure, Manchester Met, 8 June
• Politics of Affect: Poverty, young people and aspiration - Gabrielle Ivinson, Manchester Met, 11 May
• New Avenues for Children’s Participation in Collective Decision-Making? - Prof Kay Tisdall, University of Edinburgh, 20 April
• Decolonising Global Citizenship Education and ethical alternatives - Dr Dalene Swanson, University of Stirling, 16 March
• Neoliberal Affects - Dr Ben Anderson, University of Durham, 24 February
• Reasons to be miserable: The ‘bedroom tax’ its implications for children and education - Prof Ruth Lupton, University of Manchester, and Dr Anat Greenstein, Manchester Met, 3 February

• Digital Literacy, dead metaphors, and a continuum of ambiguity - Doug Belshaw, 2 December
• Daily into the Blue: The Utopian Margins Avery Gordon, 18 November
• Playing the Field - Chris Perkins and Jana Wendler, University of Manchester, 4 November
• Toward Pedagogies of Responsibility: Wendell Berry, New Materialism, and our Work for the “Great Economy” -Rebecca Martusewicz, Eastern Michigan University, 21 October
• “Beyond The Limits Of What Is Already Understandable”. Working With Social Haunting – The Implications For Educational Ethnography - Geoff Bright, Manchester Met, 7 October
• Employability in Education Studies: A student-lecturer collaborative enquiry - Dr David Menendez Alvarez-Hevia, Manchester Met, 10 June
• Digital Narratives and Oral Histories: Tools for Pedagogy and Knowledge Production - Professor Judy Wu, University of California, 3 June
• DF Score: Improv Pedagogy - Rodrigo Constanzo, University of Huddersfield, 13 May
• Storytelling, Subjectivity and Education - Prof Kenneth Mølbjerg Jørgensen and Prof Paola Valero, Aalborg University, Denmark, 29 April
• The muddled and the mundane: life story through comics - Dr Sarah McNicol, Manchester Met, 1 April
• Prospects for the educated nihilist: Cynicism, suicide and failure - Dr Ansgar Allen, University of Sheffield, 11 March
• Teaching Popular Culture and the Discourse of the University - Alfie Bown, University of Manchester, 25 February
• Ambivalence towards mathematics as a driving force behind mathematics education - Dr Sverker Lundin, University of Gothenburg, 11 February
• The End of the Big Narrative and the Emergence of the Little Student: postmodernity and infantilisation - Prof Robert Pfaller, University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz, 28 January

• Values and academic identities in higher education – a sequence of ideas Dr Charles Neame, Manchester Met, 3 December
• Motherhood and violence: taking agency and challenging the dominant gaze - Dr Vicky Duckworth, Edge Hill University, 12 November
• The Activism of Black feminist Close Reading Practices: Zami: The Epilogue as ‘Myself Apart from Me’ - Dr Suryia Nayak, University of Salford, 5 November
• Researching (Im)possibility? Negotiating Aporias in Teacher Education - Prof Bill Green and Jo-Anne Reid, Charles Stuart University, 22 October
• Picturing the social: Pictures shared on Twitter around the death and funeral of Margaret Thatcher will be examined - Dr Farida Vis, University of Sheffield, 8 October
• Past, Present, Future Encounters: Bodies that Travel, Bodies that Stay - Prof Yvette Taylor, London South Bank University, 11 June
• Feedback Loops - Dr Stephanie Daza, Manchester Met, and Richard Craig, Middlesex University, 14 May
• Navigating Research Partnerships as a Critical Secretary - Dr Harriet Rowley, Manchester Met, 30 April
• Public Education: Voice, Activism and Uprising -Francyne Huckaby, TCU College of Education, 2 April
• Disfunction or symptom? Mathematics education in a context of segregation - Hauke Straehler-Pohl, Free University of Berlin, 26 March
• Disaster education: race and social justice - Prof John Preston, University of East London, 19 March
• Evoking Anti-Colonialism: Critical Arts-Based Research with Undocumented Americans - Prof Carl Bagley, University of Durham, 5 March
• From functional automata to romantic inquisitor: an exploration of the production of the mathematical classroom and the mathematical child within the becoming of primary school student-teachers in England - Dr Anne Llewelyn, University of Durham, 19 February
• Neuroeducational Research in the Design and use of Games-Based Teaching - Dr.Wayne Holmes, University of Oxford, 5 February
• Challenging the ‘tyranny of no alternative’: Teachers and students working towards socially just schooling - Prof Martin Mills, University of Queensland, 22 January

• The emphasises, biases and constraints of a leaderist approach for improving collaboration in children’s services - Dr James Duggan, Manchester Met, 4 December
• Belonging and Exclusion: Council estate life in Nottingham - Dr Lisa McKenzie, University of Nottingham, 20 November
• Do playing and learning fit together? - Prof Bernd Remmele, Wissenschaftliche Hochschule Lahr, 6 November
• Lost bodies in the academy - Dr Anne Pirrie, University of West of Scotland, 23 October
• Researching Grammar in the Curriculum - Prof Debra Myhill, University of Exeter, 16 October
• Governing through accountability: linking school governance to performativity and neoliberalization - Dr Andrew Wilkins, University of Roehampton, 9 October
• The Riots of the Underclass? Stigmatisation, Mediation and the Government of Poverty and Disadvantage in Neoliberal Britain - Dr Imogen Tyler, University of Lancaster, 12 June
• Affect and Automaticity: A Transliminal Orientation - Dr Lisa Blackman, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 5 June
• Free speech in the Post-racial era: racialised discourses in cyber space - Christine Callender, Institute of Education and Lorna Roberts, Manchester Met, 8 May
• The role of digital media in sustaining epistemic engagement and belonging in higher education - Dr Sue Timmis, University of Bristol, 20 March
• Playful hyper responsibility: Deconstructing parental responsibility - Hanne Knudsen, Aarhus Unviersity, 13 March
• From Afghanistan to Croydon: Dialogue, Ethics and Authorship in the Craft of Ethnography - Prof Les Back, Goldsmith’s College (University of London) 6 March
• Community Covenantal Ethics and Structured Ethical Reflection: Enacting the Values of Action Research - Prof Mary Brydon-Millar, University of Cincinnati, 20 February
• The X Factor Generation? Young people’s aspirations and celebrity culture - Dr Kim Allen, Manchester Met, 6 February
• Knowing they matter: Black parental involvement - Prof Uvanney Maylor, University of Bedfordshire, 23 January

• Rethinking the ‘everyday’ and the ‘virtual’ of Anorexia through the Deleuzian event. Acknowledging the real incorporeality of the body - Sarah Dyke, Manchester Met, 5 December
• Approaches for Co-constructing Literacies Research with Young People in Arts Practice and Collaborative Ethnography - Dr Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield, 21 November
• Using Hannah Arendt to think about Reform and Research in Education - Prof Helen Gunter, University of Manchester, 7 November
• Student as Producer: reinventing the undergraduate curriculum - Prof Mike Neary, University of Lincoln, 24 October
• Learning Journeys: the participatory web in the context of academic practice - Cristina Mendes da Costa, University of Salford, 10 October
• Teaching Teachers for the Future - Donna Gronn, Australian Catholic University, 20 June
• ‘Hard Times’: working class young people’s experience of schooling in a period of austerity - Prof Diane Reay, University of Cambridge, 13 June
• ‘Hands Off!’ - Prof Heather Piper, Manchester Met, Dr Dean Garratt, University of Chester, Dr Bill Taylor,  Manchester Met, and Simon Fletcher, Manchester Met 
• Caught in the Middle: Childhood, Education and Adult Responsibility - Prof James Conroy, University of Glasgow, 9 May
• The future of Action Research in the current climate of research concentration, selectivity, and the creation of ‘big social science’ - Prof Bridget Somekh, Manchester Met, 2 May
• Evaluation for Learning and Accountability? - Katherine Ryan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 14 March
• Difference in policy and politics - Julie Allan, Stirling University, 7 March
• The violence of disablism: schools, kids and violence - Dan Goodley and Katherine Runswick-Cole, Manchester Met, 29 February
• SynergyNet: Researching digital technologies for education - Steve Higgins, Durham University, 22 February
• Gay man seeks straight man for honest conversation about coming out at work - Angelo Benozzo, University of Valle d’Aosta, and Huw Bell, Manchester Met, 8 February
• Reinvigorating the dialogue on principles for socially-just schooling - Becky Francis, RSA, 25 January

• Caught in the Middle: Childhood, Education and Adult Responsibility - James Conroy, University of Glasgow, 30 November
• Jumping the lights: more than feedback - John Pryor, University of Sussex, 16 November
• The emotional geographies of New Zealand’s neoliberal school reforms: Spaces of refuge and containment - Karen Nairn, University of Otago, 2 November
• “Taking Part?” Exploring resilience in civil society and third sector organisations. Interim findings of the ESRC Capacity Building Cluster (CBC) for Active Citizenship and Community Empowerment - Prof Marjorie Mayo, University of London, Dr Carol Packham, Manchester Met, and Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, University of Lincoln, 26 October
• Rhizoanalysis: A transdisciplinary approach to literacies research - Diana Masny, University of Ottawa, 20 October
• Professional learning in the software localisation industry: privileging knowledge and the problem of gender in digital working - Irene Malcolm, University of Dundee, 19 October
• Using Positioning Theory to understand the Complexity of the Lived Space - Dr Christine Redman, University of Melbourne, 22 June
• Affective animal: becoming-sacred in reverse labour forms - Dr Felicity Colman, Manchester Met, 8 June
• “Ever since Coalbrook’s been Coalbrook”?  Educational disaffection in a former coal-mining area - Geoff Bright, Manchester Met, 25 May
• Technology and Dialogic Space - Prof Rupert Wegerif, University of Exeter, 11 May
• Rethinking ‘the school’ in the digital age - Dr Neil Selwyn, London University, 30 March
• Older Professionals Learning in a Changing Society: negotiating positions and representations - Prof Tara Fenwick, University of Stirling, 16 March
• Dialogic inquiry: an alternative to traditional academic writing forms - Dr Artemi Sakellariadis, Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, 2 March
• Busting the Trope: Evaluation and the obligation to challenge the ‘single narratives’ of politics - Prof Saville Kushner, University of the West of England, 16 February
• Frank Field, Graham Allen, Iain Duncan Smith and the relentless rise of ‘parent training’ - Dr Ellie Lee, University of Kent, 2 February
• Žižek and the Media - Dr Paul Taylor, University of Leeds, 19 January

• Capacity building cluster, work so far: the challenges and opportunities for community based participatory research - Prof Marjorie Mayo, Goldsmiths, Zoraida Mendiwelso-Bendek, University of Lincoln, and Dr Carol Packham, Manchester Met, 1 December
• A critical consideration of new learning spaces - Dr Charles Crook, University of Nottingham, 17 November
• Young peoples’ beliefs and perception of gender inequality: Motivators or ‘breaks’ on active citizenship? - Dr Bryony Hoskins, Institute of Education, 3 November
• Social justice and school change: the trouble with official School Improvement - Dr Terry Wrigley - Independent consultant, previously University of Edinburgh, 20 October
• How does austerity impact on the work of educators? Time, space and ‘ethics work’ in an economic crisis - Helen Colley, Manchester Met, 6 October
• Learning Habits and Teaching Techniques - Dr Keith Crome, Manchester Met, 22 September
• ‘Youth voice’ and creative teaching: comfortable companions or provocative pairing? - Helen Manchester (with Sara Bragg), 16 June
• Off the Radar and Out of School: Children on the Streets in the UK - Emilie Smeaton, 9 June
• Theory-Practice Relations in Student Voice Work: Power and Participation - Carol Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University, and Carol Robinson, University of Brighton, 2 June
• Rediscovering and reinventing Nyerere? The Teacher Education Crisis in sub-Saharan Africa; incorporating education for sustainable development i(ESD) into the Education for All (EFA) process - Tony Shallcross, Manchester Met, 26 May
• Are we queer yet?: (Not) reconciling participant perspectives in a participatory action research project - Renée DePalma, University of Vigo, 19 May
• Methodologies for longitudinal urban studies - Danae Stanton Fraser, Bath University, 12 May
• Imagining the University of the Future - Prof Louise Morley, University of Sussex, 5 May
• Personalisation of learning - Cathy Lewin, Manchester Met, 28 April
• Stories Out of School: what children and young people tell us about their out-of-school learning - Martin Hughes, University of Bristol, 10 March
• What do we Really Know About the Value of Dialogue for Classroom Education? - Neil Mercer, University of Cambridge, 3 March
• Schools, Threshold Thinking and Work-related Learning in a Recession: Deficit, denial, and deification - David James, University of Western England, 17 February
• The Struggle for Social Justice and the Place of Randomised Controlled Trials in Educational Research - Prof Paul Connolly, Queen’s University Belfast, 10 February
• Radical Education for Radical Democracy: in praise of utopianrealism - Michael Fielding, London Institute of Education, 27 January
• ‘Democracy matters in race matters’ : Obama, desire, hope and the manufacture of disappointment - Prof John Schostak and Lorna Roberts, Manchester Met, 20 January
• Research-led Teaching - Dave Heywood and Joan Parker, Manchester Met, 13 January

• Workplace Learning and Social Justice: Leftist illusions? - Prof James Avis, University of Huddersfield, 2 December
• Every object tells a story: Artifactual Literacies - Dr Kate Pahl, University of Sheffield, 25 November
• Children’s playground games and songs in the New Media Age - Prof Andrew Burn and Dr Chris Richards, Institute of Education, 18 November
• Troubling Schooling: pursuing radical politics in education - Prof Deborah Youdell, Institute of Education, 11 November
• Childhood, biopolitics and human futures - Associate Prof Nick Lee, University of Warwick, 28 October
• ‘Sylvia’s Place’: Ashton-Warner and Progressive Education in New Zealand 1928-68 - Prof Sue Middleton, University of Waikato, 21 October
• Research Quality Assessment: impossible science, possible art? - Prof David Bridges, University of East Anglia, 14 October
• Choosing Mathematics, Choosing Identities? - Prof Yvette Solomon,  Manchester Met, 7 October
• Can Higher Education Enable its Learners’ Digital Autonomy: and do they want it anyway? - Richard Hall, de Montfort University, 3 June
• Disability Studies, Inclusive Education and Psychoanalysis: couch or culture? - Prof Dan Goodley, Manchester Met, 13 May
• The Sound of Violets. The ethnographic potency of poetry? - Lesley Saunders,  University of Cambridge, 18 March
• The Changing Landscape of Qualitative Research - Harry Torrance, Manchester Met, 11 March
• Futures Narratives, Possible Worlds, Big Stories: causal layered analysis and the problems of youth - Cate Watson, University of Aberdeen, 11 February
• Imagining Universities of the Future - Louise Morley, University of Sussex, 4 February
• To Hell in a Handcart? The challenges and opportunities for social software and Web 2.0 in education - Nicola Whitton and Keri Facer, Manchester Met, 21 January

• ‘And hairdressers are quite seedy….’ the moral worth of childcare training - Carol Vincent and Annette Braun, 3 December
• Children’s Cultures, Digital Technologies and Educational Futures - Keri Facer, 12 November
• From Here to Fraternity: re-educating the local in the age of the global - Ian Stronach, 22 October