This research cluster includes a focus on:

• poverty, class and its relationship to wellbeing, inequality, access and educational attainment
• inclusion and inclusive practice in relation to: artificial intelligence, STEM, parental attitudes, transitions, social exclusion and trauma of vulnerable groups, marginalisation and marginalised communities, babies’ and toddlers’ voices, young asylum seekers and refugees, children with disabilities
• children’s rights and human rights education
• critical pedagogy, radical/creative pedagogy in intercultural education, English language teaching, precarity and pedagogies of affect in physical education, and practical philosophy for citizenship and human rights
• social justice public policy
• leadership for social justice

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• sexualities
• religion and faith
• homophobic bullying and LGBT young people and suicidality
• the risks and benefits of LGBTQI+ inclusive classrooms and curricula
• adolescent girls in physical education and women’s sport
• Muslim South Asian young women in science
• gender identity of student teachers of English in South Africa and Argentina

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• theorising educational policy
• analyses of policies on educational and social inclusion
• critical analyses of policies on widening access to higher education
• Scottish policies relating to changing forms of governance and leadership in the school system and in early learning services
• analyses of educational policy changes in the Middle East and North Africa
• policies on integrated working and transition across EU countries
• policy development in the specific context of physical education

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• social justice perspectives in higher education
• student experience, including student transitions into HE student estrangement intergenerational mentoring, supporting school pupils into university, and social origins and career destinations
• imposter syndrome, and the negotiation of queer and religious identities
• academic feminist collaborations at various career stages
• the postcolonial critique of higher education leadership, and women’s leadership in Middle Eastern universities

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• practical philosophy with marginalised young people in secure accommodation and mainstream settings, to promote rights and citizenship, to develop self-regulation, and as an approach to living well and well-being
• philosophy of child and childhood
• cultural resistance, and transformation, including transformations in scientific identity among adults and children
• religious education, and religion and post-secular society
• comparisons between educational theories and practices in Germany and Japan

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• brain and motor development among children with autism, considering uses of digital technology and artificial intelligence as a means of assessing autism; the use of motor activity as a possible predictor of autism
• attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood, and self-regulation and participation of children and young people with autism and socio-emotional behavioural needs in practical philosophy
• learning disabilities, supporting pupils with social, emotional and behavioural needs, trajectories of conduct problems and interpersonal rupture and relational repair skills of autistic adolescents
• experiences of educational transition for young women with autism
• inclusion in nursery, primary, and secondary schools across the EU to problematize medical models of disability
• humanistic methods to heal painful experiences through emotion-focused therapy

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• arts-based methods and digital technologies in the early years
• scientific literacy using children’s stories
• international comparisons of inclusive, creative and outdoor pedagogy and language development through playroom experiences
• fundamental motor skills and perceived and actual motor competence of young children in relation to developmental health and learning
• maternal factors in children’s language and reasoning skills
• children’s voice with a specific focus on children under seven years-old

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• the role of digital technology in childhood and early years
• identification and assessment of autism
• mental health, and accessing and working through trauma
• mobile technologies and their uses in learning and assessment of pupils and student teachers

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• the development and psychometric validation of research instruments in assessing motor skills in early childhood, empathy for autism, and critical thinking and emotional and behavioural changes in childhood
• the development of innovative research methods such as visual methods, in practitioner inquiry, arts-based methods, students as researchers, and philosophical dialogue as a rights-based research method
• ethical issues in the use of visual methods

This research cluster includes a focus on:

• quality in initial teacher education (ITE), including student teachers’ uses of democratic forms of assessment
• uses of action research in learning to teach English
• the teacher in teacher-practitioner research
• teachers as metacognitive role models
• teacher professional learning
• teacher effectiveness
• online teacher education in the context of forced immobility
• study-abroad programmes
• majority and minority language education
• student teachers’ uses of educational research