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Neil Harrison
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Professor of Education and Social Justice in the School of Education at the University of Exeter - posts personal.

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London Assembly @londonassembly.bsky.social · May 7
The #AssemblyEconomy report ‘Careers after care: helping care-experienced young Londoners fulfil their potential’ has now been published. The report highlights the difficulties care-experienced young people face when seeking employment, training or education. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
Marina Ahmad AM Former Chair of the London Assembly Economy, Culture and Skills Committee “[...] Employment, education and training is essential to help people grow, yet we heard shocking statistics that show just how much of a challenge finding those opportunities is for care-experienced people. [...]”

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Jun 3
At the House of Lords this evening, speaking at an event for the Drive Forward Foundation about transitions to work for care-experienced young people, based on my 2023 report for @nuffieldfoundation.org...

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · May 8
Delighted to have contributed evidence to this really important report into how to improve transitions into adulthood for care-experienced young people in London...
londonassembly.bsky.social London Assembly @londonassembly.bsky.social · May 7
The #AssemblyEconomy report ‘Careers after care: helping care-experienced young Londoners fulfil their potential’ has now been published. The report highlights the difficulties care-experienced young people face when seeking employment, training or education. www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
Marina Ahmad AM Former Chair of the London Assembly Economy, Culture and Skills Committee “[...] Employment, education and training is essential to help people grow, yet we heard shocking statistics that show just how much of a challenge finding those opportunities is for care-experienced people. [...]”

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Mar 12
And also this one...

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A praxis-based perspective on supporting care-experienced students to thrive in higher education using the capabilities approach
Students who spent time in state care as children, usually due to neglect or maltreatment, are a growing community within higher education in many countries. However, their participation rates gene...
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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Mar 12
I'm slowly moving my social media across from 'the other place'! There's a couple of journal articles that were printed late last year that I'd not gotten around to sharing (again)...

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Climbing the ivory tower: agency, reflexivity and the career pathways of care-experienced academics in higher education - Higher Education
There has been increasing interest in understanding the higher education experiences of students who spent time ‘in care’ as children, who tend to have to overcome strong barriers to educational succe...
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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Feb 5
Very well thanks! How's Oxford?

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Jan 21
I used to love walking through there...

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Jenna Mittelmeier @jlmittelmeier.bsky.social · Jan 21
Call for chapter authors for the new book I'm editing! Abstracts due Feb 28.

'The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities'

Submission form and full book details here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Call for Abstracts: Chapters for 'The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities'
Call for Contributions to an Edited Volume The Untold Stories of International Student Mobilities Edited by Jenna Mittelmeier Contributions are sought for an edited volume focusing on the untold stor...
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Phil Durrant @phil-durrant.bsky.social · Dec 13
Our new paper out now in Applied Linguistics…

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Linking adverbials in children’s writing: Exploring variation across year groups, genres, and disciplines
Abstract. Linking adverbials is a crucial element in successful academic writing that is particularly challenging for both first and second-language learne
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University of Exeter News @uniofexeternews.bsky.social · Dec 11
Dr Will Shield from Educational Psychology discusses the dangers of self-diagnosing mental health problems using social media in this article

www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
Two million young people have self-diagnosed mental health problems
Waiting lists for therapy mean many rely sites like TikTok for medical advice
www.telegraph.co.uk

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Dec 9
Looking forward to giving 'oral evidence' about #careleavers and #cep accessing the labour market to the London Assembly Economy, Culture and Skills Committee this afternoon, drawing on our 2023 report for the Nuffield Foundation. Streamed live: webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Event…
https://webcasts.london.gov.uk/Assembly/Event…

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Neil Harrison @neilharrison.bsky.social · Nov 22
Using my first Bluesky post to announce publication of new report: 'Improving the effectiveness of virtual schools'. Explores local disparities in educational outcomes for children in care. Collaboration with NAVSH and Rees Centre, funded by KPMG Foundation: education.exeter.ac.uk/research/pro...