Thomas Procter-Legg
@procterlegg.bsky.social
Education consultant and DPhil candidate. Researching special educational needs and disabilities within the context of relational and restorative practices #Restorative #Disability #AcademicSky #EduSky occasional #TrumpetPlayer and #Runner
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Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study
Restorative practice in schools has been seen to aid inclusive networks and the holistic development of young people; however, this scoping study of peer reviewed articles published between 2000 an...
www.tandfonline.com
I'm really pleased to share my new (open access) article ‘Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
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Congratulations to Adrian Fernandes on winning the 2025 @uklitassociation.bsky.social Student Research Prize for his MSc Education dissertation on how secondary school English teachers responded to the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/45Qovqm
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August 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Congratulations to Adrian Fernandes on winning the 2025 @uklitassociation.bsky.social Student Research Prize for his MSc Education dissertation on how secondary school English teachers responded to the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/45Qovqm
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/45Qovqm
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🎓 We're delighted to announce a new DPhil scholarship in memory of Professor Richard Pring.
Open for entry from October 2026, the scholarship is open to applicants worldwide, with preference for research in philosophy of education and vocational education.
Find out more bit.ly/4nLaZfY
Open for entry from October 2026, the scholarship is open to applicants worldwide, with preference for research in philosophy of education and vocational education.
Find out more bit.ly/4nLaZfY
July 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🎓 We're delighted to announce a new DPhil scholarship in memory of Professor Richard Pring.
Open for entry from October 2026, the scholarship is open to applicants worldwide, with preference for research in philosophy of education and vocational education.
Find out more bit.ly/4nLaZfY
Open for entry from October 2026, the scholarship is open to applicants worldwide, with preference for research in philosophy of education and vocational education.
Find out more bit.ly/4nLaZfY
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Congratulations to Dr Nicole Dingwall, Dr Cate Hamilton, and Dr Lulu Shi on receiving @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Awards today! 👏🎉
These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to education and teaching at @ox.ac.uk.
Read more on our website ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...
These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to education and teaching at @ox.ac.uk.
Read more on our website ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...
June 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Congratulations to Dr Nicole Dingwall, Dr Cate Hamilton, and Dr Lulu Shi on receiving @socsci.ox.ac.uk Teaching Excellence Awards today! 👏🎉
These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to education and teaching at @ox.ac.uk.
Read more on our website ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...
These awards celebrate outstanding contributions to education and teaching at @ox.ac.uk.
Read more on our website ➡️ www.education.ox.ac.uk/news/departm...
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iJADE Conference 2025 | Ecologies
Registration and abstract submissions open now!
🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025
📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio
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#iJADE2025
Registration and abstract submissions open now!
🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025
📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio
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#iJADE2025
April 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
iJADE Conference 2025 | Ecologies
Registration and abstract submissions open now!
🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025
📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio
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#iJADE2025
Registration and abstract submissions open now!
🗓️ Thursday 6 November & Saturday 8 November 2025
📍 Hybrid - Online & Arnolfini, UWE Bristol
Registration details, call for papers and more information can be found on our website - link in bio
_
#iJADE2025
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@ginnybraun.bsky.social & I were interviewed by @nature.com for a feature on the Most-cited papers of all time. Our paper Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology is number 3! And the 9th most cited paper OF ALL TIME! Wow! Go qualitative research!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century
A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.
www.nature.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
@ginnybraun.bsky.social & I were interviewed by @nature.com for a feature on the Most-cited papers of all time. Our paper Using Thematic Analysis in Psychology is number 3! And the 9th most cited paper OF ALL TIME! Wow! Go qualitative research!! www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social l + @ericaoturner.bsky.social : “Weighing Risks:
How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)
How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)
Weighing Risks: How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic
In this paper, we show how positionality shapes caregivers’ decisions about children’s schooling, by expanding on research on Black families’ educational decision-making (Cooper, 2025; Posey-Maddox et...
edworkingpapers.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:21 PM
New paper with @alexfreidus.bsky.social l + @ericaoturner.bsky.social : “Weighing Risks:
How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)
How Families of Disabled Children Made School Choices During the Pandemic.” edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1171 (1/4)
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Professor Rebecca Eynon (Professor of Education, the Internet and Society), and Dr Alice Tawell & Teresa Williams (@reescentre.bsky.social) have been awarded SDG Impact Fund grants for their projects to advance the Sustainability Development Goal of 'Quality Education' 🎉
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/42ksJER
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/42ksJER
April 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Professor Rebecca Eynon (Professor of Education, the Internet and Society), and Dr Alice Tawell & Teresa Williams (@reescentre.bsky.social) have been awarded SDG Impact Fund grants for their projects to advance the Sustainability Development Goal of 'Quality Education' 🎉
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/42ksJER
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/42ksJER
I'm really pleased to share my new (open access) article ‘Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study
Restorative practice in schools has been seen to aid inclusive networks and the holistic development of young people; however, this scoping study of peer reviewed articles published between 2000 an...
www.tandfonline.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
I'm really pleased to share my new (open access) article ‘Restorative practice and young people with special educational needs and disabilities: a scoping study' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
@oxforddeptofed.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Restorative #SEND #Disability
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Are you a practitioner, educator or policy worker looking to engage with the Department of Education? 🧑🏫
Join the #OxfordEdDeanery mailing list to get news of our events, workshops, and CPD courses for professionals, and termly digests of our research to your inbox ➡️ eepurl.com/iAtDik
Join the #OxfordEdDeanery mailing list to get news of our events, workshops, and CPD courses for professionals, and termly digests of our research to your inbox ➡️ eepurl.com/iAtDik
March 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Are you a practitioner, educator or policy worker looking to engage with the Department of Education? 🧑🏫
Join the #OxfordEdDeanery mailing list to get news of our events, workshops, and CPD courses for professionals, and termly digests of our research to your inbox ➡️ eepurl.com/iAtDik
Join the #OxfordEdDeanery mailing list to get news of our events, workshops, and CPD courses for professionals, and termly digests of our research to your inbox ➡️ eepurl.com/iAtDik
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The Lit in Colour Pioneers pilot increased the number of students answering texts by writers of colour by 🌟100-fold🌟 since 2019
The research by @veldaelliott.bsky.social with Pearson Edexcel, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust is Highly Commended at the #SocialSciencesImpactAwards today 👏
The research by @veldaelliott.bsky.social with Pearson Edexcel, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust is Highly Commended at the #SocialSciencesImpactAwards today 👏
March 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The Lit in Colour Pioneers pilot increased the number of students answering texts by writers of colour by 🌟100-fold🌟 since 2019
The research by @veldaelliott.bsky.social with Pearson Edexcel, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust is Highly Commended at the #SocialSciencesImpactAwards today 👏
The research by @veldaelliott.bsky.social with Pearson Edexcel, Penguin Books and the Runnymede Trust is Highly Commended at the #SocialSciencesImpactAwards today 👏
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what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
March 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
what does ‘misbehaviour’ sound like? in new open access work i ask this question in the context of school discipline policies, looking at how ideologies of ‘im/proper language’ and ‘im/proper behaviour’ coalesce and get co-constructed with one another. doi.org/10.1080/0962...
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Today we have published new research on the special schools workforce in England: an under-researched sector that can get neglected and misunderstood in policymaking.
Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀
www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor...
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Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀
www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor...
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Exploring the special schools workforce: What’s the current picture?
In this first of a two part feature length blog post series on special schools, Senior Economist Michael Scott discusses the current workforce, teacher vacancy rates and data about teachers with quali...
www.nfer.ac.uk
February 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Today we have published new research on the special schools workforce in England: an under-researched sector that can get neglected and misunderstood in policymaking.
Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀
www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor...
Thread 🧵👇
Part 1 looks at staffing, and part 2 next week will have even more insights 👀
www.nfer.ac.uk/blogs/explor...
Thread 🧵👇
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Stop calling people 'morons', 'idiots' and 'retards'.
My new book (out in June from @Wildfirebks) tells how badly people with learning disabilities have been treated in the past, and the way that is embedded in everyday culture today.
My new book (out in June from @Wildfirebks) tells how badly people with learning disabilities have been treated in the past, and the way that is embedded in everyday culture today.
March 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Stop calling people 'morons', 'idiots' and 'retards'.
My new book (out in June from @Wildfirebks) tells how badly people with learning disabilities have been treated in the past, and the way that is embedded in everyday culture today.
My new book (out in June from @Wildfirebks) tells how badly people with learning disabilities have been treated in the past, and the way that is embedded in everyday culture today.
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SEND is in crisis – but pupils with SEMH needs are suffering the most in terms of not getting the right support. @johngroberts.bsky.social explores why this is the case and what schools can do ⬇️
Why SEMH support is schools’ biggest challenge
Pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs have been found to fare the worst in terms of getting SEND support. Why is this, and what can schools do with constrained resources?
www.tes.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:05 AM
SEND is in crisis – but pupils with SEMH needs are suffering the most in terms of not getting the right support. @johngroberts.bsky.social explores why this is the case and what schools can do ⬇️
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Special investigation: Interventions lacking evidence, copy and paste plans, health and social care missing - Schools Week reveals how EHCPs are failing vulnerable children
Investigation: How EHCPs fail our most vulnerable children
England now spends nearly £11 billion providing education for children with additional needs. But what does the funding in EHCPs actually get spent on?
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Special investigation: Interventions lacking evidence, copy and paste plans, health and social care missing - Schools Week reveals how EHCPs are failing vulnerable children
If you’re interested in #TeacherRetention maybe check out our new publication examining the motivational factors that shape #EarlyCareerTeachers career decision-making. Results show how #ProfessionalIdentity and #Belonging are key #AcademicSky bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online Library
Teacher retention in England continues to be in a state of decline, with early career teachers (ECTs) most at risk of leaving the profession. High attrition rates create an unstable and unsustainable...
bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you’re interested in #TeacherRetention maybe check out our new publication examining the motivational factors that shape #EarlyCareerTeachers career decision-making. Results show how #ProfessionalIdentity and #Belonging are key #AcademicSky bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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📢 Join Professor Cristina Mckean for her inaugural lecture on 3 March, 'Creating the conditions for robust early language development'
📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm
Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y
📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm
Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y
February 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 Join Professor Cristina Mckean for her inaugural lecture on 3 March, 'Creating the conditions for robust early language development'
📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm
Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y
📅 3 March
⌚ 5pm
Register for in-person attendance ➡️ https://buff.ly/3XdF389
Or join us online ➡️ https://buff.ly/41dhD3Y
Volume 10 of the International Journal of Nurture in Education including my peer-reviewed thought piece on ‘behaviour as communication’ as a hinge commitment to whole school #nurture and #restorative practice. @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social www.nurtureuk.org/journal/volu... #AcademicSky
IJNE Volume 10 - 2024 - nurtureuk
Explore the International Journal of Nurture in Education, a valuable resource for educators and researchers. Gain insights into nurturing approaches, social-emotional development, and promoting well-...
www.nurtureuk.org
February 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Volume 10 of the International Journal of Nurture in Education including my peer-reviewed thought piece on ‘behaviour as communication’ as a hinge commitment to whole school #nurture and #restorative practice. @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social www.nurtureuk.org/journal/volu... #AcademicSky
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📣CALL FOR PAPERS: STORIES 2025 💡
STORIES (STudents’ Ongoing Research In Educational Studies), our annual student-run conference, will take place online on 10 April at 10am.
Find out more and submit your abstract - open worldwide! ➡️ bit.ly/3X7hDBg
STORIES (STudents’ Ongoing Research In Educational Studies), our annual student-run conference, will take place online on 10 April at 10am.
Find out more and submit your abstract - open worldwide! ➡️ bit.ly/3X7hDBg
February 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📣CALL FOR PAPERS: STORIES 2025 💡
STORIES (STudents’ Ongoing Research In Educational Studies), our annual student-run conference, will take place online on 10 April at 10am.
Find out more and submit your abstract - open worldwide! ➡️ bit.ly/3X7hDBg
STORIES (STudents’ Ongoing Research In Educational Studies), our annual student-run conference, will take place online on 10 April at 10am.
Find out more and submit your abstract - open worldwide! ➡️ bit.ly/3X7hDBg
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Are there ASL-based resources for discussing immigration rights and resources for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing students? Thanks for sharing!
January 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Are there ASL-based resources for discussing immigration rights and resources for Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing students? Thanks for sharing!
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📣 Save the Date!
We are pleased to announce the NSEAD conference will be returning for 2025. Taking place online, the National Art & Design Education Conference is the must-attend event for art, craft and design education training and curriculum insight.
#NSEADConference25
We are pleased to announce the NSEAD conference will be returning for 2025. Taking place online, the National Art & Design Education Conference is the must-attend event for art, craft and design education training and curriculum insight.
#NSEADConference25
January 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣 Save the Date!
We are pleased to announce the NSEAD conference will be returning for 2025. Taking place online, the National Art & Design Education Conference is the must-attend event for art, craft and design education training and curriculum insight.
#NSEADConference25
We are pleased to announce the NSEAD conference will be returning for 2025. Taking place online, the National Art & Design Education Conference is the must-attend event for art, craft and design education training and curriculum insight.
#NSEADConference25
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Both major political parties agree that there is a crisis in funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). But just how many children are we talking about here? I analysed the latest DfE data to see the current extent of need www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Revealed: the scale of the SEND crisis in numbers
The huge shortfall in funding for pupils with special educational needs and disabilities is clear. But how many children now need support - and how has this figure increased in recent years? Tes analy...
www.tes.com
February 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Both major political parties agree that there is a crisis in funding for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). But just how many children are we talking about here? I analysed the latest DfE data to see the current extent of need www.tes.com/magazine/ana...