Dr Emily MacLeod
@emilymacleod.bsky.social
I research why people do/not become teachers, especially in science, and how we can make education equitable. Working at McGill and UCL.
*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?*
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
September 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
*What makes or breaks teaching for young people?*
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
I have a new open-access paper out in @berj-2025.bsky.social bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Teacher-makers and teacher-breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching
🧵(1/11)
Today marks my one year anniversary at @mcgill.ca ☀️
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today marks my one year anniversary at @mcgill.ca ☀️
📢 New @beranews.bsky.social blog out today, where I consider the impact of the idea that some teachers are 'born' to teach
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/born-to...
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/born-to...
September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📢 New @beranews.bsky.social blog out today, where I consider the impact of the idea that some teachers are 'born' to teach
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/born-to...
www.bera.ac.uk/blog/born-to...
Back home in Montréal after a fantastic time conferencing with my @eserasig5.bsky.social family 😍
... And with a new obsession for Danish ice cream 🍧
@mariobarioberge.bsky.social @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social @allisongonsalves.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @emilysprowls.bsky.social
... And with a new obsession for Danish ice cream 🍧
@mariobarioberge.bsky.social @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social @allisongonsalves.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @emilysprowls.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Back home in Montréal after a fantastic time conferencing with my @eserasig5.bsky.social family 😍
... And with a new obsession for Danish ice cream 🍧
@mariobarioberge.bsky.social @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social @allisongonsalves.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @emilysprowls.bsky.social
... And with a new obsession for Danish ice cream 🍧
@mariobarioberge.bsky.social @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social @allisongonsalves.bsky.social @lucyavraamidou.bsky.social @emilysprowls.bsky.social
This week I'm in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 with wonderful McGill colleagues for the European Science Education Association conference #ESERA @eserasig5.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This week I'm in wonderful Copenhagen 🇩🇰 with wonderful McGill colleagues for the European Science Education Association conference #ESERA @eserasig5.bsky.social
Who Aspires to Become a Teacher? Findings from a Cohort Study Tracking Young People from Age 10/11 to Age 21/22
In this new paper we use survey data from the ASPIRES project to analyse teaching aspirations amongst young people in England (1/4 🧵)
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
In this new paper we use survey data from the ASPIRES project to analyse teaching aspirations amongst young people in England (1/4 🧵)
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
August 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Who Aspires to Become a Teacher? Findings from a Cohort Study Tracking Young People from Age 10/11 to Age 21/22
In this new paper we use survey data from the ASPIRES project to analyse teaching aspirations amongst young people in England (1/4 🧵)
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
In this new paper we use survey data from the ASPIRES project to analyse teaching aspirations amongst young people in England (1/4 🧵)
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
Thank you to everyone who came to our @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca talk today 'Do science teachers count as scientists?' A full house and fruitful discussion!
June 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Thank you to everyone who came to our @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca talk today 'Do science teachers count as scientists?' A full house and fruitful discussion!
Excited to be in sunny Toronto for @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca this week
June 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to be in sunny Toronto for @csse-scee.bsky.social @federationhss.ca this week
A year since this happened! 🎓
May 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
A year since this happened! 🎓
Merci beaucoup à ma collègue Prof Jrène Rham et ses étudiants.es à #universitédemontréal pour l'opportunité de présenter mes recherches en français ce soir!
If you had told the old high school French teacher me that I would be presenting my research in French one day I would not have believed it!
If you had told the old high school French teacher me that I would be presenting my research in French one day I would not have believed it!
March 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Merci beaucoup à ma collègue Prof Jrène Rham et ses étudiants.es à #universitédemontréal pour l'opportunité de présenter mes recherches en français ce soir!
If you had told the old high school French teacher me that I would be presenting my research in French one day I would not have believed it!
If you had told the old high school French teacher me that I would be presenting my research in French one day I would not have believed it!
When people back in the UK ask me what the spring weather is like in Montréal 🤯
March 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
When people back in the UK ask me what the spring weather is like in Montréal 🤯
Now that we're *here* I want to re-share my PhD research 👩🏼🎓
You can read it here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... but it’s actually really long so here is a summary in case you don’t have time to read all 100,000 words 🧵(1/13)
You can read it here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... but it’s actually really long so here is a summary in case you don’t have time to read all 100,000 words 🧵(1/13)
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Now that we're *here* I want to re-share my PhD research 👩🏼🎓
You can read it here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... but it’s actually really long so here is a summary in case you don’t have time to read all 100,000 words 🧵(1/13)
You can read it here discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... but it’s actually really long so here is a summary in case you don’t have time to read all 100,000 words 🧵(1/13)
Life in Montréal after 70cm of snow in the last four days ❄️
February 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Life in Montréal after 70cm of snow in the last four days ❄️
Appreciation post for the Academic Phrasebank from @official-uom.bsky.social I've been doing lots of writing recently and this has been such a useful tool in my Bookmarks tab - highly recommend for anyone writing a journal paper, thesis, dissertation etc. in English www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk
January 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Appreciation post for the Academic Phrasebank from @official-uom.bsky.social I've been doing lots of writing recently and this has been such a useful tool in my Bookmarks tab - highly recommend for anyone writing a journal paper, thesis, dissertation etc. in English www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk
Today's work distraction: the first proper snowfall of the season in Montréal 😍❄️
December 5, 2024 at 4:26 PM
Today's work distraction: the first proper snowfall of the season in Montréal 😍❄️
Sad to be missing the British Education Research Association (BERA) awards ceremony today as I'm in Montréal for my postdoc. But loving seeing the pictures from afar, including this one! It was such an honour to win the Doctoral Thesis Award this year - many thanks to the BERA community ❤️
November 26, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Sad to be missing the British Education Research Association (BERA) awards ceremony today as I'm in Montréal for my postdoc. But loving seeing the pictures from afar, including this one! It was such an honour to win the Doctoral Thesis Award this year - many thanks to the BERA community ❤️