Dr of Education. Teacher. Lecturer. Mother | Education. Feminism. Gender. Class. Relationality. Parental engagement. Mothering. Primary homework. (views my own)
University of Nottingham
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Delighted this paper is published. The data the paper draws on is fascinating and wonderful. I hope I did the mothers' justice. Primary homework through a relational mothering lens: spatio-temporal, embodied and linguistic features of homework interactions doi.org/10.1080/01425692.202…
Paddington The Musical | West End LIVE 2026 youtu.be/i_RsXqFiUsM?si=RRB5… via @YouTube
Really excited to see my forthcoming book 'Primary Homework, Mothering and Maternal Agency' now listed on the publisher's website. Click here for more details and to see when this can be pre-ordered / shipped to your libraries. routledge.com/Primary-Homewo…
Looking forward to seeing all the chapters in print in this edited collection to which I have contributed a chapter.
Happy to share the beautiful cover of our forthcoming book with @SpringerNature - The Role of Social Inequality in Parent Engagement: From Inequality to Social Justice in Education. Immensely grateful to authors of all 16 chapters and Springer!
Had productive & generative conversation w/ Dr Carolyn Clarke, discussing: the tension between homework as a 'universal' practice & family heterogeneity; ways the power of policy creates homework; & how homework responsibilisation changes family relationships & parenting.
Through enjoyed the International Child and Family Conference at University of Bristol last week. Contributed my paper: "Mothers patterns of interaction in educational activities" and with @Dr_YuweiXu presented on: "Chinese and Turkish parents' reflective parenting" #ICFC2025
Very much looking forward to this. The international crossover between Dr Carolyn Clarke's work and my own will be make for a great discussion.
GCRG is glad to welcome Dr. Carolyn to Nottingham. She will deliver a seminar on homework policies and practices in everyday family contexts; with our very own @R_LehnerMear being the discussant. Join us in person on the 24th June or email if you want to attend online. @UoNSoE
Thoroughy enjoyed hearing Dr Andrea O'Reilly, originator of matricentric feminism, talk on the continued need for a matricentric feminism, 60 years into the feminist movement. Favourite phrase: doing "the archeology of maternity" ie finding the gritty, messy stories of motherhood
Delighted to share our new, open access paper on "reflective parenting" in international contexts. We use a processual approach to explore shifts in contemporary parenting approaches in China & Turkiye. Thanks in particular to @Dr_YuweiXu for trusting me to take the lead on this.
Dr Rachel Lehner-Mear retweeted
in analysing 563 behaviour policies from the 34 largest multi-academy trusts in England, i show how 'misbehaviour' is associated with a constellation of linguistic features - these are of course not empirically connected, but ideologically connected.
New Open Access paper for those interested in gender, ECE, curriculum & social justice: 'Gender as an issue of curricular (in)justice'. Worked with fab colleagues on this. Delighted it will be in a Curriculum Journal Special issue on curricular justice. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.…
Fabulous webinar on Helicopter Parenting with Talia Welsh of Uni Alberta org'ed by Centre for Parenting Culture Studies @CPCS_UniKent How has the term morphed over time & thro neoliberal rhetoric to encompass myriad negative outcomes & what does this mean for parental choice?
Good start to the day. Acceptance to present at the International Child and Family Conference 2025. Looking forward to that!
Just submitted a paper I am really excited about. Why does it feel like my heart as well as my work is on the line? #caringtoodeeply
"when comparing a large MAT to a similar sized LEA area ... the MAT is likely to be spending £6.7 million less on classroom teachers and educational support staff than is typical in the LEA-maintained sector, but will be operating at a higher cost to the public purse.'
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Working on something new at the mo. Feeling deep in it. I knew it wasn't right, but I was tinkering at the edges. Conversation yesterday with an uninvested colleague and I suddenly realised how easily I could fix it. 1 big structural change later & it's both better & simpler.🙌