Today I had the great privilege of presenting the keynote address at The University of Lincoln’s Ed.D student conference. As…
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Standards for Teachers’ Professional Development
Yesterday the much awaited new CPD standards were released by the Department for Education. The standards have come about through…
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This week I attended a free, one-day conference for doctoral students and early career researchers at De Montfort University. The…
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Last Thursday I attended a conference by the Teacher Development Trust (TDT) at the Learn Sheffield Hub. The day was…
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I won’t lie, the first year of my PhD has proven to be a rather tough one. All of the…
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Every Wednesday I attend a Doctoral Training Programme module on research design. For this week we were asked to read…
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Last week I took a short course in Beginning to teach in Higher Education; an introductory course for PhD students…
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Image shared under a Creative Commons license by Pete On the 1st October, I finally began my PhD journey. Having…
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The DigiLit Leicester project is a two year collaboration between Leicester City Council, De Montfort University and 23 secondary and…
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