CSPACE Blog

The Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE) is a community of researchers, lecturers, practitioners and students committed to exploring culture and practice across a wide spectrum of educational settings. This blog will offer insight into our inventive and creative approaches to research, as well as promoting our work on inclusion and social justice across a range of educational fields.

This blog gives a summary of the research process and some of the key findings of the first phase of the Co-MAP project, comprising interviews with school leadership teams across the UK, Germany, Greece, Hungary, and the Netherlands.

This blog offers a critique of the long-awaited media report recently published by The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB)....

This blog gives a brief conceptualisation of contemporary conductive education with the aid of a ‘posts’ conversation,...

This blog gives an overview of the transition of the Open School Doors Erasmus+ funded project into the recently launch...

This blog gives an overview of a new international creative research project led by Birmingham City University that ex...

A blog outlining photo-elicitation research on inclusive practice conducted with children and young people in schools i...

Children and young people re-visualising inclusion

A discussion of how the perpetuation of gender stereotypes throughout society, particularly in childhood, can have a ha...

A reflection on past experiences as a young person not in employment, education or training.

A reflection on coping with adult physical impairment.

PhD student Lynn Holman-Fox reflects on her own music education experience, considering some of the barriers she faced ...

This article challenges the political catch up and loss narratives following long periods of school closures and home-...

This reflection examines intersections between independent school songs, those who wrote and taught them and the role o...

This post discusses the importance of highlighting and tackling social and health inequalities before a child reaches ...

This post links the founding principles of the BBC with Adam Curtis’s latest documentary and its wider application to ...

Although it feels like a lifetime ago now due to Covid-19 restrictions - I used to have the privilege of visiting music...

In 2015, BCU developed a community of practice model for the professional development of doctoral supervisors. This mo...

Within the myriad of thoughts, emotions and perceptions around what behaviour management entails, through my own exper...

Student-staff collaboration in learning and teaching has been an influential movement in UK higher education (HE) parti...

Liam Maloy will present his new book: " Spinning the Child : Musical Constructions of Childhood through Records, Radio ...

The BCU Education journal magazine that will contain research based articles that can be used by teachers and easily r...

Considerations of how teacher assessment is (or is not) used in Primary schools to inform end of Primary Schools asses...

Conceptualising and planning a research project from scratch is a challenge. Applying for funding to support your idea...

This blog draws on the notion of threshold concepts focusing on the Key Stage 3 group composing context. Using video-r...

This blog listing is about my experiences as the module lead on Critical Perspective 2, a module on School of Educatio...

This blog post shares the moments of success I have found as an educator and doctoral student during the period of lock...

A PhD researcher shares her observations on the importance of considering tastes and preferences when delivering holid...

This blog explores the experience of an academic who spent a year writing fiction and highlights the ways in which both...

This article discusses a new project that aims to explore the experiences of children with SEND and their parents durin...

The purpose of this piece is to encourage readers to reflect on the source/s of their theory and to critique the need ...

Research informed teaching focuses on enhancing the knowledge of students through research, teaching students to develo...

CSPACE Blog

“We became an emergency service”: school leaders reflecting on their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic

Reporting the reporters

A match made in the Academy – When Conductive Education met the ‘Posts’

Open School Doors transitions to Co-MAP

International Co-MAP project launches with Birmingham Schools of Sanctuary

Children and young people re-visualising inclusion

Gender stereotypes in childhood: what’s the harm?

Mystery tour for a so-called “NEET”

A reflection on coping with adult physical impairment

Girls don't do this!

'The political catch-up': learning from parents' experiences of home-schooling children with SEND

Tacet: Female Directors of Music in UK Independent School History.

All Born Equal? Tackling social inequalities from birth to five to safeguard lifelong wellbeing

Inform, Educate, Entertain: The BBC at the end of history

Visiting Manor Church of England Academy: thoughts about music technology and gender

From practitioner inquiry on doctoral supervision into an internally funded creative research project

4:1 gets the job done-right?

Co-developing students and staff classroom consciousness – some key ingredients

Spinning the child: musical constructions of childhood through records, radio and television

Coming soon – the BCU School of Education journal magazine!

The place of teacher assessment in Primary School statutory testing

The Research Garden: finding your way through the undergrowth and having the courage to try

Threshold concepts and formative assessment within Key Stage 3 group composing

Critical Perspective 2: Formative Presentations

Moments of Light: Loss, Work and Research

Holiday food programmes and food insecurity prevention- recommendations for delivery.

Crossing boundaries: reflections on being an academic and a writer of fiction

Home schooling; Children; Families; School; Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

Lockdown in Theory

Research Informed Teaching