In this episode of It’s Just Research, hosts Sara Black and Liam Cini O’Dwyer are joined by Dr Christina Richardson and Professor Yvonne Foley to discuss Communicating Sanctuary and Care, a collaborative project between NALDIC (the National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum) and the University of Edinburgh.

Bringing together education, healthcare, linguistics, and contemporary art, the project explores how schools can better support children and young people from refugee backgrounds. Rather than focusing solely on "welcoming" newcomers, Christina and Yvonne argue for approaches that recognise refugee children as active participants in their communities, with agency,

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In this episode of It’s Just Research, hosts Dr Sara Black and Liam Cini O’Dwyer speak with Dr Simon Gibbons about child-centred approaches to teaching English and the importance of making education meaningful to students’ own lives and experiences.

Simon discusses the history of progressive English teaching and also reflects on his own journey from studying science to specialising in English education and his long-standing interest in how children learn.

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In this episode of It’s Just Research, hosts Dr Sara Black and Liam Cini O’Dwyer are joined by Dr Carla Finesilver to explore how students learn mathematics, and how the way we represent maths shapes that learning. While children often encounter maths through everyday experiences like sharing and problem-solving, classroom maths can quickly become formal and procedural. Carla discusses how this shift towards symbols and standardised methods can limit creativity and disengage many learners.

You can read more about Carla’s research in her recent paper: Beyond categories: Dynamic qualitative analysis of visuospatial representation in arithmetic

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