Postdoctoral early career researcher focused on the roles and professional identities of learning support staff.
Joined March 2022
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I was recently awarded my PhD for my work on the roles and professional identities of learning support staff in secondary settings. When my thesis has been uploaded onto the repository I will update on here with a link.
Thank you to all who helped, particularly during the pilot.
Inspired by a post I've seen - are any teachers heading back to a school with less TAs than last year?
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CALLING ALL #TEACHINGASSISTANTS and #teachers etc who'd like to have their say about TA wages and their impact on your life etc. This is your opportunity to have a VOICE! Please complete, submit and share as widely as possible to make our voices HEARD at last #schools #edutwitter
🌟 #TeachingAssistant Pay 🌟
The Petitions Committee – a cross-party group of MPs who consider petitions started on petition.parliament.uk – have scheduled a debate in Parliament on a petition calling to raise pay for teaching assistants
forms.office.com/Pages/Respo…
Secondary school teachers - is anyone interested in taking part in a pilot interview either this evening or tomorroe over Teams? Approx. 20 mins and centred around perceptions of TAs. Thank you.
I'm reaching out to secondary SENDCos in particular. I'm currently conducting research on TA professional identity and I'm looking for additional participants who might be interested in taking part. Research involves interviews and reflective writing. Please retweet. Thank you.
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🌟CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS🌟
Are you a primary caregiver of a child born between 2017 and 2022?
Do you want to participate in some research on attitudes towards childhood vaccinations (or know someone who might?).
Please follow (or share) the link below!
hud.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…
ALT Are you the primary caregiver of a child 5 or under and can spare 30 minutes to answer our questions on routine vaccinations? Then please follow the link. If you have any thoughts, questions or concerns please contact Gabriella Annandale at [email protected]
To my pilot study participants,
Thank you so much for your responses. There's good pilot data for me to look at and I appreciate your feedback. I'm not going to identify you and please don't identify yourselves, but thanks again.
Thank you to those who have shown an interest in participating in my pilot study re. the professional identity of TAs. The invitation remains open. Please retweet.
For all TAs - I am interested in conducting a pilot study involving reflective journaling. As a pilot, data is not used in the final thesis. All participation is anonymous. It would involve responding to some open-ended questiosn. For further information, please DM me. Thanks.
Secondary TAs, HLTAs, teachers and SLT - Recent research (Hall & Webster, 2022) discussed the impact of cost of living crisis on TA recruitment and retention. I've seen evidence on here that primary schools are experiencing the impact, but what is the story in secondary? Thanks.
For TAs and HLTAs,
How have you been or will be spending your school's INSET days?
Would you please specify primary or secondary?
Thank you.
For TAs and HLTAs:
Are any of you working towards a BA, BEd, MA or doctorate? Or are you thinking about doing this?
Thank you.
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School SUPPORT staff (no teachers, please). What is the biggest problem with your job at the minute?
Please retweet for bigger sample🙏🏻
#edutwitter #CostOfLivingCrisis
88%Salary
12%Lack of progression
130 votes • Final results Learning support staff researcher retweeted
Chatting to my amazing TA today and she casually says ‘I’m just a TA’
Quick interjection… ‘skuze me don’t you ever say that again’
Told her that TA’s are the life and soul of a school. She gave me the biggest hug.
Shoutout to all the TA’s & support staff everywhere ❤️