Month: August 2021

An African Feminist Framework project

Posted on by School of Education University of Bristol

people's hands working together n Blog by Dr Zibah Nwako, PhD

I am super thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a prestigious ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Postdoctoral* Fellowship for my impact project: “Towards an African feminist framework for students’ welfare in Nigerian Higher Education”. The application process was highly competitive and I was informed that there were 28 applications received for only 7 fellowship places.

*Postdoctoral [adj.] – relating to advanced work or study that someone does after completing their PhD

(Cambridge Dictionary)

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Summer 2021 education document summaries: SEND, Covid-19, curriculum and more

Posted on by School of Education University of Bristol

Blog by Helen Aberdeen, School of Education, University of Bristol

As the academic year draws to a close and school colleagues look forward to a well-earned (and desperately needed!) break, time to take a look back over the last 6 months in education through the lens of the Document Summary Service (to be known from September as the Education Policy and Research Service).

So…here are the Top Ten of most downloaded summaries: (more…)