Resources

Bleasdale, C. and Glover, A. (2025) Sustaining a Community of Practice to support development of Teacher Professional Identity: A Zambian case study, Journal of Learning for Development, 12(3), pp. 615-623.

Glover, A., Bleasdale, C., Clifton, G. and Thomas, A. (2025) “It's Good to Talk”: Exploring Effective Professional Conversations in Teacher Education, International Journal of Changes in Education.

Jones, M. and Worrall, L. (2024) Using artefacts as a research method to explore effective mentoring in teacher education, PRACTICE.

Hathway, T., Jones, L., Glover, A., Ayres, J. and Jones, M. (2024) A word to the wise (Gair I Gall): University teacher educators’ experiences of emergency response pedagogy in Wales, Cogent Education, 11(1).

Cole-Jones, N., Defis, N., Glover, A., Jones, M. and Wallis, R. (2024) Using collaborative peer reflection to develop student teachers’ practice, DMS DMK Journal, 46.

Glover, A., Jones, M., Thomas, A. and Worrall L. (2024) Finding the joy: effective mentoring in Teacher Education, Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 32(4), pp. 377-394.

Defis, N. and Glover, A. (2023) Student teachers’ experiences of online learning, Advances in Online Education: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, 2(2), pp. 147-159. Available at: Ingenta Connect

Glover, A., Stewart, S., Thomas, A. and Thomas, R. (2023) How do we achieve the third space? The challenges and strengths of partnership working to deliver a flexible PGCE Programme in Wales, Wales Journal of Education, 25 (1), pp. 7-37.

Glover, A., Jones, M., Thomas, A. and Worrall, L. (2023) The triad of success factors that can strengthen student teacher mentoring, Educators Perspective, 5, pp. 15-20..

Glover, A. and Stewart, S. (2023) Using a blended distance pedagogy in teacher education to address challenges in teacher recruitment, Teaching Education,

Chapman, S., Ellis, R., Beauchamp, G., Sheriff, L., Stacy D., Waters-Davies, J., Lewis A., Jones, C., Griffiths, M., Chapman, S., Wallis, R., Sheen, E., Crick, T, Lewis, H., French, G. and Atherton S. (2023) My picture is not in Wales’: pupils’ perceptions of cynefin (Belonging) in primary school curriculum development in Wales, Education 3-13,

Glover, A. (2022) Education for Sustainable Development: policy and practice in Wales, In: Leal Filho, W., Dinis, M.A.P., Moggi, S., Price, E., Hope, A. (eds) SDGs in the European Region. Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals – Regional Perspectives. Springer, Cham.

Cole-Jones, N., Defis, N., Glover, A., Jones, M., Wallis, R. and Williams A. (2022) Exploring the impact of student teachers' online collaborative peer reflection, Distance Education: A brave new world? Modalities, challenges, opportunities and prospects, Conference short papers, 20 and 21 October 2022.

Defis, N., Glover, A., Jennings, C., Stewart, S., Wallis, R., Craggs, B., Hay, C., Linton, B., Powell, T. and Williams, A. (2022) Using video technology to support micro-teaching and reflection in Initial Teacher Education, Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 8(1).

Jennings, C. (2022) The Place of Play in the Early Years curricula of the UK. In: Waters-Davies, Jane (Ed). Introduction to Play. London UK: SAGE Publications Ltd, pp. 133–145.

Glover, A., and Hutchinson, S. (2022) A flexible teacher education route: doing things differently in Wales, Education Inquiry.

Glover, A. (2021) Using images to develop group discussion and actions for sustainable development. Educational Futures, 12(1) pp. 168-182.

Defis, N. (2021) Wales, Well-being and Digital Competence. In: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Education and Digital Skills: A Conversation Event, 8 December 2021.

Conference presentations

Defis, N. (2024) Navigating Digital Frontiers: Exploring Technology Integration in Education. In: BERA, 8-12 September 2024, University of Manchester.

Clifton, G. and Bleasdale, C. (2024) It's good to talk - exploring effective professional conversations in teacher education. In: WELS Research Day 13 Nov 2024, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Defis, N. (2024) Seeing children as experts: Using participatory methods to explore children’s experiences of wellbeing whilst using technology. In: Research Conference of the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol, 28 Jun 2024, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Bleasdale, C. (2024) Using video to support and develop student teachers’ reflection within teacher education. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 22-23 May 2024, Manchester.

Bleasdale C. (2024) Using a pivot model to support the development of professional teacher identity of student teachers. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 22-23 May 2024, Manchester.

Cooke, C. and Jones, M. (2024) Interdisciplinarity: Connecting unseen dots. In: Education Conference: Evolutions in Education, 24-25 April 2024, Online.

Glover, A. and Lee, C. (2024) Supporting learners to become agents for sustainability. In: Education Conference: Evolutions in Education, 24-25 April 2024, Online.

Worrall, L. (2024) Effective approaches to mentoring – what works and why? In: Education Conference: Evolutions in Education, 24-25 April 2024, Online.

Stewart, S. and Bleasdale, C. (2023) Attracting under-represented groups to train to teach in Wales. In: 7th Biennial International Conference on Access, Participation and Success: ‘Through the looking glass: How Higher Education is using the lens of access, participation, and success to create equity for all students’ (26-27 Apr 2023, The Open University [Online])

Defis, N. and Jones, M. (2022) Exploring the impact of student teachers’ online collaborative peer reflection. In: Distance Education: A brave new world? Modalities, challenges, opportunities and prospects, Conference 20 and 21 October 2022.

Glover, A. (2022) Fostering participation, collaboration and problem solving in the classroom – developing discussion and actions for sustainability. In: Teacher Education for Equity and Sustainability Network (TEESNet) 13th Annual Conference, 28 Sep 2022, Liverpool Hope University.

Jones, M. (2022) Exploring British Sign Language (BSL) as a strategy for Welsh language acquisition to all learners in Welsh medium early years settings. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 5-6 May 2022.

Worrall, L. (2022) What matters? The impact of learning to teach within a period of curriculum reform in Wales. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 5-6 May 2022.

Jones, M. and Worrall, L. (2022) Effective mentoring in Initial Teacher Education – what works and why? In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 5-6 May 2022.

Jones, M. and Worrall, L. (2022) Exploring Strategies for Mentor development. In: Education Workforce Council - Moving Forward: Questions, Success and Challenges in the delivery of ITE Reform, 28 Mar 2022.

Defis, N. (2021) Wales, Well-being and Digital Competence. In: UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Education and Digital Skills: A Conversation Event, 8 December 2021.

Hughes, S, Makara Fuller, K. Morrison-Love, D. and Wallis, R. (2021) Teachers as curriculum-makers: professional learning implications for enacting a new curriculum in Wales, perspectives from the Humanities and Mathematics and Numeracy Areas of Learning and Experience. In: European Conference on Educational Research, 6-10 Sep 2021.

Defis, N., Jennings, C. and Jones, M. R. (2021) ‘Distance needn’t mean distant’: Promoting a distance learning model of teacher education in a changing educational landscape. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 6-7 May 2021.

Glover, A., Thomas, A. and Thomas, R. (2021) The opportunities and challenges of partnership working in Teacher Education, The Open University Partnership in Wales PGCE Programme. In: Teacher Education Advancement Network Conference, 6-7 May 2021.

Wallis, R. (2021) Evaluating the learning of number concepts through measures: A design-based research project. In: British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics, Spring Conference 2021, 6 Mar 2021.