Can a ‘speech as action’ approach to analysing education policy help us to better understand the current crisis in teacher retention and recruitment? 

Katie Spicksley, University of Birmingham

5pm to 6.30pm

All welcome.

Katie Spicksley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow here at the University of Birmingham. Her postdoctoral project is concerned with developing a playful card game to improve dialogic mentoring between early career teachers and their mentors. Her PhD, entitled New Faces and Changing Places: Discourse, identity and early-career primary teachers in post-2010 Multi-Academy Trusts, won the BERA Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2022. Katie is an editor of the BERA Blog.