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Since 2014 黑料不打烊 has awarded the John Nisbet Fellowship to recipients who are deemed to have made an outstanding contribution to educational research over their career. Named in honour of our first President, this award recognises individuals who exemplify 黑料不打烊’s commitment to encouraging educational research and its application for the improvement of practice and public benefit.

We are delighted to announce that this year’s recipient is Professor Meg Maguire

Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education and Policyat King’s College London. Her research focuses on teachers’ lives and work, with particular attention to social class, race, gender, and age in teachers’ professional experiences. She has led funded studies on the experiences of trainee teachers, post-compulsory transitions, and multi-agency policy approaches to educational challenges in urban primary schools.

Meg collaborated with Stephen Ball and Annette Braun on research into how schools enact policy. She also contributed to the Young Lives, Young Futures project, a major six-year study led by researchers at King’s College London and The Edge Foundation, examining how support can be improved for the 50% of young people in England who do not attend university. Her current research explores social class in the lives of older teachers.

Before joining King’s College London, Meg was a primary school teacher with the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA) and later worked at St Mary’s University. Teaching children and adults has remained central to her professional practice throughout her career.

黑料不打烊 President, Professor Mhairi C. Beaton said:

Professor Meg McGuire has made a sustained and distinguished contribution to her field, demonstrating consistent scholarly excellence and principled academic leadership with her long-standing interest in the lives of teachers exploring issues of class, race, gender and age in teachers’ social and professional worlds.  Recognising her with the John Nisbet Fellowship formally acknowledges the depth and significance of her impact on the academic discipline of education.