ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ appoints new members to College of Reviewers
The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ has appointed three new members to the College of Reviewers: Professor Lynn Ang, Associate Professor Anne-Marie Chase and Dr Rachel Shanks....
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Rachel Shanks, Dr
Director for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity at University of Aberdeen
Rachel Shanks is Director for Social Inclusion and Cultural Diversity at the University of Aberdeen's Interdisciplinary Institute. In the 1990s she was a law lecturer and worked for the TUC on its Bargaining for Skills project. She has been a community education tutor and an employment rights adviser. She moved into education research after doing a funded PhD on how new teachers learn in the workplace. She also researches children’s rights in education and school uniform/dress code policies.
Rachel Shanks's contributions
Research to change: a discussion about how researchers have created impact through their work
This online event hosted by the Social Justice SIG celebrated how colleagues have had an impact through their research and work. All change achieved through our research is important. Change we...
Research to change: a discussion about how researchers have created impact through their work
This online event hosted by the Social Justice SIG celebrates how colleagues have had an impact through their research and work. All change achieved through our research is important. Change...
New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Building on initial teacher education for professional learning
A great deal of international research has suggested that teachers struggled with the pivot towards online learning necessitated by the closure of schools in response to the Covid-19...
New teachers’ responses to Covid-19: Getting by or getting ahead?
New teachers might have been expected to experience particular difficulties in moving to remote emergency teaching in March 2020. Funded by a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Covid-19 small grant project, we are exploring in...
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College of Reviewers
The ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ College of Reviewers is a group comprised of high quality academic reviewers including practitioners and policy makers who draw on research evidence.