Workshop at James Gillespie’s Highschool in Edinburgh

On 21st October 2024, Katherin gave another workshop for teachers, this time at James Gillespie’s Highschool in Edinburgh.
 
More than 120 teaching staff attended the 2-hour interactive event in which Katherin gave an overview of research on inequalities and bias and presented the project’s findings.
 
Feedback from participants was highly positive. They found it ‘very interesting and eye opening’ and including ‘clear information to think about the impact of you as an individual within a wider system’.
 
They enjoyed the discussions with colleagues and ‘looking at data’. Many of them said that the seminar will very likely impact on their practice and that the contents and activities were very useful for teachers to reflect their unconscious biases.
 

Panel session at ‘Into Headship’ event at Moray House School of Education and Sport

Visual identity for the BSA 2023 conference

We contributed to a panel session for the Into Headship programme at Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh. This PG programme provides Scotland’s national qualification for school headship.

The session we contributed to was attended by around 50 aspiring head teachers and focused on the Scottish government’s policy that aims to close the poverty attainment gap. We had a chance to present some of our recent findings and link them to attendants questions about processes that contribute to social inequalities in education.