Category: Life Transitions
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By Catherine Koini Last week we welcomed a Ukrainian refugee family into our home in Belgium. A young mother, father and 3 month old baby daughter. Upon hearing the first missile at 4am on 24th…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape Our research suggests that certain dispositions and environmental dimensions can lead to successful educational and life transitions (Glazzard et al., 2020; Gordon et al., 2019; Jindal-Snape et al. 2020, 2021; Jindal-Snape &…
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By Ben Broadhurst I am Ben Broadhurst, 20 years old and I am currently studying at Edge Hill University and in my second year of Primary Education with QTS. I grew up in Liverpool and attended…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape We have created a comic, ‘University lives in transition’, to illustrate the impact of COVID-19 on multiple and multi-dimensional transitions of university students and staff. This comic, written by Jonathan Glazzard, Samuel Stones,…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape In this video you can hear about my conceptualisation of transitions, our latest primary-secondary transitions research and an explanation of my Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions Theory. Some references https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/rev3.3197https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3561 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-008-9074-7 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1365480207086750 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203859124https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/a-z-of-transitions-divya-jindal-snape/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137528261 https://bmcpalliatcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12904-019-0414-9…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape and Jonathan Glazzard Students across the world have been experiencing multiple transitions related to their studies, family life and employment, to name a few. Students go to university not only to achieve an…
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By Alexia Barrable The COVID-19 pandemic and the necessary response from it triggered multiple transitions for all. One of the constants during this period was the natural world, and more than 60% of adults turned to the natural world for…
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By Arun Verma In 2017, I delivered my first ever keynote for Pride month at a university that was about my doctoral research exploring themes of diversity, inclusion and intersectionality. To talk about diversity, is a personal experience…
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By Arun Verma In 2017, I delivered my first ever keynote for Pride month at a university that was about my doctoral research exploring themes of diversity, inclusion and intersectionality. To talk about diversity, is a personal experience…
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By Samuel Stones It is at this time of the academic year when we often see secondary school staff visiting primary schools in their local area. These visits are typically part of a broader programme aimed…
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By Samuel Stones It is at this time of the academic year when we often see secondary school staff visiting primary schools in their local area. These visits are typically part of a broader programme aimed…
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By Moira Leslie Living in an Armed Forces family very often entails high levels of mobility with frequent moves of home, school and sometimes even different countries. One parent’ s work related transitions trigger multiple transitions…
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By Moira Leslie Living in an Armed Forces family very often entails high levels of mobility with frequent moves of home, school and sometimes even different countries. One parent’ s work related transitions trigger multiple transitions…
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This blog presents the voice of children from around the world about COVID-19 and its impact on them through poetry and drawings. They created these powerful and moving pieces in a locked-down world. This is a…
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This blog presents the voice of children from around the world about COVID-19 and its impact on them through poetry and drawings. They created these powerful and moving pieces in a locked-down world. This is a…
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By Samantha Ross The transition to becoming a doctoral student is known for being as much about a change in identity as it is about developing academically. So, in some ways, Covid-19 gave me a head…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape As Scotland prepares the route map for coming out of lockdown, the First Minister, highlighted the importance of prioritising those children and young people’s return to school who are to transition to primary…
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By Divya Jindal-Snape As Scotland prepares the route map for coming out of lockdown, the First Minister, highlighted the importance of prioritising those children and young people’s return to school who are to transition to primary…
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By Anj Snape and Divya Jindal-Snape; artwork Ashling Larkin COVID-19 has triggered multiple and multi-dimensional transitions for everyone. This blog post is in the form of a comic. ‘Lost, and found, in transitions’ tells the story…
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By Jonathan Glazzard and Samuel StonesThis blog explores the transitions that teachers are experiencing during the Covid-19 lockdown. It explores the challenges that they are facing and provides practical guidance to support teachers during the current…
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By Jonathan Glazzard and Samuel StonesThis blog explores the transitions that teachers are experiencing during the Covid-19 lockdown. It explores the challenges that they are facing and provides practical guidance to support teachers during the current…
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By William D Barlow It was the middle of the night when my partner told me. Peering through my sleepy eyes, and under the blanket of darkness, I stole glimpses of her navigating through the obstacle…
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By William D Barlow It was the middle of the night when my partner told me. Peering through my sleepy eyes, and under the blanket of darkness, I stole glimpses of her navigating through the obstacle…