Category Social Transitions

Blog 43: Transitions through Infection and Recovery in the Early Days of Covid-19

By Tanka Dahal It was the early days of the pandemic when the COVID-19 was taking its flight from Wuhan, China, and was landing at various destinations across the world. Where COVID-19 landed it upset the routines and put the…

Blog 42. Navigating transitions during war and conflict

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 February, they immediately woke…

Blog 41. Supporting transitions during a pandemic: Learning from theory and practice and looking ahead

By Elizabeth F. S. Hannah   The past 2 years have been challenging as we have experienced periods of uncertainty in due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.  In Blog 16. Wellbeing during COVID-19 lockdown: Meeting psychological needs (June 2020), I considered the…

Blog 39: The XII Pillars of Multiple and Multi-dimensional Transitions: Implications for COVID-19 related transitions

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 & Cantali, 2019; Jindal-Snape &…

Blog 38: Exploring the extent to which first-year Education students at two institutions developed university identities in light of changes to teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic

By Dr Kieran Hodgkin and Dr Samantha Shields Setting the context For students, the transition into Higher Education (HE) has long been an area of concern. Early transitional work explored academic and social integration as the two main challenges during…

Blog 35: Irish students’ reflections on the impact of COVID-19 on their transitions

By Colette Moran   It is indisputable that the Covid-19 school closures and subsequent lockdowns have had a significant impact on young people in Ireland. Children have missed many significant milestones including communions, confirmations and graduations. This period has been…

Blog 34. Transitions to Further Education: Crossing the FE bridge

Transitions to Further Education: Crossing the FE bridge By Rhiannon Packer and Amanda Thomas Introduction Transition is a complex process and the process of transition to any educational setting involves a number of stakeholders. The move from compulsory education into…

Blog 33. Do you want a corona? No, I don’t like beer: The transition of a trainee teacher through Covid 19

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 a rather prestigious and…

Blog 29. Writers’ Retreats During the Pandemic

By Beth Hannah and Judith Sixsmith Many academics are under increasing stress in their academic role.  Research has suggested that increases in stress are linked to teaching more students, less time to spend with students, heavy workloads, more administration to…

Blog 29. Writers’ Retreats During the Pandemic

By Beth Hannah and Judith Sixsmith Many academics are under increasing stress in their academic role.  Research has suggested that increases in stress are linked to teaching more students, less time to spend with students, heavy workloads, more administration to…

Blog 24. Multiple and multi-dimensional primary-secondary school transitions (video)

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://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203859124https://www.macmillanihe.com/page/detail/a-z-of-transitions-divya-jindal-snape/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137528261 Thanks to Liz…

Blog 15. Impact of COVID-19 on the transitions of children from armed forces families

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 for the entire family…

Blog 15. Impact of COVID-19 on the transitions of children from armed forces families

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 for the entire family…

Blog 10. New ways of supporting children and young people’s school transitions during the pandemic?

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 school or primary to…

Blog 10. New ways of supporting children and young people’s school transitions during the pandemic?

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 school or primary to…