Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Critical Cultural Studies in Education is a growing and vibrant group of researchers interested in the overlaps between culture and education.
Our group is interested in popular cultures, media and public pedagogies and the ways they are folded into larger cultural, political and social narratives. Members are also interested in the changing nature and role of language in a range of contemporary contexts as well as the evolution of the field of digital sociologies and digital ethics.
Members of this group have researched and published in the areas of social networking, youth identities, gender, sexuality and sport, rhetoric in contemporary contexts, public pedagogy, youth literacies, technologies and more recently, the challenges of relativist approaches to ‘truth’, big data, and the significance of young people’s imaginaries of the future.
Our work draws from a broad and purposefully interdisciplinary background. Individually and as a unit, we are active in developing and using new methodological and theoretical approaches - post qualitative approaches, posthumanism, new materialisms, affect - to bring insights relevant to young people’s lives and education in the current socioeconomic, cultural and political moment.
The group is interested in supporting research collaboration, both within UEA and further afield. We continue to seek new partners, funding opportunities, and a variety of forums through which to engage in discussions around culture and education.
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Rebekah Bainbridge
- Faculty of Social Sciences - Associate Tutor
- School of Education & Lifelong Learning
- Critical Cultural Studies In Education
Person: Degree of Doctor of Education, Associate Tutor
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Anna Blackett
- School of Education & Lifelong Learning - Widening Participation Academic Lead, Director of Employability, Lecturer in Education, Deputy Senior Adviser
- Critical Cultural Studies In Education - Member
Person: Academic, Teaching & Scholarship, Research Group Member
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James Craske
- School of Education & Lifelong Learning - Lecturer in Education
- Critical Cultural Studies In Education - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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A partnership for community-led health behaviour change research in areas of high socio-economic disadvantage
Hardeman, W., Abranches, M., Gordon, J., Hanson, S., McNeil, J., Minihane, A., Sweeting, A., Abranches, M., McNeil, J., McWatt, T., Robinson-Pant, A. & Varley, A.
National Institute for Health and Care Research
1/06/23 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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ETAT: Enhancing Teacher Agency with Technology
Gordon, J., Parr, G., Chin, J., Russell, K., Lapeer, R., Medler, D., Priyadharshini, E., Nourie, K., Dyer, H., Craske, J., Maddox, B., Blair, R., Hammond, S. & Bartholomew, K.
1/12/22 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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Teacher agency with technology: creating an ecological model through a place-based study of teaching and learning in Norfolk
Gordon, J., Bartholomew, K., Blair, R., Chin, J., Craske, J., Dyer, H., Greenwood, D., Hammond, S., Lapeer, R., Maddox, B., Medler, D., Parr, G., Priyadharshini, E. & Russell, K.
Economic and Social Research Council
1/12/22 → 30/11/25
Project: Research
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Artificial Intelligence: Muddying the Waters of Academic Integrity
Bainbridge, R., 31 Mar 2025, 3 ed., p. 33-38, 6 p. (Nottingham Institute of Education: Working Papers Series ‘Meeting New Challenges in Education’).Research output: Working paper
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Case Study: Online Voice
Dyer, H., 18 Sept 2025, Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods. Howard, F., Hanckel, B., Moore, K., Suppers, J. & Atherton, S. (eds.). BloomsburyResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Concluding thoughts on teaching and coaching lifestyle sports: Steps forward for research and practice
Leeder, T. M. & Beaumont, L. C., 11 Feb 2025, Teaching and Coaching Lifestyle Sports: Research and Practice. Leeder, T. M. & Beaumont, L. C. (eds.). Routledge, p. 179-189 11 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Prizes
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Runner Up, CIES 2022 Book Award, Globalisation & Education SIG
Priyadharshini, Esther (Recipient), 12 Apr 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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SENSS Scholar Series
Harry Dyer (Speaker)
16 Apr 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Critical Thinking at the Heart of Gen AI Literacy
David Holland (Speaker), Lorna Richardson (Speaker), Scott Summers (Speaker) & Rebecca Westrup (Speaker)
27 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Friends & Networks Project (evaluation)
James Craske (Consultant), Thomas Leeder (Consultant), Anna Blackett (Consultant) & Rebekah Bainbridge (Consultant)
30 Oct 2024 → 30 Apr 2025Activity: Consultancy
Press/Media
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UEA expert says students should be at the heart of a complete re-design of school uniforms
15/02/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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KNUST’s Faculty of Educational Studies to host a three-way international dialogue with University of East Anglia and Ceara State university
19/01/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution
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New trilateral agreement signed between UECE, UECE(Brazil) and KNUST (Ghana)
Spyros Themelis & Hidelbrando Soares
22/08/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Media Coverage or Contribution