Supporting Student Teachers in Planning and Evaluation

Planning and evaluating lessons is at the core of what teachers do. Deciding what we want our pupils to know or be able to do, how we'll know whether...

What's Going On with Maths in Wales?

Just as we were shutting up the podcast shop for the end of the academic year, Estyn (the school inspectorate in Wales) published a thematic report on...

So: You Want to Become a Teacher...!

Welcome to season 8 of the podcast! So…. You want to become a teacher? You’ve come to the right place. In the third iteration of this popular topic, w...

Looking Back, Looking Forward: Summer Bonus 2025

One of our podcast traditions is to take a moment to reflect on the season that's just been (season 7) and get ready for the one that's about to land...

All About Physics with Richard West

We’ve reached the end of another year of podcasting, and ready to give you all a summer break from our dulcet tones. To wrap up our seventh year in fr...

Closing the Disadvantage Gap in Schools with Finola Wilson

When we heard that Finola Wilson from our friends at Impact Wales had published a book, our first reaction (after congratulations!) was to realise how...

Participatory Research with Student Teachers and their Mentors

It's something of a tradition to haul Emma in for a doctoral progress check, and today she's digging into her chosen research approach: participatory...

Primary Teachers and Physical Literacy with Dr Fiona Heath-Diffey

We welcome Dr Fiona Heath-Diffey to the studio today to talk us through her doctoral research into the experiences of primary student teachers getting...

Easter Special 2025!

For teachers it's the Easter break, and so we like to bring you another of our selections of the interesting, humorous and strange things we have been...

Making Student Teacher Observations Purposeful

Back in our non-camera-enabled studio, we've got some thoughts for you today about how observation can be made more purposeful. Often found as an init...

Teacher Recruitment and Retention with Professor David Egan

Back in our normal studio, we welcome Professor David Egan back to the podcast. David was last with us taking about the poverty gap in education, and...

Teaching and Learning Shakespeare through Theatre Based Practice: A Book Review

We're in the 'other' studio today which, to our delight, is not bristling with cameras! Apologies to the very small club of people who watch our episo...

Mentoring with Sian Wickersham

We make no apology for having based several of our episodes around the person that many student teachers report is the single most important person in...

A Whole-School Behaviour Policy with Kelly Bubbins from Willows High School in Cardiff

Today we welcome Kelly Bubbins from Willows High School in Cardiff. Willows is located in a part of Cardiff that's not without its challenges, and as...

Transitions between schools as an early-career teacher

Today we're all on our own without a guest, because we're presenting original Cardiff Met research! But our colleague Sioned Dafydd is with us in spir...

School Uniform with Dr Rachel Shanks

In a very impressive move to win 'most dedicated podcast guest', today we welcome Dr Rachel Shanks from the University of Aberdeen to our studio in pe...

Christmas Special 2024!

It’s that festive time of year again, and hopefully anyone involved in the world of education is relaxing after a very long Autumn term.

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Teacher Education with Professor Trevor Mutton

One of the perks of hosting the podcast is that we get to invite people who’ve influenced us to come on as guests, and in our world of teacher educati...

Creating a Safe Space for Educators with Clinical Supervision with Dr Louise Allen-Walker and Dan Williams

Teaching people to be teachers can feel like a bit of a head-spinner - it can get meta quite quickly! But teacher educators (in school or in universit...

Using AI Responsibly with Mark Lester

It's time for another 'delve' (!) into the world of AI, and how large language models have found their way into the world of education. Following our...

Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR 14 - Hyrwyddo dysgu annibynnol o oed ifanc gyda Deio Jones a Sioned Dafydd

October Half Term Special 2024!

It’s October half term, and therefore time for one of our ‘light’ episodes! To entertain you with something a little different, we’ve gone a bit rogue...

PGCE Research Bites 24 - Learning through Play with Megan Cole

Tom is joined in studio B2.15 today by Megan Cole from PGCE Primary, who talks us through her research into how learning through play can enhance the...

Participatory Research in Education with Emma (again!)

In the second half of our EdD work-in-progress double bill, Emma moves on from defining her worldview to realising that she needs to carry out her res...

Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR 13 - Trosglwyddo’r Gymraeg tu Allan yr Ystafell Ddosbarth gyda Rhydian Williams a Dr Gina Morgan

Epistemology, Ontology and Axiology with Emma

For this episode, we welcome a very special guest to the studio… Emma! She’s still working away at her EdD and has been concentrating on the research...

Reading standards in Wales: What's going on, and what does it mean for curriculum reform?

ITV National News* have just dropped a hard-hitting report about standards of literacy in Welsh schools. I you haven’t seen it, you can get the text a...

PGCE Research Bites 23 - Assessment for Learning with Ella Cleary

For today's snippet of student teacher research Tom is joined by Ella Cleary from PGCE Secondary Biology. Ella was interested in how to use assessment...

Community Focused Schools with Dr Jan Huyton

For today's episode, we return to a comment made by Professor David Egan in a previous episode, where he identified community focused schools as impor...

Tameidiau o Ymchwil TAR 12 - Dylanwad brecwast maethlon ar ddysgu a lles plant ifanc gyda Angharad James a Sioned Dafydd

English language listeners: a reminder that we also produce occasional episodes in Welsh! This is the beginning of a new block of PGCE Research Bites,...

Close to Practice Enquiry: Live Q&A!

Welcome back for our seventh season of the podcast!

We’re opening the new academic year with another of our live panel sessions - this on...

Looking back, looking ahead: Summer Bonus chat 2024

Hello to all our listeners, and we hope you're enjoying the tail end of a well deserved summer break!

We recently popped in to the studio...

Live Panel Q&A with Lucy Crehan, Dr Gareth Evans and Matthew Maughan

We've reached the end of season 6 of the podcast, and thanks to all our listeners for coming along for the ride!

Today we bring you a liv...

Currere with Dr Kevin Smith

Strap in and prepare yourselves for another roller-coaster ride as regular guest Dr Kevin Smith from Cardiff University is back in the studio, and thi...

Ethics in Classroom Research with Dr Lisa Reed

Conferences are a great opportunity to find new guests for the podcast, and last November's Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) conferenc...

Equity and Diversity in the Classroom

For today’s episode, we’re bringing you a panel discussion about equity and diversity in the classroom, which was originally broadcast live on YouTube...

Teacher Recruitment with Dr Emily MacLeod

Those of you who listened to our epic Christmas special in December will remember Tom reading out a stream of tweets from Dr Emily MacLeod, who had ju...

Easter Holiday Special 2024!

Welcome to our not-very-light Easter holiday special! As ever, we bring you some random things to liven up your school holiday, and as usual for our E...

Making Powerful Connections in the Expressive Arts

It's always a special podcast episode when we get our student teachers into the studio, and today's discussion is no exception! Just after Christmas t...

AI in Education with Karl Jones

Artifical Intelligence: is it going to revolutionise learning and the world of work? Or take our jobs and then kill us all? We've had our eye on doing...