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Amanda McKay

@chalkhands.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Education at Griffith University. Researching education policy & school leaders’ work and lives.

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...
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Patter is back
Patter has been missing in action since the end of August. A bad case of blogging burn-out you might ask? Well, yes that’s true. I have been writing this patter thing for twelve years and I did hav…
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Dr Zoë Ayres @zjayres.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A word of caution: it might feel like that grant/paper/review cannot possibly wait over the Christmas period, but you can't get time with friends and family back. You likely won't be like "really wish I'd submitted that" in 5 years time but you might regret not spending time with those you love.
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Fiona Longmuir @fiona-longmuir.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Thanks ACEL Vic for the honour of presenting the Patron's Oration last night. It was great to share some thoughts on the need for more activist dispositions in order to propel the needed transformation of schooling.
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Peter Woelert @peterwoelert.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
I am just doing my university's online compliance module on managing information. It's bit funny how it repeatedly states to lock one's office to keep information safe - when the majority of university staff are actually working in open place office spaces..
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great #AARE2024 session with a symposium of UNSW doctoral students working with Foucault. I especially loved Emma Le Marquand’s innovative work combining discourse and pop culture. So good!!
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Professor Narelle Lemon @rellypops.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A Wellbeing Whisperer blog post from the archives for those who might not have heard the promotion news they were hoping for in #highered. All the feels. www.exploreandcreateco.com/the-wellbein... Go gently colleagues. #selfcare #wellbeing
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When there is no promotion shine, just deflation... — Explore & CREATE Co.
The feedback floats around in my mind, blurring together, I hear them but I don’t register them. But there is one louder comment that gets stronger and stronger in my mind, playing like a bad song I’v...
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@patnorman.bsky.social PAT!!!!!
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Really enjoying Prof Julie McLeod’s Presidential Address this morning at #AARE2024 - such an important body of work being woven together masterfully
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Ben Archer @barcher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“We can no longer rely on ‘doing it for the children’ to keep teachers in the profession”. Ellen Larsen dropping truth bombs at #AARE2024 #AARE24
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Cameron Paterson @cpaterso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
@drstephaniewescott.bsky.social shone light on how school responses to women teachers’ sexual harassment can reflect institutional gaslighting: patriarchal norms, 'unlevel knowing fields,' & dominant narratives - traumatising communities and upholding inhospitable cultures. #AARE2024
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Cameron Paterson @cpaterso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Craig Skerritt critiqued consulting students on 'good teaching': new insights versus the sinister side of student voice. Are students being reduced to quality control tools (e.g. Rate My Teachers?) How democratic is student voice in such a framework? 🤔 #AARE2024
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Cameron Paterson @cpaterso.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Wonderful final #AARE2024 session today on teaching and time poverty - admin overload, tech demands, & stress leaving educators juggling 1,500+ daily decisions in fragmented, high-pressure environments. It's not just hours worked—it's how they're lived. Recruitment, retention, wellbeing at stake.
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Alice Elwell @aliceelwell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Dr Amanda McKay presented her chapter with Dr Stephanie Wescott on teacher guilt in testing regime. A very moving and beautifully theorised analysis of the clash between teacher values and actions in data-centric school cultures. Rip down the data walls! @chalkhands.bsky.social #AARE2024
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Delighted to see PROFESSOR Richard Niesche giving this year’s Neil Cranston Lecture, given his immense contributions to the Ed Leadership SIG over the years #AARE2024
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
To round out this session, @tanjinashraf.bsky.social’s fab presentation is giving me a lot of food for thought about methods already! I love coming to sessions like this where my brain is full of things to read and think through #AARE2024
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Super interesting discussion of the ‘sonically cacophonous’ nature of schools from @leannehigham.bsky.social, Eve Mayes, and Melissa Wolfe #AARE2024
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Stephanie Wescott @drstephaniewescott.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Seeing @aliceelwell.bsky.social presenting is always a thing to behold! Her research is about affective encounters produced via the practice of critical literacy in English classrooms. Brilliant brilliant ✨
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
No better way to start the concurrent sessions of #AARE2024 than with @aliceelwell.bsky.social 🌟🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Alice’s ✨vibes✨ are incredibly excellent 💪🌟
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Got to the airport early with the intent of doing a little work before I take off for AARE. Instead I spent an hour in the bag drop line and ate a terrible chicken salad. Ahhh, travel.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Hallmark Christmas movie where a big city academic goes to a small town and falls in love with the first person who's mildly interested in their research
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Anuja Cabraal @anujacabraal.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Same applies to research.
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The Research Whisperer @therealrw.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Unexpected joys of collaborative writing (by @drmeagantyler.bsky.social) "it’s not always the publications that stay with me...it’s the enduring & very human connections that come from collaborating on writing & research." - Tyler researchwhisperer.org/2022/11/01/t... #AcademicSky #AcWri #PhDSky
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The unexpected joys of collaborative writing
There are solid lists and words of advice out there on what makes a collaboration successful or how to be a co-author. I’m not seeking to recreate or evaluate that sort of guidance here. Rather, I’…
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
has reviewer 2 considered that I’m trying my best
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Rachel Buchanan @rayedish.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
' “This finding suggests that there may be a cumulative effect of trauma that accumulates in educators over the years,” Dr Fraser said'. Compounding factors include teacher age and geography, with the issue worse in rural and regional settings.
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
YouTube Music’s equivalent of Spotify wrapped still needs a bit more work. It kept telling me I’ve been sad this year… I’ve actually just listened to a lot of Phoebe Bridgers 😅
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Toby Greany @tobygreany.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What drains you & what sustains you in your leadership? Pls complete this UK Sustainable School Leadership survey to tell us your experiences. Part of a big & important 3-year study by @patthomson.bsky.social @twperry1.bsky.social Mike Collins & me! Pls RT warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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UK Sustainable School Leadership Survey 2024
This survey focuses on your experiences of, and views on, contemporary school leadership. This includes questions relating to your professional role and identity, wellbeing, and career experiences an...
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Australian Association for Research in Education @australianare.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Australian Education Researchers on Bluesky starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/BYhXKXD
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don't write because it's easy, I write because the person who organized the Special Issue told me it would be easy
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Prof. Scott Eacott @scotteacott.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
On Wednesday evening was fortunate to be acknowledged at the James Martin Institute for Public Policy Grant winners event www.linkedin.com/pulse/jmi-gr... The clip for my project features in the Theme 1 video at around 1:55mins in.
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JMI Grant Winners 2024
The James Martin Institute was delighted to host a reception celebrating the nine research teams from the University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, University of Technology Sydney, UNSW, Charle...
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Prof. Scott Eacott @scotteacott.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
NEW PAPER: Led by my Summer Intern (Lauren Medlin), 'Housing and the teacher workforce: a scoping review' www.mdpi.com/2791186 It is the latest from the HATS research program.
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Housing the Teacher Workforce: A Scoping Review
Globally, education systems are faced with dual workforce crises: a shortage of teachers and a lack of affordable housing. Attracting and retaining teachers through improved renumeration, working cond...
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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 03/04/2024
A great thing about repeating the same jokes in my lectures year after year is that I can track the depreciation of my store of pop culture references in real time. Simpsons refs decayed slowly at first and then just fell off a cliff. And you think "Am I so out of touch? No. It's the childr
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Chris Hanney @hanney.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
Pretty chuffed that Curiosmos, an adorable cozy space sim game I'm helping produce, just got a bunch of production funding 🥳 So very stoked to be a part of @celineveltman.bsky.social and her space team, and can't wait to get Curiosmos into your hands! 🪐🛰️🩷🐛🚀
Céline and (some of) the Satellites* (Robin de Paepe, Chris Hanney, Guillaume Pauli)

* Team Name pending 😅Curiosmos title card
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 24/01/2024
Lovely to see Manchester lit up to celebrate our 200th Anniversary!
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
We are offering International Fellowships to enable early career researchers from around the world to come to the UK for two years to undertake original research in the humanities or social sciences. Please spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
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International Fellowships 2024
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
Every. time.
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
To all my academic friends, never give up! My article got 5 rejections before it got its 6th.
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
I’ve just seen too much talk recently about writing “rules”. These are actually conventions and they can be challenged patthomson.net/2024/01/15/t...
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Helen Kara @drhelenkara.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
Really pleased to see this book as an actual book! Some great contributions, unfortunately it's fiendishly expensive but I'm hoping Bloomsbury will bring out a more affordable paperback in a year or so. In the meantime, the library is your friend...#CRMethods
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 15/01/2024
This is pretty remarkable. OECD avg for students who report "not fully trying" on PISA is 71%. And why should they? Who cares? Fill in the bubble, go through the motions, and be done with it. Kids cannot be compelled to give adults the data they want. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bar graphs showing students who reported they did not fully try in Pisa 2022, OECD countries
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Ola Demkowicz @olademk.bsky.social · 10/01/2024
Girls face greater risk of low mood and anxiety in adolescence (and beyond) and this may be worsening. There has been little inclusion of girls’ voices on this problem - our new preprint shares discussions with adolescent girls on their explanations 🧵 1/ doi.org/10.21203/rs....
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 20/12/2023
I’m on holidays and my family arrives in Manchester for the first time today! Extreme Christmas Spirit vibes happening here.
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Google flight alerts suggesting a 55 hour flight home from Manchester to Brisbane… absolutely not.
screenshot of flight prices and duration
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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
It's probably been done, but...
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
I have to say, T&F's name change policy is pretty fantastic. I put in a request to update my name for my last couple of papers but then ran out of steam, and they've gone in and found everything I've written that they can change and are sorting it out. I'm really impressed with the process!
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Amanda McKay @chalkhands.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
Devastated to hear today about Jacky Lumby’s passing. She was incredibly kind to me when we met last year at BELMAS and I know she was really supportive of ECRs. I always appreciated her work. Vale.
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