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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH — registration open! 🚨 Delighted to invite you to the online launch of, Learning on the Margins: Alternative Provision, Capital and Youth Justice 📅 Thursday 5 November 2026 🕒 3 pm UK time 💻 Online (free) Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-o...

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Online Book Launch soon... 👀 Learning on the Margins explores #AlternativeProvision #Inclusion #exclusion #multiagencywork www.waterstones.com/book/learnin...

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My new book arrived in the mail... I am nervous to open it... link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This week, the National Research Study: Identifying Best Practice Across #AlternativeProvision begins with online focus groups with school leaders on Thursday. 📢 If you like to be part of the focus groups or the research - exploring best practice contact C.Johnston@uwe.ac.uk

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Returning to teaching after a leave of absence has reminded me what a privilege it is to share learning with others, especially listening on as theory clicks with lived experience.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

First feedback - from the esteemed Prof Sally Tomlinson- of my upcoming book on #alternativeprovision #capital and #youthjustice #SEND

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The Scottish accent in England strikes again @Starbucks - It's Craig not "Creak"

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Up early to try to finish my book on #alternativeprovision - before it heads to the publishers. 🤞#youthjustice

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Edited Book on #AlternativeProvision - Call for 300 word abstracts for chapter contributions - Details here: lnkd.in/eVwrJJ4q Deadline November 17th 2025. Reposts welcomed 🙏 🚨🚨🚨

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My father was raised in care (@Quarriers) until working age. I finally had a chance to look at what little notes there are of his 14 years there. Vivid insights into family life, poverty and the (lack of) standards of housing in a small industrial town, which led to the referral.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🚨🚨🚨 New Publication!!! 🚨🚨🚨 Joining the dots: part 2. #SEND and #alternativeprovision: creating a second schooling system. Always enlightening to work with Prof Sally Tomlinson, especially around the history of SEND. journals.lwbooks.co.uk/forum/vol-67...

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

15 years ago, I gained a #phd. Many years after being told to leave school as "you're not going to pass anything". A #workingclass kid fae the tenements.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

A night at the House of Commons celebrating the launch of Boys' Impact with the excellent Dr Alex Blower and colleagues.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

it was great to convene the first (working) Class staff/student event yesterday @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social One line that stuck out for me was "I am the first person from my #workingclass family to go to University and I worry I might also be the last".

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Proud to be shortlisted for the Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of the West of England, in amongst some brilliant and dedicated colleagues. @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Editing the second part of Joining the Dots, written with Prof. Sally Tomlinson - this one is due out in the summer. #alternativeprovision #SEND

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Lot's going on this week for me around #alternativeprovision, which has long been - and likely to long be - a contested space. Just finished the 2nd part of Joining the Dots (#SEND /#AP) with Prof. Sally Tomlinson, meetings with various stakeholders and a webinar by @apresearchnetwork.bsky.social

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am spending this evening examining the paperwork that gives some insight into why my father was made an orphan. Enlightening and quite shocking in equal measure.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

It has been 6 years since the #disabled bad boys in #alternativeprovision paper was accepted for publication. Since then, AP has become a growing research area with these young people's voices as relevant today as they were then. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

For those undertaking sociological based research. #Highereducation #research #methodology *source unknown

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

After the positive reaction of the last article, it is a pleasure to work with Prof Sally Tomlinson again on Part 2 - (pt.1) uwe-repository.worktribe.com/index.php/ou... #SEND #disability #alternativeprovision

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Coming to the end of a project evaluating the work of US office for #violenceprevention organisations. The last meeting was this evening with the Department of Violence Prevention in Oakland. Great to hear how they apply a public health approach to violence prevention.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

8 years ago, I left children's safeguarding and a 25-year career working with some of the most vulnerable children imaginable. I always find it interesting how those experiences often have little value in academia.

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great to see this book, with our chapter - Made for a Trade - heading to the printers. #workingclass #masculinity #highereducation #belonging

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I have been fortunate to work with thousands of children (and young people) for over 30 years. Let this day be one where we take a little more time to reflect on what they have to say. #listen #voice #worldchildrensday

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Dr Craig Johnston @drcejohnston.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In 2018, I could find little literature on how being #workingclass might influence learning and engagement in HE. So I wrote 👇. This was inspired by watching the way working class nurses used humour (or inclusive forms of banter) to engage my dad at the bedside of my dying mum.

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