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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Fab day at the @scienceatlife.bsky.social centre in #Newcastle. So wonderful to see cognitive psychology represented in a science museum! Absolutely made my child take the Stroop and Frith-Happe Animations tests 😂

A boy standing in front of a comparison of scores in a Stroop test.

A boy taking part in a theory of mind task.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Half way through book 4 and you are going to have to work hard to convince me that this isn’t the best book series I will ever read. @faberbooks.bsky.social

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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 27/03/2026

We have heard this consultation may have had a strong transphobic response. It looks like they've tried to slip it through without trans input. It needs to be in by 02 APR, so almost time up. We haven't been able to put a guide for this one due to the short notice. www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ind...

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Consultation | Gender Incongruence Services for Children and Young People | Quality standards | NICE

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

An amazing day on Lundy training with @youthfocusnw.bsky.social today! Perfectly complimented by an offer from @manchester.ac.uk to join their #edpsychs training course this September!! What a day!

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Lucy Pearson @lrpearson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

As a parent, I find social media terrifying and want to keep my child off it as long as possible. However the calls for a ban for under 16s continue a long pattern of seeking to shrink young people's presence in the public realm rather than tackling other issues.

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Educational Psychologists for Material Change @eps4change.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

🚨 COMMUNITY LEARNING DAY 9th JAN - FINAL LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 Revoke are the latest addition to an incredible lineup of speakers and organisations Such an amazing lineup. Get your tickets today! www.eventbrite.com/e/epmc-commu...

Community Learning Day on Inequality
& Psychology
ЕЧМС
Hosted by EPs For Material Change
Dr Dan O'Hare- Educational Psychologist
Jan is weaving personal experience with research evidence to ast what does the welfare system take from children?
Justin Hancock- Sex and Relationships Educator
Justin is delivering Relationships a Potentic roomics, and Lines of
-light in Relationships
Dr Luca Onions- Educational Psychologist
Luca is sharing his research exploring the lived experiences of trans, non-binary and gender-diverse autistic children in school.
mastaha
Maslaha
are delivering a session titled "From Prevent to Palestine: Silencing in Education".
. Maslaha translates from Arabic as 'for the common good'.
They believe the tools for liberation lie in within our communities. They work in shared struggle with Muslim communities to live free from oppression in all its forms, and stand in solidarity with other liberatory movements.
No More Exclusions
are a Black-led, community-based abolitionist movement working to
violence that harm Black, brown,
communities.
Revoke
revoke Is a grassroots organisation advocating for young displacec seople, care-leavers, and those affected by the criminal justice system, living without advocates, families, power, or a voice.

Event Timetable
10:00 - 10:15
Welcome & Introductions
Educational Psychologists for Material Change
Setting the context and aims for the day.
10:15 - 11:00
Workshop 1| Dr Dan O'Hare
What does the welfare system take from children?
11:15 - 12:00
Workshop 2 | Dr Luca Onions
Trans, non-binary and gender-diverse autistic children's experiences of school.
12:00 - 12:45
Workshop 3 | No More Exclusions
Abolitionist approaches to school exclusions
12:45 - 1:15
Lunch Break
1:15 - 2:00
Norkshop 4 | Revoke
Unaccompanied minors and abolitionist care in the asylum system.
2:00 - 2:45
Workshop 5 | Justin Hancock
Politics, micropolitics, and becoming in relationships.
3:00 - 3:45
Workshop 6 | Maslaha
From Prevent to Palestine: silencing in education.
3:45 - 4:00
Closing Remarks
Educational Psychologists for Material Change Reflections, connections, and next steps.

Workshop 1| Dr Dan O'Hare
The UK's benefits system is often described as "lacking dignity and humanity", but behind that phrase are real children and families living with its consequences. In this talk, Dan weaves personal experience with research evidence to ask: what does the welfare system take from children?
Beyond material deprivation and over and above the devastating effects of poverty, how do bureaucracy, conditionality, sanctions and stigma shape family life and mental health? Together, we'll reflect on why this matters for policy, practice, the kind of society we want to build, and what we as professionals might do.
Workshop 2 | Dr Luca Onions
Luca is an educational psychologist, he is talking about his research exploring the lived, school experience of gender-diverse, autistic young people under the age of 15.
Workshop 3 | No More Exclusions
No More Exclusions is a Black-led, community-based abolitionist movement working to end school exclusion and challenge systems of state violence affecting Black, brown, disabled, and working-class communities.
This session introduces abolition and its relevance to education, tracing NME's journey, lived experience, and organising. It explores the long-term impacts of exclusion and connects school practices to wider political and structural harm.

Workshop 4 | Revoke
Mona is the founder of Revoke, a radical, grassroots organisation working with young adults in the asylum system. Her own parents were political refugees from Iran and she grew up in Denmark before migrating to the UK as a teenager.
Hannah is an integrative art psychotherapist with extensive youth work experience across schools, PRUs, statutory services and the NCS, and has been the Therapeutic Lead at Revoke for the past four years, where she built our community therapy programme up from scratch.
Their session will focus on unaccompanied minors in particular and the holistic, abolitionist approach we've taken to their care.
Workshop 5 | Justin Hancock
Justin Hancock is a Sex and Relationships Educator. They are delivering a session titled "Politics, Micropolitics, and Lines of Flight in Relationships (a Potential Becoming...)".
Workshop 6 | Masalaha
Maslaha are delivering a session named 'From Prevent to Palestine:
Silencing in Education'.
Maslaha translates from Arabic as "for the common good". We believe the tools for liberation lie within our communities. We work in shared struggle with Muslim communities to live free from oppression in all its forms, and stand in solidarity with other liberatory movements.

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Awkward Egg @sleepwalkingdog.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Fun fact: when Michael Flatley drinks champagne he turns into Michael Bublé.

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Anna Freud @annafreudcharity.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

School and college staff! 🏫 Did you know we have an online resource hub for mental health leads? The hub is open for resource submissions from organisations across the sector until 23 Jan: mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk/submit-a-res...

mentallyhealthyschools.org.uk

Submit a resource to our senior mental health lead resource library : Mentally Healthy Schools

Mentally Healthy Schools brings together quality-assured information, advice and resources to help primary schools understand and promote children's mental health and wellbeing.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I’m reading On the Calculation of Volume, book two by Solvej Balle. It’s extraordinary. However, sometimes unexpectedly, passages of text affirm the way your aspirations for the world are guided. This passage hit home today.

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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I've long been worried the government's "school readiness" goal risks widening the early years attainment gap - because it doesn't include a specific goal for lower income young children or the gap itself, + it's likely easier to push better off kids over the line - and the gap is widening.

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Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) @educationuom.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Important research here from MIE colleagues on the lingering consequences of the pandemic, which continue to exacerbate inequalities in education.

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Education Support @edsupportuk.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

The Education Support Teacher Wellbeing Index 2025 reveals a stark truth: the wellbeing of our education workforce is at crisis point. If we want every child to thrive, we must ensure that those who teach and support them are thriving too. 📣 Read and share the report: 👇 ow.ly/sVm950XsXHJ

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Jo Malone @not-candles.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I actually do not recognise this party anymore

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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential.

As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They deserve better.

At the Budget, the Chancellor has a unique chance to change this. By fully scrapping the two-child limit she can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in our country’s future potential.

We have come together as diverse organisations who recognise that turning the tide on child poverty is crucial for children, and also for wider ambitions on housing, education, health and national growth. Reducing child poverty will boost family budgets, and local economies. It will reduce household debt, and cut the huge future costs of poverty faced by our schools, hospitals and other public services.

Every day the two-child limit remains, in any form, it pushes children into poverty. Now is not the time for half-measures.

Now is the moment for the Prime Minister and Chancellor to hear the voices of the UK’s children and take this vital opportunity to do the right thing.

Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future, and help to rebuild a stronger, fairer country and economy.

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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The two-child limit is the biggest driver of rising child poverty & scrapping it in full is the right thing to do. All children are equally deserving of a good childhood and abolishing this cruel policy would give millions more kids a better start in life. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

theguardian.com

Rachel Reeves signals plan to remove two-child benefit cap in budget

Chancellor understood to be preparing to fully reverse measure, which would cost over £3bn but could lift 350,000 children out of poverty

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Kat is fab. An evident boundless passion for inclusion and supporting neurodivergent CYP. Please let her know of any opportunities.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

In a not psychology related post, this guy got on the tram.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Slowly but surely starting emerging from the dissertation hole. Was going to use some sort of hungry caterpillar-esque metaphor here, but tbh my mind is too tired. Final read throughs, reference checking, appendices and formatting to finalise and it’s done.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Since the DfE's new writing framework seriously downplays the importance of emergent writing, I'm giving away a free copy of my book on mark making because it 100% *does* matter! ☺️ Like and repost to enter. Winner announced next Thursday. #EduSky #giveaway #freebie

The Ultimate Guide to Mark Making in the Early Years book by Sue Cowley

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We’re constantly adultifying children and removing childhood and children from society. What is the evidence base behind Bastille and Jo Wicks?!

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Can anyone from the #QualitativeResearch world help with a quick query? Any guidance on reporting ‘how’ participants said something? Talking specifically as gallows / dark humour as a coping mechanism. And any links to relevant research concerning this in #TeacherWellbeing? #BlueskyEPs

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Reflexive Thematic Analysis, what a beast. What a beaut. Am outlining findings / discussion and am just feeling all of the feels. Cannot believe an idea that came to me on my commute has grown into this. It’s amazing.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Sorely needed article today. While cycling back from swimming (me on a cargo bike with a 3yo on the back and our 6yo cycling beside me) a man stuck in traffic in a 4x4 felt the need to lean out of his window and shout, “That is so wrong. So wrong!” at us. Ironic?

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

An absolute joy to discuss this research at the Universally Manchester Community Festival last weekend. The MEd has provided powerful opportunities to connect with others 😊 and discuss everything psychology in education.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Getting deep into the editing process today on last assignments before the dissertation. Remembering to be patient, take time and reflect. This is the hardest part.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Had a climate psychology win this week. On Tuesday I passed my @tfgmbeenetwork.bsky.social Ride Leader training. Here’s to bike buses, holiday rides, rides with friends and taking up space 🥳🚲🌟 Reflections on Bronfenbrenner, SDT, inclusion and wellbeing 🧠

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I remember learning about thematic analysis in the old place before I started my psychology journey, thinking it was magic. It brings together my languages background and desire to investigate the experiences of other people / groups. And now, I’m using RTA in my own work. Appreciating progress.

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Alfie Stirling @alfie-stirling.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

In case anyone was wondering, this is what it looks like visually.

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Laura Williams @mrswilliams21c.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Good morning. Rolling the dice means taking a chance. Give yourself grace as you follow your wild heart. Lean in with your whole heart and have faith in your pivot foot when needed. Today you get to try. Happy Monday✨

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Last semester of the #MEd starts this week. Supervision handover for dissertation ✅ Notion pages set up ✅ Key reading organised into Zotero collections ✅ Plan for dissertation completion started ✅ Eager to get started and see what comes next 🤩🤩

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fascinating critical insight into the world of adolescent mental health, social media and research methodology last night with @jadedavies.bsky.social. Voice of CYP in SM/MH research and policy must be taken seriously, especially when SM is a sphere of supportive interactions for many.

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Realised I hadn’t done an #introduction. I’m Jayne. I’m a mature psychology masters student on the #MEd Psychology of Education at #UoM. Thesis focuses on experiences of primary staff working with children who live in poverty. I have worked as a teacher in Manchester for over a decade /1

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Jayne B @jayneb.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Concerning, yet unsurprising findings from the @edsupportuk.bsky.social Teacher Wellbeing Index today. Interesting to see the inclusion of findings around behaviour and support from other systems. Poignant that its release date coincides with #InternationalChildrensDay.

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The It's Innate! Podcast @theitsinnatepc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Not only are we back with a new episode but with a brand new series called "A conversation with a luminary", where we chat with a trailblazing developmental cognitive scientist. We're kicking things off with a conversation with the Rubinstein Professor Jenny Saffran! Enjoy! itsinnate.fireside.fm/21

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A conversation with a luminary #1: Jenny Saffran

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Dave McPartlan @drdavemcp.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Do we have an epistemic agency (EA) problem in schools? As a teacher for many years, I came across YP who didn't(couldn't?) engage with school. Often from a disadvantaged background they would either end up excluded or would merge into the background, not causing trouble but quietly...

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