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Rebecca Loader

@rmloader.bsky.social
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Assistant Research Professor, University of Cambridge. Education, peace and conflict transformation, intercultural and antiracist education. Quaker. Views my own.

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Parents for Inclusive Education @pfie.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢 Exciting research launch news!
 PFIE joined with QUB & the NI Interfaith Forum for research on Religious Education in NI.
 📘 Religion and Worldviews Education for All
🗓 4 Dec 10:00-11:30am
📍Riddell Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road
🎟️ Tickets are free, registration necessary tinyurl.com/3j8u58mm
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/
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Peace education from Quakers in Britain @peaceedu.quaker.org.uk · 04/11/2025
Come and work with us to develop Peer Mediation! For details of how to apply, go to www.quaker.org.uk/jobs To arrange an informal discussion of the role, please email peaceedu@quaker.org.uk
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Runnymede Trust @runnymedetrust.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Stephen Lawrence should be celebrating his 51st birthday today, but he was murdered in a racist attack at just 18. As we look to the horrifying resurgence of racist violence, Stephen’s story serves as a poignant reminder of why racial justice matters. Rest in power, Stephen. Your legacy lives on 🖤
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Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
✨ Imagine this… ✨ 📚 You open a book and find a character who looks like you, sounds like you, or shares the same traditions as your family! 📚 🌍 That’s what our We Are Belfast workshops are all about!
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Inclusivity Training - Orla McKeating
Creating Inclusive Learning through Stories At Still I Rise Diversity Storytelling, our mission is to amplify underrepresented voices, bridge cultural gaps, and cultivate empathy through the power of ...
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The same Chris Philp didn’t say this for Ukraine. The same Chris Philp said the opposite “Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential"” @scotnational.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/delay-...
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Delay biometric visa checks for 80 Gaza students, dozens of MPs urge UK government
Barry Gardiner MP says educating students from Gaza is about "giving the state of Palestine the possibility of a future". But Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential".
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Niamh McGuirk @niamhmcguirk.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
These topics are much more complex and nuanced than a few lines can address, but glad that a couple of the educational issues I raised, including the need for more explicit commitments to antiracism in the curriculum, made the cut in this piece.
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‘Where are the foreigners?’: does a facile explanation lie behind Ballymena’s outbreak of hate?
Northern Ireland faces stark questions over the racism, xenophobia and intolerance that has forced families from abroad to flee
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Pleased to have contributed to this systematic review of literature on academic selection in the UK, led by Ian Cantley. Consistent with the emphasis on evidence in NI education policy, it offers a robust evaluation and synthesis of the research. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
Academic selection for post-primary education is an important feature of the educational landscape in some parts of the United Kingdom, most notably in Northern Ireland and some areas of England, in ...
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Paul Jump @pauljump.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
"A career is meant to be something you grow into – layered with experience, trust and time, but in academia these days, you’re uprooted before anything can truly take hold. The opportunities to stay put and flourish are so often dependent on whim and circumstance." @timeshighered.bsky.social
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I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit
For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long,...
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
#InternationalDawnChorusDay in our garden at 5.30am. A wonderful moment just to be still and listen.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Had a wonderful day at the third @beranews.bsky.social Presidential Seminar on anti-racism and education yesterday in Cardiff. Wales's commitments to being both an antiracist nation and a nation of sanctuary are fantastic, especially from the vantage point of NI. (1/2)
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social
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The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research
Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...
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Nicola Spurr @nicolaspurr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
This is shocking, an egregious overreach by #MetPolice. Westminster #Quaker Meeting House is a place of peace, of worship & community. To be invaded so aggressively is a violation of the space AND of the right to freely assemble. #HomeSecretary & #PoliceCommissioner must respond. @quaker.org.uk
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We are looking to speak to parents of P7 pupils in Newry and North Belfast for our research on post-primary transfer. Please share! If you're interested in participating, please let us know here: forms.office.com/e/9QeTwDryqJ
Parents & Carers of P7 Pupils in Newry and North Belfast
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast are conducting a study on post-primary transfer in Northern Ireland. They are looking to speak with parents and carers of children currently in P7, who will move to post-primary school in September 2025.

What’s involved?
You’ll take part in a one-hour interview, either online or in person at a convenient location.
Topics include:
Your views and experiences of post-primary transfer
Priorities when choosing a school
Thoughts on possible changes to the current transfer process
It doesn’t matter if your child has taken the SEAG test or not—we want to hear all perspectives.
As a thank-you, all participants will receive a £20 gift card.
Interested? Fill out this short form, and a researcher will be in touch:

https://forms.office.com/e/9QeTwDryqJ
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Siún Carden @s-carden.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A shameful story about immigrant business people’s experiences in Belfast, from the paramilitary protection racket to council inaction after racist riots www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...
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Belfast race riots aftermath: ‘We have received nothing from the council, the government or our insurance company’
Immigrants whose businesses were destroyed or damaged in August’s violence say the only help they have got came from the public
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BERA @beranews.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Join us in Leeds for the BERA Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England? @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social 🗓️ 25 Feb 2025 📍Leeds Beckett University Find out more and register: bera.ac.uk/event/presid...
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Aisling O’Boyle @aislingoboyle.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Book Launch for "The Racialized Nature of Academic Language" edited by Dr Sultan Turkan and @jlschissel.bsky.social See the full list of speakers and how to register online here🤩: mcgill.ca/plurilingual... And if you are in Belfast (NI), join us in person! Image
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Book Launch: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language
You're kindly invited to our next virtual Plurilingual Lab Speaker Series event with the book launch of: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Disentangling the Raciolinguistics Power Structures...
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The government has made reducing child poverty one of its key policy objectives. 📈 Our interactive tool allows you to compare policies for reducing child poverty, and see how child poverty rates have changed over time: ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-reduce-c…
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Rebecca Loader @rmloader.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Glad to be able to brief the NI Assembly Education Committee this afternoon on our research on experiences of education among minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland. Thanks to the Committee for the opportunity and @nuffieldfoundation.org for the support for this research.
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 22/11/2024
The news that arrest warrants have been issued by the ICC against Israeli and Hamas leaders sends a clear signal: no party to this violence is above the law. We pray this will herald a desperately needed turning point for the region. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Headline: Quakers in Britain statement on ICC arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders. Statement: The news that arrest warrants have been issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli and Hamas leaders sends a clear signal: no party to this violence is above the law. The focus now turns to the 124 member states of the ICC – including the United Kingdom – and what they will do to support the ICC's actions, uphold international law and its institutions, and enforce the warrants.

Thirteen months in is 13 months too late for those who have already suffered unimaginably because of this violence. We pray the UK government is propelled into action by this news, not only to publicly support the ICC's investigations and enforce the warrants, but also to review its own complicity in enabling alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity to take place. This must include reviewing what pressure can be applied to ensure the unhindered flow of aid into Gaza and implementing a ban on all UK arms exports to Israel.

We are unwavering in our belief that actions such as these are needed and justified to hasten the end of the violence. We pray the warrants – and our own government's reaction to them – will herald a desperately needed turning point for the region.
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