Rob Archer
@drrobarcher.bsky.social
Critical realism, education policy, philosophy of social science, psychoanalysis, psychology, spirituality. Recent articles explore replication crisis in psychology & realist social theory and ed policy. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rob-Archer-4
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New #RuralEd paper: “Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university, by H. Cuervo & N. Weerasuriya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university
Research studies have repeatedly reported the under-representation of rural youth in higher education, mainly focusing on their aspirations as well as opportunities and barriers to accessing univer...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
New #RuralEd paper: “Coming to uni was isolating, a massive culture shock”: the struggle of working-class rural youth for recognition and belonging at a metropolitan university, by H. Cuervo & N. Weerasuriya. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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📘 The latest issue of Educational Review explores parental engagement, curriculum innovation, PE in alternative schools, wellbeing policy gaps, teacher identity, academic integrity, and more—across global contexts!
🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...
#EducationResearch
🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...
#EducationResearch
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📘 The latest issue of Educational Review explores parental engagement, curriculum innovation, PE in alternative schools, wellbeing policy gaps, teacher identity, academic integrity, and more—across global contexts!
🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...
#EducationResearch
🔗 Read the issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cedr20/7...
#EducationResearch
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📚 'The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England' - an article in the @ucl.ac.uk UN #SDG4 Collection on #ScienceOpen:
🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy
🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy
The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England
Teachers and teacher education are often presented as “problems” to be solved, with policy solutions that focus on ways to make teachers “better” and improve teacher “quality” by introducing prescriptive strategies.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
📚 'The “problem” of teacher quality: exploring challenges and opportunities in developing teacher quality during the Covid-19 global pandemic in England' - an article in the @ucl.ac.uk UN #SDG4 Collection on #ScienceOpen:
🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy
🖇️ #ILD2025 #TeacherEducation #TeacherQuality #EducationPolicy
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Some working-class student teachers seem to act as ‘chameleons’ when training, occupying different social class-spaces and keeping a foot in all camps www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Working-class student teacher in Wales? Tell your story - [email protected].
Chameleoning to fit in? Working class student teachers in Ireland performing differential social class identities in their placement schools
This paper is about social class and the teaching profession. While class has long been a core focus in the Sociology of Education, little attention has been paid to how it is conceived and enacted...
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September 22, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Some working-class student teachers seem to act as ‘chameleons’ when training, occupying different social class-spaces and keeping a foot in all camps www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Working-class student teacher in Wales? Tell your story - [email protected].
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New paper! Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England.
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Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England
The last decade has seen a growth in school-based mental health promotion and prevention programmes alongside an increasing expectation that the design and research of such programmes should be co-...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
New paper! Coproducing a school-based mental health literacy programme: exploring the views and experiences of primary school children in North-West England.
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@jpelonga.bsky.social and I have written a blog about our newly published book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with thanks to @crnetwork.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for their support #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
Here's a new blog post by Anthony Thorpe and Jean Pierre Elonga Mboyo about their recent book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/11/05/e...
Exploring Educational Leadership Through Critical Realism
Discover critical insights on educational leadership in 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' by Thorpe and Mboyo.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
@jpelonga.bsky.social and I have written a blog about our newly published book 'Educational Leadership and Critical Realism' with thanks to @crnetwork.bsky.social and @tandfresearch.bsky.social for their support #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
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My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁
November 6, 2025 at 9:04 AM
My book is officially available in hardback from today. Just in time for Christmas! A bit expensive at the moment so have your library treat you to a copy.... 🎁
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🗣️ “We have no idea what she’s saying, but we’re really proud she’s saying it.”
This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it.
📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...
This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it.
📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...
November 4, 2025 at 9:26 AM
🗣️ “We have no idea what she’s saying, but we’re really proud she’s saying it.”
This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it.
📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...
This study by Ashleigh Regan & Sara Ganassin explores why non-Welsh speaking parents choose Welsh-medium education—and the hopes, challenges, and pride that come with it.
📖 Read #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1080/0013...
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The marketisation of HE has destroyed the sense of being part of a 'community of scholars', replacing it with 'students as paying customers'.
October 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The marketisation of HE has destroyed the sense of being part of a 'community of scholars', replacing it with 'students as paying customers'.
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Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Wishing all my friends in the United States a happy National Cat Day. We don't have a National Cat Day in the UK, just a National Cat. Me.
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The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn.
Ronald Fairbairn.
December 12, 2024 at 10:28 PM
The greatest trauma a child can experience.
Ronald Fairbairn.
Ronald Fairbairn.
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Our book in the @routledgebooks.bsky.social series in @crnetwork.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social More details at www.routledge.com/Educational-... including access to the opening chapter. Please tell your librarian. #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
October 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Our book in the @routledgebooks.bsky.social series in @crnetwork.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social More details at www.routledge.com/Educational-... including access to the opening chapter. Please tell your librarian. #Critical #Realism #Leadership #Education
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#Education and #wellbeing as silos: Siân Ephgrave & Lizzi O. Milligan call for integrated and relational approaches to learning and wellness in schools.
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October 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#Education and #wellbeing as silos: Siân Ephgrave & Lizzi O. Milligan call for integrated and relational approaches to learning and wellness in schools.
Read #OpenAccess 👇
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A reminder that you have one month left to submit your abstract for our new handbook on research paradigms. Share your experience and help other researchers navigate the complexity of how philosophy shapes research practice. Read more below.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
Call for abstracts for our research paradigms handbook! – Dr Lynette Pretorius
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October 6, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A reminder that you have one month left to submit your abstract for our new handbook on research paradigms. Share your experience and help other researchers navigate the complexity of how philosophy shapes research practice. Read more below.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky
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In a powerful new article, Pandora Pound of @safermedicines.org uses sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on power and legitimacy to ask why animal experimentation still dominates academia—despite scientific advances and increasing external pressure for change.
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#sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪
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#sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪
October 9, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In a powerful new article, Pandora Pound of @safermedicines.org uses sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s ideas on power and legitimacy to ask why animal experimentation still dominates academia—despite scientific advances and increasing external pressure for change.
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#sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪
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#sociology #scipol #philsci 🧪
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Dr Pratik Mishra is raising awareness about labourers under extreme heat in India. His research combines ethnography, temperature sensors, and intervention trials in garment factories, to push for policies that protect vulnerable workers from heat stress. Read more: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/glob...
Pratik Mishra: Working to bring attention to those labouring under extreme heat in India
Welcome Dr Pratik Mishra, a British Academy-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellow working within the Department of Anthropology.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Dr Pratik Mishra is raising awareness about labourers under extreme heat in India. His research combines ethnography, temperature sensors, and intervention trials in garment factories, to push for policies that protect vulnerable workers from heat stress. Read more: www.sussex.ac.uk/schools/glob...
Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
Roy Bhaskar's Critical Realism and the crisis of replication in psychology
In this episode, I interview Dr Rob Archer and we talk about Roy Bhaskar’s critical realism and how it deals with the crisis of replication.
*What is critical realism?
*What is the role of ontology?...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Thrilled that my Epistemic Alchemy Podcast interview on Critical Realism & the Replication Crisis in Psychology has hit 200 listens! Thanks to everyone who tuned in and shared it 🙏
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
Listen here 👉 www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpmsx-...
#CriticalRealism #ReplicationCrisis #PhilosophyOfScience #Replication
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The co-deputy leaders have so much to say too: Rachel Millward from 9:45, Mothin Ali from 25:35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1w...
Co-Deputy Leaders' Speech - Rachel Millward & Mothin Ali at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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October 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The co-deputy leaders have so much to say too: Rachel Millward from 9:45, Mothin Ali from 25:35 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw1w...
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How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
How the founder of German psychology scoffed & pathologized unorthodox science out of intellectual discourse – and tried to alter the historical record in due course. Plug for my recent article in the @spr1882.bsky.social encyclopedia. www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/10/wundt
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🚨📣 FINAL BOOK! 📕
If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️
Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise:
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#EduChat #BookReview
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If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️
Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise:
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October 8, 2025 at 8:13 AM
🚨📣 FINAL BOOK! 📕
If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️
Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise:
[email protected]
#EduChat #BookReview
@beranews.bsky.social
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
If you'd like to review this book, email us! ✉️
Please include your affiliation, level of study & evidence of relevant expertise:
[email protected]
#EduChat #BookReview
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@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@aeraedresearch.bsky.social
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“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
“After all research on psychotherapy is accounted for, psychotherapy still resolves itself into a relationship best subsumed by the word love”
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
- Arthur Burton (1967)
#psychotherapy #humanisticpsychology
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V.S. Öğütle (2013) "Reconsidering Real-Actual-Empirical Stratification: Can Bourdieu's Habitus be Introduced into a Critical Realist Ontology?", Journal of Critical Realism, 12(4): 479-506.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Reconsidering Real-Actual-Empirical Stratification
In the last couple of years there have been some attempts to introduce Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts (especially habitus) into the critical realist conception of social science. But these attempts eit...
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April 8, 2025 at 8:49 AM
V.S. Öğütle (2013) "Reconsidering Real-Actual-Empirical Stratification: Can Bourdieu's Habitus be Introduced into a Critical Realist Ontology?", Journal of Critical Realism, 12(4): 479-506.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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We are actively seeking theoretically challenging work on education. Please give our open-access editorial a read for details on our journal's scope, and consider submitting your work🧵
doi.org/10.1177/0034...
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Re-engaging theory, rethinking policy, reanimating practice - Matthew Clarke, Jonthan Vincent, Tony Carusi, 2024
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November 18, 2024 at 12:53 AM
We are actively seeking theoretically challenging work on education. Please give our open-access editorial a read for details on our journal's scope, and consider submitting your work🧵
doi.org/10.1177/0034...
doi.org/10.1177/0034...
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📙 New #BookReview by Qian Zhu & Shuangshuang Li:
"Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective" edited by Peng Liu & Lei Mee Thien 🏫
Read here 👇
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
"Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective" edited by Peng Liu & Lei Mee Thien 🏫
Read here 👇
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
October 2, 2025 at 8:46 AM
📙 New #BookReview by Qian Zhu & Shuangshuang Li:
"Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective" edited by Peng Liu & Lei Mee Thien 🏫
Read here 👇
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
"Understanding teacher leadership in educational change: an international perspective" edited by Peng Liu & Lei Mee Thien 🏫
Read here 👇
doi.org/10.1080/0013...
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Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy
Learn about recent developments in critical realism in Japan in our latest blog post, from Hazuki Kajiwara: criticalrealismnetwork.org/2025/08/28/c...
Emerging Interest in Critical Realism in Japan's Research
Explore the growing interest in Critical Realism in Japan with study groups, translations, and developments in nursing and social sciences.
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October 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Big in Japan? Bigger than I thought. A neat blog post about critical realism by Hazuki Kajiwara, a researcher at Tokyo's Rikkyo University
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy
#CriticalRealism #JapanHealthcare #JapanesePhilosophy