Daisy is a part-time DPhil student and Assistant Curriculum Lead for English in a West Midlands school. Her work is shaped by teaching and supporting young people who have experienced exclusion and disrupted schooling within Alternative Provision settings across the region.
Her MSc research focused on transitions between mainstream education and short-stay Alternative Provision: her first year project explored what excluded young people felt teachers in short-stay Alternative Provision could do to support them in their processing of the trauma of exclusion whilst her second year saw the development of youth-led interventions, designed to equip young people in short-stay Alternative Provision with skills and strategies to reintegrate successfully into mainstream education.
Daisy is interested in understanding how Initial Teacher Education programmes engage with Alternative Provision and the extent to which Alternative Provision is visible within teacher training curricula. She plans to work alongside Initial Teacher Education providers to create opportunities for trainee teachers to encounter Alternative Provision and reflect upon their practice. She hopes that her research will examine the impact of Alternative Provision experiences on the wider understanding of exclusion, behaviour, curriculum design, inclusion and teacher identity within Initial Teacher Education, thus preparing future teachers to work across diverse educational settings.
Aside from her DPhil, Daisy is keen to better understand how schools, local authorities, higher education settings and alternative provisions might work more thoughtfully together to support happy, fulfilled and successful young people and educators alike.
She would love to hear from anyone curious about her project, Alternative Provision in general or the relationship between Alternative Provision and teacher education.
Supervised by Dr Nicole Dingwall and Dr Ian Thompson