Rebecca Loader
@rmloader
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Senior Research Fellow @QUBSSESW. Education and peacebuilding, educational inequality, intercultural & antiracist education. Quaker. Views my own.
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Joined March 2016
How have the education system and curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in .@Editor_IES @AislingOBoyle1.
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It's summer, but our research on post-primary transfer doesn't stop! We're still keen to speak to parents in Belfast and Newry whose children will be going into P7 or Year 8 in September. Please share!
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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 it into this piece.
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Paul Frew MLA claims that people in Ballymena "are frightened about illegal immigration". An elected representative should be challenging these expressly false narratives (as well as campaigning for safe and legal routes to the UK more generally), not amplifying them.
Grim scenes from Ballymena, a town that had exactly 0 people in receipt of asylum support in 2024. No "illegals" (not that any human should be seen that way); literally everyone was born there or was a legal migrant or refugee. (1/2).
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RT @PatrickCorrigan: ‘No ifs, no buts. politicians must call out these odious racist attacks for what they are. ‘No politician should b….
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RT @charlottecarso1: AntiRacist Education TeachMeet 12th June, 6-8pm, The Commons, Belfast. Please join us for an informal evening of food,….
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It is, however, a town led by a council that turned down £100k money earmarked to support the integration of dispersed refugees and others in 2023/24. (2/2).
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Grim scenes from Ballymena, a town that had exactly 0 people in receipt of asylum support in 2024. No "illegals" (not that any human should be seen that way); literally everyone was born there or was a legal migrant or refugee. (1/2).
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Pleased to be associated with this systematic review of literature on academic selection in the UK, led by @ian_cantley. Consistent with the current emphasis on evidence in NI education policy, it offers a rigorous evaluation and synthesis of the research.
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RT @CLER_QUB: Plenty of news reporting today on the research by our colleagues @DrIanCollen and @JayneDuff1 on language learning in schools….
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RT @DrMoncrieffe: The next @DrMoncrieffe BERA Four Nations Presidential Seminar will be the opening plenary at @BERANews conference Septemb….
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RT @anne_dev1: ⚡️Survey of current university students . @DoranAine, @MaureenOReilly7 and I are currently examining how students decide whe….
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RT @PivotalPPF: "Four key questions facing the Integrated Education movement". This week's guest writer for Pivotal Platform is campaigner….
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Always inspiring to hear about the fantastic work on antiracism in education that's taking place in Wales. Thanks to BERA and DARPL for an uplifting day.
The BERA Presidential Seminar Series is taking place in Wales today!🏴.@DrMoncrieffe. What do the leaders, educators and intergenerational learners really think and feel about anti-racism in education culture, curriculum and pan-Wales community approach? .
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Plus there'll be an online seminar for researchers, policymakers and practitioners on race, ethnicity and education in NI in October, run between @QUBSSESW and @BERANews. Watch this space!.
@BERANews President joined UK, NI, ROI academics, NGOs & policymakers to discusss why racism is not discussed nor addressed in #NorthernIreland. Conf organisers = @T_Agarin & @DZBelluigi.
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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:
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RT @NickHarrison73: Social mixing in school is good for social mobility. All the more reason we need to reform school admission codes to st….
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On resourcing a knowledge-rich curriculum. The Minister has said that questions of school structure are not relevant, but indications are that they could be fundamental to shaping how a 'knowledge-rich' curriculum is implemented in practice.
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