TCELT Research seminar - April 2025

Professor Jonathan Glazzard is the Rosalind Hollis Professor of Education for Social Justice in the School of Education at the University of Hull.

Jonathan's research focuses on the experiences of minoritised individuals and groups. Her serves on the Editorial Boards of several journals including the International Journal of Educational and Life Transitions and Equity in Education and Society. He is a co-convenor of the British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group, Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education.

His current research focuses on the educational transitions of young people in the youth justice system. Recent publications have focused on mental health, educational and life transitions and early reading development in children.
Jonathan holds Visiting Professorships at BGU, Lincoln, Newman University, Birmingham and the University of Northampton.

Abstract

Young people who are held in youth offending institutions are likely to have been excluded from school, more likely to be neurodivergent or have learning difficulties or disabilities.

The ‘school to prison pipeline’ is well-documented in the criminology literature. Many will have experienced adverse childhood experiences and consequently are more likely to have poor mental health.

Less attention has been given to this field of research within education journals, and we could not source studies which specifically explored the educational transitions of incarcerated young people.

During the presentation, I will present findings from a systematic literature review and introduce an original model to facilitate smoother educational transitions for this group.

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