Swimming Against the Tide: Exploring Alternative Approaches for Education

This series of workshops brings together scholars working in fields of education, mental health, youth identity and inclusive practice with disadvantaged and marginalised youth, to explore and exchange interdisciplinary knowledge about the value and mechanisms of alternative education in the UK.  

Drawing on interdisciplinary expertise from across UCL and beyond, the proposed series of workshops aims to stake out key debates in the field of alternative education from different disciplinary perspectives, identify how these areas are implicated in policy and practice, and explore the contribution of creative co-constructed methodologies to different measures and understandings of success outcomes for young people.  

This workshop series is funded by an Institute of Advanced Studies Small Workshop grant 2024 and is organised by the Department of Anthropology and Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity, IoE.

The workshop scholarly team includes:  
Dr Alison Macdonald (Department of Anthropology)
Dr Caroline Oliver (Sociology of Education and Equity, IoE) 
Dr Georgia Pavlopoulous (Institute of Mental Health) 
Dr Wendy Sims-Schouten (Arts and Sciences)

We welcome participation in the workshops from anyone working and studying in related fields. Refreshments will be provided.  

To attend the workshops, please register via the Eventbrite links below.

Workshop Series

For further information about the workshops please contact: Dr Alison Macdonald.