Blogs and Publications in EEI

Allan, J & Peruzzo, F 2023, Students, teachers, families, and a socially just education: Rewriting the grammar of schooling to unsettle identities. Education Studies, Lived Places Publishing, New York.

Peruzzo, F. (2025). The left hand of data: Designing education data for justice: By Matthew Berland and Antero Garcia, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2024, $40 (paperback), ISBN: 9780262547529 (Also available Open Access). British Journal of Sociology of Education, 46(4), 569–573.

Peruzzo, F. and Spanò, E. (2025). Foucault, Decolonial Thinking and Critical Leadership Studies in Education: Expanding the Epistemic and Ontological Toolbox. In R. Niesche and D. Mifsud (Eds.) Thinking with Michel Foucault in Educational Leadership: Methodological and Conceptual Challenges. London: Bloomsbury, Chapter 4, pp. 111-138

Grimaldi, E., Peruzzo, F. and Ball, S. J. (2025). The Italian Ed-Tech market in the making. Education Policy Archives

Pennacchia, J., Axler, M., King, S., & Clapham, A. (2025). Choice and diversity in governance in the English alternative provision sector: Implications for educational equity. British Educational Research Journal, 51(3), 1991-2012.

Johnston, C, Malcolm, A & Pennacchia, J 2024, 'How is theory used to understand and inform practice in the alternative provision sector in England: trends, gaps and implications for practice', International Journal of Inclusive Education. 

Pennacchia, J. (2024). Exclusionary tactics in English secondary education: An analysis of fair access protocols. Journal of Education Policy, 39(3), 321–342.

Millward, C 2024, 'Improving, but not equalising opportunity: the objective and effect of regulating fair access to higher education in England, and their implications for understanding higher education policy ', Oxford Review of Education, vol. 50, no. 2, pp. 148-166.

Allan, J & Harwood, V 2023, 'Approaching the self: alternative perspectives of selfwork in education', International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.

Millward, C 2023, 'Balancing the incentives in English higher education: the imperative to strengthen civic influence for levelling up^*', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2219664

Nieminen, JH, Bagger, A & Allan, J 2023, 'Discourses of risk and hope in research on mathematical learning difficulties', Educational Studies in Mathematics, vol. 112, no. 2, pp. 337-357.

Bathmaker, A; & Pennacchia, J. (2023). Who governs and why it matters. An analysis of race equality and diversity in the composition of further education college governing bodies across the UK, Journal of Vocational Education & Training, 75(1), pp. 24-42.

Matthews, A & Kotzee, B 2022, 'Bundled or unbundled? A multi‐text corpus‐assisted discourse analysis of the relationship between teaching and research in UK universities', British Educational Research Journal, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 578-597.

Millward, C & Martin, J 2022, 'Community comprehensive education: an effective way forward for everyone', Forum: for promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 159-175. 

Allan, J & Omarova, T 2022, 'Disability and inclusion in Kazakhstan', Disability and Society, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1067-1084. 

Raaper, R, Peruzzo, F & Westander, M 2022, 'Disabled students doing activism: borrowing from and trespassing neoliberal reason in English higher education', Power and Education. 

Ireland, A, Pennacchia, J, Watson, C & Bathmaker, A-M 2022, 'How is the role of student governor understood in further education colleges in the UK?', Journal of Further and Higher Education, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 561-573.

Peruzzo, F, Grimaldi, E, Arienzo, A, D’onofrio, G, Franchi, C & Sebastianelli, P 2022, 'New public management reforms and industrial relations in the Italian education system: A cultural political economy approach', Journal of Educational Administration and History. 

Chapters (peer-reviewed)

Jørgensen, CR & Allan, J 2022, Free schools, inclusion and social capital of children with special educational needs and disabilities. in C Kulz, K Morrin & R McGinity (eds), Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Qualitative and Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 89-108.

Pennacchia, J. (2022). Producing the academy school: Ethnography, Foucault and the study of policy production In Kulz, C; Morrin, K; and McGinity, R (eds). Inside the English Education Lab: Critical Ethnographic Perspectives on the Academies Experiment: Manchester University Press.

Chapter

Peruzzo, F 2023, A Certain Kind of Freedom, a Certain Subject of Right: The Disability dispositif of Inclusion and the Government of the Disabled Child in the Italian Education System. in The Routledge International Handbook of Children's Rights and Disability. 1 edn, Routledge. 

Allan, J 2022, Disability Studies, Disability Arts and Students' Perspectives: New Critical Tools for Inclusive Education. in B Amrhein & S Naraian (eds), Reading Inclusion Divergently: Articulations from Around the World. International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, vol. 19, Emerald Publishing Limited, pp. 63-74. 

Allan, J 2022, Foucault and his acolytes: Discourse, power and ethics. in M Murphy (ed.), Social Theory and Education Research: Understanding Foucault, Habermas, Bourdieu and Derrida. 2nd edn, Routledge, pp. 47-

Commissioned report

McGimpsey, I, Bowden, H & Sutton, J 2024, Becoming evidence informed about residential care. University of Birmingham. 

Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

Migliarini, V, Allan, J, Van Hove , G & De Schauwer , E 2022, Legislation and Policy in Europe. in R Tierney, F Rizvi & K Ercikan (eds), International Encyclopedia of Education. 4th edn, Elsevier, pp. 58-67. 

Other reports

Sobo-Allen L., Ambrose, Crawford, C., McGimpsey, I., Millward, C. (2025) Research Evaluation of ICET Head Start into Higher Education Programme

Green, A, Millward, C & Taylor, A 2022, How can universities, colleges and employers deliver the skills needed for levelling up? University of Birmingham.