Podcast episode: Podcast Celebrating World Teachers’ Day | Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies:
Professor Freda Wolfenden, Strategic Advisor to the Centre for the Study of Global Development, features on the latest podcast series of The Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (KIX).  Working with Teachers and School Leaders is now available. Freda shares how the School leaders as agents of change towards equity and inclusion project supports school leaders in public schools in Nepal and Pakistan, and schools serving refugee Afghan students in Peshawar, Pakistan, to exercise agency to improve gender equality in their schools.

Talking of poverty: From the analytical to the political – Keetie Roelen, 2024: Poverty talk has far-reaching effects at personal and society level. Overwhelmingly negative narratives undermine mental health of people in poverty and forces them in a position to cope with, resist and contradict the fallacious stereotypes that are spread about them. Narratives are not shaped in a vacuum, nor are they value neutral. Power is at the heart of poverty discourse, with words carefully curated to create and reinforce societal hierarchies and inequalities. Building on the contributions in this special issue, this conclusion therefore argues that studies of poverty discourse cannot confine themselves to the analytical but must also engage with the political.