Funding Agency: The Spencer Foundation Spencer Foundation. 2022-2025. £58,960.

Principal Investigators: Drs. Clara Bauler and Ian Cushing

We examine raciolinguistic ideologies in UK-US teacher education policy and practice, offering a transatlantic perspective on how education policy diffusion has shaped – and continues to shape – the education of pre- and in-service teachers. We create collaborative and dialogic spaces for sharing information and analyzing policy, curricula and discourse.

Ian Cushing, Ph.D.

After a career as a school teacher in London, Ian completed his PhD in Educational Linguistics. His research interests are focused on language, power and inequality in schools. He examines how historical and contemporary language policies and pedagogies are shaped by language ideologies, especially those which work to oppress minoritised speakers. His work also explores how literary texts can be used to challenge language-based stigma and suppression in schools.

Clara Vaz Bauler, Ph.D.

Warda Farah, BSc, PGCert, HCPC, MRCSLT

Warda Farah is a Speech and Language Therapist and Founder of Language Waves. Language Waves specialises in using an array of methods to provide culturally diverse therapeutic input for schools and local communities. The service was specifically set up to address the barriers that “minority” families face when accessing speech and language therapy services.

JPB Gerald, Ed.D.

JPB Gerald has an EdD in Instructional Leadership from CUNY - Hunter College, and is a theorist seeking justice for the racially, linguistically, and neurologically minoritized. He identifies as Black and neurodivergent, though he spent most of his life unaware of the latter. He hosts a podcast called Unstandardized English, and has had his writing published in academic journals, practitioner magazines, and national newspapers. He lives with his wife, young son, and dog in New York, on stolen Munsee Lenape and Canarsie territory.