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Plymouth Institute of Education Open Journal

Editors

Mandy Andrews
Cara Baer
Claudia Blandon
Katherine Gulliver
Alicja Syska
James Tarling
 

The journal is intended to provide students, recent graduates and early career staff with an opportunity to gain experience of the publication process as well as to highlight their research. It will be produced regularly, exact time frames to be agreed. Your paper, after acceptance, will be published in the next available journal publication.

See the Aims and Scope for a complete coverage of the journal.

Current Issue: Volume 1, Issue 1 (2025)

Editorial - summer 2020

It is a real pleasure to welcome you to our newly relaunched PIoE (Plymouth Institute of Education) journal. We plan to have two editions each academic year from now on.

We begin this issue with a number of heartfelt thanks. Firstly, thanks go to all the Institute colleagues who initially suggested submissions and worked with Julie Anderson and the students and others who kindly agreed to offer their work. Much of this was during the early days of the pandemic when everyone was suddenly having to make all sorts of changes to working practices, so very sincere thanks to all.

Despite the risk of forgetting anyone, we would like to try to thank everyone by name. Some including Rosamonde Birch worked with Julie as willing ‘guinea pigs’ on the draft outlines of submission guidelines (thanks to Liz Done for her initial help with those too). That was all much appreciated.

In addition, colleagues helped suggest, check and edit papers as they came in. Thanks for that work go to Kath Vineer, Heather Knight, Joanna Haynes, Jan Georgeson and Rebecca Carter Dillon in particular. Thanks too to our excellent outgoing subject librarian Julie Luxton for helping with the initial set up including going out with Julie Anderson to take the photos that make up our colourful new journal banner. Very sincere thanks too to various library colleagues but in particular Louise Woolland (Senior Information Adviser (Open Access) Library and Digital Support) as well as our own PIoE colleague Michael Key for all their help in the mechanics of getting this journal up and running within the PEARL database.

Thank you finally to all those willing to be part of the Editorial team. At time of writing that is Institute Director Beth Gompertz, Julie Anderson, Mandy Andrews, Kay Chapman, Suanne Gibson, Verity Campbell-Barr, Paul Warwick, David Burghes, Jocey Quinn and Liz Done. In addition, Christie Prichard (Student Learning Manager, Academic Registry) has offered to support the team by supporting future journal writing. With Julie Anderson leaving the Institute in July 2020, Mandy Andrews has kindly agreed to be the contact for the journal from now on.

We are delighted to have papers for our first edition from a wide range of our PIoE programmes, something that is very important to us. You can read details in the individual biographies supplied. In brief, the seven articles in our first edition here cover: