ONLINE SEMINAR: Lived Experience as Expertise: Learning to reframe persistent absence and school exclusion using community partnership to support schools
The Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) Health and Wellbeing Research in Education Network and Poverty and Education Network are co-hosting an online seminar on Wednesday 25th March 2026.
We are delighted to invite you to our online seminar, which builds on a previous session where we asked: “What does health and wellbeing look like when we start from the strengths, values and creativity of diverse communities?” In this follow-up event, Amanda Corrigan (University of Strathclyde) and Mark Breslin (University of Glasgow) reflect on what can be learned by working alongside young people and adults with experience of persistent absence and school exclusion.
Drawing on collaborative, community-based and asset-focused research, the speakers will explore how prioritising the voices of those who are often marginalised can deepen schools’ understanding of children who are missing from education and inform more relational, place-based approaches to engagement, attendance, emotional regulation and belonging. The session will begin with an overview of their respective research projects, followed by space for questions, dialogue and discussion of the practical and policy implications for schools and wider systems.
Date: 25 March 2026
Time: 5:00pm–6:15pm (online)
Please follow this link to register, following registration a Teams invitation will be emailed out: https://forms.office.com/e/Zu1pHmz2X1
