Staff profile

Completed Supervisions

Collaborative inquiry into service learning: ethical practice through a Pedagogy of CARE.

The social construction of dyslexia in the UK media: school as a site of failure.

• Civic Statistics
• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
• Teacher Education

Chapter in book

• Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2022). Civic Statistics in context: mapping the global evidence ecosystem. In J. Ridgway (Ed.), Statistics for empowerment and social engagement: teaching Civic Statistics to develop informed citizens (581-607). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_23
• Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2022). Covid-19 shows why we need Civic Statistics: illustrations and classroom activities. In J. Ridgway (Ed.), Statistics for empowerment and social engagement: teaching Civic Statistics to develop informed citizens (297-319). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20748-8_12
• Ridgway, R. (2017). Supporting struggling learners: teachers, learners, and labels of SEN. In C. Walker-Gleaves, & D. Waugh (Eds.), Looking after Literacy: A Whole Child Approach to Effective Literacy Interventions (67-86). SAGE Publications
• Ridgway, R. (2017). Supporting Deaf Learners. In C. Walker-Gleaves, & D. Waugh (Eds.), Looking after Literacy: A Whole Child Approach to Effective Literacy Interventions (101-118). SAGE Publications
• Ridgway, R. (2017). Writing through Computing. In A. Bushnell, & D. Waugh (Eds.), Inviting Writing: Teaching and Learning Writing Across the Primary Curriculum (96-109). SAGE Publications

Conference Paper

• (in press). Citizen Empowerment - changing the face of statistical literacy.
• Ridgway, R. (in press). SEND Inclusion: Pedagogy, Content Knowledge, Theory and Practice. Some challenges and opportunities.
• Ridgway, J., Nicholson, J., & Ridgway, R. (2020). Looking Back- Looking Forward; Statistics and the Data Science Tsunami. In Proceeding of the 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress 2019: Special Topic Session: Volume 3 (47-56)
• Ridgway, R. (2019). Initial Teacher Education: Navigating the Inclusion Illusion.
• Ridgway, J., Ridgway, R., & Nicholson, J. (2018). Data Science for all: A stroll in the foothills. In M. . A. Sorto, A. White, & L. Guyot (Eds.), Looking back, looking forward : proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS10, July, 2018), Kyoto, Japan (1-6)
• Ridgway, J., Arnold, P., Moy, W., Ridgway, R., & Engel, J. (2017). Deriving heuristics from political speeches for understanding statistics about society. In Proceedings of the Roundtable Conference of the International Association of Statistics Education (IASE): Promoting Understanding of Statistics about Society

Doctoral Thesis

• Ridgway, R. (2017). Giving a voice to the Hard to Reach: Song as an effective medium for communicating with PMLD children who have low social tolerance. (Thesis). Durham University. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1618003

Journal Article

• Ridgway, R. (2023). Choice and control: corpus-based discourse analysis of teacher education policy in England (2010-2021). Cogent Education, 10(1), Article 2212118. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186x.2023.2212118
• Ridgway, J., & Ridgway, R. (2019). Teaching for Citizen Empowerment and Engagement. Radical statistics, 123, 15-23
• Ridgway, R. (2017). A Multidimensional tool for describing communicative behaviours of individuals with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (PIMD/PMLD)- confirming reliability and validity. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities,
• Ridgway, R., & Ridgway, J. (2011). Crimes Against Statistical Inference: Forcing Teachers to be Accessories after the (Absence of) Fact. Online educational research journal,