Publications

I have been fortunate enough to work with several amazing academic colleagues on a wide range of recent research publications:

Latest Article:

Bramley, R. J., Little, S., & Bishop, J. (2025). ‘One person can’t deliver it’: exploring teachers’ agency and stance in relation to integrating an interdisciplinary subject in UK primary and secondary schools. Cogent Education, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2025.2466302

Notable Publications:

A country that works for all children and young people: An evidence-based plan for upskilling our children and young people for digital futures (2024)

This report outlines the evidence for how best to close the digital divide and empower children to navigate digital content critically and responsibly. It was jointly published by the Child of the North Campaign and the Centre for Young Lives in August 2024, and prompted a response from the UK Government.

Beyond ‘do no harm’? On the need for a dynamic approach to research ethics (2022)

Taking inspiration from previous calls for participatory ethics, we (Dr Ryan Bramley, Dr Daniel Hammett and Dr Lucy Jackson) propose some possible strategies for moving towards a more dynamic, engaging, and inclusive ethics process.

Evaluating trespass prevention: working with young people as co-researchers and filmmakers on a railway safety project (2024)

We (Dr Ryan Bramley, Dr Aneesh Barai and Dr Marion Oveson) use this article as a platform to encourage the creators and disseminators of youth-centric public safety communications to view young people less as recipients of the messages that they send, and more as discussants.

What sits, what sticks: moving into lived, disruptive, co-produced filmmaking practices in literacy classrooms (2024)

This article (by Dr Ryan Bramley and Dr Jennifer Rowsell) examines two ethnographers’ fieldwork with young people applying co-production film-making methods and three ways to approach youth-led filmmaking work for researchers and educators.

“Just Coal Seams and Heartbroken Miners”: Poetic Representations of the 1984/85 Miners’ Strike in (Post-) Industrial South Yorkshire (2024)

This chapter explores the lingering presence of the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike in South Yorkshire, a region which once depended heavily on the jobs and social security that the coal-mining industry brought about. The legacy of the 1984–85 Miners’ Strike continues to have a presence across media and film, but one mode of artistic representation which has often been overlooked by scholars is poetry—particularly poems written by non-professional writers.

A Community Legacy on Film’: using collaborative documentary filmmaking to go beyond representations of the Windrush Generation as ‘victims (2023)

This article highlights how one community in the post-industrial North of England, with a significant African-Caribbean descent population, used collaborative documentary filmmaking methods to implicitly respond to the Windrush Scandal in its immediate aftermath.