Dr Antonina Tereshchenko
Senior Lecturer in Education
Gaskell 259
- Email: antonina.tereshchenko@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267536
Summary
I am currently an Education MA Programme Leader. Prior to joining the MA Education team at Brunel in 2021, I was a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the UCL Institute of Education.
Over the last few years, I have worked on the teacher retention projects, both at UCL and Brunel, including as a Co-I on the ongoing ESRC Education Research Programme project (led by Durham University) on the recrutment and retention of minority ethnic teachers, and relationship to student outcomes (2022-2025).
I am a Co-I on the ongoing Education Endowment Foundation funded study (led by UCL) investigating the effects of attainment grouping and mixed attainment teaching on student outcomes in secondary mathematics.
I had previously completed three postdoctoral projects on migrant students' identities and educational experiences at King's College London (with funding from the Newton International Fellowship and the British Academy Visiting Scholar Scheme) and at the University of Porto (with funding from the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology).
Prior to starting my PhD at the University of Cambridge, I worked at the Open Society Soros Foundation in Ukraine on the national reform to ensure equal and transparent access to higher education.
Qualifications
PhD Education (University of Cambridge)
MPhil Politics, Democracy and Education (University of Cambridge)
Responsibility
Education MA Programme Leader
Newest selected publications
Mills, M., Gandolfi, H., Taylor, B., Tereshchenko, A. and Hardman, M. (2024) 'Developing environments for research engagement in English schools: Re-professionalising teachers’ work'. Teaching and Teacher Education, 154 (February 2025). pp. 1 - 9. ISSN: 0742-051X Open Access Link
See, BH., Gorard, S., Gao, Y., Hitt, L., Siddiqui, N., Demie, F., et al. (2024) 'Factors related to the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority teachers: What are the barriers and facilitators?'. Review of Education, 12 (3). pp. 1 - 45. ISSN: 2049-6613 Open Access Link
Tereshchenko, A., Kaur, B., Cara, O., Wiggins, A. and Pillinger, C. (2024) 'Racial microaggressions on the initial teacher education programmes: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention'. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 1354-0602 Open Access Link
Gorard, S., Chen, W., Tan, Y., See, BH., Gazmuri, C., Tereshchenko, A., et al. (2023) 'The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems'. Routledge Open Research, 2. pp. 1 - 27.Open Access Link
Tereshchenko, A., Kaur, B. and Wiggins, A. (2023) 'Racial and Ethnic Microaggressions on School Placements: A Resource for Mentors'. Place of publication: UCL Institute of Education & Brunel University London. Available at: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163641/.Open Access Link