Confidential Report
Millen A, Arora V, Matthews B, Mycroft HL & Sidebottom K (2026) A novel community philosophy approach to understanding public perceptions around the use of technology in the criminal justice system.. National Crime Agency.
Dr Kay Sidebottom
Lecturer in Education
Education 4T29, RG Bomont, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
About me
I am Lecturer in Education and programme lead for the MSc Education at the University of Stirling.
Previously, I have taught and led on programmes relating to educational theory and practice, childhood studies, social change, and post-14 teacher training.
My PhD explored posthuman approaches to the curriculum and demonstrated how philosophy and artistic practice can be employed as a navigational tool to rethink and re-imagine education for the 21st century and beyond. It can be found here: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/160080/
I am a guest tutor on the annual Posthuman Summer School (University of Utrecht) and currently editing a special issue of Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry on posthuman education (University of Alberta).
I am currently external examiner for BA Studies in Primary Education at Newman University and BA Action on Poverty and Hardship at Staffordshire University.
Posthuman and new materialist approaches to education, anti-fascist pedaogies and curriculum, democratic education and social justice, inter-and transdisciplinary learning.
Outputs (9)
Article
Walker R & Sidebottom K (2025) If you tolerate mis(ogyny), then fascisms will be next: rewriting the classroom script through affirmative ethics. Gender and Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2568406
Book Chapter
Challen C & Sidebottom K (2024) Thinking, Alternatively: The Application of Art, Philosophy and Holistic Practice in the Teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In: Ashraf MA, Tsegay SM & Meltzoff K (eds.) STEM Education - Recent Developments and Emerging Trends. Education and Human Development. IntechOpen. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114039
Project Report
Public Perceptions on the use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System
Millen A, Sidebottom K, Aurora V, Mycroft L & Matthews B (2024) Public Perceptions on the use of Technology in the Criminal Justice System. Crucible.
Article
[Birdsong]: Pedagogies of Attunement and Surrender with More-than-Human Teachers
Sidebottom K & Mycroft L (2024) [Birdsong]: Pedagogies of Attunement and Surrender with More-than-Human Teachers. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 40 (2), pp. 143-156. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2024.15
Article
Smith JB, Klumbytė G, Sidebottom K, Dillard‐Wright J, Willis E, Brown BB & Hopkins‐Walsh J (2024) We all care, ALL the time. Nursing Inquiry, 31 (1), Art. No.: e12572. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12572
Article
Sidebottom K & Carlyle D (2023) From Reflection to Diffraction: What Toto Teaches Us About “Thinking-With” Multispecies Companions in Education. Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, 14 (2), pp. 8-21. https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29674
Book Chapter
Sidebottom K & Shukie P (2021) ''Dwelling in the dissolve...'' Towards transdisciplinary posthuman pedagogies for complex times: Pedagogies/Posthumanities/Research Convergences. In: Klumbyte G, Jones E & Braidotti R (eds.) Posthuman Convergences: Transdisciplinary Methods and Practices. Edinburgh University Press. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-posthuman-convergences.html
Article
The sensorium and fleshy schools
Page D & Sidebottom K (2022) The sensorium and fleshy schools. British Educational Research Journal, 48 (4), pp. 771-784. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3793