Elizabeth Parr Liverpool Hope University, UK

Elizabeth Parr is currently a lecturer in Initial Teacher Education and School Direct lead at Liverpool Hope University. Elizabeth also has experience as a primary school teacher in schools across the north west of England. She is currently studying for a Doctorate of Education at the University of Manchester. Her research concerns community-oriented primary schools, and she has thus far considered international approaches to this idea as well as the experiences of educational professionals who work in these settings. She intends to develop her research by considering the characteristics of professionals’ perceptions and practices in community-oriented schools.