On 9th June 2021, the British Educational Research Council hosted a webinar to provide a forum for educational researchers to debate strategies for influencing educational policy change in the post-pandemic context. In their book, ‘Great Mistakes in Education Policy – And how to avoid them in the future’, Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester) and Debra Hayes (University of Sydney) argued that despite decades of repeated political claims that education policies will achieve greater equality of opportunity and greater social mobility, evidence is mounting that schooling systems in both England and Australia have become increasingly unfair in terms of access, opportunities, experiences and outcomes. In the webinar, the authors invited debate about their own strategy of dismantling oppositional critique and replacing it with an interdisciplinary synthesis of evidence aimed at speaking directly to policy makers and a general audience.
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