{"id":5065,"date":"2026-05-27T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/education\/?p=5065"},"modified":"2026-05-27T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:54:13","slug":"dr-helen-crawford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/education\/2026\/05\/27\/dr-helen-crawford\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Helen Crawford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Year of graduation:\u00a0<\/strong>2024<\/p>\n<p><strong>Supervisors:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/education\/staff\/professor-rebecca-harris\">Prof Rebecca Harris<\/a> &amp; Dr Kari Sahan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research focus: <\/strong>For my thesis, I was interested in history education for young children, particularly how teachers navigate the process of curriculum decision-making at school level, and their agency to determine the curriculum. 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