Across the Meadows

In this episode of Across the Meadows, I speak with ewa nïara, Railine Simões Gomes, and Wertton Matias, visiting scholars from Brazil at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, as part of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme. Supported by the Abdias Nascimento exchange programme (CAPES), they share their research, trajectories, and experiences of being in Cambridge. This conversation...

What is the role of theatre in driving social change? For Juliana Spadotto, her desire to reconnect with theatre since leaving Brazil was the spark that led her to pursue a master’s degree at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. In her research, she brought in an example from Jardim Romano, a neighbourhood in São Paulo that was under water for three months due to floods, where commun...

An intersection of race, accent, and nationality has shaped Jenson’s trajectory in the world, but his research on racisms — in the plural — based on the lived experiences of English teachers from the Caribbean has also become a journey of self-discovery. Jenson is an international scholar, originally from Trinidad and Tobago and now living in Singapore. He previously completed his PhD at the Facul...

Being an immigrant shaped her pursuit of belonging within new spaces and communities in both the US and the UK. Whether bridging realms between teachers and students or between Cambridge University and local communities, Heidy M. Pérez-Cordero's trajectory—as a school drama teacher, pre-school teacher, heritage language teacher, and more recently as a PhD candidate—is her way of navigating and...

Trailer for  Across the Meadows , a podcast hosted by Anna Maria Del Fiorentino and recorded in the Grantchester Meadows. 🎼 West End Blues — composed by Joseph Nathan 'King' Oliver, performed by Gui O’Connor.