In this special roundtable episode of the podcast, Saul Keyworth and Oli Belas (both Senior Lecturers in Higher Education) talk about professional identity in relation to physical education and activity. They discuss how notions of what is deemed socially acceptable in terms of gender, the body, space and movement are based on norms and expectations that they critique as part of their research and informs their own thoughts on what it means to be a teacher and researcher in the field. Key philosophies and theorists in this area are also discussed as are ideas relating to community and collaboration

In this episode, Lewis Stockwell discusses his professional identity in relation to his academic areas of philosophy of education and outdoor/environmental education. Lewis talks about the debates in education over what constitutes ‘outdoor education’ and how this affects his and other practitioners’ identities in the field. The importance of relationships between the human and not-human and how we teach about these in schools, colleges and universities form a central focus of the episode

In this episode, James Noble-Rogers discusses his role as Executive Director of UCET. James discusses the role UCET plays as an advocacy body for teacher education in universities and his own role within the organisation. James talks about the benefits and tensions of working with a number of stakeholders (including government ministers and officials) on the issue of teacher education and the episode ends with his views and advice on teacher agency for colleagues coming into the profession.