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Understanding teacher educators' quality of life: insights from the PERMA model. (2025)
Journal Article
FITZSIMONS, S., BOAG, L. and SMITH, D.S. 2025. Understanding teacher educators' quality of life: insights from the PERMA model. Applied research in quality of life [online], Online First. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-025-10435-z

Teacher Educators (TE) are a specific category of Higher Education (HE) academics whose primary responsibility is the preparation of Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs) for the Early Childhood, Primary, Secondary, and Further Education and Training contexts.... Read More about Understanding teacher educators' quality of life: insights from the PERMA model..

Ofsted inspections affect not just teachers but also the people who train them. (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
FITZSIMONS, S. and SMITH, D. 2025. Ofsted inspections affect not just teachers but also the people who train them. The conversation [online], 6 February 2025. Available from: https://theconversation.com/ofsted-inspections-affect-not-just-teachers-but-also-the-people-who-train-them-249084

Ofsted, England's education inspectorate, has proposed changes to the way it assesses schools, colleges and universities that offer teacher training. The suggested changes include the move to a report-card system rather than a headline judgment. In t... Read More about Ofsted inspections affect not just teachers but also the people who train them..

Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England. (2025)
Journal Article
FITZSIMONS, S. and SMITH, D.S. 2025. Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England. Cambridge journal of education [online], 55(1), pages 93-111. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2025.2451280

Ofsted inspections of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers aim to enhance training quality for pre-service teachers in England. However, research rarely examines the impact of these inspections on the wellbeing of Teacher Educators (TEs) based i... Read More about Don't do anything special for us coming: the mental health impact of Ofsted inspections on teacher educators in England..

Use of ‘gay dating apps’ and its relationship with individual well-being and sense of community in men who have sex with men. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ZERVOULIS, K., SMITH, D.S., REED, R. and DINOS, S. 2020. Use of 'gay dating apps' and its relationship with individual well-being and sense of community in men who have sex with men. Psychology and sexuality [online], 11(1-2): special issue containing papers from 2018 Preaching to the choir (PREACH 2018): an international Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (LGBTQ) psychology pre-conference to the 29th International congress of applied psychology (ICAT 2018), 24-25 June 2018, Montréal, Canada, pages 88-102. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/19419899.2019.1684354

There is growing literature and empirical work that is investigating if and how mobile phone and tablet dating apps are influencing the lives of their users. An online questionnaire-based study was developed to investigate how men who have sex with m... Read More about Use of ‘gay dating apps’ and its relationship with individual well-being and sense of community in men who have sex with men..