Interview Transcripts for a Study of Neurodivergent Teachers’ Experiences of Role, Identity and Agency Within a Neoliberal Education Setting
Description
All ten of the participants were white British, and ages ranged from 22-56 years. Seven identified as female, one as male, and two as non-binary. Six of the participants were in full-time teaching posts or teacher training, three had left teaching and one was transitioning out of teaching. One participant taught in Scotland and the remainder in England. To reduce the risk of participants being identifiable, gender, age and ethnicity data were stored separately to participants’ transcripts.
Collection Method
In line with Beck’s (2024) conceptualisation of neurodivergent identity, both individuals with a diagnosed neurodivergent neurotype (e.g. autism, ADHD) and those who were undiagnosed but self-identified as neurodivergent were included. Only individuals who held current teaching posts in UK schools or had held teaching posts in UK schools within the last two years were included.
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Metadata
| Dataset Title: | Interview Transcripts for a Study of Neurodivergent Teachers’ Experiences of Role, Identity and Agency Within a Neoliberal Education Setting |
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| Creators: | Peake, Ella |
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| Keywords: | neurodivergent; neurodiversity; teachers; education; neoliberal workplace |
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| Data collection method: | Purposive sampling was used to ensure that the chosen participants were well-matched to the research question (Patton, 1990). This involved both asking conveniently situated people in my personal network for recommendations and advertising in social media groups designed for neurodivergent teachers. As the target population is narrow, non-random sampling was considered appropriate for the scope of this study (Robinson, 2014).
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| Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues: | This study was designed in compliance with the British Psychological Society’s (2021) Code of Human Research Ethics. To ensure fully informed consent, all participants were sent an information sheet in advance of data collection that summarised the procedure, the topics under investigation and their right to withdraw (Appendix B.1). All participants completed an informed consent form (Appendix B.3) to confirm that they had read and understood the information, and the key points were summarised at the beginning of the interview to remind participants of the structure and their rights (Taherdoost, 2022). After the interview, all participants were sent a debrief (Appendix B.4) which shared the full research questions and intended contributions to theory and practice (McMahon & Winch, 2018). The raw interview data were anonymised immediately after the interview and stored in a password-protected file for confidentiality. All participants consented to the anonymised transcripts being potentially shared with other researchers through the Birkbeck data repository. |
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| Depositing User: | Ella Peake | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2025 12:22 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2025 12:22 | ||||
| Publisher: | Birkbeck College, University of London |
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