Dr Antonina Tereshchenko
Senior Lecturer in Education

Summary

I am currently an Education MA Programme Leader. Prior to joining the MA Education team at Brunel in 2021, I had worked for five years at the UCL Institute of Education.

Over the last few years, I have researched minority ethnic teacher retention, both at UCL and Brunel, including as a Co-I on the recently completed ESRC Education Research Programme project (led by Durham University) on the recrutment and retention of minority ethnic teachers, and relationship to student outcomes (2022-2025).

My ongoing reseach on the experiences of migrant and internationally educated teachers has been supported by Brunel Research Initiative and Enterprise Fund (BRIEF), YERUN Research Mobility Award (with University NOVA de Lisboa) and British Academy Horizon Europe Pump Priming Collaboration between UK and EU.  

I was also a Co-I on the recently completed Student Grouping Study funded by Education Endowment Foundation (and led by UCL) investigating the effects of attainment grouping and mixed attainment teaching on student outcomes in secondary mathematics. 

I had previously completed three postdoctoral projects on Eastern European migrant students' identities and educational experiences, at King's College London (with funding from the Newton International Fellowship and the British Academy Visiting Scholar Scheme) and at the University of Porto (with funding from the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology).  

Prior to my academic career, I worked at the Open Society Foundation in Ukraine on the reform to improve equal access to higher education.

Qualifications

PhD Education (University of Cambridge)

MPhil Politics, Democracy and Education (University of Cambridge)

Responsibility

Education MA Programme Leader