Joy Cranham

Joy Cranham is a Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Bath. Her research focuses on parental roles in children’s educational development, particularly safeguarding strategies against grooming in non-familial contexts and multilingualism in schools. She challenges traditional deficit models isolating parents from safeguarding education.

• External roles include Interim Executive Director at The Family Survival Trust and Safeguarding roles in England Golf.
• Contributions to UN SDGs include partnerships for the goals and quality education.

Her research explores safeguarding in sporting/ community organizations and celebrates home languages in schools, especially for English as an Additional Language (EAL) families.

Recent projects include The Get Up and Move! Collective (walking/co-creative research), ESRC IAA on coercive groups, and cross-cultural loneliness studies in retirement communities.

Her publications engage with collaborative writing, posthumanist feminism, and qualitative methodologies in education spaces.