Catherine McMahon

Committed secondary school History teacher. HoY 9. PhD. Still learning! Dubliner in Devon. LFC. Fuelled by vegan treats & ☕️. All views my own.

[InnerDrive @Inner_Drive]

📚 GIVEAWAY TIME! 📚

The Scaffolding Effect by @MrsBallAP & @lamb_heart_tea is out now! Full of practical ways to support every student.

Want a free copy? All you have to do is:
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The winner will be announced on Friday, 1st August, at 2pm. Good luck!

[Catherine McMahon @celmcmahon]

@TfL Taking 24 Yr 9 & 10s from Devon across London this morning for a trip to France. Shout out to the fantastic French staff member at Paddington Circle Line gates and those at Kings X/St Pancras. You made everything so much easier, 🙏 for all your help #halfterm #schooltrip

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

***📚Book Giveaway📚***
Copies of Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’, translated by Emily Wilson. Please retweet to enter. Winner to be drawn at random. Entries from both UK and abroad welcome. Last day for entry is 14/03/2025. Good Luck. 🙂🤞

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

‘I want this moment to mark a reset in our relationship: under this new government, education will once again be at the heart of change and the forefront of national life.’

My letter to the education workforce 📨

https://t.co/EFE64P0FdY

[Irish in Britain @irishinbritain]

Anecdotal reports of Irish passports being rejected as valid ID for some voters today.

⭐This is incorrect. Irish citizens can vote in the general election and an Irish passport IS valid, so is an Irish Driving Licence.

Guidance here: https://t.co/F9Kw22ie1o

[The National Archives Education Service @UKNatArcEdu]

It's time to launch our next #ArchivesLive, this time for years 6-9.
Join acclaimed broadcaster Dan Snow for this live event to mark the 80th anniversary of #DDay, the single largest seaborn invasion in #History & a pivotal moment in the #SecondWorldWar.
https://t.co/r7O0AhabUE

[Oxford Secondary @OUPSecondary]

📣Attention #HistoryTeacher!
Registration is now open for our free webinar 'Unlock Edexcel GCSE History success' - a panel discussion with @WilkesHistory @HallHistoryGuy @HistoryResource @HistoryTeach0 & James Ball

⏰ 4pm, Tuesday 12th March
💻 Sign up: https://t.co/bsMakM1QNK

[Dr. Jessica Taylor @DrJessTaylor]

I am privileged to work on large datasets of women and girls’ experiences of abuse, violence and crime against them.

Here’s what I know from looking at over 30,000 women and girls’ experiences in the last 4 years:

🧮 There is absolutely no pattern that I can see in who is targeted and abused, and who isn’t. Every correlational test to explore age, income, ethnicity, disability, ACE score etc comes up with nothing. For me, all this does is confirm that VAWG doesn’t discriminate, and we’ve all been led to believe that only certain women and girls are vulnerable and targeted by perps.

🧮 Sexuality is changing, a LOT. In the adult samples I have, around 11% of women report being lesbian or bisexual, versus around 40% of girls aged under 18. The younger the woman/girl, the more likely she is to be lesbian or bisexual.

🧮 Girls under 18 are reporting more violence against them than the adult women who have been alive longer than them.

🧮 VAWG is an extremely common experience, but it does seem to vary around the UK. In some areas, there can be up to 15% more VAWG than others.

🧮 Some common, recurring findings across the samples are that rape by coercion or manipulation is common (around a third), being accused of being mentally ill is very common (around 1 in 2), being stalked is common (just over a third), receiving non-consensual dick pics is very common (over two thirds) and threats to kill are common (just over a third). This is just a fraction of what we measure.

🧮 Girls under 18 are much more likely to report female perps including girlfriends, female friends, female exes etc. They are most likely to report coercive control by female perps but they are also more likely to report physical violence by female perps than adult women (around 40% of perps reported are female in the U18 data, versus around 20% in the O18 data).

🧮 In adult women, the most likely perpetrators of all forms of violence are husbands, boyfriends, male friends, and male strangers.

🧮 But in the U18 samples we have collected, the most likely perpetrators male strangers, then boyfriends, male friends, and then mum and dad. In two of our U18 samples (N=820), the most common perp of sexual violence reported by girls was male strangers, which is completely different from the adult samples.

🧮 When it comes to reporting, adult women are more likely to report than teen girls. Between 10-28% of adult women say they reported what happened to them to the police.
When teen girls were asked the same, only 1-4% say they reported what happened to them to police.

🧮 Finally, and because I could go on forever, in BOTH girls and women, in a sample of over 30,000, the most common reason they gave for not reporting abuse or rape to police was ‘I didn’t know it was a crime’ with over 50% of adult women and girls choosing this option.

We’ve been really lucky to work with police forces, schools, universities, companies, charities, and thousands of individual women over the last few years, and we have been able to hone our studies and methodology to be higher and higher quality as time has moved on.

I hope to keep adding to this dataset and some others we are working on, so we can explore such valuable insights. Ultimately though, as a psychologist and researcher with access to one of the biggest sets of self-reported VAWG data, I would mostly like to use it to build free resources, understand what women and girls need across my lifespan and my career, and so I can invest in the right things.

I want to be able to use the data to help women and girls realise that it was never their fault, that they did nothing to deserve or bring the abuse on themselves, and that VAWG is extremely common - it’s not a flaw of themselves, and it is not about them as a person.

Thank you for reading!

Jess

[Kate Jones @KateJones_teach]

👏 Christmas Competition! 🎉

This has become an annual tradition but there are more books this year.

To win the collection of my books simply retweet this post. The winner will be selected at random - open to all globally - best of luck!

Winner announced 22.12.23 🎁🌲🎁

[Catherine McMahon @celmcmahon]

@_jopayne thank you so much for the very tasty vegan truffles. I can't tell you how many I've eaten already today 😂 Hope you all have a relaxing break, see you in 2024!

[Alex Quigley @AlexJQuigley]

🚨 CHRISTMAS BOOKS GIVEAWAY 🚨

Fancy some edu-reading for Xmas? It is advent time, so I’ve decided to give away full ‘Closing the Gap’ collections (all 3 books) to ***2*** prize winners.

Simply RETWEET this post to enter.

[I’ll be drawing the two winners on 8th December]

[Catherine McMahon @celmcmahon]

@_jopayne Really clear structure, 💗 this!

[Catherine McMahon @celmcmahon]

Schools in England block lessons on Middle East over fears of bias claims https://t.co/jATVDqfDkh

[Joe Wicks @thebodycoach]

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[National Portrait Gallery @NPGLondon]

Calling all teachers and students 📣 We have launched a state-of-the-art online Schools hub, with over 150 new resources that explore key individuals from our Collection, and respond to themes such as identity, empire and migration.
➡️ https://t.co/dwMWHwfgSL
➡️@NPGSchools

[Catherine McMahon @celmcmahon]

Really excellent article, reflects the real picture on the ground for all of us working in state education in England.
One year in a struggling British state school https://t.co/fSMetHZuvS

[Yalda Hakim @SkyYaldaHakim]

Today marks two years since the Taliban swept into the Afghan capital. It’s also been 694 days since teenage girls were banned from school by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Afghan women and girls continue to be pushed out of the public eye

[Kyle Graham @KTG_1990]

After MfL and Computer Science, history is the most harshly graded/hardest subject at GCSE.

[Kirsten Colquhoun (Col-hoon) @kirstcolquhoun]

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Want to win one of three copies of my new book, A Practical Guide To Pupil Wellbeing?

Retweet this tweet

Winner announced Sunday 23 July @ 9pm