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Dr Aleksander Blaszko

Lecturer

School of Social Sciences

Role

Aleksander is a Lecturer in Education within Nottingham Trent University’s School of Social Sciences. He leads and teaches undergraduate modules across the Education portfolio, with particular interests in assessment, inclusive pedagogy, educational technology and research methods.

His teaching emphasises critical engagement, reflective practice and the application of educational theory to contemporary professional contexts. He also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research and contributes to curriculum development, assessment design and quality assurance across Education provision.

Alongside his teaching, Aleksander is actively involved in developing approaches to assessment and curriculum design in response to generative artificial intelligence.

Career overview

Aleksander completed his PhD at Nottingham Trent University, exploring how homework shapes secondary school adolescents’ leisure, wellbeing and experiences of non-school time. His subsequent research has extended this work to questions of parental power, educational governance and the relationship between school expectations and family life.

Before joining NTU as a Lecturer in Education, Aleksander taught at the University of Warwick across early years, childhood and social studies provision.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PGCLTHE).

Research areas

Aleksander’s research focuses on three interconnected areas:

  • Artificial intelligence, assessment and higher education, including assessment reform, AI policy, academic practice and the implications of generative AI for teaching and learning.
  • Homework, adolescence and leisure, particularly the ways educational expectations extend into family life and shape young people’s time, autonomy and wellbeing.
  • Inclusive education and pedagogy, including inclusive practice, neurodiversity and approaches to learning that support meaningful student participation.

His research increasingly explores the relationship between education, power and policy, asking how institutional expectations are translated into everyday educational practice and how learners experience and negotiate those expectations.

Aleksander has published research on homework and educational governance in the British Journal of Sociology of Education and has written on artificial intelligence, assessment and educational practice through BERA and the Nottingham Institute of Education Working Papers Series.

He is also co-editing two volumes with Emerald Publishing addressing contemporary higher education policy and artificial intelligence in higher education.

Aleksander is a member of the Education, Motivation and Learning Research Group (EDMAL) and contributes to institutional work on generative AI, assessment and curriculum development.

Find out more about EDMAL.

Publications

Atkinson A., Hardy, J. , Kushnir, I., Lai-Sang. I., Hulme, J. and Blaszko., A. (in preparation). Navigating neurodivergence in Higher Education: access, support, and retention of neurodivergent students in England.

Blaszko, A., Tyler-Merrick, G. and Rolph, C. (in preparation). Adolescents’ and Parents’ Diverging Definitions of Leisure in the Context of Homework. Target journal: British Educational Research Journal.

Park, M. et al. (in preparation). Reducing stereotypes and biases in Higher Education. What are the theoretical frameworks and strategies we employ (opinion piece).

Park, M. and Blaszko, A (in preparation). What predicts academics’ preparedness for AI in education? A Psychological investigation of intentions and adoption of GenAI in teaching and assessments.

Blaszko, A. & Kushnir, I., 2026. Home as a site of educational governance: how caregivers' enforcement of homework reflects the devolution of school accountability. British Journal of Sociology of Education, pp. 1–17. Available at: 10.1080/01425692.2026.2707921

Blaszko, A. and Schofield, A., 2026.  Reimagining Homework with Artificial Intelligence in Secondary Education: managing teachers’ workload and protecting students’ leisure. BERA Blog. Available at:  https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/reimagining-homework-with-artificial-intelligence-in-secondary-education-managing-teachers-workload-and-protecting-students-leisure

Blazewicz-Bell, R. and Blaszko, A., 2025. Moving the AI in education conversation forward: Dialogue to practice. BERA Blog. Available at: https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/moving-the-ai-in-education-conversation-forward-dialogue-to-practice

Blaszko, A. and Blazewicz-Bell, R., 2025. The imperative to revolutionise higher education assessment in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI). NIE Working Papers Series: Meeting New Challenges in Education, Issue 3, pp. 79–86. Available at: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/media/documents/academic-schools/social-sciences/Issue-3,-March-2025.pdf

Blaszko, A., 2023. Exploring the effects of homework on secondary school adolescents’ leisure. PhD, Nottingham Trent University. Available at: https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50007/

Books (forthcoming):

  • Kushnir, I., Blaszko, A. and Atkinson, A. (eds.), New Frontiers in Higher Education Policy in a Dynamic World. Emerald Publishing.
  • Kushnir, I., Blaszko, A. and Atkinson, A. (eds.), Artificial Intelligence Policy in Higher Education. Emerald Publishing.

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