Emma Kell

Dr Emma Kell is a teacher, school leader and education writer with almost 25 years’ experience in teaching and leadership roles in UK schools, including work in alternative provision and previous posts as Head of Modern Foreign Languages and senior leader. She completed a doctorate on teacher wellbeing and parenting at Middlesex University and is a senior teaching fellow at the UCL Institute of Education, as well as a Specialist Leader in Education and teaching school lead for an alternative provision teaching alliance in Buckinghamshire.

Kell is director of Those That Can Limited, working as a facilitator, speaker, coach and writer specialising in staff wellbeing and home–school engagement. She is the co-author of A Little Guide for Teachers: Teacher Wellbeing and Self-care and has also written How to Survive in Teaching (Bloomsbury, 2018), along with other titles in the Little Guide for Teachers series on wellbeing and engaging parents and carers. She writes regularly for TES and BBC Teach, contributing practical guidance on teacher workload, resilience and wellbeing.