Carl Emery is a writer and lecturer specialising in Social and Emotional Wellbeing and Behaviour Management. He has for the past 15 years worked on a range of schemes in this field, with particular emphasis on disengaged young people. His experiences include contributing to the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) programme for DfEs, acting as a writer and consultant for the QCA on both the Personal Development curriculum and the Personal, Learning and Thinking Skills framework as well as being an advisor to the Welsh Assembly Government on the development of a national framework for young people’s social and emotional wellbeing.

Carl has written a number of teaching resources and publications in this field including the recently published Children’s Social and Emotional Wellbeing (Emery, Watson & Bayliss, Policy Press, 2012) a seminal text on the current practice and policies regarding wellbeing within UK schools. He is currently lecturing in relationships and behaviour at Warwick University as well as completing a PhD at Manchester University comparatively examining childhood wellbeing in the English and Welsh education systems. Carl has a particular interest in Critical Discourse Analysis and the power dynamics attached to the educational wellbeing discourse. He has appeared on both BBC radio 4 and 5 discussing childhood wellbeing and the issues surrounding it.