Jennifer Farrar is a Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. She leads the MSc Education (online), is programme leader of the PDGE Primary and Secondary, and teaches literacy and children’s literature to undergraduate and postgraduate students on initial teacher education courses. She also supervises doctoral students working in the field of literacy and children’s literature. Her current research is related to student teachers’ knowledge of children’s literature and the status of critical literacy in Scotland’s education system.