Seminar series 2021-2022


September 2021

15 September 2021: 6.00-7.00pm

Professor Paul Gibbs (Middlesex University)

Talk title and abstract: 'Scholasticism with a transdisciplinary attitude'

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29 September 2021: 15.00-16.30pm

Professor Stan Taylor (University of Durham)

Talk title and abstract: 'The Professionalisation of Research Supervision: The UKCGE Framework for Good Supervisory Practice'

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October 2021

20 October 2021: 6.00-7.00pm

Dr Sarah McGeown (University of Edinburgh)

Talk title and abstract: 'Co-designing educational interventions: Combining insights from theory, research and practice'

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21 October 2021: 12.00-13.30pm

Prof Diane Reay (University of Cambridge)

Talk title and abstract: 'The Perils of Meritocracy and investing in Social Mobility'

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November 2021

1 November: 2.00-3.00pm face-2-face seminar

Speaker: Professor Peter Moss (UCL / IOE)

Talk title and abstract: Why should we bother with neoliberalism when we have to learn how to teach children?

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24 November: 6.00-7.00pm

Dr Mark Jackson (University of Bristol)

Talk title and abstract: 'Decolonising Critique and the Educated Subject'

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January 2022

11 January: 6.00-7.00pm (this is event has been rescheduled from December)

Dr Anna Hunter (The University of Law)

Talk title and abstract: 'Creative approaches to autoethnography - using visual narratology to explore seeing and knowing'

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19 January: 6.00-7.00pm

Professor Andrew Peterson (Birmingham University)

Talk title and abstract: 'Navigating a culturally responsive form of character education: challenges and possibilities'

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26 January: 4.00-6.00pm

Rachel Boyle (Leeds Beckett)

Talk title and abstract: 'Not Mixed, All: enhancing the agency of mixed-race children'

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February 2022

23 February: 6.00-7.00pm

Professor Clare Brooks (University College London)

Talk title and abstract: 'Quality in initial teacher education: issues in processes and pedagogies from large scale programmes in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK and the US'

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April 2022

6 April: 6.00-7.00pm

Professor Anke Schwittay (University of Sussex)

Talk title and abstract: 'Critical-creative Pedagogies for Reimagining Higher Education'

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May 2022

11 May: 6.00-7.00pm

Adam Bushnell (independent Author & Practitioner)

25 May: 6.00-7.00pm

Dr David Allan (Edge Hill University)

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June 2022

8 June: 6.00-7.00pm

Dr Laura Nicholson (Edge Hill University)

Talk title and abstract: 'A Longitudinal Study Investigating How Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Fear Appeals Relate to Academic Outcomes'

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