Seminar series 2021 to 2022


September 2021

15 September 2021: 6pm to 7pm

Professor Paul Gibbs (Middlesex University)

Talk title and abstract
Scholasticism with a transdisciplinary attitude (PDF, 546KB)

29 September 2021: 3pm to 4.30pm

Professor Stan Taylor (University of Durham)

Talk title and abstract
The Professionalisation of Research Supervision: The UKCGE Framework for Good Supervisory Practice (PDF, 130KB)


October 2021

20 October 2021: 6pm to 7pm

Dr Sarah McGeown (University of Edinburgh)

Talk title and abstract
Co-designing educational interventions: Combining insights from theory, research and practice (PDF, 136KB)

21 October 2021: 12 midday to 1.30pm

Prof Diane Reay (University of Cambridge)

Talk title and abstract
The Perils of Meritocracy and investing in Social Mobility (PDF, 282KB)


November 2021

1 November: 2pm to 3pm 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? (PDF, 90KB)

24 November: 6pm to 7pm

Dr Mark Jackson (University of Bristol)

Talk title and abstract
Decolonising Critique and the Educated Subject (PDF, 111KB)


January 2022

11 January: 6pm to 7pm (this 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 (PDF, 114KB)

19 January: 6.pm to 7pm

Professor Andrew Peterson (Birmingham University)

Talk title and abstract:
Navigating a culturally responsive form of character education: challenges and possibilities (PDF, 366KB)

26 January: 4pm to 6pm

Rachel Boyle (Leeds Beckett)

Talk title and abstract: 
Not Mixed, All: enhancing the agency of mixed-race children (PDF, 89KB)


February 2022

23 February: 6pm to 7pm

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 (PDF, 370KB)


April 2022

6 April: 6pm to 7pm

Professor Anke Schwittay (University of Sussex)

Talk title and abstract:
Critical-creative Pedagogies for Reimagining Higher Education (PDF, 370KB)


May 2022

11 May: 6pm to 7pm

Adam Bushnell (independent Author & Practitioner)

25 May: 6pm to 7pm

Dr David Allan (Edge Hill University)


June 2022

8 June: 6pm to 7pm

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 (PDF, 89KB)