Research events

We conduct a diverse programme of research events each year, from hosting large international conferences to running monthly research seminars and reading group sessions. Please see the listing below for our full range of research events. Unless detailed otherwise, events are open for anyone to attend.

Research Seminar Series

Each term the Graduate School of Education School arranges a series of Research Seminars for staff, students, professionals, visitors from other educational institutions and partnership schools, where internationally renowned research colleagues present their current or recently completed research and scholarly work.

Find out more about our Research Seminar Series

When	Description	Location	Audience
24 April 2018	STEM Centre meeting The Centre for Science, Maths and Technology Education (STEM) brings together academics and research students concerned with aspects of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Full details	BC212	Academic staff and doctoral students
25 April 2018	GSE Research Review Group Full details	BC212	Staff only
1 May 2018	Centre for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) The Centre brings together academics, research staff and doctoral students who are interested in the educational aspects of children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities, and provides a forum for discussion and debate about current theoretical, policy, research and practice issues. Full details	Baring Court 217	Academic staff and doctoral students
1 May 2018	Post-Structural Reading Group (PSRG) Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the application of post-structural theoretical approaches to educational research. Post-structural theories intersect with some of CenCSE’s interests owing to the open-ended and emergentist nature of this perspective. Full details	North Cloisters Club Alley 102	Academic staff and doctoral students
1 May 2018	CRPL Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	BC212	Researchers, postgraduate students and other professionals
2 May 2018	Lesson Study Network Full details
3 May 2018	Education Theory Reading Network Reading to be confirmed. Full details	Staff House (Upstairs)	Academic staff and research students
8 May 2018	Centre for Research in Writing - Centre meeting Understanding Writing through Corpus Linguistic Methods. Phil Durrant will outline preliminary findings from the Growth in Grammar project.. Full details		Academic colleagues and doctoral students
8 May 2018	Seminar by Dr Joanne Pearce (University College London) From Anthroposophy to non-confessional preparation for spirituality? It has been suggested common schools might be able to learn from spiritual education in Steiner schools. This assumes practice in Steiner schools is compatible with the aims of spiritual education in common schools. I question this by considering whether the former is confessional, as the latter should not be. I explain how my concern about the potentially confessional nature of Steiner spiritual education arose. I then argue for a nuanced understanding of confessional education, distinguishing between ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ confessional education, as well as between confessional education as intentional and as defined by outcome. I argue that spiritual education in common schools should prepare pupils for spirituality, without being confessional. I consider whether Steiner schools are confessional by drawing upon findings from research conducted at six Steiner schools. Full details	North Cloisters 12	Academic staff, students, teachers and other professionals
9 May 2018	Language hub lunch Full details	Cathy's Cafe, Baring Court	Academic staff and students
17 May 2018	CRPL - Centre Meeting Members of CRPL share an interest in comparing and contrasting learning within and across different professional contexts. Full details	BC212	Core CRPL Centre members
21 May 2018	Centre for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) The Centre brings together academics, research staff and doctoral students who are interested in the educational aspects of children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities, and provides a forum for discussion and debate about current theoretical, policy, research and practice issues. Full details	Baring Court 202	Academic staff and doctoral students
22 May 2018	Centre for Research in Writing - Centre meeting Doctoral Session: Criticality in reading and writing. Feedback that writing needs to be more critical is very widespread in academic writing: this workshop will explore what it means to be critical.. Full details		Academic colleagues and doctoral students
22 May 2018	Seminar by Professor Dongbo Zhang (University of Exeter) Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Reading Development In this talk, I will discuss development of reading abilities from cross-linguistic perspectives. Print represents spoken language, which is a universal principle that holds across languages; yet how specifically different linguistic units are encoded in print vary from language to language. The similarities and variations in language-to-print mapping relationships suggest universal as well as language/script-specific processes in early reading development. Full details	South Cloisters 3.06	Academic staff, students, teachers and other professionals
23 May 2018	GSE Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG) Full details	BC212	Staff only
29 May 2018	STEM Centre meeting The Centre for Science, Maths and Technology Education (STEM) brings together academics and research students concerned with aspects of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Full details	BC212	Academic staff and doctoral students
5 June 2018	CRPL Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	BC212	Researchers, postgraduate students and other professionals
5 June 2018	Centre for Research in Writing - Centre meeting Doctoral Session: Qualitative Data Coding Workshop 1. This is the first of a pair of workshops which will give practical experience of coding qualitative data.. Full details		Academic colleagues and doctoral students
5 June 2018	Post-Structural Reading Group (PSRG) Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the application of post-structural theoretical approaches to educational research. Post-structural theories intersect with some of CenCSE’s interests owing to the open-ended and emergentist nature of this perspective.. Full details	North Cloisters Club Alley 102	Academic staff and doctoral students
5 June 2018	Seminar by Dr Laura Black (University of Manchester) Deepening Engagement in Mathematical Learning: A question of ‘identity’? This seminar will focus on the concept of identity and its value for exploring both engagement in learning and alienation from formal schooling. I will draw on work from across our research projects which have looked at students’ relationships with mathematics in a variety of contexts, including post 16 A-level mathematics, mathematically demanding programmes at university and more recently in early primary school (aged 5-6 years old). I will argue that identity provides a useful way to understand how our experiences ‘in practice’ become crystallised (through reflection) into statements about who we are as a person – for example, ‘I did this well’ may become ‘maths makes sense to me’ and eventually ‘I am gifted at maths’. Our work in this area has considered how students’ mathematical identities are mediated by practices which are classed, gendered etc. Therefore, in this seminar, I will argue that researching ‘identity’ is not merely a matter of addressing the STEM agenda by increasing engagement (and participation) in mathematically related subjects, but rather it can provide a lens through which to study the function mathematics plays in re-producing broader social inequalities in education.. Full details	Baring Court 114	Academic staff, students, teachers and other professionals
7 June 2018	Education Theory Reading Network Paper to be confirmed. Full details	Staff House (Upstairs)	Academic staff and research students
18 June 2018	Seminar by Phil Durrant and Mark Brenchley (University of Exeter) Understanding development in children's writing through corpus research Further details to follow. Full details		Academic staff, students, teachers and other professionals
19 June 2018	Centre for Research in Writing - Centre meeting Doctoral Session: Qualitative Data Coding Workshop 2. This is the second of a pair of workshops which will give practical experience of coding qualitative data.. Full details		Academic colleagues and doctoral students
21 June 2018	CRPL - Centre Meeting Members of CRPL share an interest in comparing and contrasting learning within and across different professional contexts. Full details	BC212	Core CRPL Centre members
25 June 2018	Centre for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) The Centre brings together academics, research staff and doctoral students who are interested in the educational aspects of children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities, and provides a forum for discussion and debate about current theoretical, policy, research and practice issues. Full details	Baring Court 202	Academic staff and doctoral students
26 June 2018	STEM Centre meeting The Centre for Science, Maths and Technology Education (STEM) brings together academics and research students concerned with aspects of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Full details	BC212	Academic staff and doctoral students
26 June 2018	Seminar by Emeritus Professor Ian Menter (University of Oxford) Teacher education and government: a tale of two countries The relationships between politics and teacher education have become increasingly close over recent decades in many contexts around the world, often causing significant challenges as well as some opportunities. Full details	Baring Court 114	Academic staff, students, teachers and other professionals
27 June 2018	GSE Research Review Group Full details	BC212	Staff only
3 July 2018	Post-Structural Reading Group (PSRG) Meetings are open to anyone with an interest in the application of post-structural theoretical approaches to educational research. Post-structural theories intersect with some of CenCSE’s interests owing to the open-ended and emergentist nature of this perspective. Full details	North Cloisters Club Alley 102	Academic staff and doctoral students
3 July 2018	CRPL Research Tea The Centre for Research in Professional Learning are holding regular discussion sessions, known as Research Teas, throughout the 2017/18 academic year. All are welcome to attend. Full details	BC212	Researchers, postgraduate students and other professionals
5 July 2018	Education Theory Reading Network Reading to be confirmed. Full details	Staff House (Upstairs)	Academic staff and research students
11 July 2018	STEM Centre Seminar - Group thinking and mathematical reasoning/proving Full details		Academic colleagues, affiliates and research students
18 July 2018	GSE Director of Research Advisory Group (DoRAG) Full details	BC212	Staff only
31 July 2018	STEM Centre meeting The Centre for Science, Maths and Technology Education (STEM) brings together academics and research students concerned with aspects of education in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Full details	BC212	Academic staff and doctoral students