Department: Department of Education
Talks:

Thursday 22 May 2025

Fieldnotes: Notes from the field
Date: 22 May 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker s: Abismrita Chakravarty (University of Oxford), Alice Tawell (University of Oxford), Jiayi Li (University of Oxford), Zaiba Patel (University of Oxford), Rachel Robinson (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Improving education through a multi-level analysis of conceptual change research and developmental education research
Date: 22 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Gennen (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Quality Assurance and National Assessment – Denmark’s 10-Year Experiment with Adaptive Online Assessment in Public Education
Date: 22 May 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Christian Ydesen (Chair of History of Education and Education Policy Analysis at the University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and Online
Organiser: Dr Michelle Meadows (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Unequal Opportunity Regimes: Policies, Contexts and the Everyday Experience of Disabled Students in the Nigerian HE
Date: 27 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Abass B. Isiaka (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

An ordinary journey: Student self-formation at lower-tier higher education institutions in China
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Yushan Xie (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H and online
Organiser: Gonzalo Hidalgo Bazan (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 May 2025

Using a corpus analysis to explore the importance of historical consciousness in history teachers’ published discourse
Date: 29 May 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katharine Burn (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Students’ Emotional Landscape in English-Medium Higher Education: A Longitudinal Mixed-Methods study in China (Research Talk)
Date: 29 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Sihan Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser: Professor Heath Rose (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 June 2025

A One-with-Many Approach to Understanding Reciprocity in the Student-Teacher Relationship
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Mirna Sumatic (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 June 2025

Collectives in/of Solidarity: Student Activism by Women of Colour at the University of Oxford
Date: 5 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Georgia Lin (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 June 2025

Connecting sensory input, movement, sympathetic activation, learning, and instructional activities
Date: 9 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Ellen Egeland Flø (University of Oslo)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Widening participation in Australian higher education: reforming the school to university pipeline
Date: 10 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Andrew Harvey (Griffith University)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Navigating Digital Literacy: Exploring First-Year Students' Challenges and Support Needs in South African Higher Education
Date: 12 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Vuyo Mntuyedwa (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, AfOx fellow), Dr Danica Sims (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Higher Education, Inequality and Students as Political Actors
Date: 16 June 2025, 10:30 - 18:30
Speaker s: Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford), Professor Agnès van Zanten (Science Po/CNRS)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Gonzalo Hidalgo (University of Oxford), Paulina Rodriguez (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Ethnicity, Care Experience and Criminalisation: Using Admin Data to Interrogate Youth (In)Justice in England
Date: 16 June 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Katie Hunter (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Rewarding traditional or new forms of cultural capital? The introduction of holistic admissions at a French elite higher education institution
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Agnès van Zanten (Science Po/CNRS)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organisers: Gonzalo Hidalgo Bazan (University of Oxford), Paulina Rodriguez Anais (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Co-research into higher education – theory and practice
Date: 17 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Krystian Szadkowski (Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)), Magdalena Radomska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań), Adam Ochwat (University of Warsaw)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Host: David Mills (University of Oxford)

Thursday 19 June 2025

Addressing the Knowledge Divide: A Capability Approach to Digital Access Inequities in Graduate Education
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker : Priyanka Soni (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organiser: Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 1 July 2025

From the continuity of the line to the completeness of the field of real numbers: foundational and didactical challenges
Date: 1 July 2025, 13:45 - 14:45
Speaker : Associate Professor Laura Branchetti (Department of Mathematics “Federico Enriques” Università Degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Professor Sibel Erduran (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 2 July 2025

Oxford Chinese Language Teaching Research Forum
Date: 2 July 2025, 13:00 - 17:00
Speaker : TBC
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY) and Online
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 July 2025

Full-Day Workshop: English as an Additional Language - Understanding Evidence for Policy and Practice
Date: 10 July 2025, 9:00 - 17:15
Speaker s: Professor Victoria Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Dr Hamish Chalmers (University of Oxford), Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Department of Education, University of Oxford (15 Norham Gardens, OX2 8PY)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Cutting through the Complexity: Why Not a Lottery for College Admissions?
Date: 4 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Michael Bastedo (University of Michigan)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organiser: David Mills (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA