Department: Department of Education
Talks:

Monday 7 April 2025

Research Workshop: Using theory in research – the example of critical realism
Date: 7 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Leesa Wheelahan (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 14 April 2025

Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran
Date: 14 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Dr. Amina Tawasil (Teachers College, Columbia University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 15 April 2025

Merit, Community, and Metrics: Balancing Three Logics of Judgment in Polish Academia
Date: 15 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Łukasz Remisiewicz (Institute of Sociology, University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 April 2025

Between Underfunding and ‘Moral Superiority’: The Position of Diamond OA Journals
Date: 22 April 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Niels Taubert
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 24 April 2025

Book launch: Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu, Byzantine and Medieval Cappadocia, 2024
Date: 24 April 2025, 10:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rewley House, 1-7 Wellington Square OX1 2JA
Venue Details: Tawney Room, first floor
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 April 2025

Discrepancies between teacher and student perceptions of students’ academic attitudes and abilities: the role of student socioeconomic background, ethnicity and gender
Date: 28 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Katherin Barg (University of Bristol)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 29 April 2025

Rasch meta-metres of growth in reading and mathematics attainment tests
Date: 29 April 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor David Andrich (University of Western Australia)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Twlight (After School) Workshop: Doing Brilliant Biology and Ecology Fieldwork in your School Grounds
Date: 29 April 2025, 16:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Kim Polgreen (Honorary Norham Fellow, University of Oxford)
Venue Details: The Cherwell School (Marston Ferry Road, Oxford OX2 7EE)
Organisers: TBA
Host: Oxford Education Deanery (Department of Education, University of Oxford)

Monday 12 May 2025

Contextualised changes in self-efficacy for types of beginning teachers using the multidimensional SET scale
Date: 12 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Professor Helen Watt (University of Sydney)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

The white ears of Ofsted: language, race, and the schools inspectorate
Date: 12 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ian Cushing (Senior Lecturer in Critical Applied Linguistics, Manchester Metropolitan University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser: Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Diversity in Pieces: The Fall and Future of Affirmative Action in Multiracial America
Date: 13 May 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr. Sonia Giebel
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Academic Self-concept: Cornerstone Of My 40-Year Evolvement as an Applied Quantitative Researcher
Date: 14 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Herb Marsh (Australian Catholic University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 May 2025

The Early Impacts of T Levels: A New Set of Hybrid Upper Secondary Vocational Qualifications
Date: 19 May 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Robbie Maris (University College London)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D and Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

The Knowledge Quartet 2002-25: the application of teacher knowledge to classroom practice
Date: 20 May 2025, 14:30 - 16:00
Speaker : Dr Tim Rowland (University of Cambridge)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D
Organiser: Dr Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 May 2025

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

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

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

Monday 16 June 2025

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

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)