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Department: Department of Education
Talks:
Monday 13 October 2025
Quant Hub: Using AI in classroom video research to better understand nonverbal and verbal social-emotional interactions in class
Date: 13 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
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Dr. Rebecca Lazarides (Universität Potsdam, Germany)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
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Monday 20 October 2025
Quant Hub: Leveraging electrodermal activation data to capture and understand emotional activation in education: Approaches and lessons learned from ten years of multimodal research
Date: 20 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Jason M. Harley (McGill University, Canada)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Quant Hub: Social inequality, academic resilience, and learning outcomes: evidence from six cycles of PISA
Date: 21 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Louis Volante (Brock University, Canada)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room D (Department of Education) and Teams
Organisers:
TBA
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Tracking the Untrackable: How the Human Mind Recognizes Broken, Obscured, and Shape-Shifting Morphemes in Tagalog
Date: 21 October 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
: Dr. Dave Kenneth Tayao Cayado
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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Monday 27 October 2025
Quant Hub: Qualtrics – challenges, opportunities, and new directions
Date: 27 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Helena Granziera (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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Monday 3 November 2025
Quant Hub: Combining genes with environment. Mapping trajectories of language and mental health
Date: 3 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dianne Newbury (Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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Tuesday 4 November 2025
Reviewing Research on the Teaching and Learning of Arabic as an Additional Language: Challenges, Opportunities and Implications
Date: 4 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Anna-Maria Ramezanzadeh,
Dr Robert Woore (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
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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
Monday 10 November 2025
Quant Hub: What causes children’s differences in education? Insights from genetically sensitive studies
Date: 10 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Sophie von Stumm (University of York, UK)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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Public Seminar: Building Skills for Citizen Participation
Date: 10 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
:
Dr Joanne Caddy (Senior Analyst, OECD)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organisers:
Professor Rachel Brooks (University of Oxford),
Professor Alis Oancea (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 17 November 2025
Quant Hub: Augmenting socially shared regulation of learning through human-AI interactions in collaborative inquiry tasks
Date: 17 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr. Joni Lämsä (University of Oulu, Finland)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
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Thursday 20 November 2025
Is ‘goed’ a word? Young EFL learners’ attention to form in collaborative tasks
Date: 20 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor María del Pilar García Mayo (Universidad del País Vasco)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G/H (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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Hosts:
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Monday 24 November 2025
Quant Hub: Untangling perspectives: a multi-informant lens to sibling relationships
Date: 24 November 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Siyu (Essie) Ma (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
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Tuesday 25 November 2025
The impact of study abroad on Russian young people’s understandings of democracy and aspirations to engage socio-politically in Russia
Date: 25 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
:
Tania Mednikova (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Venue Details: Teams, online
Organisers:
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Monday 1 December 2025
Quant Hub: Summary-Statistics-Based Power Analyses for Mixed-Effects Modeling
Date: 1 December 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Kou Murayama (Hector Research Institute of Education Sciences and Psychology, University of Tübingen, Germany)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E (Department of Education) and MS Teams
Organisers:
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