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Name: Dr Velda Elliott
University of Oxford
Events this person is speaking at:
Thursday 30 November 2023
Racist epithets in the classroom: unpacking attitudes to the N word in teaching English
Date: 30 November 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Events this person is organising:
Thursday 19 October 2023
Phenomenography
Date: 19 October 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Danica Sims (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 26 October 2023
Exploring readers’ responses from afar: Reflections on using online and creative methods for participatory research with children
Date: 26 October 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Louise Couceiro (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 2 November 2023
Contrasting decolonial and traditional methods in researching coloniality and history education’
Date: 2 November 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Dr Abigail Branford (University of Oxford),
Zaiba Patel (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 9 November 2023
Unpacking the Multisited Ethnography: Methodological Insights from a DPhil Journey
Date: 9 November 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 16 November 2023
Recording video data in school classrooms: lessons learned
Date: 16 November 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Nicole Dingwall (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 November 2023
Doing Policy Analysis in Education – A Workshop
Date: 23 November 2023, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Professor Christian Ydesen (Aalborg University)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 January 2024
Interviewing Methods: Getting Participants to Talk
Date: 25 January 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Louise Vincent (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 1 February 2024
Collaboration for ethical practitioner research
Date: 1 February 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Philippa Naegeli (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 February 2024
Developing oral language through drama: Investigating the success of the approach
Date: 8 February 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Faidra Faitaki (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 February 2024
Proverbial teachings: Critical dialogues on traditional proverbs and zine-making in higher education
Date: 15 February 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
s:
Dr Aizuddin Anuar (Keele University),
Olga Mun (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 22 February 2024
Data Collection in Seconday Schools: Lessons Learned and Shared
Date: 22 February 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Katie Smith (University of York)
Venue Details: MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 29 February 2024
Race and the geographies of education spaces: Walking with PGCE students to examine lived experiences of race and racism in London
Date: 29 February 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Lauren Hammond (UCL)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 March 2024
Diverse definitions of 'researchers': findings from the Research on Research project
Date: 7 March 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
s:
Professor Alis Oancea (University of Oxford),
Antonin Charret (University of Oxford),
Jessica Pilgrim-Brown (University of Oxford),
Dr Xin Xu (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 25 April 2024
Navigating Fieldwork: An Ethnographic Study in a Low-Cost Private School in Delhi
Date: 25 April 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Bhabesh San San Waal (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 2 May 2024
Persisting Coloniality: Researching and Questioning the Bodleian Archives
Date: 2 May 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Devika (Bodleian Libraries)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 9 May 2024
Keeping Them Out: a study of whiteness in majoritised white senior leadership teams in Bristol schools
Date: 9 May 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Claire Stewart-Hall (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 16 May 2024
Complexities and challenges in reflexive research practices: using narrative inquiry and reflexive thematic analysis in research with working-class participants in higher education
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 May 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Jessica Pilgrim-Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room B and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 23 May 2024
(Over) thinking exit ethics: Conceptualising a trauma-informed approach to the ethics around leaving the field
Date: 23 May 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Josie Scammell (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 May 2024
Body mapping as a participatory method
Date: 30 May 2024, 12:50 - 13:50
Speaker
:
Dr Maaret Jokela-Pansini (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 June 2024
Qualitative evaluation straddling education and children’s social care
Date: 6 June 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
s:
Dr Georgia Hyde-Dryden (University of Oxford),
Dr Andrew Brown (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Monday 10 June 2024
Oxford Review of Education 50th Anniversary: Sociodigital futures of education: reparations, sovereignty, care, and democratisation
Date: 10 June 2024, 11:30 - 13:00
Speaker
:
Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford),
Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford),
Professor Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 June 2024
Critical Poetic Inquiry
Date: 13 June 2024, 12:50 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dami Folayan (University of Cambridge)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 24 October 2024
The Gujarati Navigator: introducing critical archival research
Date: 24 October 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Steve Puttick (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 31 October 2024
Changing the rules: enabling research findings to play out using a board game
Date: 31 October 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Susila Davies
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Tuesday 5 November 2024
English Lit after empire: “decolonizing” the curriculum at decolonization
Date: 5 November 2024, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
Dr Asha Rogers (Associate Professor of Contemporary Postcolonial Literature at the University of Birmingham)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 7 November 2024
Constructing local ecological knowledge: how children in the Galápagos Islands learn about their environment
Date: 7 November 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Amelia Farber (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 14 November 2024
Virtual' Walking Interviews: Exploring The Doctoral Experience
Date: 14 November 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Danielle Watkis (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 21 November 2024
Working with students of rural backgrounds on the move: reflections from mobile interviews conducted in India and China
Date: 21 November 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
s:
Yushan Xie (University of Oxford),
Rammohan Khanapurkar (University of Birmingham),
Jwalin Patel (TIDE Foundation)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 28 November 2024
Access is not about taking people who are already superstars’? Exploring constructions of merit and fairness in the University of Oxford’s undergraduate admissions routes
Date: 28 November 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Ed Penn
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 5 December 2024
‘Turning the dial’ in editing a text on the professional practice of teaching towards more culturally responsive and sustaining practice
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:30 - 13:55
Speaker
:
Dr Jane Abbiss (Faculty of Education, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Historical recovery & community-grounded praxis
Date: 5 December 2024, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Holly Cooper (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 February 2025
Qual Hub Seminar: Negotiating Muslim identity through the process of Primary Initial Teacher Training Education
Date: 6 February 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Nadia Talukder (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 March 2025
Using Cognitive Interviews and Thematic Analysis to Establish How Students’ Understanding of Calculus Changes Having Studied Preliminary Courses in Undergraduate Mathematics
Date: 13 March 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Ella Caulfield (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and MS Teams
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 8 May 2025
Qualitative Methods Hub: The researcher’s lived experiences of researching lived experiences
Date: 8 May 2025, 12:45 - 13:45
Speaker
:
Szilvi Watson (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A and online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 15 May 2025
Qualitative systematic reviews: An overview
Date: 15 May 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
:
Dr Stephanie Tierney (Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences)
Venue Details: Online
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA
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
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
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
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
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
Wednesday 25 June 2025
(Re) storying English: why text selection isn't the answer
Date: 25 June 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker
:
Professor Larissa McLean Davies (University of Melbourne)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organiser:
Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford)
Hosts:
TBA