Friday 18 September 2015

• 18:30 - Theories of potential and the creation of inequality in education - the 5th Oxford Education Society Annual Lecture
  Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Education Society Annual Lecture

Monday 19 October 2015

• 17:00 - Assessment and Learning
  Professor David Andrich (University of Western Australia), Professor Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 26 October 2015

• 17:00 - Parenting support: evidence, policy and practice
  Professor Geoff Lindsay (University of Warwick)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 2 November 2015

• 17:00 - 'Online all the time' ... Teachers' work in the digital age
  Professor Neil Selwyn (Monash University)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 9 November 2015

• 17:00 - Education in the Middle East
  Professor Dina Kiwan (American University of Beirut )

Monday 16 November 2015

• 17:00 - The scare tactic: Does it work? Motivating students for test and examinations
  Professor David Putwain (Edge Hill University)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 23 November 2015

• 17:00 - The Education Endowment Foundation: challenges for the future
  Sir Kevan Collins (The Education Endowment Foundation)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 30 November 2015

• 17:00 - The educational progress of looked after children in England: linking care and educational data
  Professor Judy Sebba (University of Oxford), Dr Nikki Luke (University of Oxford), Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford), Professor David Berridge (University of Bristol)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 18 January 2016

• 16:30 - Research into the links between language teacher development and working with children as co-researchers
  Dr Annamaria Pinter (University of Warwick)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 25 January 2016

• 16:30 - Clever Classrooms: evidence for the impacts of classroom design on learning
  Professor Peter Barrett (University of Salford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 1 February 2016

• 16:30 - Reimagining liberal education: affiliation and inquiry in democratic schooling
  Professor Hanan Alexander (Haifa University )
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 8 February 2016

• 16:30 - Social and emotional early development: a programme to develop children’s social skills and help prevent bullying
  Professor Daniel Muijs (University of Southampton)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 15 February 2016

• 16:30 - Silence in Japan’s second language classrooms: the dynamic interplay between context and learners
  Dr Jim King (University of Leicester)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 22 February 2016

• 16:30 - The sociolinguistic and pedagogic implications of the spread of English as global language
  Dr Heath Rose (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 29 February 2016

• 16:30 - Closing the Gap: issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational research
  Dr Ann Childs (Department of Education, University of Oxford), Dr Nigel Fancourt (Department of Education, University of Oxford), Dr Roger Firth (Department of Education, University of Oxford), Emeritus Professor Ian Menter (Department of Education, University of Oxford), Dr Ian Thompson (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 7 March 2016

• 16:30 - Promoting quality in education: a dynamic approach to school improvement
  Professor Leonidas Kyriakides (University of Cyprus)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 25 April 2016

• 16:30 - Supporting the development of looked-after children: what we know and what we need to do
  Dr Sara McLean (University of South Australia)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 9 May 2016

• 16:30 - “Rather than a pill…”: Reflections on parents, children and scientific parenting
  Dr Judith Suissa (UCL Institute of Education), Dr Stefan Ramaekers (University of Leuven)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 23 May 2016

• 16:30 - Measuring and developing second language fluency
  Professor Judit Kormos (Lancaster University)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 6 June 2016

• 16:30 - Beyond happiness? Pondering the purpose(s) of education
  Professor Peter Roberts (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 13 June 2016

• 16:30 - The findings of an RCT evaluation of the effectiveness of the Letterbox Club in improving reading and number skills of foster children ages 7-11 years old
  Dr Karen Winter (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Friday 16 September 2016

• 18:30 - What are universities for?
  Ticket holders are invited to a Drinks reception following the lecture.
  Professor Keri Facer (University of Bristol)
  Oxford Education Society Annual Lecture

Monday 17 October 2016

• 17:00 - Making use of international large-scale assessment data in national contexts: PIRLS for Teachers
  Dr Jenny Lenkeit (University of Oxford), Dr Therese Hopfenbeck (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 24 October 2016

• 17:00 - Education in divided societies: the role of school collaboration
  Professor Tony Gallagher (University of Belfast)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 31 October 2016

• 17:00 - Does market competition and/or the growth of participation foster diversity in higher education systems?
  Professor Simon Marginson (University College London)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 7 November 2016

• 17:00 - Religion and belief in Britain: the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life
  Dr Edward Kessler (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 14 November 2016

• 17:00 - What do undergraduate students really think about money?
  Dr Neil Harrison (University of the West of England)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 21 November 2016

• 17:00 - 5 years of the EEF: findings, challenges and future priorities
  Matthew Van Poortvliet (Education Endowment Foundation)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 28 November 2016

• 17:00 - Schools as workplaces: what makes a school a good place to work?
  Professor Jane Bryson (Victoria University of Wellington)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 16 January 2017

• 17:00 - Socio-economic inequalities in education achievement and student outcomes
  Professor Anna Vignoles (University of Cambridge)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - Stuck: Britain’s social mobility problem
  Dr Lee Elliot Major (The Sutton Trust)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 30 January 2017

• 17:00 - Imagining a future after schooling: 21st century youth transitions in London and Oxfordshire schools
  Professor Graham Butt (Oxford Brookes University), Dr Patrick Alexander (Oxford Brookes University)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - The long term implications of devolution and localism for FE in England
  Professor Ewart Keep (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - The social justice dispositions of teachers and their pedagogic work
  Professor Trevor Gale (University of Glasgow)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - The role of WISE research in supporting creative action and building the future of education through collaboration
  Dr Asmaa E. Al-Fadala (World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE))
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - Education and the new Conservatism: Social wellbeing, national character, and British values
  Professor Gary McCulloch (UCL Institute of Education)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - Learning French in the primary school classroom: the origins of morphosyntax
  Professor Florence Myles (University of Essex)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 24 April 2017

• 17:00 - From Financial Literacy to Financial Capability and Financial Well-being: more than a semantic change
  Professor Elaine Kempson (University of Bristol)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 8 May 2017

• 17:00 - Standards in national examinations: what do they mean?
  Professor Jo-Anne Baird (University of Oxford), Dennis Opposs (Ofqual)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 15 May 2017

• 17:00 - Bright Spots Project: the subjective well-being of looked after children and survey development
  Professor Jullie Selwyn (University of Bristol)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - What is this thing called ‘science’ and what should be included in education about science?
  Professor Sibel Erduran (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - Education, inequality and institutions: evidence from international assessments 1995-2015
  Dr Robin Shields (University of Bath)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 12 June 2017

• 17:00 - Assessing practical work in science - a panel discussion
  Neil Wade (OCR), Stella Paes (AQA), Dr Sean Page (Lord Williams’s School, Thame)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Saturday 16 September 2017

• 17:00 - Disputed narratives and contested conversations: Bruner’s influence on the study of language development
  Professor Catherine Snow (Harvard Graduate School of Education)
  Oxford Education Society Annual Lecture

Monday 16 October 2017

• 17:00 - Measurement with no standards: reflections of an unconventional psychometrician
  Dr Joshua McGrane (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 23 October 2017

• 17:00 - If “The Youth of the Country are the Trustees of Posterity” (Benjamin Disraeli, 1845), do we need to do more to support young people who are NEET in the UK?
  Professor Sue Maguire (University of Bath)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - English across borders
  Dr Mario Saraceni (University of Portsmouth)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 6 November 2017

• 17:00 - Stability and change in developmental language disorders
  Professor Courtney Norbury (University College London)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 13 November 2017

• 17:00 - English Medium Instruction research: what do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?
  Professor Ernesto Macaro (Department of Education, University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 20 November 2017

• 17:00 - Supporting young children's development through parenting interventions: an analysis using Theory of Change
  Dr Maria Evangelou (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 27 November 2017

• 17:00 - Mediatising religious education: BBC radio and television for children and schools, c.1920s-1970s
  Professor Stephen G Parker (University of Worcester)
  Department of Education Public Seminars

Monday 29 January 2018

• 17:00 - The development of quantitive reasoning
  Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes (University of Oxford)
  Department of Education Public Seminars