• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Mr Phil Richards (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays during term times
• Web Address: http://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/events/
• Organising department: Department of Education

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 18 January 2016 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 25 January 2016 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 1 February 2016 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 8 February 2016 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Monday 15 February 2016 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 22 February 2016 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 29 February 2016 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Monday 7 March 2016 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 25 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 9 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 23 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Measuring and developing second language fluency
  Professor Judit Kormos (Lancaster University)

Monday 6 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 13 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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)

Monday 17 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 24 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 31 October 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 7 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 14 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 21 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 28 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 16 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 23 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 30 January 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Monday 6 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 13 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 20 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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))

Monday 27 February 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 6 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 24 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 8 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 15 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 22 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 5 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 12 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Literacy and foundation learning in multilingual India
  Dr Sonali Nag (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Interpersonal Relationships and Students’ Academic and Personal Wellbeing
  Professor Andrew Martin (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - System coherence and cohesion in English further education provision - glass half empty, or glass half full (and what's in the glass)?
  Professor Ewart Keep (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Social Pedagogy in the UK today: where are we up to and where are we going?
  Professor Claire Cameron (UCL Institute of Education)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Referential choice in bilingual and monolingual children: The effect of discourse and executive function skills
  Professor Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A study of children starting school and the progress they make in their first year around the world: The iPIPS project
  Professor Peter Tymms (Durham University)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Tensions and resolutions around the physical learning environment
  Professor Peter Barrett (University of Salford)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Untapped Potential of ‘Work’ for Looked After Young People – Challenges and Opportunities
  Professor Robbie Gilligan (Trinity College Dublin)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Evidence-informed inspection? Research at Ofsted
  Professor Daniel Muijs (Ofsted)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What is the future for subject-based education research?
  Professor Graham Butt (Oxford Brookes University)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Intraindividual research in education
  Dr Lars-Erik Malmberg (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Causal models of developmental disorders
  Professor Charles Hulme (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Predicting language proficiency in bilingual children
  Professor Cécile De Cat (University of Leeds)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The age-eclipsing effects of environment and input on L2 attainment in instructional contexts
  Professor Dr Simone E. Pfenninger (University of Salzburg), Professor David Singleton (Trinity College Dublin)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Equity and Quality of Education: Paradoxes from Hong Kong and Singapore
  Dr Maria Manzon (Education University of Hong Kong)