Department of Education Collection
Talks:

Friday 31 October 2025

SKOPE Seminar: Complementing and deepening ‘technical excellence’? Thinking educationally about the vocational
Date: 31 October 2025, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Bill Esmond (University of Derby)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 3 November 2025

Policy Engagement in Action: Reflections from OPEN Visiting Fellowship at Oxford’s SKOPE Research Centre
Date: 3 November 2025, 10:30 - 12:00
Speaker s: Helen Tattam (University of Oxford), Dr James Robson (SKOPE, Department of Education), Gonzalo Hidalgo Bazan (University of Oxford), Dr Adam Saunders (University of Oxford), Yushan Xie (University of Oxford), Dr Xin Xu (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room A or MS Teams
Organisers: TBA
Host: Dr Xin Xu (University of Oxford)

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: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 November 2025

Balancing Global Standards and Cultural Relevance: Methodological Lessons from Researching Preschool Children’s Development in Pakistan
Date: 4 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Anushay Mazhar (University of Oxford)
Venue: 28/30 Norham Gardens, 28/30 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room K/L and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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
Organiser: Ivan Au (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Thursday 6 November 2025

NetZeroED: methodological challenges of interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research
Date: 6 November 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker s: Dr Steve Puttick (University of Oxford), Dr Isobel Talks (University of Oxford), Dr Amelia Farber (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

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: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Turning the page: Toward a better understanding of adult math talk during storybook reading
Date: 10 November 2025, 13:45 - 15:00
Speaker : Dr Elida V Laski (Boston College)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room G
Organiser: Professor Gabriel Stylianides (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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

Tuesday 11 November 2025

MSc alumna presentations
Date: 11 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : MSC Education (Child Development and Education) alumni
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 November 2025

Conducting school-based qualitative research: reflections from the field
Date: 13 November 2025, 12:50 - 13:50
Speaker : Carolyn Bradley (University of Leeds)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: Dr Nicole Dingwall (University of Oxford), Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford), Dr. Steven Puttick (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: TBA

LGBTQIA+ Research Group Meeting
Date: 17 November 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker : Jonny Tridgell
Organiser: Dr Debbie Aitken (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 18 November 2025

Believing emotions can change: Implications for adolescent emotion regulation and mental health
Date: 18 November 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Matt Somerville (University College London)
Venue: 28/30 Norham Gardens, 28/30 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room K/L and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 20 November 2025

Sanitised, essentialised and Eurocentric: an analysis of the (mis)representation of Christian beliefs about homosexuality and African Christianity in English RE textbooks
Date: 20 November 2025, 12:50 - 13:50
Speaker : Jonny Tridgell (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: Dr Nicole Dingwall (University of Oxford), Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford), Dr. Steven Puttick (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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
Organiser: Ivan Au (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 November 2025

Intelligibility and comprehensibility of Japanese accented English: Critical pronunciation features and listener adaptation
Date: 25 November 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Naosuke Amano (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: TBA

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: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Preschoolers’ social emotional learning in children’s museums
Date: 25 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:30
Speaker : Dr Jessica Luke (University of Washington)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 November 2025

Photo-walks with Children: A Critical Research Method and Pedagogy
Date: 27 November 2025, 12:50 - 13:50
Speaker : Asia Giuliani (University of Oxford)
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E
Organisers: Dr Nicole Dingwall (University of Oxford), Dr Velda Elliott (University of Oxford), Dr. Steven Puttick (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

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: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 2 December 2025

Title TBC
Date: 2 December 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Professor Andrew Martin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Venue: 28/30 Norham Gardens, 28/30 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room K/L and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Political imagination as political agency – exploring higher education students’ utopianising
Date: 2 December 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker s: Anu Lainio (University of Eastern Finland), Anna Sofia Salonen (University of Eastern Finland)
Venue Details: MS Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 4 December 2025

Extreme Childhoods – Research on and with Extremism- and Terrorism-Affiliated Families.
Date: 4 December 2025, 12:50 - 14:00
Speaker
Venue: 15 Norham Gardens, 15 Norham Gardens OX2 6PY
Venue Details: Seminar Room E and online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
Advanced Quantitative Methods, TT 2023