Podcasts
Bullying or Counter Connecting – Two inclusive definitions for schools
About 40% of children and young people are exposed to bullying, but this rate has been reported to be as high as 69% for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
March 2026
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Runnymede Trust
In Hackney (listen out for the Overground trains!) they discuss curriculum, reparatory justice and how the wider political climate impacts schools.
March 2026
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The role of songs in languages learning
Singing songs with young learners is a classroom technique beloved by many teachers, especially languages teachers.
March 2026
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Playful Pedagogies: Critical thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning
In this special extended edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek joins Dr Faidra Faitaki and Jasen Booton to explore how playful pedagogies can transform education.
March 2026
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Radical Youth Spaces for Educations
Hear more about why the RYSE exists, the way they do things and how their work is linked to wider struggles for the future.
March 2026
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Episode 4 – Velda Elliott
We hear from Velda about why reading is so important, the Lit in Colour campaign and what we’re doing to support the National
Year of Reading.
March 2026
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Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment
The aim of the panel session was to reflect on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences.
6 February 2026
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Approaches to facilitating research impact
Whilst research has always had impact, research impact is still a relatively new concept in REF terms.
6 February 2026
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In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years
Citations, journal impact factors, H-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to assess the quality and wider impacts of research.
6 February 2026
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What was I thinking?! – being an academic in the age of impact
The context for this talk is offered by one of the defining debates in cultural policy studies, namely the one around the tension between a desire to be useful to those who administer the arts and culture and the aspiration to preserve the cultural policy scholar’s critical distance from the object of analysis, intellectual autonomy and the freedom to critique.
6 February 2026
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia
6 February 2026
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Understanding research impact: analysis of the REF impact case studies
6 February 2026
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