Podcasts
The educational progress of looked after children in England: linking care and educational data
This study investigates the relationships between young people’s experiences in the care system and their educational achievements in secondary school.
25 June 2026
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The Education Endowment Foundation Challenges for the future
This seminar will consider the emerging influence of ‘disciplined innovation’ and the rise of randomized controlled trials in education.
25 June 2026
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The scare tactic: Does it work? Motivating students for test and examinations
A relatively common motivational strategy used by teachers, and others, prior to high-stakes examinations (such as the GCSE), is to communicate to students the negative consequence of failure for one’s subsequent life trajectory.
25 June 2026
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How well are children in Sudan taught to read compared to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Results of a National Learning Assessment.
This seminar examines the development of a National Learning Assessment in Sudan and reports on the findings of its first study.
25 June 2026
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‘Online all the time’ Teachers’ work in the digital age
This seminar explores the ways in which digital technologies are now implicated in teachers’ work and labour.
25 June 2026
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Parenting support Evidence, policy and practice
Abstract: ‘In this talk I shall draw upon two large scale studies of parenting programmes to explore two issues: evidence for their effectiveness, and implications for policy and practice.
25 June 2026
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Assessment and learning: Fields Apart?
Educational assessments define what it means to have learned and therefore have a huge impact upon teaching and learning.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 2026
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia
25 June 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.
25 June 2026
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