Reading for Pleasure: What next?
A one day research symposium UKLA, ºÚÁÏÍø911 and OU The symposium seeks to enable information sharing in order to advance understanding of the concept of reading for pleasure, and to provoke debate...
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Social media’s impact on children and young people’s mental health
In this blog I focus on the impact of social media on children and young people’s mental health, drawing on the research of Emily Frith (Frith, 2017). Some children in developed countries live...
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ºÚÁÏÍø911-LERN Educational Research Masterclass
This event is now fully booked. Please email [email protected] if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. Â Â This event will be a research...
English teaching and the recruitment crisis: ‘Remembrance of times past’ – but considering times future
The English in Education SIG held its first research seminar on 15 February – an excellent occasion featuring Dr Simon Gibbons of UCL. Simon’s research has focussed on the history of English...
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‘TEF what next ….?’ A HE SIG themed seminar
This event is now fully booked. Please email [email protected] if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. Â Â Â This seminar event is aimed at...
Literature’s lasting impression: what can memories of reading at school tell us about teaching with novels today?
RESEARCH SEMINAR – John Gordon Most people remember ‘reading round the class’. Typically, discussion develops as classes share a book together, students elaborating responses collectively...
Innovation labs as a means of preparing students for jobs that don’t exist yet
Professor Martin Boehm of the IE Business School says that in order to prepare students for the 80 per cent of jobs that will exist in 2025 but don’t exist today, traditional course content...
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House of Commons symposium on teacher education policy
On 28 February 2018, a special education symposium was hosted by Mike Kane MP, shadow minister for schools, for Manchester Metropolitan University at the House of Commons. The symposium aimed to...
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Education, employment and youth: Contemporary attitudes towards post-16 and post-18 education access
Providing opportunities for young people leaving compulsory schooling to pursue world-class further and higher education is a global concern. Post-compulsory education is constructed as a panacea...
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Peer support of teaching in college higher education, in the context of the Teaching Excellence Framework
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education (HE) providers in England. The TEF rates...
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LGBT+ inclusion in schools
In this blog I summarise key evidence from Stonewall’s latest School Report (Bradlow et al, 2017), a study of over 3,700 lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) young people across Britain aged...
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Research Intelligence issue 135: Public Engagement and Impact Featuring: Socially critical research at the research/policy interface USVreact: Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual...
