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On-the-day schedule for the ESRC Education Research Programme (ERP)'s conference, Transforming education through research, 26 January 2026 at Mary Ward House
Welcome to Mary Ward House, and to today's conference
We are using rooms in both the Lower Ground floor and the Ground floor of Mary Ward House.
The conference registration desk is staffed throughout the day and is on the Lower Ground floor. Venue staff are also available to assist with enquiries about the venue or for first aid.
Toilets are available on both floors. No smoking or vaping is permitted in the building. We are not expecting any fire alarm tests on the day, If you hear a fire alarm, please follow the directions of venue staff and head to the muster point outside of the building.
The programme summary with locations is below. View this programme at a glance on one page (pdf).
9.30: Registration (Lower Ground floor)
10:00: Welcome – Gemma Moss (Brewer and Smith room, Lower Ground floor)
10:05 Opening panel discussion – Stian Westlake, ESRC; Alaster Smith, DfE; Anna Vignoles, Leverhulme (Brewer and Smith room, Lower Ground floor)
10:45 Parallel Session 1
- Sustainable school leadership: findings from a UK-wide study, PI Toby Greany (Herschel room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 1: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 1 - Teaching for digital citizenship: data justice in the classroom and beyond, PI David Lundie (Emerson room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 2: The uses of technology in education - The future of teaching: Tailoring game-based recruitment interventions to career motivations, PI Rob Klassen (Boardroom, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 3: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 2 - Knowledge exchange in education: lessons from the ERP, PI Gemma Moss (Brewer & Smith room, Lower Ground floor)
Part of Strand 4: Knowledge exchange in education
12:15 Lunch and networking
Served in the Lower Ground rooms, Arnold, Morris, and Martineau. You are also welcome to sit in the Brewer and Smith room while you eat.
13:10 Parallel Session 2
- Decentring the resilient teacher: using ecology mapping to explore possibilities for supporting a more resilient teacher workforce, PI Steph Ainsworth (Emerson room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 1: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 1 - Technology, agency, humanity? Narratives from UK schools, PI John Gordon (Herschel room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 2: The uses of technology in education - The career pathways of ethnic minority teachers in England, PI Stephen Gorard (Boardroom, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 3: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 2 - Roundtable 1. Working in partnership in the 4 nations and jurisdictions of the UK, UCL research team and guests (Brewer & Smith rooms, Lower Ground floor)
Part of Strand 4: Knowledge exchange in education
14:40 Break
Toilets are available on both floors.
14:50 Parallel Session 3
- Transforming education through an exploration of children’s participatory rights: collaborative inquiry for pedagogical change in Wales, PI Sarah Chicken (Herschel room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 1: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 1 - Towards equity focused approaches to EdTech: a socio-technical perspective, PI Rebecca Eynon (Emerson room, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 2: The uses of technology in education - Digital empowerment in language teaching: children, teachers and policy, PI Alison Porter (Boardroom, Ground floor)
Part of Strand 3: Teacher recruitment, retention and development 2 - Roundtable 2. Agenda setting for research in education: issues and dilemmas, UCL research team (Brewer & Smith rooms, Lower Ground floor)
Part of Strand 4: Knowledge exchange in education