Centre for Doctoral Education – News

Neurodiversity Celebration Week aims to recognise, support and celebrate the neurodiverse community by challenging misconceptions, raising awareness and promoting inclusion and understanding.

For the twelfth year running, IOE - UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society remains the top place in the world to study Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

Professor Jessica Ringrose spoke to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee calling for high-quality relationships and sex education (RSE) that covers sexual violence and digital literacy.

CLOSER is launching a new annual Emerging Longitudinal Scholars Symposium Series. This year’s symposium focuses on health, wellbeing and labour market (non-) participation.

Professor Alison Clark-Wilson will bring her expertise in educational technology (EdTech) as an advisor to the government’s new EdTech Evidence Board project.

The new route into teaching secondary school maths will open up the profession to more people, through our degree apprenticeship.

Several studies from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, feature in the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s ‘50@50’ portrait of 50 years of impactful educational research.

History teacher Danilo Kovač has been named a top 50 finalist in the 2025 Global Teacher Prize.

Julie Dockrell talks to us about how oral language is the foundation for all other learning and what the implications of this are for teachers.

There is no form of culture or society without music – it's something that's part of us all. We take a look at the power of music, and how it intersects with technology, health and wellbeing.

Expertise by Professor Lynn Ang has contributed to the research behind the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood ‘Shaping Us’, a campaign led by HRH The Princess of Wales.

In this episode, Guy Claxton takes us beyond simplified conceptions of the learning sciences and explains why teachers are sometimes vulnerable to fads and trends.

An IOE project led by Dr Sinéad Harmey collaborated with families and their nursery school in East London to create strategies that develop children’s writing skills from an early age.

Those in creative sectors have made it loud and clear that there’s been a lack of funding and a disregard for the arts in the school curriculum.

Artificial Intelligence is purported to hold much promise for education and society​, yet it also raises many technical, practical and ethical questions for teaching and learning.