CEPEO Seminar Series
The Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO) hosts an online research seminar series, where guest speakers present cutting edge research.
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Previous events
2024–25
- 26 June 2025, 3–4pm: Leveraging British cohort data to illuminate adolescent education trajectories: Opportunities and emerging directions – Dominic Kelly
- 15 May 2025, 3–4pm: Does compelling participation in post-16 education increase human capital and have positive returns in the labour market? New evidence from England – Matt Dickson
- 1 May 2025, 3–4pm: Online tutoring at scale works: Experimental evidence from a program with vulnerable children – Claudia Hupkau
- 20 March 2025, 3–4pm: The effects of grading on student choices: Evidence from Norway – Colin Green
- 6 March 2025, 3–4pm: Reach for the stars: Inequalities in university applications by school type – Gill Wyness
- 23 January 2025, 3–4pm: It’s alright for some: Are the effects of school exclusion heterogeneous? – Andrew McClean (no video available)
- 12 December 2024, 3–4pm: Inequalities in applications and offers to graduate recruitment programs – Lindsey Macmillan
- 28 November 2024, 3–4pm: Family-friendly workplace policies – Anna Raute
- 14 November 2024, 3–4pm: The impact of T-levels: New upper secondary vocational qualifications in the UK – Robbie Maris
- 17 October 2024, 3–4pm: Exploring gender, SES and ethnic group gaps in teacher judgements – Rich Murphy (UT Austin)
- 26 September 2024, 3–4pm: Do cultural capital and social capital explain the social origin pay gap? – Michael Vallely (ESRI Dublin)
2023–24
- 2 May 2024, 3–4pm: Does old age social security help children? – Lucie Schmidt
- 30 May 2024, 3–4pm: Older schoolmate spillovers on higher education choices – Gustave Kenedi
- 14 March 2024, 3–4pm: The impact of attending popular schools – Damon Clark
- 29 February 2024, 3–4pm: Government contracting and living wages > minimum wages – Stephen Machin
- 8 February 2024, 3–4pm: Confidence and college admission: Evidence from a randomised intervention – Camille Terrier
- 7 December 2023, 3–4pm: Causes and consequences of inequalities in children’s executive functions – Emma Blakey
- 23 November 2023, 3–4pm: Intergenerational mobility of women (and men) across working ages – Jo Blanden
- 16 November 2023, 3–4pm: Inequality impacts of an education reform in Sweden – Dennis Petrie
- 26 October 2023, 3–4pm: Are public sector CEOs different? Pay for performance and salary inequality in schools – Shqiponja Telhaj
- 12 October 2023, 3–4pm: The role of parent educational attainment on parenting and achievement outcomes – Pamela Davis-Kean
2022–23
- 28 September 2023, 3–4pm: Disability, social class, and educational transitions – Angharad Butler-Rees
- 8 June 2023, 3–4pm: Mismatch in the time of crisis – Gill Wyness | Hybrid event
- 18 May 2023, 3–4pm: When non-native speakers compete for top schools – Elisa Facchetti | Hybrid event
- 4 May 2023, 3–4pm: Can mentoring alleviate family disadvantage in adolescence? – Ludger Woessmann (University of Munich) | Hybrid event
- 27 April 2023, 3–4pm: How does testing young children influence educational attainment and well-being? – Professor Colin Green
- 23 March 2023, 3–4pm: Race, sex, class and educational achievement at age 16 – Professor Steve Strand
- 9 March 2023, 3–4pm: Racial inequality, minimum wage spill overs and the informal sector – Dr Claire Montialoux
- 26 January 2023, 3–4pm: Traditional and progressive approaches to teaching: New empirical evidence on an old debate – Dr Sam Sims
- 12 January 2023, 3–4pm: The effects of affirmative action on targeted and non-targeted students – Professor Julien Grenet
- 8 December 2022, 3–4pm: Methodological problems for evidence-informed policy – Dr Tom Perry
- 24 November 2022, 3–4pm: Who defers and delays entry to primary school? Evidence from the English National Pupil Database – Dr Tammy Campbell
- 10 November 2022, 3–4pm: The scarring effect of graduate underemployment: Evidence from the UK – Dr Matt Dickson
- 24 October 2022: College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: Policy lessons from the UK in 1960–2004 – Andrea Ichino, European University Institute
- 12 October 2022: Smart matching platforms and heterogeneous beliefs in centralised school choice – Christopher A. Neilson (Yale University) | Hybrid event
- 29 September 2022: Grades and grade inflation in higher education – Professor Ian Walker, Lancaster University
2021–22
- 26 May 2022: Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access? – Vikki Boliver (Durham University)
- 28 April 2022: Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education? – Sandra McNally (University of Surrey)
- 31 March 2022: The efficacy of nudge-like information-provision outreach intervention – Sonia Ilie (University of Cambridge)
- 10 March 2022: Measuring and improving the quality of teaching: Evidence of impact – Jenny Gore (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
- 27 January 2022: From immediate acceptance to deferred acceptance: effects on school admissions and achievement in England – Camille Terrier (University of Lausanne and LSE)
- 9 December 2021: Covid’s unequal impact on engagement with online learning and enrolment in state schools – Joshua Goodman (Boston University)
- 25 November 2021: The impact of restricting access to government cash assistance on newly-arrived migrants – Anna Zhu (RMIT University, Australia)
- 11 November 2021: Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labour – Dr Chris Herbst (Arizona State University)
- 28 October 2021: School-based Mentoring Relationships and Human Capital Formation – Dr Matthew Kraft (Brown University)
- 30 September 2021: How ability stratification predicts the size of the big-fish-little-pond effect – Phil Parker (Australian Catholic University)
- 16 September 2021: Selective schooling and social mobility in England – Professor Franz Buscha and Dr Emma Gorman (University of Westminster)
2020–21
- 24 June 2021: Class rank and long-run outcomes – Dr Richard Murphy (University of Texas)
- 10 June 2021: Reading, phonics and testing: teaching during the pandemic and beyond – Dr Alice Bradbury and Professor Dominic Wyse (Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at IOE)
- 27 May 2021: Teachers teaching and teachers learning: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment in England – Professor Simon Burgess (University of Bristol)
- 13 May 2021: What do mature learners look for? Results from a conjoint experiment – Susannah Hume (The Policy Institute)
- 15 April 2021: The Impact of Covid-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE) project – Hannah Nash (University of Leeds)
- 25 March 2021: Where versus what: college value-added and returns to field of study in further education – Dr Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, (Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics Research)
- 11 March 2021: Equalising opportunities in post-16 progression in England – Ruth Lupton (University of Manchester), Sanne Velthuis (University of Manchester) and Lorna Unwin (IOE)
- 25 February 2021: Impact of school closures on parent and child wellbeing – Dr Claire Crawford (University of Birmingham)
- 28 January 2021: School schedule and the gender pay gap – Clémentine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto) and Emma Duchini (University of Warwick)