Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity – News

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.

The first conviction of cyberflashing represents a milestone for the Online Safety Bill in England and Wales, which was directly informed by UCL research evidencing the harms of a ‘dangerously normalised’ practice.

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society will lead a new project to assess the Afghan resettlement schemes in England and provide insights into how Afghan people are navigating the processes of settling into new housing, workplaces, and local communities.

In this podcast we hear about whether or not young people who aspire to teach actually become teachers.

Young people are still too rarely consulted about relationships, sex and sexuality education but have many ideas on what and how they want to learn, finds research conducted by academics from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society.

A new report led by researchers from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society builds an intersectional picture of the experience of being a boy in the UK today, and illustrates how notions of gender identity and expression are played out in formal and informal school spaces.

This podcast explores factors that contribute to educational inequity and how education systems can support refugee and other disadvantaged children attending these schools.

Research seeks to understand the challenges faced by asylum seekers and the communities they find themselves in, and find ways to innovate and ensure that everyone benefits.

UCL’s submission to the Education Unit of Assessment (UoA23) has been ranked first for research strength and research power in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, according to the Elsevier REF 2021 Results Analysis Tool.

IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, has been named Number 1 for Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for the ninth year in a row.

Research by IOE’s Professor Jessica Ringrose has informed the Online Safety Bill. The Bill’s introduction means that ‘cyberflashing’ will become a criminal offence.

I am delighted to launch IOE’s year of celebrations to mark our 120th anniversary and our record of excellence, collaboration and impact.

Young people aged 12 to 18 are unlikely to report receiving, or being asked to share, non-consensual sexual images to their school, parents or social media platforms such as Snapchat, TikTok and Instagram, finds a major new report led by UCL Institute of Education (IOE).

We hear from Professor Alice Bradbury about the findings and recommendations from their work looking at how lockdown has affected school communities.

The pandemic has shown the extent to which families rely on schools for ‘basic needs’ such as access to an adequate supply of food and help in accessing other support services, highlights new UCL Institute of Education (IOE) research.