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The Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO) hosts an annual lecture and an online research seminar series, where guest speakers present cutting edge research.
Join policymakers, researchers and practitioners to explore the pressing questions of our time in education policy and equalising opportunities.
Annual lectures
2022: Widening access to higher education: reforms that work - Susan Dynarski.
2023: Post-pandemic schooling challenges - Joshua Goodman.
Upcoming events
2 May 2024, 3 pm–4 pm
- Does old age social security help children? - Lucie Schmidt.
30 May 2024, 3 pm–4 pm
- Older schoolmate spillovers on higher education choices - Gustave Kenedi.
Previous events
14 March 2024, 3 pm–4 pm
- The impact of attending popular schools - Damon Clark.
29 February 2024, 3 pm–4 pm
- Government contracting and living wages > minimum wages - Stephen Machin.
8 February 2024, 3 pm–4 pm
- Confidence and college admission: Evidence from a randomised intervention - Camille Terrier.
7 December 2023, 3 pm–4 pm
23 November 2023, 3 pm–4 pm
26 October 2023, 3 pm–4 pm
- Are public sector CEOs different? Pay for performance and salary inequality in schools - Shqiponja Telhaj.
12 October 2023, 3 pm–4 pm
- The role of parent educational attainment on parenting and achievement outcomes - Pamela Davis-Kean.
28 September 2023, 3 pm–4pm
- Disability, social class, and educational transitions - Angharad Butler-Rees.
- 2022/23
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, 3 - 4pm
- Methodological problems for evidence-informed policy - Dr Tom Perry
24 November, 3 - 4pm
- Who defers and delays entry to primary school? Evidence from the English National Pupil Database - Dr Tammy Campbell
10 November, 3 - 4pm
- The scarring effect of graduate underemployment: Evidence from the UK - Dr Matt Dickson
24 October
- College education, intelligence, and disadvantage: Policy lessons from the UK in 1960-2004 - Andrea Ichino, European University Institute
12 October
- Smart matching platforms and heterogeneous beliefs in centralised school choice - Christopher A. Neilson (Yale University) | Hybrid event.
29 September
- Grades and grade inflation in higher education - Professor Ian Walker, Lancaster University.
- 2021/22
16 September 2021
- Selective schooling and social mobility in England - Professor Franz Buscha and Dr Emma Gorman (University of Westminster).
30 September 2021
- How ability stratification predicts the size of the big-fish-little-pond effect - Phil Parker (Australian Catholic University).
28 October 2021
- School-based Mentoring Relationships and Human Capital Formation - Dr Matthew Kraft (Brown University).
11 November 2021
- Minimum Quality Regulations and the Demand for Child Care Labour - Dr Chris Herbst (Arizona State University).
25 November 2021
- The impact of restricting access to government cash assistance on newly-arrived migrants - Anna Zhu (RMIT University, Australia).
9 December 2021
- Covid's unequal impact on engagement with online learning and enrolment in state schools - Joshua Goodman (Boston University).
27 January 2022
- From immediate acceptance to deferred acceptance: effects on school admissions and achievement in England - Camille Terrier (University of Lausanne and LSE).
10 March 2022
- Measuring and improving the quality of teaching: Evidence of impact - Jenny Gore (The University of Newcastle, Australia)
31 March 2022
- The efficacy of nudge-like information-provision outreach intervention - Sonia Ilie (University of Cambridge)
28 April 2022
- Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education? - Sandra McNally (University of Surrey)
26 May 2022
- Who counts as socioeconomically disadvantaged for the purposes of widening access? - Vikki Boliver (Durham University)
- 2020/21
28 January 2021
- School schedule and the gender pay gap - Clémentine Van Effenterre (University of Toronto) and Emma Duchini (University of Warwick)
25 February 2021
- Impact of school closures on parent and child wellbeing - Dr Claire Crawford (University of Birmingham)
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 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)
15 April 2021
- The Impact of Covid-19 on Key Learning and Education (ICKLE) project - Hannah Nash (University of Leeds)
13 May 2021
- What do mature learners look for? Results from a conjoint experiment - Susannah Hume (The Policy Institute)
27 May 2021
- Teachers teaching and teachers learning: Evidence from a large-scale field experiment in England - Professor Simon Burgess (University of Bristol)
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)
24 June 2021
- Class rank and long-run outcomes - Dr Richard Murphy (University of Texas)