Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy – News

The 73 current and past academics feature in Elsevier and Stanford University’s 2025 list of the world’s most-cited scholars of their fields.

A holistic view of how phonics, writing, reading and language come together to make a child truly literate.

Children's participation in educational decisions impacts their motivation, engagement, and enjoyment of learning, finds research from Professor Dominic Wyse and Dr Yana Manyukhina.

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

IOE researchers have established robust evidence of strong links between experiential learning and children’s science and maths performance, as well as cross-curricular skills that aid learning.

Think pieces by Professors Arthur Chapman, Michael Young, Lynn Ang and Dominic Wyse share their insights on curriculum theory and design in “Curriculum in a Changing World”.

To guarantee the future of primary education, a new government should prioritise children and teacher agency, widen the curriculum, and promote hands-on, experiential learning, researchers recommend.

Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL) and Charlotte Hacking (Centre for Literacy in Primary Education) present their rationale for a new ‘Double Helix’ model that would provide an effective, balanced approach

In the context of a cost-of-living crisis and increased child poverty, this podcast hears about the growing use of food banks, how they operate and the impact this has on children whose families use t

The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) has recognised British philanthropist Lady Helen Hamlyn CBE with an Honorary Fellowship.

Schools are carrying an unequal burden of responding to long-term poverty that risks going unseen in policy, says a new report by UCL Institute of Education.

UCL has launched a new project to support primary school leaders and teachers to rethink their curriculum, in partnership with the Chartered College of Teaching.

High stakes assessments should be replaced by a system that prioritises children’s learning rather than holding schools and teachers to account, recommends an independent commission co-chaired by rese

As SATS week begins in England, a new independent commission co-chaired by researchers at IOE has been launched today to review the role of assessment in primary schools and consider a new approach.

Dr Christine Callender and Dr Sam Sims from the UCL Institute of Education have won 2021 BERJ Editors’ Choice Awards for their journal articles.