Event type:

In person

Date & time:

14 Sep 2022, 17:30 – 19:45

Bridging research, policy and practice in education – remembering the legacy of Geoff Whitty

This event marked the contribution of the late Professor Geoff Whitty to IOE and the field of education.

Image of Geoff Whitty in black and white with yellow fingerprint and 120 roundel. Photo Richard Lea-Hair for UCL.
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Bridging research, policy and practice in education – remembering the legacy of Geoff Whitty

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Professor Li Wei

Director and Professor in Applied Linguistics

IOE

His research covers many aspects of bilingualism and multilingualism, including language acquisition in childhood, education policy and practice regarding bilingual and multilingual learners of minoritized and transnational backgrounds, and the cognitive benefits of language learning. He is editor of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and the Applied Linguistics Review. He has won the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize twice, for the Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism (with Melissa Moyer) and Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Ofelia Garcia). He is a fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences, UK, and Academia Europaea.

Professor Andrew Brown

Emeritus Professor of Education and Society

IOE

He is also an Honorary Professor in the Centre of Excellence for Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle. Between joining IOE in 1987 as a temporary contract primary teacher educator and leaving in 2018, he held a number of positions, including Interim Director (2016), Pro-Director for Academic Development (2014-6), Dean of the Faculty of Policy and Society (2013-4) and Dean of the Doctoral School (2005-10). As founding Director (Research) at the Institute for Adult Learning in Singapore (2010-2) he created three research centres focusing on adult vocational education. He is an artist, based at SPACE studios in Ilford, working with digital, analogue and alternative photographic processes. He is currently studying for a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, and serves as a Member of Council at the National Institute of Education (Singapore), Vice-Chair of Governors at Barking and Dagenham College and Chair of the Board of UCL Consultants. 

Professor Gemma Moss

Professor of Literacy

IOE

She is interested in the shifting relationships between policymakers, practitioners and stakeholders that are reshaping the literacy curriculum, and the use of research evidence to support policy and practice. 

Dr Richard Freeman

Head of the Centre for Doctoral Education

IOE

He is also the Deputy Director of the UCL, Bloomsbury and East London (UBEL) ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) that brings together five leading Social Science institutions - UCL, SOAS, LSHTM, Birkbeck and UEL – to fund, support and develop PhD and early-career researchers in the social sciences. 

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Free

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