IOE Professorial Public Lectures

Senior IOE academics present their world-leading research in education, and share how it is not only shaping their individual research fields, but also public debate, government policy and professional practice.

Each lecture is free and open to everyone - staff, students and members of the public. 

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• Exploring the neurocognition of second language speaking and writing (Professor Andrea Révész)
• Things worth knowing: Participatory research with children on media cultures and play (Professor John Potter)
• Places, people and pageants: Writing and performing local histories (Professor Mark Freeman)
• More than a grade: The human side of assessment (Professor Mary Richardson)
• Healthy longevity in the 21st century: A cross-generational life course perspective (Professor George Ploubidis)
• Acquiring language in challenging circumstances (Professor Chloë Marshall)
• Arts, nature and wellbeing: Journeying towards sustainability for children and young people (Professor Nicola Walshe)
• Where external representations meet embodied experiences (Professor Carol Rivas)
• Teamwork in healthcare: A close-up view of the frontline (Professor Jeff Bezemer)
• Teachers and teaching: the politics of respect (Professor Martin Mills)
• Understanding the social and cultural bases of Brexit (Professor Tak Wing Chan)
• The PISA results are coming! But should the findings be trusted? (Professor John Jerrim)
• Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading (Professor Alice Sullivan)
• Identities, inequalities, education: sociology for social justice with youth in (and out) of school (Professor Louise Archer)
• Global learning and skills for global social change (Professor Douglas Bourn)
• Research on inequality: the long roots of childhood, informing policies, and generational change (Professor Alissa Goodman)
• Knowledge in education: Why philosophy matters (Professor Jan Derry)
• Responding to children in the 21st century: education, social pedagogy and belonging (Professor Claire Cameron)
• Higher education as self-formation (Professor Simon Marginson)
• The problem of education and development in sub-Saharan Africa (Professor Moses Oketch)