Previous Events

2013

23rd May - Navigating the New Education Landscape

21st May - Education: being postcolonial

20th May - First Annual Lecture of the Centre for Research in Race and Education

13th May - Did Education make a Difference? The impact of education on the outcome of working-class individuals in Birmingham in the 19th century.

3rd May - Ethics and disability research in Southern contexts: unexplored terrain, unresolved tensions

1st May - Language teacher development: Principles and practices, ideals and images

1st May - Postgraduate Teacher Training Open Day

23rd April - On the idea of non-confessional faith-based education

19th April - ipads in Education

25th-26th March - Responding to contemporary multilingual realities, recasting research methodologies

20th March - A review of thinking and research about inclusive education policy, with suggestions for a new kind of inclusive thinking

19th March - The ethics of influence

19th March - The role of the further education sector in higher education provision in England

18th-24th March - Arts and Science Festival

12th March - '(Re)discovering' the multilingual speaker: Implications for SLA and TESOL

11th March - The shaping of identities through childhood and adolescent schooling and non-compulsory education: a Northamptonshire Caribbean example

8th March - The contribution of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to policy analysis

7th March - Transforming autism education: a national integrated programme

5th March - Doctoral Research Seminar

21st February - Launch of the Centre for Research in Race and Education

20th February - Strangers in paradise or losers in a rigged race? : non-traditional students in higher education

19th February - Education and the growth of knowledge: a view from social epistemology

6th February - Procreative Liberty

5th February - Doctoral Research Seminar

30th January - The education of pupils with SEN in primary schools: findings and implications from a systematic observation study (The Making a Statement (MaSt) Project)

29th January - Guest Lecture - David Smith Economics Editor of the Sunday Times

28th January - Community histories and the making of supplementary schooling: Exploring the of the role of historical discourses in The social positioning of supplementary schools

23rd January - The Priestley Lecture 2013

22nd January - 'Ordinary unhappiness' and education

8th January - Doctoral Research Seminar

2012

15th December - Character and Public Policy: Educating for an Ethical Life

4th December - Doctoral Research Seminar

1st December - School of Education Research Conference

23rd November - Methodological issues in researching disability in the South

21st November - Using new technologies as part of the research process. Lessons from 'Living with Usher Syndrome' project

12th November - Distinguished Speaker Series Guest Lecture: Professor Michael Shapiro

12th November - Broadcasting the comprehensive school ideal: Margaret Miles and the media 1954-1965

9th November - Qualitative software planning seminar

8th November - Using Innovative Technologies in the Classroom

31st October - Intercultural Dialogue and Mutual Respect between Europe and Islam - The Challenge for Education

24th October - Distinguished Speaker Series Guest Lecture: Professor Steven Vertovec

21st October - Battle of Ideas

17th October - School teaching as a career

1st October - Recovering Forgotten Voices: towards a people's history of education?

24th-26th September - Randomised Controlled Trials in the Social Sciences, Seventh Annual Conference 2012

10th September - Researching language in education in diverse, twenty-first century classrooms

13th July - The Research Design Basis for Undergraduate Quantitative Methods Teaching

2nd-13th July - First Birmingham/Melbourne Summer/Winter School in Applied Linguistics

28th June - Support and Aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability - Progress and next steps

19th June - The Olympics Poetry Competition

12th June - Applications of Nexus Analysis to Investigating Educational Policy and Practice

7th June - Imagining university education: The perspectives of young people impacted by low socio-economic status and disengagement from school

21st May - The last night of a small town: child narratives and the Titanic

18th May - Little publics: the articulation of youth voice

9th May - Class inequalities in education at age 7

2nd May - Master class with Professor Monica Heller, University of Toronto, Canada

26th April - The Birmingham Conference 2012

29th-31st March - AIESEP - University of Birmingham Specialist Seminar 2012

24th March-10th June - Children's Lives: An exhibition of children's lives from the 18th century to the present day

21st March - Family Values and School Policy: Shaping Values and Conferring Advantage

21st March - RIPS: Dynamic Assessment for language disabilities.

19th March - Further reflections on the right kind of history

10th March - Multilingualism in faith settings: research perspectives

6th March - Can governments improve higher education through 'informing choice'?

29th February - Deciding who is worthy of what kind of an education

8th February - Critical Realism, Interdisciplinarity and Wellbeing: A guest lecture by Professor Roy Bhaskar

8th February - RIPS 2011 - 2012

1st February - DYSPRAXIA (Developmental Co-ordination Disorder)

1st February - Finding the way to inclusive schooling in Dubai government schools: issues and challenges

30th January - The Shelter photographs: a new construction of the homeless child

2011

12th December - New perspectives from the National Union of Women Teachers Archive – resource discovery in a women teachers union archive.

8th December - The Priestley Lecture 2011

7th December - The Educational Review Lecture 2011

28th November - Eighty Years On: Representations of teachers in British film, 1930-2010.

25th November - Linking lives and classrooms for language teaching and learning

23rd November - RIPS 2011-2012: Assessing meaningful outcomes for people on the autism spectrum – a user-led research project

19th November - Curiosity-driven or improving policy and practice. What's the point of university research in an age of austerity?

17th-18th November - Transcription workshop for early career researchers

9th November - Research Seminar series 2011-2012: Standards and Accountability in the USA

4th November - Can we judge the performance of schools?

2nd November - Can we judge the performance of schools?

1st November - Playing and Learning with innovative technologies

20th October - Postgraduate Training in Educational Psychology Open Evening

19th October - Research seminar series 2011-2012: Social justice and educational research

8th October - Jean Gross: Communication Champion

9th September - Autism education: Assessing progress towards meaningful targets

15th July - Researching discourses and practices in Adult ESOL