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Title	Description	People	Date
OUCEA Annual Lecture 2022: The Future of Assessment	Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment (OUCEA) presents a look into the future of assessment featuring guest speakers.	Art Graesser, Sandra Milligan, Joshua McGrane, Therese N. Hopfenbeck	24 August, 2022
From Inclusion to Exclusion from School: Transforming the lives of young people with special educational needs and disabilities?	This seminar explores the process of formal and informal exclusion from the macro, meso and micro level to understand some of the complex interactions between policy, school and individual factors.	Jill Porter, Ruth Moyse	25 February, 2020
Law and Exclusion from School	Combining legal analysis, theory, and evidence from practice, Lucinda Ferguson argues that the law is ill-equipped to support children at risk of permanent exclusion from school, particularly children with disabilities or other additional needs.	Lucinda Ferguson	13 February, 2020
Exclusion and Mental Health: Exploring the Role of Improved Provision in Schools	This talk discusses the latest understanding of mental health needs in adolescent populations in the UK and the potential role that mental health services in schools can play.	Mina Fazel	13 February, 2020
Alternative Provision and School Exclusions	This presentation will discuss the place of Alternative Provision (AP) in the process of exclusion in England, with a particular focus on issues related to social justice.	Martin Mills	4 February, 2020
Differences in rates of school exclusions in the four jurisdictions to the UK	This seminar reports on the ongoing work of the multi-disciplinary and multi-site Excluded Lives Group whose work has led to the ESRC funds project The Political Economies of School Exclusion and their Consequences.	Harry Daniels, Ian Thompson, Alice Tawell	20 January, 2020
Rees Centre Annual lecture 2019 - School Exclusions	Panel presentations (Harry Daniels, Alison Woodhead and Lisa Cherry) for the Rees Centre Annual Lecture 2019 on school exclusion and issues for looked after and adopted children.	Harry Daniels, Alison Woodhead, Lisa Cherry	27 November, 2019
CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 2: The global and the post-colonial PART TWO	David Mills and Simon Marginson present on the theme of ‘The global and the post-colonial’	Simon Marginson, David Mills	22 November, 2019
CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 2: The global and the post-colonial PART ONE	David Mills and Simon Marginson present on the theme of ‘The global and the post-colonial’	Simon Marginson, David Mills	22 November, 2019
CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 1: International development in higher education PART TWO	Maia Chankseliani and Tristan McGowan on international development in higher education	Maia Chankseliani, Tristan McCowan	22 November, 2019
CGHE series on international and global higher education – seminar 1: International development in higher education PART ONE	Maia Chankseliani and Tristan McGowan on international development in higher education	Maia Chankseliani, Tristan McCowan	22 November, 2019
Argument, Evidence and Continuity in the Augar Report	Released in May 2019, the Augar report was a result of a 6 person panel chaired by Philip Augar and was the first in England to have a remit for the whole of tertiary education. Parry argues whether its features are the nature of expert panels.	Gareth Parry	19 November, 2019
Integrating and AugmentingTertiary Education Students' Experiences in Workplace Settings	Drawing upon three large studies in Australian higher education, this presentation sets out a case for the kinds of curriculum practices, as well as a range of pedagogic practices that can be enacted prior to, during and after students’ work placements.	Stephen Billett	12 November, 2019
Artificial Intelligence and Social Relations in Schools: Who are the 'Digital winners'?	This lecture explores the different types of artificial intelligence systems in common use in education, before relating this to the covert use of algorithms in influencing educational journeys.	Sandra Leaton-Gray	12 November, 2019
When Global Players Struggle: The Political and Material Aspects of International Organisations’ Cooperation in Higher Education	University of Lyon 2's Dorota Dakowska on re-examining the transnational circulation of policy schemes relative to Higher Education governance	Dorota Dakowska	5 November, 2019
Re and De-contextualizing global citizenship education – systematic analysis of the scholarship in the field	With the rising interest in GCE, understanding the current research landscape could be useful for policy-makers, educators and scholars who seek to build upon the existing body of knowledge and develop it in new directions.	Miri Yemini	4 November, 2019
Poverty Matters: Family income, parenting and child outcomes	Naomi Eisenstadt presents evidence that low income itself reduces the chances of good outcomes for children and causes stress in families which exacerbates the risk.	Naomi Eisenstadt	28 October, 2019
Us and them? Analysing the inclusion of foreign-born academics in British academia	Abertay University's Toma Pustelnikovaite on the nuances underlying the influx of migrant academics into the UK.	Toma Pustelnikovaite	25 October, 2019
Using Formative Assessment to Catalyse Self-Regulated Learning	This 2019 Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment lecture is delivered by Professor Nancy Perry.	Nancy Perry	17 July, 2019
What are Teachers' Professional Competencies?	This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice.	Auli Toom	19 June, 2019
Building Research Capacity in Teacher Education	Seminar 8 of 8 on teacher education reforms. Alis unpacks the notion of 'capacity' through a historiography of initiatives and a review of attempts at conceptual development.	Alis Oancea	19 June, 2019
The Connections and Disconnections in Teacher Education Policy, Research and Practice Future Research Directions	This seminar examines the alignments and tensions between teacher education research, policy and practice. This is the sixth seminar in a series of eight public seminars on 'Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy'.	Diane Mayer	3 June, 2019
OES Annual Lecture: The Quest for Better Teaching	This lecture explores why efforts to improve teaching too often fail and outlines new research on pedagogy and teacher development, which has been achieving promising signs of real change.	Jenny Gore (Visiting Professor, Department of Education)	29 May, 2019
Comparative teacher education research: Global perspectives in teacher education past, present and future	Seminar five of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy".	Maria Teresa Tatto	22 May, 2019
Making Change Happen - The Reform of Initial Teacher Education in Wales	This public seminar series considers teacher education reforms around the world in order to tease out future directions and possibilities for the relationships between teacher education policy, research and practice.	John Furlong	13 May, 2019
Classroom-based Interventions Across Subject Areas: Research to Understand What Works in Education	Seminar two of eight in series "Future directions in teacher education research, practice and policy". This seminar is based on a recent book, which aims to help researchers and practitioners understand how and why interventions can be successful or not.	Gabriel Stylianides, Ian Thompson, Katharine Burn, Nicholas Andrews, Alexandra Haydon, Ann Childs, Trevor Mutton	7 May, 2019
Student Access to Colleges at the University of Oxford	Seminar led by a panel of heads of colleges and senior tutors to discuss Oxford's student selection process	Ivor Crewe, Helen King, Alan Rusbridger, Maggie Snowling, Simon Smith, Mark Wormald, Lucas Bertholdi-Saad	7 March, 2019
Promoting fairer access to higher education: the necessity of contextualised admissions	The ethical case for reducing entry requirements for disadvantaged learners	Vikki Boliver, Andrew Bell, Peter Thonemann, Neil Harrison	5 March, 2019
Rethinking Teacher Education - The Problem with Accountability	Professor Marilyn Cochran-Smith argues why we need to “reclaim” teacher education accountability for the profession and in support of the larger democratic project.	Marilyn Cochran-Smith	26 February, 2019
Access and Participation at Postgraduate level: research findings and their implications for policy and practice	This seminar will review the evidence on access to postgraduate study, identify what this might mean for funders, universities and their communities, and outline outstanding gaps in our knowledge.	Paul Wakeling, Mike Bonsall, Nick Brown, Paul Martin	13 February, 2019
Access and Participation in English HE: A Fair and Equal Opportunity for All?	The seminar will identify how universities and government have sought to make progress in this area during the last two decades and the patterns of participation arising from this.	Simon Marginson, Chris Millward, Martin Williams	11 February, 2019
A Rational Approach to Evidence-Based Decision Making in Education Policy	If education policy-making is based strictly on rigorous evidence there is a risk of bias towards simple, discrete, measurable interventions. We present a framework for considering inconclusive evidence.	Matthew Jukes	1 February, 2019
Teachers' professional development on summative assessment of practical science: perspectives from Project Calibrate	This seminar will focus on the teacher education aspect of the project. It will outline the approaches being implemented to develop the teachers' knowledge and understanding to implement strategies to teach and assess practical science.	Sibel Erduran, Ann Childs, Alison Cullinane	28 January, 2019
Admissions Testing Preparation Effects	This seminar is the first of a five-part seminar series on 'Student Access to University'. This seminar discusses the relationships between student characteristics and test performances with Oxford University admissions tests data.	Jo-Anne Baird, Karen O'Brien, Samina Khan, Rebecca Surender	15 January, 2019
Equity and quality of educationL Paradoxes from Hong Kong and Singapore	An exploration of equity and quality of education in Hong Kong and Singapore.	Maria Manzon	3 December, 2018
The Age-Eclipsing Effects of Environment and Input on L2 Attainment in Instructional Contexts	This seminar explores some myths about L2 attainment in instructional contexts, drawing on evidence from a five-year longitudinal study conducted in Switzerland and carried out by the speakers themselves.	Simone E Pfenninger, David Singleton	20 November, 2018
Causal models of developmental disorders	In studies in psychology and education it is essential to think clearly about causal mechanisms. In this seminar Professor Hulme will outline the use of path diagrams as tools for representing, reasoning about, and testing causal models.	Charles Hulme	7 November, 2018
What is the future for subject-based education research?	This seminar will provide an assessment of the development of research in subject-based education, and of its future prospects. Using geography education as an exemplar, it will offer a challenging critique of this field of research.	Graham Butt	23 October, 2018
Evidence-Informed Inspection? Research at Ofsted	A look at the role of research in developing the work of Ofsted as 'an intelligent inspectorate'.	Daniel Muijs	22 October, 2018
Exploring Needs, Costs and Outcomes of Services Provided to Vulnerable Children and their Families	This seminar will explore the relationship between the needs, services received and outcomes for children and families supported by children’s social care (CSC) services.	Lisa Holmes	15 May, 2018
Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case of the Intercultural Universities in Mexico	This seminar will present findings of an exploratory study of the Intercultural University of Veracruz, one of a number of institutions created in Mexico to ensure access for indigenous populations, promote local development and to provide...	Tristan McCowan	15 May, 2018
The Untapped Potential of 'Work' for Looked After Young People – Challenges and Opportunities	The seminar will explore the transformative potential of 'work' (ranging from paid employment to internships to volunteering) for marginalised young people.	Robbie Gilligan	30 April, 2018
A study of children starting school and the progress they make in their first year around the world: The iPIPS project	Professor Peter Tymms (Durham University) delivers a seminar on the iPIPS project; an international study of children starting school around the world and the progress that they make in their first year at school.	Peter Tymms	27 March, 2018
A Founding Editors Perspective	Professor Patricia Broadfoot, Emeritus Professor of Education, gives a presentation for the OUCEA conference.	Patricia Broadfoot	19 March, 2018
Future Direction	Therese N. Hopfenbeck gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box.	Therese N. Hopfenbeck	13 March, 2018
Assessment and learning theories	Jo-Anne Baird gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box.	Jo-Anne Baird	13 March, 2018
Formative assessment: where do we go from here?	Ernesto Panadero gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box	Ernesto Panadero	13 March, 2018
Assessment in Education's knowledge contribution to Formative Assessment	Gordon Stobart gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box.	Gordon Stobart	13 March, 2018
Comments from previous editors' presentations	Mary James gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box	Mary James	13 March, 2018
Formative assessment: Confusions, clarifications, and prospects for consensus	Dylan Wiliam gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box	Dylan Wiliam	13 March, 2018
An author's appreciation	Paul Black gives a talk for the Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box.	Paul Black	13 March, 2018
Welcome to the conference	Therese N. Hopfenbeck opens the conference; Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy and Practice 25th Anniversary conference. Assessment for Learning 20 years after The Black Box.	Therese N Hopfenbeck	13 March, 2018
Social Pedagogy in the UK today: where are we up to and where are we going?	Professor Claire Cameron from UCL Institute of Education gives a talk hosted by the Rees Centre for Fostering and Education	Claire Cameron	16 February, 2018
System coherence and cohesion in English further education provision - glass half empty, or glass half full (and what's in the glass)?	Professor Ewart Keep, Director of SKOPE Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series	Ewart Keep	13 February, 2018
The development of quantitative reasoning	Emeritus Professor Terezinha Nunes, Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Subject Pedagogy Research Group	Terezinha Nunes	5 February, 2018
Measurement with no standards: reflections of an unconventional psychometrician	Dr Joshua McGrane, Department of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment	Joshua McGrane	5 February, 2018
Literacy and foundation learning in multilingual India	Dr Sonali Nag, Oxford Departmant of Education, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the department's Families, Effecrive Learning and Literacy Research Group	Dr Sonali Nag	25 January, 2018
Stability and change in developmental language disorders	Professor Professor Courtenay Norbury, University College London, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by the Department of Education's Applied Linguistics Research Group.	Courtenay Norbury	11 December, 2017
Mediatising religious education: BBC radio and television for children and schools, c.1920s-1970s	Professor Stephen G Parker, University of Worcester, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by Department of Education's Philosophy, Religion and Education Forum.	Stephen Parker	11 December, 2017
If 'The Youth of the Country are the Trustees of Posterity' (Benjamin Disraeli, 1845), do we need to do more to support young people who are NEET in the UK?	Sue Maguire is Honorary Professor at the Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by SKOPE, Department of Education.	Sue Maguire	30 November, 2017
Learning with Conversational Agents that Launch Multiple Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Learning Resources	Professor Art Graesser, Psychology and the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, gives a talk for the public seminar series hosted by OUCEA, Department of Education.	Art Graesser	30 November, 2017
English Medium Instruction Research: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?	Ernesto Macaro, Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Ernesto Macaro	14 November, 2017
Long term outcomes of former child migrants in care in Australia. "Uprooted from everything that attaches you".	Professor Elizabeth Fernandez, University of New South Wales Sydney, gives a public seminar hosted by the Rees Centre, Department of Education	Elizabeth Fernandez	1 November, 2017
Recent Developments in Reading Assessment in the USA National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): An Analysis of Conceptual, Digital, Psychometric, and Policy Trends	OUCEA Annual Lecture, 25th May 2017, Ashmolean Museum	David Pearson, Maggie Snowling	3 August, 2017
Lexical diversity and coverage in tertiary-level STEM: a corpus-based comparison of English-medium lectures in Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts	Jessica Briggs, Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the EMI conference.	Jessica Briggs	5 July, 2017
Language and disciplinary learning combined: CLIL challenging conceptions of language skills	Tarja Nikula, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyvåskylå, gives a talk for the EMI conference.	Tarja Nikula	5 July, 2017
Systematic review of English Medium Instruction	Ernesto Macaro (with Samantha Seiter, Jiangshan An, Jack Pun, Julie Dearden), Centre for Research and Development in English Medium Instruction, University of Oxford, gives a talk for the EMI Symposium.	Ernesto Macaro	5 July, 2017
Building Optimal Predictive Models with Large Scale Assessment Data	Professor David Kaplan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research Seminar series.	David Kaplan	14 June, 2017
What can we learn from PISA (2015)?- Design, innovations, challenges and limitations	Professor Eckhard Klieme (German Institute for International Educational Research, DIPF) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research seminar series.	Eckhard Klieme	14 June, 2017
A synthesis of studies using PISA data – Implications for research, policy and practice	Professor Leonidas Kyriakides (University of Cyprus) gives a talk for the Department of Education Research Seminar Series.	Leonidas Kyriakides	13 June, 2017
Assessing practical work in science	Neil Wade Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) and Stella Paes Formerly AQA, give a seminar for the Department of Education seminar series.	Stella Paes, Neil Wade	13 June, 2017
Education, inequality and institutions	This seminar will present recent research on the relationship between economic inequality and educational achievement as measured by large scale assessments.	Robin Shields	6 June, 2017
Bright Spots Project: The subjective well being of looked after children and survey development	Professor Julie Selwyn, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the Education Department public seminar series.	Julie Selwyn	16 May, 2017
Standards in national examinations: What do they mean?	Jo Anne Baird, Director of Department of Education, University of Oxford and Dennis Opposs, Ofqual, give a seminar for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Jo Anne Baird, Dennis Opposs	9 May, 2017
From Financial Literacy to Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing: More than a semantic change	Professor Elaine Kempson, University of Bristol, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series on 24th April 2017.	Elaine Kempson	26 April, 2017
Learning French in the primary school classroom: The origins of morphosyntax	Professor Florence Myles, University of Essex, gives a talk for the Education department seminar series.	Florence Myles	7 March, 2017
Education and the new Conservatism: Social wellbeing, national character and British values	Professor Gary McCulloch, UCL Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Education Public seminar series on 27th February 2017.	Gary McCulloch	28 February, 2017
The long term implications of devolution and localism for FE in England	This lecture explores findings from a SKOPE research project (funded by the FE Trust for Leadership) on the implications of the devolution from central government to localities of certain aspects of post-19 further and adult education.	Ewart Keep	10 February, 2017
Imagining a future after schooling	Young people navigating uncertainty in contemporary Britain.	Graham Butt, Patrick Alexander	31 January, 2017
Stuck! Britain’s social mobility problem	The Sutton Trust’s Chief Executive, Dr Lee Elliot Major, will argue that Britain has failed to address its problem of low social mobility, drawing on a range of international evidence.	Lee Elliot Major	24 January, 2017
Socioeconomic inequalities in education achievement and student outcomes	Anna Vignoles, Professor of Education and Director of Research at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series.	Anna Vignoles	17 January, 2017
What are universities for?	Keri Facer, Professor of Educational and Social Futures at the University of Bristol, gives the 6th Annual Lecture of the Oxford Education Society, the alumni and friends association of the Department of Education.	Keri Facer	16 January, 2017
Schools as workplaces: What makes a school a good place to work?	Professor Jane Bryson, Victoria University of Wellington, gives a talk for the department of education public seminar series.	Jane Bryson	2 December, 2016
5 years of the EEF Findings, challenges and future priorities	Matthew van Poortvliet, Grants Manager, Education Endowment Foundation, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar on 21st November 2016.	Matthew van Poortvliet	22 November, 2016
What do undergraduate students really think about money?	With Dr Neil Harrison University of the West of England. This seminar will synthesise the findings of four recent research projects focused on contemporary students’ opinions and behaviours around money.	Neil Harrison	15 November, 2016
Religion and belief in Britain: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life	Dr Edward Kessler, University of Cambridge, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 7th November 2016.	Edward Kessler	8 November, 2016
Does market competition and/or the growth of participation foster diversity in higher education systems?	Professor Simon Marginson, ULC Institute of Education, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series.	Simon Marginson	1 November, 2016
Education in divided societies: The role of school collaboration	Professor Tony Gallagher, University of Belfast, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 24th October 2016.	Tony Gallagher	31 October, 2016
Making use of international large- scale assessment data in national contexts: PIRLS for Teachers	Dr Therese N Hopfenbeck, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series on 17th October 2016. Co-written with Dr Jenny Lenkeit	Jenny Lenkeit, Therese N Hopfenbeck	31 October, 2016
What Can We Learn from students' reports of their secondary school experiences and their role in shaping academic outcomes at GCSE?	This lecture discusses the development of various measures of students experiences and views of their secondary schools based on self report questionnaires taken at ages 14 & 16.	Pamela Sammons	2 June, 2016
Measuring and developing second language fluency	Professor Judit Kormos, Lancaster University, gives a talk for the Department of Education seminar series.	Judit Kormos	2 June, 2016
Promoting quality in education: A dynamic approach to school improvement	Professor Leonidas Kyriakides, Department of Education, University of Cyprus, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Leonidas Kyriakides	9 March, 2016
Closing the Gap: Issues, challenges and impact of the implementation of a national experiment in educational research	Dr Ann Childs, Dr Nigel Fancourt, Dr Roger Firth, Professor Ian Menter and Dr Ian Thompson, Department of Education, Oxford, give a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar series.	Ann Childs, Nigel Fancourt, Roger Firth, Ian Menter, Ian Thompson	4 March, 2016
The sociolinguistic and pedagogic implications of the spread of English as global language	Dr Heath Rose, Department of Education, Oxford, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Heath Rose	26 February, 2016
Silence in Japan’s second language classrooms The dynamic interplay between context and learners	Dr Jim King, University of Leicester, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public seminar series on 15th February 2016.	Jim King	18 February, 2016
Social and emotional early development: A programme to develop children’s social skills and help prevent bullying	Daniel Muijs, Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Daniel Muijs	9 February, 2016
Reimagining liberal education: Affiliation and inquiry in democratic schooling	Professor Hanan Alexander, Haifa University, gives a talk for the Department of Education Public Seminar Series.	Hanan Alexander	3 February, 2016
Clever Classrooms: Evidence for the impacts of classroom design on learning	Professor Peter Barrett, University of Salford, gies a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series on 25th January 2016.	Peter Barrett	27 January, 2016
Research into the links between language teacher development and working with children as co- researchers	Dr Annamaria Pinter, Warwick University, gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series.	Annamaria Pinter	21 January, 2016
The educational progress of looked after children in England: linking care and educational data	Professor David Berridge University of Bristol, Professor Judy Sebba, Dr Nikki Luke and Professor Steve Strand, Department of Education give a talk for the Education Seminar Series. The respondent is Ms Emma Ing, Senior HMI Ofsted.	David Berridge, Judy Sebba, Nikki Luke, Steve Srand, Emma Ing	3 December, 2015

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