Events

Can ChatGPT do public sociology? Public scholarship, AI and platform capitalism with Mark Carrigan

Wednesday 23 April 2025

The Centre for Research in Education and Social Justice is delighted to host Mark Carrigan (University of Manchester) for a talk about his most recent book, Generative AI for Academics. This talk draws on Mark's research into how academics use social media and generative AI, arguing that conversational agents can support public scholarship in concrete and practical ways.

Learning for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Introducing an integrative neurodevelopmental framework for school mental health and wellbeing curricula

Wednesday 27 November 2024

In this talk Dr Dusana Dorjee will present an innovative approach to formulating mental health and wellbeing (MHW) curricula based on a new neurodevelopmental theory of child and adolescent MHW.

Cues, prototypes, and exemplars: towards efficient learning strategies

Wednesday 23 October 2024

In this talk Dr Laurence Romain will present some pedagogical recommendations for teaching linguistic structures (argument structure constructions) to second/foreign learners of English following principles of construction grammar and learning theory.

Game Changers II: human-computer interaction and climate action

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Lynda Dunlop will present the concept for a funding application to explore questions at the intersection of human and computer interaction, climate science and social movement theory with online publics.

How mothers’ speech influences children’s cognitive abilities, literacy skills, and educational achievement

Wednesday 29 May 2024

Anna Brown presents 'SES-related gaps in language ability -- are mothers really to blame?'