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Events

Wed
10
Dec

Technology in education and research: friend or foe?

Beth Bell, Zoe Handley, and Reva Yunus on whether technology in education and research is a friend or foe.

Wed
25
Feb

PhD employment patterns across countries

Sally Hancock will be looking at PhD employment patterns across countries

Wed
29
Apr

Do words hurt? The power of language in education

Dusana Dorjee, Nathalie Noret, David O'Reilly, and Vanita Sundaram will discuss the power of language in education

Recent events

Working Lives of Minoritised Professionals

Saturday 1 November 2025

An in-person research exhibit that features the stories of lived experiences of inclusion and exclusion of minoritised academics.

Vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education

Friday 19 September 2025

Danijela Trenkic speaks on how vocabulary knowledge is key to understanding and addressing disparities in higher education

The Ergative Approach: Assessment as a creative knowledge-building dialogue

Friday 20 June 2025

Department of Education have invited Andrew Whitworth to speak at their teaching away day

Professors Lanvers and Toseeb Inaugural Lectures

Wednesday 4 June 2025

The Department of Education is delighted to host the inaugural lectures of Professor Ursula Lanvers and Professor Umar Toseeb

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.