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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.

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.