Psychology & Education


2006-11-21 16:30: The Role of Language in Mathematical Development (Dr Chris Donlan, Department of Human Communication Science, University College London)

2007-02-06 16:30: Understanding selective attentional and perceptual abnormalities in autism (Dr Kate Plaisted, Laboratory for Research into Autism, University of Cambridge)

2007-02-27 16:30: Parietal mechanisms subserving the mental number line (Dr Ed Hubbard, INSERM Cognitive Neuroimaging Service, Orsay, France)

2007-05-22 16:30: Neural correlates of number magnitude processing in children & adults: evidence from fMRI (Dr Liane Kaufmann, Clinical Dept. of  General Paediatrics, Innsbruck Medical University)

2007-10-30 16:30: Specialisation in the Human Brain: The Case of Numbers (Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience & Dept of Psychology, University College London)

2007-11-13 16:30: Event Related Potentials and Maturation of Auditory Memory Function (Dr Oleg Korzyukov. MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge)

2008-02-05 16:30: Children's Tacit and Explicit Knowledge of Object Motion: The First Results (Christine Howe, Joana Taylor Tavares and Amy Devine)

2008-04-29 16:30: Adult influences on children's informal learning (Professor Andrew Tolmie, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education, London)

2008-05-13 16:30: Predicting relational and serious physical aggression: The influences of emotions and social cognitive styles in adolescence (Professors Marie S. Tisak & John Tisak, Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA)

2008-05-20 16:30: Children's intuitive physics in thought and action (Professor Friedrich Wilkening, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2008-06-03 16:30: Do undergraduates' motivations change as they progress through their degrees? (Dr Richard Remedios, School of Education, Durham University)

2008-11-04 16:30: Activity theory: methodological and analytical resources for researching learning for interprofessional work ( Professor Harry Daniels, University of Bath)

2008-11-11 16:30: Vygotsky & Piaget, as seen from Neuchatel today (Professor Anne-Nelly Perret-Clermont, University of Geneva)

2009-01-13 16:30: The hierarchical model of achievement motivation: Conceptual and applied issues (Andrew Elliot, Professor of Psychology, University of Rochester, USA)

2009-02-24 16:30: Games, learning and the brain's reward system (Dr Paul Howard-Jones, Co-ordinator, Centre for Psychology & Learning in Context, University of Bristol)

2009-04-28 16:30: Thinking Together in culturally diverse classrooms in the Netherlands (Ed Elbers, Professor of Communication, Cognition and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

2009-04-29 14:00: Applying Psychology in multiple learning contexts: the role of an Educational Psychologist (Frank Murphy, Senior Educational Psychologist, Cambridgeshire LA)

2009-05-19 16:30: What can neuroeducational research tell us about student motivation? (Sung-il Kim, Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Brain & Motivational Research Institute (bMRI), Korea University)

2009-06-09 16:30: Learnable Intelligence (Michael E. Martinez, Professor of Education, University of California, Irvine)

2009-09-28 16:30: Mediating Meaning Making: The rationale for dialogic inquiry (Professor Gordon Wells, Department of Education, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2009-11-03 16:00: Adolescence in Today's Society: The brain, cognition and social development (*Dr Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Royal Soc. University Research Fellow & Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience,  and  *Dr John Coleman, Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence & Senior Research Fellow, Department of Education, University of Oxford)

2009-11-17 16:30: Taking Executive Functions to School (Dr Michelle Ellefson, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-01-11 16:30: Becoming Symbol-Minded (Professor Judy DeLoache, University of Virginia)

2010-02-02 16:30: Specifying brain function involved in number processing. Insights from interindividual differences (Dr Anja K. Ischebeck, Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University Graz, Austria)

2010-03-09 16:30: CANCELLED EVENT: Social, educational and new media engagement in adolescents with a history of Specific Language Impairment (Professor Kevin Durkin, Department of Psychology, University of Strathclyde)

2010-05-10 10:00: EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium 2010: Motivation to Learn in Social Contexts (10th-14th May) (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-12 16:00: PNE Book Launch Event (Professor Christine Howe, Professor of Education, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-05-18 16:30: The cognitive underpinnings of different mathematical skills (Dr Fiona Simmons, School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University)

2010-06-01 16:30: The psychology of number: developmental, evolutionary and cognitive-neuroscientific considerations (Dr Claudia Uller, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2010-06-15 16:30: Psychometric versus Dynamic Assessment for identification of dual exceptional learners (Dr Anies Al-Hroub, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Special Education, American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon)

2010-09-28 16:45: Successful Educational Actions (SEA): guaranteeing educational success for all in Europe (Rocío Garcia Carrion (University of Barcelona))

2010-10-19 16:30: In what way is literacy ‘parasitic upon language’? The roles of speech and language in literacy development. (Dr Julia Carroll, University of Warwick)

2010-10-26 11:00: Festival of Ideas - Faculty of Education Event (Events run by: Dr Claudia Uller; Dr Michelle Ellefson; Amy Devine & Alison Nobes)

2010-11-09 16:30: Cognitive control and brain function in children and adolescents (Professor Eveline Crone, Leiden University)

2010-11-23 16:30: The Pedagogical Use of the Long Past of Science: Positivism, Historicism, and Beyond (Professor Lewis Pyenson, Western Michigan University)

2011-03-08 16:30: Reflections  on the concept and potentials  of Developmental Education (open talk) (Bert van Oers, Prof. Cultural-Historical Theory of Education, VU University Amsterdam)

2011-05-04 16:00: The social side of social attention (Giovanni Galfano, Associate Professor, Cognition and Language Lab, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Padova)

2011-06-15 16:30: Size, numbers and the numerical core system (Professor Avishai Henik, Dept. of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

2011-06-21 11:00: Word Recognition in alphabetic and non-alphabetic scripts (Brendan Weekes, University of Hong Kong*)

2011-10-25 16:30: Communication, Collaboration and Creativity: How Musicians Negotiate a Collective ‘Sound' (Professor Karen Littleton, The Open University)

2011-11-08 16:30: 'Dialogic Teaching-and-Learning': Educational Implications (Professor Sylvia Rojas-Drummond, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

2011-11-29 14:00: The interplay between non-symbolic number and its continuous visual properties. (Titita Gebuis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

2012-01-19 16:00: Book Launch: Developmental Psychology & Early Childhood Education (David Whitebread, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-07 16:30: Vital Communities: a longitudinal action research study aiming to measure the impacts of participating in the arts (Susan Potter, MEd, University of Cambridge)

2012-02-28 16:30: Examining developmental changes in the skills underlying reading development (Dr Laura Shapiro is Lecturer on the Psychology Teaching Programme, Aston University)

2012-05-01 16:30: Applying a sociocultural understanding to inclusive practice in education (Dr. Robert White is Senior Lecturer; Community, Health and Educational Studies Research Centre)

2012-05-14 17:00: Insights from memory research for maximising exam performance (Jon Simons Department of Experimental Psychology)

2012-06-12 16:30:  Exploring the potential of a multi-touch classroom to develop adaptive expertise in primary mathematics (Prof. Steve Higgins is Professor of Education at Durham University)

2012-06-12 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-19 16:30: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System ( Professor Robert Goldstone  Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences  Indiana University, Department of Psychological and Brain Science)

2012-06-21 11:00: Building the supramodal language brain (Professor Donald Shankweiler, Haskins Laboratories)

2012-11-20 16:30: Patterns in student learning and teacher learning: how do they relate? (Jan Vermunt Professor of Education, University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education)

2012-11-27 16:30: Individual differences in cognitive development  (Sara Baker )

2012-12-05 11:00: Synchronized Speaking: What speaking together can tell us about skilled action (Fred Cummins, School of Computer Science & Informatics, University College Dublin)

2013-01-22 16:30: Social and emotional learning: a critical appraisal (Neil Humphries  Professor of Psychology of Education University of Manchester)

2013-02-05 16:30: Children’s understanding of probability: an intervention study (Terezhina Nunes and Peter Bryant, Oxford University )

2013-03-05 16:30: Reading irregular words - the role of word knowledge (Janet Vousden)

2013-04-30 16:30: What is "theory of mind" and can it be measured? (Professor Ian Apperly, School of Psychology, Birmingham University)

2013-06-18 14:15: Children's construction play complexity and the building blocks of maths (Dr Miles Richardson, University of Derby)

2013-06-25 12:00: The Effects of Attention and Visual Input on the Representation of Natural Speech in EEG (Dr Ed Lalor, Trinity College Dublin )

2013-10-22 12:00: Learning of a Formation Principle for the Secondary Phonemic Function of a Syllabic Orthography (Claire Fletcher-Flinn, Associate Professor, University of Otago, NZ)

2013-11-21 15:00: The relation between non-symbolic and symbolic number processing (Prof. Bert Reynvoet, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven)

2014-01-14 16:30: Identifying key non-cognitive attributes of Initial Teacher Training candidates (Dr Robert Klassen York University)

2014-02-05 14:00: Reinventing Education (Anant Agarwal, President, edX,  Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT)

2014-02-24 16:30:  Do Teachers See Everything? How Experts and Novices Perceive Classroom Information  (Andreas Gegenfurtner)

2014-03-11 16:30: Everyday physics: New implications for psychological theory and educational practice (Professor Christine Howe, Fcaulty of Education, Cambridge University)

2014-03-18 16:30: Didactic Tutoring: a pedagogical proposal for Social Sciences and Humanities  curricula (Daniela Sideri)

2014-04-14 17:00: Children’s Views about Learning to Write (Dr. Nora Scheuer, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina)

2014-05-09 16:30: The integration of sensory cues across development (Professor Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology & Deputy Head of Department, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London	)

2014-05-23 14:00: Math anxiety:  who has it, why it develops, and how to guard against it (Sian Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology. The University of Chicago)

2014-05-27 16:30: 3D Thinking: Primary school children representing ideas and narratives within constructional and pretence play (Dr David Whitebread and Marisol Basilio)

2014-06-24 16:30: The Nature of Intellectual Styles: Challenges, Milestones and Research Agenda (Li-fang Zhang)

2014-11-18 16:30: Pre-schooler’s Verbal and Behavioural Responses as Indicators of Scientific Curiosity and Exploration Abilities (Ornit Spektor Levy Bar Ilan University Israel)

2015-01-20 16:30: Play, language and social cognition in children with language and communication impairments (Dr Jenny Gibson , Lecturer in Psychology & Education , University of Cambridge)

2015-02-10 16:30: To the letter: Children’s developing trust in the written word (Shiri Einav,  Lecturer  Faculty of Science , University of Nottingham)

2015-02-24 16:30: '6 Months' (John Oates, a Senior Lecturer in the Child and Youth Studies Group at the Open University, Visiting Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of St Mark and St John, Plymouth and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences)

2015-03-03 16:30: Studying the neural mechanisms of attention and memory in childhood (Dr Duncan Astle,Programme Leader Track, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Research Associate St. John’s College, Cambridge)

2015-03-05 16:30: Generating social transformation and impact through successful actions in education (Marta Soler is Director of CREA, Centre for Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, Ramon Flecha is Professor of Sociology at the University of Barcelona, and Doctor Honoris Causa from West University of Timişoara)

2015-03-10 16:30: 'Finding the maths': Empowering parents to support children's out-of-school mathematics learning" (Dr Tim Jay , Reader in Education,Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University. )

2015-03-24 16:30: Designing tools to facilitate teacher-led discussions in the digitalized school. (Dr Ingvill Rasmussen, Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Oslo)

2015-04-28 16:30: Teacher interventions in small group work in secondary mathematics and science lessons (Professor Neil Mercer & Dr Riikka Hofmann, University of Cambridge , Faculty of Education)

2015-05-12 16:30: Digital-Object Use in Developmental Disorders (Dr Will Farr & Dr Ian Male, Mid-Sussex Child Development Centre, Nightingale Primary Care Centre, Senior Lecturer/Research Fellow)

2015-06-09 16:30: Developing a toolkit for assessing children's spoken language skills in the classroom  (Paul Warwick and Ayesha Ahmed)

2015-06-16 16:30: Some Studies on Desirable Difficulties (Dr Danny Oppenheimer, Professor at UCLA with a joint appointment in the Anderson School of Management and the Department of Psychology)

2015-06-24 14:00: Lesson Study Seminar (Speakers to include a variety of UK and international speakers, Chaired by Professor Jan Vermunt, University of Cambridge )

2015-11-17 16:30: Metacognition in speech and language therapy for children with social communication disorders (Jacqueline Gaile, University of Manchester)

2016-02-23 16:30: UNDERSTANDING AND SUPPORTING INTEREST DEVELOPMENT WITHIN FORMAL EDUCATION (Dr Luke Fryer, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education)

2016-03-14 12:00: Latent Transition Profile Analysis: A person-centred model of Change (Dr Luke Fryer , Visiting Scholar, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-03 16:30:   The importance of testimony in children’s learning (Kathleen Corriveau)

2016-05-05 12:30: Associations and structure: How knowledge drives reasoning (Aiden Feeney Senior Lecturer School of Psychology Queen's University Boston)

2016-11-01 16:30: Dynamic literacies and agentive learners in static systems (Dr John Potter Department of Culture, Communication and Media University College London Knowledge Lab UCL Institute of Education)

2016-11-22 17:00: Conceptualising, Adapting and Measuring Young People’s Wellbeing in Secondary Schools in Kazakhstan (Dr. Ros McLellan Dr. Liz Winter &  Dr.Eva Brown Hajdukova,Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge,  Dr. Daniel Torrano, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University )

2017-03-07 16:30: Epistemic Cognition - conceptions of knowledge in action (Professor Kirsti Lonka, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland)

2017-05-09 16:30:  Argumentation for learning: What we know and what we need to know (Dr Christa Asterhan, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem  )

2017-05-11 16:30: Thinking about what might have been: the development of children's counterfactual thinking (Sarah Beck Reader in Cognitive Development, University of Birmingham)

2017-05-23 16:30: Modelling the impact of cognitive abilities on science learning (Professor Andy Tolmie, UCL Institute of Education)