Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PQ, DMB, Room GS5


2011-01-11 12:30: An open Lunchtime Seminar led by teachers who have been awarded Steve Sinnott Fellowships (Chaired by John Bangs)

2013-06-26 16:00: Balanced Development & Inspection for Compulsory Education in China (Dr Xiangrong Wu, associate professor of the Research Centre for Educational Inspection and Evaluation of National Institute for Educational Sciences attached to the Chinese Ministry of Education)

2013-10-24 16:30: Evaluating music creativity through an assessment rubric (Diana Blom, Ian Stevenson and John Encarnacao)

2014-03-05 10:00: Video Interviews:  How to make them memorable  for the right reasons (Rosemary Hill)

2014-04-29 12:00: Why I am Not a Positivist:  Interpretive, Critical and Hermeneutic Adventures in the Administrative Human Condition (Dr. Eugenie A. Samier, British University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

2014-05-09 13:00: PISA Tests: How useful are they for comparative work? (Professor Anna Vignoles, University of Cambridge; Professor John Micklewright, Institute of Education; Dr Tom Benton, Cambridge Assessment; Dr Tim Oates, Cambridge Assessment)

2014-05-13 17:00: RS Peters Memorial Lecture Series - Unsettling knowledge: irony and education  (Professor Richard Smith, University of Durham)

2014-05-28 17:00: Faction and Blood: Silencing the 'Inner' City in Veronica Roth's Divergent (Susan Tan)

2014-09-18 16:30: Toms, Tom Boys, Girls and Tom Tom  (Mindy Abovitz)

2014-10-06 17:00: Live Coding Musicians inaugural seminar (Shelly Knotts)

2014-12-04 17:15: Researching the school environment:  Children and school architecture in Denmark 1814-2014 (Professor Ning de Coninck-Smith, Aarhus University)

2015-01-20 16:30: NOISE SOLUTION - Improving life chances through Dubstep? Prove it! (Simon Glenister, Director, Noise Solution)

2015-01-27 16:30: Using arts and creativity to generate engagement in a PRU, integrating technology and cross curricular opportunities (Dr Mike Challis)

2015-02-11 17:00: Webinar for Professional Development Series 9: Music Performance Anxiety and Musical  Improvisation: How Worldview and  Mental Well-Being Influence Music Making (Dr Tawnya D. Smith, University of Illinois)

2015-02-12 17:00: Maths, Arts and Games for Digital Natives: Paradox Structures, Impossible Forms and Visual Illusions in Experience-Centered Mathematics Education (Dr Kristóf Fenyvesi,  University of Jyväskylä)

2015-03-03 16:30: What am I?  The identity of an intercultural arts performer-researcher in the field (Cassandre Balosso-Bardin)

2015-03-11 17:00: From unlimited to situated: A reappraisal of children’s ‘potential’ (Dr Rupert Higham, Faculty of Education; Dr Clementine Beauvais, Homerton College)

2015-04-20 16:30: Music education technology in/for the digital era: implications for teacher  training and research  (Professor Lauri Väkevä, University of the Arts, Helsinki)

2015-05-05 13:00: Lunchtime Seminar with CAPREX fellows from Makerere University, Uganda (Dr Harriet Nabushawo and Dr Henry Busulwa, Makerere University, Uganda)

2015-05-12 16:30: The Art of Desistance: what we know and what we don’t yet know about links between the arts and criminal justice (Profs. Sarah Colvin and Loraine Gelsthorpe,  University of Cambridge)

2015-06-02 17:00: PLACE and Children's Literature Centre Book Launch (Professor Maria Nikolajeva)

2015-10-15 17:00: Mothering for Schooling in the Mid Twentieth Century Australian Women’s Weekly (Dr Helen Proctor, University of Sydney)

2015-10-27 17:00: The Stranger Within Me (Aidan Chambers)

2015-11-13 12:30: Education Policy Series: Over-qualification and skills mismatch in the graduate labour market (Professor Ken Mayhew and Dr Craig Holmes, University of Oxford)

2016-02-10 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Music Therapy in Education (Dr Patricia Leonor Sabbatella Riccardi, University of Cadiz)

2016-02-24 17:00: Webinars for Professional Development in the Arts Series 11: Action-research on collaborative composition (Dr Gabriel Rusinek, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

2016-04-25 12:00: Does the use of a proficiency-based assessment and reassessment of learning outcomes (PARLO) system lead to increases in high school students’ achievement in, engagement in, and attitude towards mathematics? (Professor Michael Posner,  Villanova University)

2016-06-15 16:00: Art in Mind: Evaluating the impact of participatory arts  on improved mental wellbeing (Emily Bradfield)

2016-09-27 12:30: Weapons of Math Destruction (Dr Cathy O'Neil)

2016-10-28 10:00: Advancing Creativities Research: Making Connections across Diverse Settings (BERA Special Interest Group: Creativity In Education)

2016-12-01 17:00: Memory, Miniaturization, and the Transformative Energy of Fairy Tales (Professor Maria Tatar, The John L. Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature, Harvard University.  )

2017-03-10 10:00: Children as Observational Filmmakers Childhood and Modernity: Indian Children’s Perspectives (Professor David MacDougall, Australian National University)

2017-06-08 16:00: Mastering the time in music performance (and elsewhere): Reconnecting with the past, feeling the future and enjoying the present  (Dr László Stachó, Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest & Faculty of Music, University of Szeged)

2017-06-20 17:00: Characters in Comics: Some Medium-Specific Qualities (Dr Kai Mikkonen (University of  Helsinki))

2017-07-15 14:00: Children in Distress: past precedents and current experience (Sir Tim Brighouse, Dr Carl Emery (University of Manchester), Dr Carrie Herbert MBE (Red Balloon Learner Centre Group), Caroline Peet (Queens’ Federation) and Alison Roy (Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist))

2017-09-08 10:00: An Exchange about Doctoral Study and Didactic Research (Johan Ohman and the Graduate School, Orebro University)