29 November 2010
Dr Cattermole (Graduate School of Education) has been awarded a prize for the exceptional quality of his Doctoral thesis which explored the teaching and learning of school physics.
9 November 2010
On Monday 25th October, preliminary findings from Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned research on educational policies and priorities in Commonwealth Small States were shared at a dissemination conference.
18 October 2010
Learning from competitors is a critically important form of learning for animals and humans. A new study has used brain imaging to reveal how people and animals learn from failure and success.
13 October 2010
On Monday 25th October, preliminary findings from UNESCO commissioned research on education in small states will be shared during an International and Comparative Studies Centre (ICS) day conference at the Graduate School of Education.
16 September 2010
Around seventy friends and colleagues attended a memorial for Jon Rasbash on Friday 10th September 2010. Eleven speakers shared personal memories of Jon's enormous character and his devotion to people and to his work.
19 July 2010
The Graduate School of Education (GSoE), University of Bristol, has won prestigious Leverhulme Trust funding of over £90,000 for a research project entitled ‘Identifying and exploring links between economic activity and maths learning’.
16 July 2010
Professor Sally Thomas, Dr Wen-Jung Peng and Dr Guoxing Yu at the Graduate School of Education are embarking on a collaborative ESRC-funded project on Improving Teacher Development and Quality in China (ITDEQC).
22 June 2010
Professor Fiona Steele, in the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (CMM) at the Graduate School, will begin a new 3-year ESRC project in October that aims to advance longitudinal research on housing, working with Dr Michele Haynes (University of Queensland), Professor John Ermisch (University of Essex), Dr Paul Clarke (CMPO, Bristol) and Dr Hill Kulu (University of Liverpool).
21 June 2010
Evgenia Partasi, has been awarded a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and expertise on cultural diversity in primary education with leading academics at the College of Education (CoE), University of Washington, through a six week visit beginning Autumn 2010, thanks to a Research Mobility Programme Award funded by the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN).
17 June 2010
Dr George Leckie visited the US and Canada in May and June 2010 to disseminate his research as part of the Centre for Multilevel Modelling's Structures for Building, Learning, Applying and Computing Statistical Models (LEMMA) grant funded by the ESRC.
