Archive - Bristol Conversations in Education 2024-25 series

April

2nd April - Learning through Collective Memory Work: Troubling Testimonio in Post-war Peru

  • Dr Goya Wilson Vasquez (University of Bristol)

March

5th March - From research impact to commercialisation: the who, what & how of making your research impactful and sustainable

  • Dr Frances Giampapa, Robin Halpenny (University of Bristol) and Sally Good (Evidence to Impact)

5th March - Causes and Consequences of Inequalities in Children’s Executive Functions

  • Dr Emma Blakey (Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield) 

February

18th February - Impacted Or Impactful? The Research Impact Agenda as A Project in Cultural Transition

  • Dr Justyna Bandola-Gill (Assistant Professor in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Birmingham)

5th February - TLC Book Launch: "Creative Practice in Higher Education"

  • Dr Simon Brownhill (editor) and contributing authors (various) 

January

29th January - Academic freedom and the shifting geopolitics of higher education and research

  • Dr Katja Brøgger (Associate Professor, Aarhus University)

22nd January - Teaching and learning about neurodiversity in schools: Addressing contributors to poor educational experiences for neurodivergent children

  • Dr Alyssa Alcorn (Lecturer, School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol)

8th January - Climate Justice and the University: Shaping a Hopeful Future for All

  • Jennie C. Stephens (Professor of Climate Justice, ICARUS Climate Research Centre, Maynooth University, Ireland)

November

27 November - Sandboxing: Qualitative Interviewing with Sand, Objects, and Figures

  • Professor Dawn Mannay (Cardiff University)
  • Dr Vicky Timperley (Cardiff University)

19 November - Researching academic working life: outside-the-box perspectives on academic professionalism, professional development & leadership

  • Professor Linda Evans (Deputy Head of the School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester)

13 November - Teacher education and marginalized communities: using photovoice

  • Dr Sigal Rotem (Assistant Professor, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University)

06 November - Intimate Scholarship: Being, Knowing, and Ethics

  • Prof Signe Kastberg (Professor and Mary Endres Chair in Elementary Education, Bristol Benjamin Meaker Distinguished Visiting Professor)

06 November - Overcoming the barriers to inclusive education in Papua New Guinea

  • Guy Le Fanu (Honorary Research Fellow, School of Education, University of Bristol)
  • Mevelyn Kawane (Lecturer in Special and Inclusive Education, Balob Teachers’ College, Papua New Guinea)
  • Siân Tesni (Independent Consultant)