Archive - Bristol Conversations in Education 2022-23 series

June

14 June - Practitioner enquiry in early childhood: ensuring it is pragmatic and playful
Professor Kate Wall (University of Strathclyde)
06 June - The Virtual Reality Oracle: Adventures in Education
Professor Esther Eidinow, Dr Richard Cole, Dr Chris Bevan (University of Bristol)

May

31 May - The long shadow of coloniality: understanding inequality and language policy implementation in post-colonial schooling
Professor Carolyn McKinney (Professor of Language Education, University of Cape Town)
25 May - Working with the not-yet: speculative approaches to digital education futures
Dr Jen Ross (Senior Lecturer in Digital Education, University of Edinburgh)
09 May - Examining Contact Processes and Outcomes in Socially Divided Contexts
Professor Linda Tropp (Professor of Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
03 May - Practical theorising in teacher education: holding theory and practice together (in the face of the Market Review)
Katharine Burn, Trevor Mutton, Ian Thompson (Oxford University)

April

19 April - How Educational Systems Respond to Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Dr Navin Kikabhai (University of Bristol)
18 April - Modelling the impact of fully opening nurseries, schools and universities following the first COVID lockdown in the UK
Dr Ellen Brooks Pollock (Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modelling, Bristol Medical School (PHS))
12 April - Bilingual Education in Taiwan: from policy to practice
Professor Tzu-Bin Lin (National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU))
04 April - Contrasting policy responses to the relation between teaching and research
Professor Nicola Dandridge (Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy, University of Bristol)

March

14 March - A reflection on higher education research
Professor Jeroen Huisman (Ghent University)

January

31 January - Educating for Change: Adopting an Impact Mindset in Research Practice
Professor Lisa Given (RMIT University)
25 January - Education in the British Overseas Territories: Policy and Practice
Richard Georges (President of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, British Virgin Islands), Marie Horton (Director of Education in the Falkland Islands Government), Jade Repetto (Tristan da Cunha)
17 January - Decolonising and Diversifying the Biomedical Sciences Curricula
Tianqi Lu (University of Bath), Alice Robson (University of Bristol), Amy Mosley (University of Bristol), & Bronwen R. Burton (University of Bristol)

December

08 December - Ibali: exploring stories of educational inclusion/exclusion and the “story of the stories”
Dr. Jennifer Agbaire (The Open University), Dr. Alison Buckler (The Open University) and Dr. Katherine Collins (University of Oxford)
07 December - Reclaiming the university narrative: new stories for an old sector?
Professor Steven Jones (Manchester Institute of Education)
06 December - The Commonwealth, Climate and Energy Policy: Where do we stand after COP27?
Dr Nicholas Watts (University of London)

November

23 November - Affective Literacies: Reconceptualizing the Text through Duoethnography
Anwar Ahmed (University of British Columbia) and Brian Morgan (Glendon College/York University)

October

18 October - The Great Grading Scandal
Dennis Sherwood (Independent Consultant and author of the 2022 book "Missing the Mark: Why so many exam grades are wrong, and how to get results we can trust")

September

27 September - University organisational capabilities and the crisis management response to the global pandemic
Tatiana Fumasoli (UCL Institute of Education)
19 September - CANCELLED - Education as and for justice: Preliminary findings from the JustEd study
Dr Expedito Nuwategeka (Gulu University, Uganda), Maria Fernanda Rodriguez (GRADE, Peru), Mohan Paudel (Tribhuvan University, Nepal) and Ashik Singh (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
12 September - White ignorance in the education in emergencies sector
Francine Menashy (OISE, University of Toronto)