Archive - Bristol Conversations in Education 2025-26 series

March

Wednesday 11th March, Online - Refusing “Sustainable Development”: A Relational, Decolonial Approach to Curriculum-Making with the Ju/’hoansi of Nhoma, NamibiaAnti-Ableism in Primary Education through Imagination and Play

  • Kate Matzopoulos (Doctoral Researcher, University of Bath, UK)

February

Wednesday 11th February, In-person - The complexities and dynamics of pragmatics of sharing on social media

  • Professor Wei Ren (Applied Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Beihang University)

Friday 6th February, Hybrid seminar - Anti-Ableism in Primary Education through Imagination and Play

  • Dr. Sian E. Jones (Chartered Psychologist and Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
  • Dr. Clare Uytman (Qualitative researcher and Senior Lecturer, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)

[Postponed] - Resisting Scholasticide: Gaza Education Research Virtual Fellowship

  • Dr Nazmi Al-Masri (Islamic University of Gaza) 
  • Dr Ahmed Kamal Junina (Al Aqsa University) 
  • Dr Munawwar Najim (Islamic University of Gaza) 
  • Prof Magdy S. Aqel (Islamic University of Gaza)

January 2026

Tuesday 27nd January, In-person seminar - Reparative learning in English secondary classrooms in Nepal and Uganda

  • Balram Adhikari (Tribhuvan University, Nepal)
  • Bebwa Isingoma (University of Bergen, Norway)
  • Lizzi O. Milligan (University of Bath)
  • Mir Abdullah Miri (University of Bath)

Thursday 22nd January, Hybrid seminar - Muslim Identity and Muslimness Nurtured through Nonformal and Informal Education in Tanzania

  • Nozomi Sakata (Associate Professor, Hiroshima University)

December 2025

Wednesday 3rd December, In-person Seminar - Book Launch for "Brexit, EU Students and UK higher education: Broken bridges"

  • Vassiliki Papatsiba (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
  • Simon Marginson (School of Education, University of Bristol)

October

Thursday 8th October, In-person Workshop - Two CMM-hosted Quantitative Research Methods Workshops Using R

  • Dr Matthew Courtney (Psychometrician, Director of Institutional Research & Analysis, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)

September

Wednesday 17th September, Hybrid Seminar - Whether to Fight or Not — that is the question for University of California

  • John Aubrey Douglass (Senior Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday 9th September, In-person Seminar - The shifting landscape and pressing issues of Brazil's Higher Education system

  • Flavio Carvalhaes (Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)