Archive - Bristol Conversations in Education 2025-26 series

July

Monday 13th July, Hybrid - Using Multilevel Models for Intersectional Inequities Research (MAIHDA)

  • Dr. Clare R. Evans (Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, University of Oregon (USA))

June

Wednesday 3rd June, Hybrid - ‘Education For All’ on a small island in the Global North in the 19th Century

  • Angela W Little (Professor Emerita, UCL Institute of Education)

Tuesday 2nd June, In-person - Critical Media Praxis in the Playground: Participatory Filmmaking as a Site for Ideological Resistance

  • Nick Gray (Bournemouth University)

May

Tuesday 12th May, In-person - School Psychology in Australia: Practice, Policy and Future Directions

  • Betty Li (School Psychologist, NSW Department of Education)

April

Wednesday 29th April, Hybrid - Can 4-year-olds’ language learning be driven by prediction errors?

  • Dr Ed Donnellan (University of Warwick)

Tuesday 21st April, Hybrid - International research collaboration in turbulent times - research security initiatives in Europe and their implications

  • Prof Kieron Flanagan (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, The University of Manchester)

March

Wednesday 11th March, Online - Refusing “Sustainable Development”: A Relational, Decolonial Approach to Curriculum-Making with the Ju/’hoansi of Nhoma, Namibia

  • 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)