Archive - Bristol Conversations in Education 2023-24 series

2024

July

 

• 10 July - PGR workshop: Creating impact in policy and practice
  
• • Julia Dixon -Barrow (Entrepreneurship and Engagement Manager at ACH)
  • Dr Jill Court (Policy and Research Officer at ACH and Honorary Research Associate, University of Bristol)
  • Martin Preston (PhD Researcher, University of Bristol)

• 04 July - UNESCO Day at the School of Education

June

 

• 26 June - Book Launch for  "Higher Education in Small Islands: Challenging the Geographies of Centrality and Remoteness"
  
  • Rosie Alexander (University of the West of Scotland)
  • Holly Henderson (Fircroft College of Adult Education)
  • Agustian Sutrisno (Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta)
  • Sargam Goundar (University of Otago, New Zealand)
  • Kim Andreas Kessler (University of Otago, New Zealand)
• 18 June - From the myth of racial democracy to Brazilian racism: promises and challenges for anti-racist education in Brazil
  Wagner Santana (Visiting doctoral student from the University of São Paulo)

• 04 June - One to Another: How do we continue to move things forward?
  Professor Jason Arday (University of Cambridge)

May

 

• 22 May - Challenging Approaches to Academic Career-making
  Celia Whitchurch (IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education)

• 21 May - De(colonial) possibilities at University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusopohony: An Experience of anti-racist Education in Brazil 
  James Ferreira Moura Junior (School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol)

• 16 May - Book Launch for 'Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class'

  • Jessie Abrahams (School of Education, University of Bristol)
    David James (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)

• 15 May - Against Entrepreneurship: Education, Nation, and Inequality
  Dr. Kirsty Morrin (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool)

• 09 May - Re-thinking the role of abstraction in primary schools
  Dr. Santiago Alonso Palmas Pérez (University of Bristol and Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana)

• 07 May - Educational Research through the Black Radical Tradition
  Dr. Jessica Oddy (School of Education, University of Bristol; Director of Design for Social Impact Lab)
  

• 01 May - Knowledge Exchange with Students as Co-Researchers: The potential of collaboration
  
  • Jo Rose (School of Education, University of Bristol)
  • Alex Paterson (Professional Liaison Network, University of Bristol)

April

 

• 24 April - Engaging with research – the magic bullet?
  Helen Aberdeen (School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 12 April - Structured Word Inquiry: Teaching How English Spelling Really Works
  Pete Bowers (Founder, WordWorks Literacy Centre)

March

 

• 20 March - Visionary Forethoughts
  David Staley (Department of History, Ohio State University)
• 20 March - Racial Capitalism, Education and Resistance in South Africa
  Salim Vally (University of Johannesburg)
• 12 March - Softly non-spoken: designing and using soft robotics as communication aids
  
  • Hemma Philamore (University of Bristol)
  • Richard Sewell (Air Giants)
  • Katherine Broomfield (North Bristol NHS Trust)
  • Alison Oldfield (School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 06 March - Exploring the social world through mathematics
  Sean Chorney (Simon Fraser University, Canada)

February

 

• 27 February - A world beyond rankings? Looking to the Cooperative Movement for Alternative Models of Governance for Higher Education
  Michelle Stack (Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia)
• 21 February - Postdigital Research and Human-Data Interaction: Discussing Recent Works and Future Publishing / Editing Opportunities
  
  • Petar Jandrić (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences/Bath Spa University)
  • Sarah Hayes (Bath Spa University)
• 07 February -  Multistakeholder Initiatives in education: an analysis of Portuguese-speaking African Small States 
  Dr Rui da Silva (Center for African Studies, University of Porto)

January

 

• 23 January - Brexit and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges, Turbulent Crossings, and Global Futures
  Dr Vassiliki Papatsiba (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)

2023

December

• 13 December - An international exploration of post-PhD careers
  Dr Christine Teelken (Associate Professor, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)

November

• 29 November - Students in market-driven higher education: Challenges to identity and political agency
  Dr Rille Raaper (School of Education, Durham University)
  
• 14 November - Do Metrics Matter? Disquantifying Education in the 2020s
  Distinguished Professor Emeritus Christopher Newfield (Director of Research at the Independent Social Research Foundation in London)
• 08 November - Academic Diaspora, Transnational Education-Driven Mobilities, and Inequalities
  Senior Professor Dr. Phan Le-Ha (Lead of the International and Comparative Education Research Group (ICE), University of Brunei Darussalam)
• 07 November - Higher Education in the Islands of Oceania
  Dr Seu’ula Johansson Fua (Director of the USP Institute of Education in Tonga)
• 01 November - Decolonising Education for Sustainable Futures: Bristol Book Launch

September

• 20 September - Our World Our Futures
  
  • Dr Claire Lee (Research Fellow for the Children and Young People RIKE (Research, Innovation and Knowledge Exchange) Network, Oxford Brookes University)
  • Dr Aminath Shiyama (Quality Assurance Controller, The Maldives National University)
  • Fathimath Nasiha (Head of Centre for Foundation Studies, The Maldives National University)
  • Fathimath Shafeeqa (Institute of Research and Development (IRD), Maldives)
• 18 September - The tangled web between refugee rights, capitalism, race and education
  Dr Ritesh Shah (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Critical Studies in Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand)