Recordings and powerpoint presentations for Bristol Conversations in Education 2023-2024 series
Click on the links below for a recording or powerpoint slides of previous Bristol Conversations in Education seminars
2024
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)
- Schooling Inequality: Aspirations, Opportunities and the Reproduction of Social Class" (Video, automatic transcript)
15 May - Against Entrepreneurship: Education, Nation, and Inequality
- Dr. Kirsty Morrin (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool)
- Against Entrepreneurship: Education, Nation, and Inequality (Video, automatic transcript)
12 April - Structured Word Inquiry: Teaching How English Spelling Really Works
- Pete Bowers (Founder, WordWorks Literacy Centre)
Notes from Dr. Bowers: I hope you find this talk provokes critical thinking about literacy instruction. First I want to point to a few silly mistakes I made to avoid adding confusion. Second I provide some links for further study. - Structured Word Inquiry: Teaching How English Spelling Really Works (Video, automatic transcript)
- Links for further study
- 13:49 I mistakenly say “French base” when I meant “French root”. This is important because I work hard to not confuse those terms
- 58: 55 I have the wrong date for the David Share data. I have 2011, but it should be 2021.
- 1:10:39 I say, “If I have a phonological awareness…” What I meant to say is “If I have a phonological awareness deficit….”
20 March - Racial Capitalism, Education and Resistance in South Africa
- Salim Vally (University of Johannesburg)
- Racial Capitalism, Education and Resistance in South Africa (Video, automatic transcript)
20 March - Visionary Forethoughts
- David Staley (Department of History, Ohio State University)
- Visionary Forethoughts (Video, automatic transcript)
12 March - Softly non-spoken: designing and using soft robotics as communication aids
- Dr Hemma Philamore (University of Bristol)
- Richard Sewell (Air Giants)
- Dr Katherine Broomfield (North Bristol NHS Trust)
- Dr Alison Oldfield (School of Education, University of Bristol)
- Softly non-spoken: designing and using soft robotics as communication aids (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
Please be sure to switch the video to "gallery view", using the control bar on Zoom, in order to view the demonstrations.
6 March - Exploring the social world through mathematics
- Dr Sean Chorney (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
- Exploring the social world through mathematics (Video, automatic transcript)
21 February - Postdigital Research and Human-Data Interaction
- Professor Petar Jandrić (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences/Bath Spa University)
- Professor Sarah Hayes (Bath Spa University)
- Postdigital Research and Human-Data Interaction (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
23 January - Brexit and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges, Turbulent Crossings, and Global Futures
- Dr Vassiliki Papatsiba (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Brexit and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges, Turbulent Crossings, and Global Futures (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
- Brexit and UK Higher Education: Broken Bridges, Turbulent Crossings, and Global Futures (Presentation)
2023
13 December - An international exploration of post-PhD careers
- Dr Christine Teelken (Associate Professor, VU Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- An international exploration of post-PhD careers (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
- An international exploration of post-PhD careers (Presentation)
29 November - Students in market-driven higher education: Challenges to identity and political agency
- Dr Rille Raaper (School of Education, Durham University)
- Students in market-driven higher education: Challenges to identity and political agency (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
- Students in market-driven higher education: Challenges to identity and political agency (Presentation)
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)
- Do Metrics Matter? Disquantifying Education in the 2020s (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
07 November - Higher Education in the Islands of Oceania
- Dr Seu’ula Johansson Fua (Director of the USP Institute of Education in Tonga)
- Higher Education in the Islands of Oceania (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
01 November - Decolonising Education for Sustainable Futures: Bristol Book Launch
- Editors: Yvette Hutchinson, Artemio Arturo Cortez Ochoa, Julia Paulson, Leon Tikly
- Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education, Bristol University Press
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)
- Our World Our Futures (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
- Our World Our Futures (Presentation)
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)
- The tangled web between refugee rights, capitalism, race and education (Video, automatic transcript, chat)
- The tangled web between refugee rights, capitalism, race and education (Presentation - PDF)
- When bombs stop falling - Norwegian Refugee Council (YouTube video featured in Presentation, Slide 15)
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