27 Mar A historiography of Marxism and Marxist practices in the Global South and the Black radical tradition 27 March 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Phethani Madzivhandila will discuss how other histories and traditions of…
5 Jun The sexual politics of neoliberalism 05 June 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Aura Lehtonen will explore the relationship between sexuality and…
13 Mar Shadow archives of the European border regime 13 March 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Anouk Madörin will discuss the long history of the European border…
13 Feb Examining the problem of institutional racism in a UK-based university 13 February 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Denise A. Miller and Charmaine Brown will share the findings from a study…
30 Jan Interrogating 'empowerment' in participatory action research: Power-dynamics, critical reflections, and community activism 30 January 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Hanna Akalu will discuss the opportunities and challenges of…
23 Jan Mixed-communities regeneration and the capabilities of low-income young people 23 January 2023, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Rana Khazbak will share findings from her research on the experiences…
12 Dec Racial microaggressions on PGCE programme: implications for minority ethnic teacher retention 12 December 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Antonina Tereshchenko and Alison Wiggins will share the findings of…
29 Nov Platforms, profits and PISA for Schools: New actors, by-passes and topological spaces in global educational governance 29 November 2022, 12:00 to 13:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr. Steven Lewis will discuss the changes to PISA for Schools as well as…
22 Nov Contextualising gender-sensitive pedagogy and practice in early childhood education and care 22 November 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Yuwei Xu will explore practitioners’ understanding of gender…
8 Nov Immobilising imperatives: Policy challenges in Canadian education 08 November 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Prof Ralf St. Clair will describe and discuss policy challenges and…
24 Oct Global competencies and the diversity paradox: Implications for SDG 4.7 24 October 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Prof Karen Pashby will draw on critiques of global competence to raise…
10 Oct Protection in practice: ‘What works’ to support NGOs in Tanzania to respond to child abuse 10 October 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Karen Walker-Simpson will examine the role of international safeguarding…
27 Sep Introducing Self-Reflexive Methodologies 27 September 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Prof Daisy Pillay will discuss the concept of self-reflexivity and…
20 Jun From global utopias to local alternative futures of digitalisation and datafication 20 June 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr. Marko Teräs asks whether we can speculate alternatives futures of…
6 Jun The role of universities in promoting misinformation through rankings 06 June 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Michelle Stack will question whether an effective critique of…
24 May The Monitoring Group: Forty Years on the Frontline 24 May 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Jasbinder S. Nijjar will explore the formation and ongoing campaign work…
16 May Predatory Samaritans, miseducation and an indentured settler-colonial state 16 May 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Mukovhe Masutha will discuss the use of Income Contingent Loans in…
9 May Emotions and emotional reflexivity in undocumented migrant youth activism 09 May 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Ala Sirriyeh will explore how undocumented migrant young people in…
26 Apr “I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness 26 April 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Hannah J. Dawson will explore how the refusal of low-wage jobs is at once…
11 Apr Learning from the Lived Experience of School Exclusion 11 April 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Roma Thomas will explore how the perspectives of young people who are…
24 Mar The Image of Whiteness 24 March 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Daniel C Blight will consider the visual dimensions of the invention of…
14 Mar Beyond the backlash: trans-exclusionary politics, gender critical feminism, and the struggle for trans feminist futures 14 March 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Sonja Erikainen will consider the manifestations of the backlash and…
7 Mar Transforming the Practice of Leadership – Challenges and Possibilities 07 March 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Srilatha Batliwala will interrogate the current leadership paradigm, the…
31 Jan The Turn to Learning Outcomes 31 January 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Chris Winch will critically examine the turn to learning outcomes in…
17 Jan The role of class in young people’s environmental activism 17 January 2022, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dena Arya will explore the role of class in contributing to the shaping…
13 Dec ‘Choosing the Lesser of Evils’: Cultural narrative and career decision-making in post-Soviet Russia 13 December 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Elena Minina will deconstruct the dominant cultural narrative of a…
30 Nov Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling, Activism & Slow Violence 30 November 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Peter Sutoris will explore how education can respond to the…
23 Nov Impact of Displacement on Child Marriage Amongst Syrian Refugee Communities in Jordan and Lebanon 23 November 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Dr Aisha Hutchinson will consider the impact of displacement on the…
8 Nov Public Health Crises Compounded: A High School Equivalency Context in the Time of a Pandemic 08 November 2021, 15:00 to 16:00 In this seminar, Isaiah Zukowski presents an autoethnographic case study of a non-profit high school…
25 Oct Learning through the ‘African experience’: the transnational educational strategies of British-Ghanaian families 25 October 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Emma Abotsi explores the transnational educational strategies of…
11 Oct The Military in Our Midst: Why We Study Army Bases 11 October 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Antonia Dawes will explore some of the findings from a long-term…
27 Sep The Public Pedagogy of Instagram in Environmental Controversies 27 September 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this lunchtime seminar, Carrie Karsgard speaks about how Instagram was used to document…
24 May “The Good News”: An entrepreneurial prophet and the apocalyptic turn in global education policy 24 May 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Euan Auld discusses the relationship between religion, data and global education policy.
10 May The historical emergence of dyslexia: from word-blindness to neurodiversity 10 May 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Philip Kirby provides an overview of dyslexia’s social, cultural, and political emergence.
4 May Affective bordering: hope in contemporary migration politics 04 May 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Billy Holzberg discusses the politics of ‘affective bordering’ through the case study of hope.
26 Apr What is rightful? Moral logics of distribution, work and deservingness among the southern African unemployed 26 April 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Liz Fouksman explores distribution, work and deservingness among the southern African…
19 Apr The power struggle over education in developing countries: the case of the UNESCO-World Bank co-operative program, 1964-1989 19 April 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Maren Elfert examines the relationship between the World Bank and the United Nations Educational,…
12 Apr Colonial childhoods and young MK freedom fighters in an apartheid past: memory, urban frontier spaces and political power 12 April 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Jo-Anne Dillabough seeks to expand the epistemological boundaries of Youth Studies and the Sociology…
29 Mar The periphery as a place of resistance: private bilingual English-Mandarin kindergartens as liberal spaces of interaction between western culture and the socialist dominant discourse 29 March 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Anca Crowe presents her research which looks at the interaction between cultures in private…
15 Mar Cambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond 15 March 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 In this book launch presentation, Dr Will Brehm explores the political-economy of Cambodia’s…
1 Mar The social justice dimensions of public libraries in times of crisis 01 March 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Alice Corble will explore how public and community libraries can be sites of resistance and…
15 Feb Researching social care during a crisis: reflections from the Social Care Regulation at Work project 15 February 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Hannah Walters unpacks some of the key findings and reflects on the team’s experiences of…
8 Feb Black men’s experiences of colourism in the UK 08 February 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Aisha Phoenix talks about Black men’s experiences of colourism in the UK
1 Feb Educational capital: toward a framework for understanding corporate power in the political economy of education 01 February 2021, 15:00 to 16:00 Kathryn Moeller suggests an analytic framework for attending to the specific and multifaceted nature…
18 Jan No dataset left behind? Reporting on SDG 4 and the politics of data integration 18 January 2021, 13:00 to 14:00 Clara Fontdevila looks at the mechanics of global quantification by making sense of the…
14 Dec Moving, always moving: Experiences of housing insecurity among children in poverty in England 14 December 2020, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Sorcha Mahony will talk about the The Children's Society's research and how it is using it to…
7 Dec Cultural policy and the politics of hope 07 December 2020, 13:00 to 14:00 Dr Jonathan Gross shares insights from his research with arts and cultural organisations working…
30 Nov Egyptian teachers: living up to the covid-19 challenge 30 November 2020, 13:00 to 14:00 Professor Malak Zaalouk explores how Egyptian public schools mitigate the covid-19 lockdown and…
16 Nov Making a difference: Implementing a research-informed vocational curriculum model at level 1 16 November 2020, 13:00 to 14:00 Professor Liz Atkins presents her project looking at whether a vocational curriculum model would…
9 Nov Exploring influences on adolescent identities in contexts of migration and displacement 09 November 2020, 13:00 to 14:00 Learn about the initial findings of Emma Soye's research for a project providing social support.