Wednesday Lunchtime Research Seminar Series

Wednesday Lunchtime Research Seminar Series

12-1pm, Glasgow Room, Harcourt Hill Campus 

All staff welcome - bring your lunch! 

The Weds. Lunchtime Research Seminar Series is an informal platform for discussing ongoing research and research ideas, from the very earliest stages of the research process through to finished publications. Once a month (the last Weds of the month) we also host a reading group looking at 'classic' texts in Education.  We welcome all SoE staff to participate and encourage a constructive, friendly approach to meetings. 

Please email Patrick Alexander (palexander@brookes.ac.uk) for more information or if you would like to present at a session.  

Upcoming sessions include the following:

14th Jan: Reading Group 
All welcome. The group will discuss recent readings of any kind that have informed their practice, and to agree on a schedule of readings for the semester. 

21st Jan: 
David Aldridge: Remembrance and British Values

28th Jan:  

Anna Rigall: "Challenging ‘quality’ in primary education : an investigation of policy discourses and pedagogic conceptualisations of ‘quality’ in primary schools in England" 

4th Feb:
Catharine Gilson: practitioner and parent perceptions of the learning environment for 3-5 year-olds in England

25th March:
Dan Butcher: First steps on the road to forming personal, professional and academic identities among beginning student nurses’ 



Previous Sessions:

DATE	SPEAKER	TOPIC
Semester 1
8/10/14	No session –see alternate event	Oct. 8th 12.0 - 1.0  Dr. Andrie  Yiakoumetti    The World in the classroom  Room AG/09 ·  Why English?  First and second language choices and policies ·  Which English?   English as a lingua franca, English as an International Language and World Englishes ·  Should teachers of English be teachers of culture?
15/10/14	Oliver Bridge	The Application of Moral Psychology in Teacher Education: A Case Study of the Fostering of Moral Development in Turkey
22/10/14	SoE Away Day	N/A
30/10/14 11.00am-1230pm (note: this is a Thursday)	Halloween Symposium	A Ghoulish gathering of research topics from Nick Swarbrick, Chris Rizza, Beverly Clack and others. Tricks and treats guaranteed!
5/11/14	Reading Group	The Role of Play in Development
12/11/14	Liz Basford	An investigation into the changing management of TAs in two Local Authorities
19/11/14	Graham Butt	Developing collaborative CPD – outcomes of a small research project in three Oxfordshire primary schools.
26/11/14	Catherine Gilson	practitioner and parent perceptions of the learning environment for 3-5 year olds in England
10/12/14 17/12/14	Reading Group Anna Rigall	Bourdieu, Distinction "Challenging ‘quality’ in primary education : an investigation of policy discourses and pedagogic conceptualisations of ‘quality’ in primary schools in England" (POSTPONED)

7/5/2014, Richard Newton, “It does make you feel a bit hopeless” – Parents’ experiences of supporting their children’s school mathematical learning at home.

14/5/2014, **POSTPONED** Jane MacNiell, Using research to enhance teacher professional development: findings from a collaborative project for primary mathematics teachers

21/5/2014, Ido Gideon, Political Education in Israeli- Citizenship in a State of Conflict

4/6/2014 - there will not be a Weds Seminar event, but colleagues are encouraged to attend  Writing for Impact, 10-13.30 in BG10/11

11/6/2014. (all welcome), (re) Reading Education Classics: Vygotsky Part II ('The Role of Play in Development')