Education news

Enhancing neurodivergent graduates’ employment: a graduate capabilities approach

Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Empowering neurodiverse individuals, equality at work and reasonable adjustments are between the most challenging requests employers are currently dealing with and often feel left alone in finding best practices in these areas.

Wild Citizens

Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

The Wild Citizens project aims to help primary school children to become active ‘environmental citizens’, by discovering, monitoring and communicating about the wildlife that exists in their school grounds. They then actively create conditions that encourage more wildlife to live there.

Remembering the Titanic with teachers and museum educators

Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Open Schooling through Science Education Project

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Impact Measuring Toolkit for Museums

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100

UKEC Spring Conversion Fair - April 2022

Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100

On 1 April 2022, the UKEC Spring Conversion Fair took place online. UKEC represents over 100 UK and Irish universities and is the leading UK education consultancy with offices in the UK.

Dr Michael Tomlinson leading research on the impact of Covid-19 on recent graduates’ career decisions and outcomes

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Dr Michael Tomlinson has recently completed a study, in a collaboration between the �� and the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on recent graduates’ employment outcomes, career decisions and the resources they can draw upon to tackle the challenges they may face in the world outside higher education.

The Launch of Southampton Education School's First Research Data Roundtable

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

LEEP Research Exposes Inequalities in Education Following COVID-19 School Closures

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0100

Research from our Leadership Educational Effectiveness and Policy (LEEP) research centre, highlights the impact that the closure of schools during the COVID-19 lockdown could have to children’s education, with those from disadvantaged backgrounds most affected.

Research highlights

Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A variety of research activities were undertaken in the past few months by researchers within the Southampton Education School:

Professor Kiki Messiou invited to Stanford University

Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Professor Melanie Nind elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Future Leaders Fellowship awarded to expert in digital accessibility

Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 +0100

Dr Sarah Lewthwaite, who teaches digital accessibility at the ��, has been recognised for her innovate work in the field through a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship.

Southampton Education School enters top 100 in the world and 15th in the UK

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

The QS World Rankings by Subject 2019 have been announced, placing Southampton Education School in the top 100 in the world and 15th in the UK.

Centre for Research in Inclusion colleagues at the Portswood Conference

Sun, 17 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Keith Jones co-edits new book on mathematical problem solving

Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

The book seeks to broaden the scope of research on mathematical problem solving in different educational environments.

New report published on school leadership and religion

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Dr Azaola invited to speak at a conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ofsted’s Chief inspector, Amanda Spielman, speaks at Southampton Education School’s Annual Lecture

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Southampton Education School welcomed Her Majesty's Chief Inspector Amanda Spielman, to give her speech entitled 'Towards a new inspection conversation' at the 2018 Annual Lecture.

Professor Sarah Parsons helps to launch the South East Special Educational Needs and Disability Network

Fri, 28 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0100

Professor Sarah Parsons, from the School’s Centre for Research in Inclusion, was invited to give the inaugural keynote for the South East Special Educational Needs and Disability Network at St. John’s College in Brighton on September 20th 2018.

Bourdieu’s Reproduction – 50 Years After

It’s getting hot in here: is climate adaptation education a new priority for school leaders?

Speaker information

Lynda Dunlop is a Senior Lecturer in Science Education in the University of York Science Education Group. She is an interdisciplinary researcher, working with scientists, artists philosophers and political scientists on environmental education and public engagement, most recently on Game Changers, a UKRI funded narrative online game set in the near future, and on DICEY, an experiment in public dialogue on climate interventions. She is currently co-convenor of the BERA Education for Environmental Sustainability Special Interest Group and the Play for the Planet network, focusing on the use of games in environmental education. The seminar reports on a study co-led by Environmental Economist Paul Hudson.

Dunlop, L., & Rushton, E. (2022). Putting climate change at the heart of education: Is England's strategy a placebo for policy? British Educational Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3816
Dunlop, L., Atkinson, L., Stubbs, J. E., & Turkenburg-van Diepen, M. (2021). The role of schools and teachers in nurturing and responding to climate crisis activism. Children's Geographies, 19(3), 291-299. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2020.1828827