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Faculty News

2022-06-27
Professor Riikka Hofmann at the Faculty of Education is leading analysis of a new way of teaching medical students at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge using the latest in mixed reality holographic patients.Read the full story
2022-06-21
A new five-year partnership on the ‘Future of Work’ will examine the big issues affecting the modern workforce and offer practical research-backed solutions to support and enhance workforce and workplace experiences in the future. The initial programme focusing on mental wellbeing will be led by Professor Gordon Harold at the Faculty of Education.Read the full story
2022-06-21
An improved vision for wellbeing education should replace the over-simplistic approaches currently employed in many schools such as happiness lessons which risk creating an “atmosphere of toxic positivity” for pupils experts say.Read the full story
2022-06-30
Programme will focus on unpacking the policy practice and research of education of refugee children in the global north and south.Read the full story
2022-06-14
Children who learn to play well with others at pre-school age tend to enjoy better mental health as they get older new research shows.Read the full story
2022-06-04
A group of education specialists are urging researchers to challenge the “structures and regulations” which define academic scholarship arguing that different approaches are needed in an age of climate change COVID-19 and rising populism. Read the full story
2022-05-30
Fake news and misinformation are now commonplace across social platforms and arguably the staple of some conventional media outlets as well. Should we therefore be trying to do more to prepare young people to critique the information they receive? Following an event on fake news and education at the Faculty last week this article explores some questions on that theme. Read the full story
2022-05-20
The Reducing Parental Conflict Programme which draws on the work of Professor Gordon Harold at the Faculty of Education is being expanded with £33 million of Government funding.Read the full story
2022-05-12
The Faculty of Education has been confirmed as one of the country’s leading departments for research in education in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Read the full story
2022-05-09
Two exiled Brazilian academics and the director of a powerful new documentary about media corruption will join scholars in Cambridge this month for a special event examining fake news misinformation and education.Read the full story.