2020-09-04 Primary schools in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and London are being invited to join a new University of Cambridge study examining how COVID-19 has affected pupils’ wellbeing and learning as education adapts to a ‘new normal’. Read the full story here. |
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2020-09-01 Anna Vignoles who is Professor of Education at the Faculty has been appointed as Director of the Leverhulme Trust: one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK. She will take up her new post in January 2021.Read the full story here. |
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2020-08-28 Bookings are now open for the first in a series of free Faculty-run lunchtime webinars during September which will explore some of the many aspects of play research.Full story and booking information here. |
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2020-08-27 Catherine Ward who studied for an MPhil in Education Globalisation and International Development (EGID) at the Faculty in 2018/19 has recently had an academic paper published based on work that she undertook during her course of study. Catherine is now studying at the University of Virginia Law School. She told us a little more about the research her reasons for studying at Cambridge and how an MPhil helped her to prepare for a career at the intersections of law social justice and research.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-08-24 A wave of children’s fiction which tackles subjects such as suicide terrorism, militant jihadism and counter-terror violence is helping young readers to rethink and resist extremism and Islamophobia, new research suggests. The study, by Dr Blanka Grzegorczyk at the University of Cambridge, charts the emergence over almost two decades since 9/11 of a distinctive sub-genre in British children’s literature, focusing on themes of terrorism and counter-terror. Read the full story here. |
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2020-08-21 The University of Cambridge is one of the partners in a major new £32.4m Productivity Institute, announced today by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. One of the main research strands will be led by Professor Anna Vignoles, from the Faculty of Education. Read the full story here. |
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2020-08-21 Gabrielle Spears is a former Primary PGCE and Masters student at the Faculty of Education. The research she undertook for her Masters thesis covered an innovative action research project in which she used fairytales to subvert traditional assumptions about gender in a particularly boisterous playground at the London primary school where she teaches. This work has since formed the basis of an article by Gabrielle which was published in an academic journal. Here she discusses how she came to study at the Faculty the research project itself and how it helped to change a group of children’s minds about what girls and boys ‘should do’.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-08-17 In an academic career that began in Ireland and has taken him to the United States and the universities of Cardiff Otago and Sussex Gordon Harold's most recent appointmen is with the Faculty as Cambridge's first Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health. He told us a little about himself the importance and challenges of this exciting research field and how it may develop in his new Cambridge role.Read the full interview here |
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2020-07-31 Pupils’ achievements at school are often shaped by the way that they ‘act out’ specific gender roles according to a new study which warns against over-generalising the gender gap in education.Read the full story here. |
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2020-07-27 What has lockdown learning been like for students at the Faculty of Education?PhD student Kristi Nourie was supposed to be heading to Kansas for fieldwork when lockdown happened. Instead she has spent the past few months working in her attic. But as she explained in a recent interview there have been positive sides to the experience – as more talks and lectures have become available online and the Faculty has devised new ways to support students during teaching sessions on Zoom.Read the full interview here. |
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