2023-02-23 The renowned sociologist Jason Arday is to become a professor at the University of Cambridge: the latest chapter in a remarkable academic career which began after he overcame illiteracy in his late teens.Read the full story |
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2023-02-16 A pilot study by Faculty researchers working with Empathy Week suggests that just one week of 30-minute empathy lessons measurably improves students’ emotional awareness.Read the full story |
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2023-01-27 A newly-published analysis shows how Jane Austen's works and heroes such as Mr Darcy are experiencing yet another rebirth as the 'meme idols' of Gen Z.Read the full story |
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2023-01-17 More effort than ever is being put into building awareness of science and the public and ethical challenges it raises but many people still regard scientists and their work with suspicion. Scientists themselves meanwhile often address these concerns late in the research process – and sometimes not at all. The Faculty of Education’s newest research centre is dedicated to addressing both problems from new and inventive angles. It all starts with learning to say ‘Hello’.Read the full story. |
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2023-01-05 Hilda a series of graphic novels about an 11-year-old girl in a magical realist world has acquired an international fanbase and critical acclaim. As a new study explains there is more to its appeal than sheer escapism.Read the full story |
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2022-12-19 Researchers have trialled a new approach to testing students’ ‘computational thinking’ in terms which go far beyond the programming skills learned in computing lessons.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-29 School closures during the COVID-19 pandemic have “severely ruptured” the social and emotional development of some of the world’s poorest children as well as their academic progress new evidence shows.Read the full story |
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2022-11-23 Research based on data from 11000 students charted an across-the-board fall in well-being regardless of circumstances between ages 11 and 14.Read the full story |
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2022-11-14 Chronic underfunding of care and education in the first few years of life is holding back children’s healthy development in the world’s poorest countries a new report shows.Read the full story. |
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2022-11-11 A new approach to medical training which involves expert contributions from members of the Faculty of Education has been included in Time Magazine’s 200 Best Inventions of 2022.Read the full story |
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