We’ve reached the end of another challenging year that seems to have flown by and dragged on at the same time. IOE researchers have continued to work hard in their fields of expertise and we’re delighted to share snippets that have struck a chord with us. For those of you who are seasoned Research for the Real World listeners, you may want to listen back to these again. And for those who are new listeners, a warm welcome - you may find these episodes useful as an appetiser to the rest of our off...
Dec 20, 2021•14 min
This is Academia et al., a brand new podcast series from the IOE Early Career Network at UCL. With hosts Dr Keri Wong and Dr Alina Pelikh, we're having some honest conversations about the challenges of being an early career academic in the modern world, with colleagues who've been there, and those who are just now figuring it all out. Find out more about the coming series: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/about-ioe/ioe-life/digital-and-social-media/podcasts/academia-et-al Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac...
Dec 16, 2021•4 min
Up to this point little is known about the consequences of growing up without siblings. We hear about research that seeks to analyse the effects on childhood and adulthood outcomes. Full show notes and links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/dec/whats-life-only-child-rftrw-s12e03
Dec 13, 2021•28 min
Widening inequalities in learning, growing gender gaps in paid and domestic work - we hear about covid’s impact in these areas and how research findings are informing responses in policy and practice. Full show notes and links: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2021/dec/whats-happened-parenting-and-pay-during-pandemic-rftrw-s12e02
Dec 06, 2021•29 min
It’s been an incredibly busy couple of years or so for Professor Alice Bradbury and her colleagues. We hear about the findings and recommendations from their work looking at how lockdown has affected school communities. The pandemic has thrown into sharp focus just how involved schools are in the lives of children and their families beyond the classroom. Professor Bradbury details the lengths schools have gone in providing support and maintaining lines of communication during lockdowns and schoo...
Nov 29, 2021•21 min
[Preview] We're going to hear from UCL experts on how children, parents, women and schools have dealt with the pandemic so far and what it's going to take to truly "build back better". Joining us in the IOE Podcast studio: Professor Alice Bradbury on how schools can recover post-pandemic Professor Almudena Sevilla on what's happening to parenting and pay during the pandemic Dr Alice Goisis and Dr Jenny Chanfreau on what life is like for an only child. Hear more episodes of Research for the Real ...
Nov 29, 2021•6 min
Between challenges like climate despair and alternative climate facts, how can education give young people a fuller understanding of the scale and significance of critical climate change? With a PhD in glaciology and a background in geography education, Professor Nicola Walshe can attest to why Geography as a subject is well-placed to engage in the interdisciplinary nature of environmental and sustainability education. Hosting this episode, Dr Rob Webster asks Nicola about common challenges and ...
Nov 15, 2021•28 min
With beginnings in the study of Classics, becoming a teacher, Master’s research in Northern Tanzania at a Massai school, Dr Charlotte Nussey brings a unique set of experiences to each of the research projects she is heavily involved in. Climate change has always played a key part in her research focus on education and intersecting inequalities. Dr Keri Wong hears about how the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals relate to the environment and education, Dr Nussey’s interdisciplinary and participat...
Nov 08, 2021•28 min
Climate change is bringing about ever-increasing, intense and catastrophic weather events and other ecological disasters. A key challenge is for communities to be able to act quickly and decisively when they happen. Dr Kaori Kitagawa joins us from Japan to discuss her research area of community learning for disaster preparedness. At present, the involvement of the field of education has been limited in developing policy and practice of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR), and the need to build this in...
Nov 01, 2021•29 min
Climate change affects all of us, but some more than others. What can universities do, particularly in countries seen as highly vulnerable to extreme weather events and threats? As the principal investigator for the Transforming Universities for a Changing Climate research project (Climate-U for short), Professor Tristan McCowan is working with teams in Brazil, Fiji, Kenya and Mozambique to strengthen higher education’s contribution to addressing the causes and impacts of climate change in lower...
Oct 25, 2021•32 min
[Preview] We know it's real. What are we going to do about it? This season of Research for the Real World hears from experts and the challenge of enabling education into action. Dr Kaori Kitagawa on preparing communities for ecological disasters, Professor Nicola Walshe on practice for environment and sustainability education, climate change awareness and empowering young people, Dr Charlotte Nussey on the intersection of international development, Sustainable Development Goals and the environme...
Oct 18, 2021•8 min
This episode features a story of change. Xiaoyu, an Applied Linguistics Master's student from the IOE, shares how she took the initiative to create her own unique university experience since she came to London in March 2020, in the middle of the UK's first lockdown. In addition to some common hurdles faced by international students, including socialising and adapting to living and working in a different culture, remote learning threatened to undermine the unique experience of attending different...
Sep 20, 2021•26 min
Professor Allison Littlejohn (Professor and Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab, IOE) joins this podcast discussing knowledge, skills and jobs in a future London. How has the pandemic affected education, and what lessons can we take from it in the future? How can we continue to attract and retain talent in an era of virtual working, and how will increasing digitisation augment learning and social justice? This episode is republished with the permission of the UCL Future Cities podcast series. Tran...
Sep 06, 2021•23 min
As the Covid-19 pandemic has progressed, mounting evidence has highlighted its marked impact on children and young people’s mental health. We discuss how families and schools can support young people’s social and emotional wellbeing, to smooth the transition and help them with the continued changes and uncertainties in their daily lives. This #IOECoffeeBreaks event was held on 22 June 2021. More event information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2021/jun/virtual-event-supporting-young-peoples-m...
Aug 09, 2021•41 min
Last year schools and families navigated lockdown restrictions and social distancing and learned some things about how to best support children moving up from primary to secondary school, get to grips with new routines, curricula, and ways of teaching and learning. #IOECoffeeBreaks host Dr Sandra Leaton-Gray, joined by Professor Eleanore Hargreaves and Dr Jane Perryman, shares insights from research and personal experience, and what strategies we should keep for the next cohort of children who a...
Jul 22, 2021•41 min
Vivienne Parry talks to Professor Francois Balloux (Chair in Computational Systems Biology and Chair of the UCL Genetics Institute) and Dr Keri Wong (Assistant Professor in Psychology in the IOE's Department of Psychology and Human Development) about the lockdown extension, a potential third wave here in the UK and what this means for us mentally and physically. Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds/podcasts/coronavirus/transcript-episode-52 Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-minds...
Jul 13, 2021•27 min
Mental health is complex, and improving it is an increasingly multidisciplinary goal. In this podcast we talk to an award-winning researcher about thinking and working outside your disciplinary boundary. Dr Praveetha Patalay puts forward the case for why the mental health field needs to utilise multidisciplinary perspectives to have a hope of finding impactful solutions. We also hear how Praveetha keeps on top of her collaborations, and what some common challenges and practicalities of multidisc...
Jul 06, 2021•27 min
As the mental health of young people continues to be a very pressing issue, we hear about support teams being placed in schools to address pupils’ needs. Can the same be rolled out more widely across the education sector? Vivian introduces a feasibility study involving colleagues from the IOE, other UCL faculties and the Anna Freud Centre mental health charity looking into the implementation of Mental Health Support Teams in Further Education institutions. We also hear about how the IOE’s profes...
Jun 28, 2021•25 min
With schools focused on ‘catch up’, could the arts be further marginalised, and at a time when young people may have greater need for the benefits that arts subjects provide? We've gathered Ed Dorrell (Public First), primary art specialist Emily Gopaul, 2018 Global Teacher Prize Winner Andria Zafirakou, Isobel Traunter and Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education) to talk about arts education advocacy and share their views. Full event information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2021/...
Jun 24, 2021•59 min
The ability for young people to access Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics learning opportunities can be quite limiting. Here’s how IOE researchers are collaborating with others to break down barriers and ramp up representation. The YESTEM (Youth Equity + STEM) project brings together researchers and practitioners in the UK and US to develop an integrated approach centred on “Justice Oriented Informal STEM” to empower underrepresented young people as key partners in STEM’s present a...
Jun 21, 2021•33 min
Girls’ education is a key focus for the G7 this year. This event explores an innovative framework for measuring gender equality in education, as well as the politics of steering between the complex relationships described by social research on gender and girls’ education and the clarity on data needed for public policy. The Accountability for Gender Equality in Education (AGEE) framework provides a clear approach for researchers, policy makers and practitioners and enables us to assess the speci...
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 13 min
Our ability to communicate through the sense of touch has never been more important, as groundbreaking work takes place to make touch a reality digitally. We also hear about how UCL researchers are reaching beyond their own fields of expertise to make this and other innovations possible. Professor Carey Jewitt leads the IN-TOUCH project exploring how the digital is reshaping touch as human communication. And as the pandemic fundamentally alters the way we interact with each other, Professor Jewi...
Jun 14, 2021•36 min
Is the GCSE system intrinsically flawed, or simply a victim of the high-stakes accountability system in which it sits? If it really has no benefits to offer, what could its demise offer to young people’s education? Full event information: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2021/apr/virtual-event-what-if-we-got-rid-gcses #IOEDebates In association with tes...
Jun 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min
We're delighted to be between your ears for the 10th season of the IOE's podcast about education and social science research and its impact on policy, practice and our everyday lives. This season focuses on how IOE researchers are finding opportunities to extend the impact of their work through collaboration with colleagues at UCL and beyond. Listen to a sneak preview of Dr Sam Sims' and Dr Keri Wong's interviews with: Professor Carey Jewitt on advancing interdisciplinary knowledge on digital to...
Jun 01, 2021•7 min
How people are regaining their voice after their voice boxes are removed, through the beatboxing project Shout at Cancer; how a group of LGBTQ + refugees in Brazil are using film to tell their stories; and how health students and advocates are sharing the impact of their work through poetry. This episode is reposted from the #MadeAtUCL podcast Season 2, Episode 2. It is presented by Cassidy Martin and edited by Cerys Bradley. Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/made-at-ucl/podcasts/s2-ep2-voi...
May 26, 2021•34 min
Dr Will Brehm considers his teaching and podcasting to be important parts of his academic life, and issued himself a challenge. “Why couldn’t I infuse my teaching practice with podcast pedagogies? Why couldn’t I utilise the medium of sound and audio to enrich the study of education and international development?” In an effort to democratise and empower others to get involved in knowledge production and dissemination, he asked undergraduate students to produce their own 15-minute podcasts on any ...
May 17, 2021•20 min
Play can mean everything, and sometimes nothing at all – and that’s ok. Professor John Potter credits his early career as an East London primary school teacher as a key influence in his research interest in digital media and play. It’s in no way a surprise for RFTRW host Dr Keri Wong to hear that play connects to children’s lives in a way that the statutory curriculum doesn’t. We think about how TikTok and social media are providing templates from which children construct all sorts of games, wha...
May 10, 2021•30 min
Coming from a part of the world where speaking multiple languages is part of life, multilingualism has always been an area of study that’s close to home for Dr Ruanni Tupas. Ruanni joins Dr Keri Wong to discuss how getting to know the lived realities of students and teachers shapes his research and help reconcile academic theorisation with the messiness of the classroom. We hear about how, in multilingual communities, value is ascribed to some languages over others and how one’s ability to utili...
May 04, 2021•33 min
The gap in levels of attainment between pupils from disadvantaged and more advantaged backgrounds is a longstanding feature of England’s schools system. It’s been a focus for successive governments, from New Labour’s efforts to ‘narrow’ the gap, and subsequent Coalition and Conservative governments’ objective to ‘close’ it. According to DfE data, some (modest) progress had been made, but even before the arrival of Covid-19 that had stalled. Various provisions have been put in place to aid ‘catch...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Dr Zsófia Demjén and Dr Talia Isaacs join Dr Sam Sims to talk about their research examining key issues and concerns in healthcare communication. You may have noticed particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic the use of military-style words - the frontline, battlegrounds, arsenal - Dr Demjén and Dr Isaacs’ work on the way language is used by cancer patients and the community at large speaks loudly here. We hear about the use of war metaphor in the context of cancer and how patients share their e...
Apr 26, 2021•32 min
