2021

• 21 July - Learning to Serve Time: classed and gendered trajectories to ‘revolving door’ imprisonment in the UK, Dr David Maguire (Honorary Senior Research Associate, UCL Institute of Education and Director for Prison Reform Trust's Building Futures project)
• 14 July - A year in education: research and policy highlights in 2020-21, Helen Aberdeen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the Document Summary Service, soon to be called Education Policy and Research Service, School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 07 July - Book launch - Misunderstood, Misinterpreted and Mismanaged: Voices of Students Marginalised in a Secondary School, Dr Lucy Wenham (School of Education, University of Bristol) will launch her new book, with guest speakers including Professor Stephen J Ball (Emeritus Professor of Sociology of Education, UCL Institute of Education), Dr Thomas Ralph (Senior Lecturer in Education & PGCE Secondary Programme Director, University of Exeter), Charlie Berney (Senior Lecturer on PGCE and ITE PGDE with QTS Programmes, Bath Spa University) and Ruth Bailey (Senior Teaching Fellow & PGCE Director, School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 07 July - NPD (National Pupil Database) User Group meeting, talks from DfE, ONS and ESRC ADR UK followed by Q&A
• 30 June - Schooling in Palestine and the occupied territories: the role of educators in collaborative community cohesion, Dr Sarah Ihmoud (Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross), Dr Jason Hart (Senior Lecturer, University of Bath), Dr Muna Saleh (Assistant Professor, Concordia University of Edmonton), Dr Hanadi Shatara (Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-La Cross)
• 30 June - Monitoring or mentoring: Exploring the role of leading teachers in Maldivian island schools, Dr Rhonda Di Biase (Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education)
• 29 June - Universities and unicorns: mapping investment trends in higher education technology, Dr Janja Komljenovic (Lecturer of Higher Education, Lancaster University) and Dr Sam Sellar (Reader in Education Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University)
• 23 June - Fugitive Pedagogy: a conversation with Jarvis R. Givens, Dr Derron Wallace (Brandeis University) in conversation with Dr Jarvis Givens (Harvard University) on his new book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
• 23 June - Researching out-of-school learning in mathematics: Breaking out of the boundaries, Professor Tim Jay (Professor of Mathematics Education, Loughborough University) and Dr Jo Rose (Associate Professor of Social Psychology of Education, University of Bristol)
• 16 June - Inaugural lecture: Beginnings … reflections on 25 years of teaching and learning mathematics, Professor Alf Coles (Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Bristol)
• 09 June - Book Series Launch - Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education, the Series Editors, Bristol University Press and members of the Editorial Advisory Board formally launch this new multidisciplinary book series published with Bristol University Press
• 26 May - Experiences of higher education on small islands in and around the UK, Dr Holly Henderson (Assistant Professor of Education, University of Nottingham)
• 19 May - The UK’s Impact Agenda: Opportunity to engage or threat to academic freedom?, Professor Katherine Smith (Professor of Public Health Policy, University of Strathclyde) and Professor Richard Watermeyer (Professor of Education, University of Bristol)
• 12 May - Whiteness as futurity and globalization of higher education, Dr Riyad Shahjahan (Associate Professor, Michigan State University) and Dr Kirsten T. Edwards (Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma)
• 28 April - Children’s social and moral judgements within intergroup contexts, Professor Adam Rutland (Professor of Psychology, University of Exeter)
• 20 April - Screen time, surveillance and stuck places in digital literacies, Professor Karen Wohlwend (Literacy, Culture and Language Education, Indiana University, US)
• 24 March - Implementing whole-school universal language interventions as a means of recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr Ioanna Bakopoulou (Lecturer in Psychology in Education, School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 17 March - Black bodies in white educational spaces, Dr April-Louise Pennant (Changemaker and Scholar-activist, Research Associate at the Nelson Mandela University) and Dr Constantino Dumangane Jr (Lecturer in Education and Social Justice, University of York)
• 10 March - Higher education timescapes: temporal understandings of students and learning, Professor Rachel Brooks (Professor of Sociology, University of Surrey)
• 03 March - Homophily, social capital and cultural capital: what clues do they provide about educational disadvantage, Professor Chris Brown (Professor in Education, Durham University)
• 10, 17 and 24 February - Decolonising education for sustainable futures (UNESCO Chair seminar series), Convenors: Professor Leon Tikly (UNESCO Chair on Inclusive and Quality Education for All), Dr Keith Holmes (UNESCO, Future of Learning and Innovation team), Yvette Hutchinson (British Council/ United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training), Dr Julia Paulson (Principal Investigator Education Justice and 'memory Network) and Professor Arathi Sriprakash (University of Bristol, School of Education)
• 03 February - Does a Sociology of Assessment matter? An event to launch: The Sociology of Assessment: comparative and policy perspectives. The selected works of Patricia Broadfoot, Professor Patricia Broadfoot CBE (Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Bristol) with a panel of discussants including: Professor Stephen Ball FBA (formerly Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education, University of London), Professor Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol) and Professor Jo-Anne Baird (Professor of Educational Assessment and Director of Department of Education, University of Oxford)
• 27 January - Re-imagining curriculum in India: Charting a path beyond the pandemic, Professor Poonam Batra (Professor of Education at the Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi)

2020

• 16 December - Skills for sustainable futures, Professor Simon McGrath  (UNESCO Chair in International Education and Development, University of Nottingham and Extraordinary Professor, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape)
• 09 December - Communication preferences of autistic adults, Dr Felicity Sedgewick and Dr Philippa Howard (School of Education, University of Bristol)
• 02 December - POSTPONED - The UK’s Impact Agenda: Opportunity to engage or threat to academic freedom? Professor Katherine Smith (University of Strathclyde) and Professor Richard Watermeyer (University of Bristol)
• 25 November - Unintended Methodologies: arts-based research practices as forms of listening, Dr Terra Sprague (University of Bristol) and Injairu Kulundu-Bolus (Rhodes University)
• 18 November - Re-imagining UK education research partnerships in the South: prospects for mutual and equitable relationships, Dr Rafael Mitchell (School of Education, University of Bristol), Dr Tigist Grieve (School of Education, University of Bristol), Dr Kelsey Shanks (GCRF Challenge Leader for Education Research, Ulster University), Ms Maria Teresa Pinto Ocampo (National University of Colombia), Professor Isabella Aboderin (Perivoli Africa Research Centre, University of Bristol), Dr Ashley Jay Brockwell (London Interdisciplinary School)
• 11 November - CARGO Classroom - radical new resources for KS3 History, Lawrence Hoo (Poet and founder of CARGO Movement), Tracy O’Brien (History teacher and collaborator of CARGO Movement) and Professor Olivette Otele (CARGO Board Member, and Professor of History of Slavery and Memory of enslavement at the University of Bristol)
• 04 November - Why the Co-op is involved in the academy programme, Frank Norris, MBE (former CEO of the Co-op Academies Trust)
• 28 October - The other side of excellence: Failure, research culture and the role of academic governance systems, Dr Gemma Derrick (Lancaster University)
• 14 October - School closures, remote teaching and attainment grouping: implications for equity, Professor Jeremy Hodgen and Dr Becky Taylor (UCL Institute of Education)
• 30 September - An ADHD Teacher Toolkit – what are the needs? Dr Simon Brownhill, Dr Frances Knight and Jennifer Norris, University of Bristol