Professor Paul Howard-Jones
B.Sc.(Manc.), Ph.D.(Exon.), BSc, PGCE
Current positions
Professor of Neuroscience and Education
School of Education
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Research interests
Neuroscience and education, climate change and sustainability education, game-based learning and creativity.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Consumer learning journeys–an interdisciplinary framework to support netzero adoption
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/06/2023 to 31/05/2025
Centre for Early Mathematics Learning
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/06/2022 to 31/05/2027
Climate Science to Schools
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
This project brings together climate scientists and expert educators to pilot transdisciplinary generation of Climate Change Education (CCE) resources for schools. We will co-produce 3 sets of curriculum-aligned, age-appropriate resources,…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/10/2021 to 31/07/2022
Secondary School Leadership In The Response To Climate Change
Principal Investigator
Description
The United Nations identifies climate change as the defining issue of our time and considers education has a key role in addressing it. However, progress by school leaders in addressing…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/10/2021 to 31/07/2023
Developing a methodology for the empowerment of teachers-as-researchers in the context of Sustainability and Climate Change Education
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Our goal is to inform development of a toolkit to support educators in capturing useful data from within their institutions about sustainability and climate change education (with a view to…Managing organisational unit
School of EducationDates
01/04/2021 to 30/07/2021
Thesis supervisions
Exploring progressive applied behavior analysis through the lens of technology use among students with autism in an autism primary school in Hong Kong
Supervisors
Does adding cue-directed action improve the learning of prime numbers in adults?
Supervisors
Exploring the influence of tracking moving objects on declarative learning through video games
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
22/06/2021The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum
Environmental Education Research
Secret Lives of 4-year olds secondary dataset and metadata
Applying the science of learning in the classroom
Journal of the chartered college of teaching
Evolution of the Learning Brain
Evolution of the Learning Brain
Neuroscience Research and Classroom Practice
From the Laboratory to the Classroom: Translating Science of Learning for Teachers
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