Events

Learning for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Introducing an integrative neurodevelopmental framework for school mental health and wellbeing curricula

Wednesday 27 November 2024

In this talk Dr Dusana Dorjee will present an innovative approach to formulating mental health and wellbeing (MHW) curricula based on a new neurodevelopmental theory of child and adolescent MHW.

Cues, prototypes, and exemplars: towards efficient learning strategies

Wednesday 23 October 2024

In this talk Dr Laurence Romain will present some pedagogical recommendations for teaching linguistic structures (argument structure constructions) to second/foreign learners of English following principles of construction grammar and learning theory.

Game Changers II: human-computer interaction and climate action

Wednesday 12 June 2024

Lynda Dunlop will present the concept for a funding application to explore questions at the intersection of human and computer interaction, climate science and social movement theory with online publics.

How mothers’ speech influences children’s cognitive abilities, literacy skills, and educational achievement

Wednesday 29 May 2024

Anna Brown presents 'SES-related gaps in language ability -- are mothers really to blame?'

“The varicultural, translanguaging, and beginning with the small” - a talk by Professor Adrian Holliday

Monday 20 May 2024

This talk will look at how a seamless varicultural flow of diversity runs across the boundaries of cultures, both big and small, that are constructed within it.