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We are committed to asking new questions about how research, policy and practice can come together to empower educators and create meaningful change #edresprog
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How can policy boost teacher recruitment and retention?

On 8 October, join researchers and teachers as they unpack the factors driving the teaching crisis 🍎📚 @erpioe.bsky.social

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August 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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My article on cyber security and schools in the @tesmagazine.bsky.social today highlights three simple, quick steps to improve digital citizenship across the life of the school, drawing on @erpioe.bsky.social work at @uofglasgow.bsky.social www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Why cyberattacks on Scottish schools make digital skills crucial
Digital threats seem to be everywhere - yet the digital part of children’s identities cannot be removed when they step inside a school, says Professor David Lundie
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September 1, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Last chance to register for our Manchester workshop on Monday 7th July for secondary school #teachers & #EdTech companies! Please share widely and hope to see you there! #EdTechEquity #UKEdu #UKedchat edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/workshops/wo...
WORKSHOP: Designing EdTech for Equity (Manchester)
This workshop is an important opportunity for teachers and EdTech companies to think collaboratively about equitable EdTech design and use in secondary school contexts.
edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk
June 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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What matters in education? 📚 Join @erpioe.bsky.social on Thurs 26 June, 17:30–19:00 (online) for an event on developing pedagogies in early years & primary settings. Explore how research & practice can work together. Free to attend! #Education #UCL #ERP shorturl.at/tfjF4
Developing pedagogies in early years and primary school settings: opportunities and challenges
In this webinar Sarah Chicken and Alison Porter will discuss the approaches they have used to develop innovative pedagogic practice in primary and early years settings. Their projects took place again...
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June 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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An excellent couple of days at the inaugural #ECCES conference - great to share some findings from the project and to engage in lots of lively, critical conversations on all things #edtech, teaching and learning 🇨🇭☀️ @erpioe.bsky.social @education.ox.ac.uk
June 20, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Co-creation of research agendas could strengthen policy research engagement wonkhe.com/blogs/co-cre...
Co-creation of research agendas could strengthen policy research engagement
Drawing on research on the conditions for effective engagement between research and policy, Georgiana Mihut, Sevda Ozsezer-Kurnuc and Thomas Perry consider whether policymakers should be involved earl...
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June 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Slightly different walk to work this morning, giving evidence on my @erpioe.bsky.social #DigitalCitizenship research to @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Education Select Committee #EdTech parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
June 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Another big milestone on our @erpioe.bsky.social
project on Digital Citizenship, under @lundieeducation.bsky.social
—as we move into our Impact Acceleration phase in partnership with our Community of Practice. Some of the best teachers, practitioners, technologists with whom I have ever worked
June 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
📢 Join us 26 June for a webinar on early years & primary pedagogies across policy contexts. Book now! 👉 bit.ly/43kd0aM #WhatMattersIOE
Developing pedagogies in early years and primary school settings: opportunities and challenges
In this webinar Sarah Chicken and Alison Porter will discuss the approaches they have used to develop innovative pedagogic practice in primary and early years settings. Their projects took place again...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Just published on the @beranews.bsky.social blog, some reflections on why influencing policy and practice is less straightforward than the "impact" narrative would have us believe. Gemma Moss finds "knowledge exchange" is a more useful approach. See if you agree - bit.ly/43D0SSe
Beyond research findings: The value of knowledge exchange
All researchers are motivated by the desire to create new knowledge, to reframe the terms in which a particular topic is understood or suggest new insights that could be acted on in the real...
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May 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Recording of my @digilearnscot.bsky.social @educationscotland.bsky.social talk on Teaching for Digital Citizenship, explaining the framework from our @uofgeducation.bsky.social @erpioe.bsky.social teacher community of practice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wysZ...
Education Scotland Digital Literacy Week: Digital Citizenship
YouTube video by Digital Skills
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May 15, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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How can schools improve teacher resilience and retention?

Join this webinar on 19 May to hear speakers discuss building resilient schools by supporting leadership development and teacher wellbeing. @erpioe.bsky.social

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How to build resilient schools: place-based approaches to supporting
In this webinar, Toby Greany and Steph Ainsworth will discuss their research into developing place-based approaches to school leadership development and tools that schools can use to improve teacher
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May 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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@tobygreany.bsky.social will discuss rethinking leadership development through the lens of place - research findings from the Sustainable School Leadership study in this @ucl.ac.uk webinar on 19 May.

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How to build resilient schools: place-based approaches to supporting teachers and leaders
In this webinar, Toby Greany and Steph Ainsworth will discuss their research into developing place-based approaches to school leadership development and tools that schools can use to improve teacher r...
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April 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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As important and hard-hitting as 'Adolescence' is, it is art, fiction. As our @erpioe.bsky.social Digital Citizenship work shows, the realities are more complex, and young people need to see how to make positive change, not just more scaremongering by adults www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04...
I’m a teacher and mother of white British teenage boys – Starmer’s Adolescence plan is a mistake
The acclaimed Netflix drama has provoked nationwide debate, but the PM’s plan to screen it in classrooms has met fierce resistance
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April 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Our research highlights that the evidence base schools may rely on to make decisions about EdTech is lacking. Read about our recent submission to the EEB evidence board here: edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/reconfigurin...

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Reconfiguring EdTech Evidence: Response to the EEB’s call for evidence
The EdTech Equity project's response to the EdTech Evidence Board's call for evidence.
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April 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Great to be in Chicago learning about EdTech research across the globe and to share what we are finding re: the gap between aspirational visions of education in a digital society and the realities of everyday classroom practices in England #CIES2025💡📚 @erpioe.bsky.social @oxforddeptofed.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🔔 📣 New hybrid seminar and book launch: 'Children's Agency in the National Curriculum: The Promise of Structured Freedom'. Join the speakers at this event on 24 June to discuss how children's voices and choices shape their learning.

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Children's agency in the national curriculum: The promise of structured freedom | IOE - Faculty of Education and Society
An international seminar and book launch including new research on how children's voices and choices shape their learning.
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March 18, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Evolution not revolution? A cautious Curriculum & Assessment Review interim report focuses on continuity and trade-offs not radical change bit.ly/42dIQFp
Curriculum review interim report: The 14 reforms
Here's what you need to know about the first report from the Francis review
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March 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Our project has highlighted some important considerations around technology use for SEND students in mainstream secondary schools. See here for our response to the UK Parliament’s call for evidence on ‘Solving the SEND crisis’: edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/a-response-t...
A response to the UK Parliament’s call for evidence: Solving the SEND crisis
The EdTech Equity project's response to the UK Parliament's call for evidence on 'Solving the SEND crisis'.
edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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In a changing world, our commitment to education and society does not waver.

Thank you to our dedicated staff, students, alumni and partners for making @ucl.ac.uk the best in the world for studying Education.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Explore the latest ERP briefing note: a “chain reaction” conversation bridging education research & policy. Contribute your insights! bit.ly/4h3Vrzf 📚✨ #EdResearch #Policy #KnowledgeExchange
Knowledge Exchange in Education. Briefing Note #2 Finding a third space
A group of Ofsted researchers and academics consider how to improve relations between research and policy.
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February 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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In case you’ve missed them… Check out some of our blogs! From “What is EdTech?” to “Online tutoring and EdTech partnerships” ✏️ edtech.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/
Blog
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February 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
🌟 Don't miss the next What Matters in Education?
The Curriculum Review: What works, what’s missing, what’s next?
17 March 5:30pm.

Zongyi Deng, Gorana Henry, Lynne Rogers, Theo Bryer, and Ken Jones as they discuss the Curriculum Review Interim Report.

📅 Book your spot! bit.ly/4i7Wz5P
The Curriculum Review: What works, what’s missing, what’s next?
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February 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Edited by team member Jane Waters-Davies - check out 'Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors'
📢 We are delighted to announce the launch of the latest publication in our Praxis series; Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention. Edited By Mehmet Mart, Georgia Gessiou and Jane Waters-Davies. 1/3
Exploring the Pedagogy of Learning and Playing Outdoors: Questions of Purpose and Intention
Focusing on the empirical evidence base for pedagogical decisions taken when children are playing and learning outside, this groundbreaking book examines the intention and purpose of children’s outdoo...
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February 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM