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“I didn't see a lot of South Asian queer founders... I needed to be that person.”
Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs discuss the power of inclusion and innovation. Listen to the full episode: share.transistor.fm/s/2264c729
Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs discuss the power of inclusion and innovation. Listen to the full episode: share.transistor.fm/s/2264c729
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“I didn't see a lot of South Asian queer founders... I needed to be that person.”
Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs discuss the power of inclusion and innovation. Listen to the full episode: share.transistor.fm/s/2264c729
Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs discuss the power of inclusion and innovation. Listen to the full episode: share.transistor.fm/s/2264c729
The Staffroom's podcast doors open again with Season 6 Ep 1 on balance in the reading wars. Dominic Wyse and @charliehacking.bsky.social discuss the "double helix" of reading and writing, an approach combining phonics teaching with engaging activities. Listen here:
share.transistor.fm/s/3c03fe84
share.transistor.fm/s/3c03fe84
Bringing balance to the 'reading wars' debate | The Staffroom | IOE insights | Episode 1
A holistic view of how phonics, writing, reading and language come together to make a child truly literate.Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking tell Mark and Elaine about the "double helix" of reading and writing, an approach that combines phonics teaching with engaging reading and writing...
share.transistor.fm
November 9, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The Staffroom's podcast doors open again with Season 6 Ep 1 on balance in the reading wars. Dominic Wyse and @charliehacking.bsky.social discuss the "double helix" of reading and writing, an approach combining phonics teaching with engaging activities. Listen here:
share.transistor.fm/s/3c03fe84
share.transistor.fm/s/3c03fe84
In our IOE Blog, Baroness Mary Bousted, who presented #TeachingCommission’s report in the House of Lords last month, explains the proposals to ensure the teaching profession is sustainable and able to thrive.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/11/...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/11/...
The urgent task of improving the working lives of teachers
Teaching is a ‘weakened workforce’, drained by poor retention at every stage, from early career through to mid-career and leadership… (read more)
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
In our IOE Blog, Baroness Mary Bousted, who presented #TeachingCommission’s report in the House of Lords last month, explains the proposals to ensure the teaching profession is sustainable and able to thrive.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/11/...
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/11/...
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🔊Professor @jessicaringrose.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social discusses a survey by Male Allies UK that found over a third of teenage boys said they were considering the idea of an AI friend on BBC Woman's Hour.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 50 min, 26 sec)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 50 min, 26 sec)
Woman's Hour - Teenage boys and AI, Lynsey Addario, Choking porn law - BBC Sounds
How and why are teenage boys using AI for therapy and romance?
www.bbc.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🔊Professor @jessicaringrose.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social discusses a survey by Male Allies UK that found over a third of teenage boys said they were considering the idea of an AI friend on BBC Woman's Hour.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 50 min, 26 sec)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (from 50 min, 26 sec)
On 13 Nov, Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson will discuss how the ‘No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)’ immigration policy enforces destitution and debt.
They will explore its effects on families, offering insights into anti-migrant rhetoric, social justice and belonging.
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/...
They will explore its effects on families, offering insights into anti-migrant rhetoric, social justice and belonging.
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On 13 Nov, Rachel Rosen and Eve Dickson will discuss how the ‘No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF)’ immigration policy enforces destitution and debt.
They will explore its effects on families, offering insights into anti-migrant rhetoric, social justice and belonging.
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/...
They will explore its effects on families, offering insights into anti-migrant rhetoric, social justice and belonging.
www.ucl.ac.uk/events/events/...
Thank you for coming to last night's Teacher Training Open Evening!
In case you missed it, you can find out more about training to teach at IOE: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/...
In case you missed it, you can find out more about training to teach at IOE: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/...
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thank you for coming to last night's Teacher Training Open Evening!
In case you missed it, you can find out more about training to teach at IOE: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/...
In case you missed it, you can find out more about training to teach at IOE: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/courses/...
Merging touch, design and digital technology.
Research from Profs Carey Jewitt and Sara Price explores the social and sensory aspects of 'digital touch', including
• its potential to trigger new ideas
• help users think through experiences
• inspire creative, haptic design
uclioe.info/4qEyJnc
Research from Profs Carey Jewitt and Sara Price explores the social and sensory aspects of 'digital touch', including
• its potential to trigger new ideas
• help users think through experiences
• inspire creative, haptic design
uclioe.info/4qEyJnc
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Merging touch, design and digital technology.
Research from Profs Carey Jewitt and Sara Price explores the social and sensory aspects of 'digital touch', including
• its potential to trigger new ideas
• help users think through experiences
• inspire creative, haptic design
uclioe.info/4qEyJnc
Research from Profs Carey Jewitt and Sara Price explores the social and sensory aspects of 'digital touch', including
• its potential to trigger new ideas
• help users think through experiences
• inspire creative, haptic design
uclioe.info/4qEyJnc
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our Teacher Training Open Evening 📚🍎
Last call for our Teacher Training Open Evening!
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
November 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow for our Teacher Training Open Evening 📚🍎
'If AI one day becomes the infrastructure of knowledge, the role of educational institutions is to ensure knowledge remains tethered to meaning... to hold open the possibility education might remain a place where thought exceeds computation'
@drleatongray.bsky.social
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@drleatongray.bsky.social
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
The long slow turn: sapience, technology and the future of education
The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been narrated as a story of inevitability, implying that social institutions must simply keep up… (read more)
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
November 2, 2025 at 1:32 PM
'If AI one day becomes the infrastructure of knowledge, the role of educational institutions is to ensure knowledge remains tethered to meaning... to hold open the possibility education might remain a place where thought exceeds computation'
@drleatongray.bsky.social
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@drleatongray.bsky.social
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Last call for our Teacher Training Open Evening!
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
November 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Last call for our Teacher Training Open Evening!
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
✨ Inspire the next generation
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Start your teaching journey with us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
"I invite educators to reimagine scholarship as a space for justice." What does it mean to engage in racially just research and scholarship?
Dr Wilton Lodge reflects on how power, history and epistemic privilege shape knowledge production. #BlackHistoryMonth
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Dr Wilton Lodge reflects on how power, history and epistemic privilege shape knowledge production. #BlackHistoryMonth
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
October 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"I invite educators to reimagine scholarship as a space for justice." What does it mean to engage in racially just research and scholarship?
Dr Wilton Lodge reflects on how power, history and epistemic privilege shape knowledge production. #BlackHistoryMonth
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Dr Wilton Lodge reflects on how power, history and epistemic privilege shape knowledge production. #BlackHistoryMonth
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
Are you 16–25 and living with a #disability? On 5 Nov visit us @ucl.ac.uk for this interactive event that will make you rethink (dis)ability and employment!
Part of the #ESRCFestival of Social Science with Duncan Mercieca and kamenopoulou.bsky.social
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/rethi...
Part of the #ESRCFestival of Social Science with Duncan Mercieca and kamenopoulou.bsky.social
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/rethi...
Rethinking (Dis)Ability and Employment | Events | Festival of Social Science
This in-person, participatory workshop invites disabled young people (aged 16–25), including those currently unemployed, to creatively explore their experiences of employment…
festivalofsocialscience.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Are you 16–25 and living with a #disability? On 5 Nov visit us @ucl.ac.uk for this interactive event that will make you rethink (dis)ability and employment!
Part of the #ESRCFestival of Social Science with Duncan Mercieca and kamenopoulou.bsky.social
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/rethi...
Part of the #ESRCFestival of Social Science with Duncan Mercieca and kamenopoulou.bsky.social
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/rethi...
UCL is taking part in the ESRC Festival of Social Science
Check out "Wonders of linked administrative data" with IOE's Claire Crawford online on 5 Nov – plus several other UCL events.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/wonde...
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Check out "Wonders of linked administrative data" with IOE's Claire Crawford online on 5 Nov – plus several other UCL events.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/wonde...
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Wonders of linked administrative data | Events | Festival of Social Science
This online workshop offers an introduction to administrative data – what is it, how is it securely accessed by researchers and what new evidence has it created to inform policy.…
festivalofsocialscience.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
UCL is taking part in the ESRC Festival of Social Science
Check out "Wonders of linked administrative data" with IOE's Claire Crawford online on 5 Nov – plus several other UCL events.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/wonde...
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Check out "Wonders of linked administrative data" with IOE's Claire Crawford online on 5 Nov – plus several other UCL events.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/wonde...
@cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
What does the future of EdTech look like?
Alison Clark-Wilson built a practical design tool – EdTech Testbeds – to evaluate and scale EdTech solutions, and improve educational outcomes.
Read in #IOEImpactStories
uclioe.info/4nmT7ql
Alison Clark-Wilson built a practical design tool – EdTech Testbeds – to evaluate and scale EdTech solutions, and improve educational outcomes.
Read in #IOEImpactStories
uclioe.info/4nmT7ql
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
What does the future of EdTech look like?
Alison Clark-Wilson built a practical design tool – EdTech Testbeds – to evaluate and scale EdTech solutions, and improve educational outcomes.
Read in #IOEImpactStories
uclioe.info/4nmT7ql
Alison Clark-Wilson built a practical design tool – EdTech Testbeds – to evaluate and scale EdTech solutions, and improve educational outcomes.
Read in #IOEImpactStories
uclioe.info/4nmT7ql
✨ Inspire the next generation – your teaching journey starts here.
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Explore routes into teaching, and meet tutors, admissions and funding experts.
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Explore routes into teaching, and meet tutors, admissions and funding experts.
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
✨ Inspire the next generation – your teaching journey starts here.
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Explore routes into teaching, and meet tutors, admissions and funding experts.
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
🗓 Tuesday, 4 Nov 2025 | 4–7 pm
📍 UCL Institute of Education, Bloomsbury, London
Explore routes into teaching, and meet tutors, admissions and funding experts.
Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news-and-e...
🍿🎞️ “We would like to be the black BFI. Why not dream big?”
Discover how five leaders are shaping East London’s creative future through creative entrepreneurship and community-driven programmes.
Listen to the full episode: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
Discover how five leaders are shaping East London’s creative future through creative entrepreneurship and community-driven programmes.
Listen to the full episode: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
October 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🍿🎞️ “We would like to be the black BFI. Why not dream big?”
Discover how five leaders are shaping East London’s creative future through creative entrepreneurship and community-driven programmes.
Listen to the full episode: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
Discover how five leaders are shaping East London’s creative future through creative entrepreneurship and community-driven programmes.
Listen to the full episode: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
Building a curriculum that supports flourishing starts with
• Centring children’s interests
• Supporting teacher autonomy
• Aligning assessment with creativity, reflection and understanding
Yana Manyukhina writes on the IOE Blog
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social
• Centring children’s interests
• Supporting teacher autonomy
• Aligning assessment with creativity, reflection and understanding
Yana Manyukhina writes on the IOE Blog
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social
Reimagining the curriculum for the 21st century: evidence from a global perspective
The new special issue of Education 3–13 brings timely global evidence to the conversation around children’s “love of learning”… (read more)
blogs.ucl.ac.uk
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Building a curriculum that supports flourishing starts with
• Centring children’s interests
• Supporting teacher autonomy
• Aligning assessment with creativity, reflection and understanding
Yana Manyukhina writes on the IOE Blog
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social
• Centring children’s interests
• Supporting teacher autonomy
• Aligning assessment with creativity, reflection and understanding
Yana Manyukhina writes on the IOE Blog
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/2025/10/...
@hhcp-ucl.bsky.social
Based on 14 years of research and over 750 interviews, the "Lost Scientists" exhibition reveals how systemic exclusion leads to underrepresentation in STEM. "Vanessa", a Black girl who loved science, represents those whose potential is lost.
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALs...
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALs...
The "Lost Scientist" | UCL Institute of Education
YouTube video by UCL Institute of Education
www.youtube.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Based on 14 years of research and over 750 interviews, the "Lost Scientists" exhibition reveals how systemic exclusion leads to underrepresentation in STEM. "Vanessa", a Black girl who loved science, represents those whose potential is lost.
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALs...
#BlackHistoryMonth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALs...
From podcast and editing suites, to our state-of-the-art cinema, our Media BA gives you access to the equipment that powers today's creative industries 🎙️🕹️📹
Want to find out what studying here could be like? Join us on 29 October for our UCL East Undergraduate Open Afternoon.
uclioe.info/3KS5JrM
Want to find out what studying here could be like? Join us on 29 October for our UCL East Undergraduate Open Afternoon.
uclioe.info/3KS5JrM
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
From podcast and editing suites, to our state-of-the-art cinema, our Media BA gives you access to the equipment that powers today's creative industries 🎙️🕹️📹
Want to find out what studying here could be like? Join us on 29 October for our UCL East Undergraduate Open Afternoon.
uclioe.info/3KS5JrM
Want to find out what studying here could be like? Join us on 29 October for our UCL East Undergraduate Open Afternoon.
uclioe.info/3KS5JrM
"Miller’s photographs from Buchenwald and Dachau are like a sucker punch to the stomach... inviting us to reflect and question our own humanity"
Reflections from Tate's retrospective of Lee Miller, curated with @andypearce.bsky.social of @uclholocaust.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lee-miller-r...
Reflections from Tate's retrospective of Lee Miller, curated with @andypearce.bsky.social of @uclholocaust.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lee-miller-r...
Lee Miller retrospective confirms her as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century
The biggest Lee Miller show since 2007, this new exhibition tells her complex story through 250 modern and vintage prints, including previously unseen images.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Miller’s photographs from Buchenwald and Dachau are like a sucker punch to the stomach... inviting us to reflect and question our own humanity"
Reflections from Tate's retrospective of Lee Miller, curated with @andypearce.bsky.social of @uclholocaust.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lee-miller-r...
Reflections from Tate's retrospective of Lee Miller, curated with @andypearce.bsky.social of @uclholocaust.bsky.social
theconversation.com/lee-miller-r...
@uclholocaust.bsky.social is transforming how the Holocaust is taught in schools by:
• Designing teacher professional development
• Creating resources to tackle antisemitism and misconceptions about Jewish people
• Training up schools to teach Holocaust education
uclioe.info/3LkKJKo
• Designing teacher professional development
• Creating resources to tackle antisemitism and misconceptions about Jewish people
• Training up schools to teach Holocaust education
uclioe.info/3LkKJKo
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
@uclholocaust.bsky.social is transforming how the Holocaust is taught in schools by:
• Designing teacher professional development
• Creating resources to tackle antisemitism and misconceptions about Jewish people
• Training up schools to teach Holocaust education
uclioe.info/3LkKJKo
• Designing teacher professional development
• Creating resources to tackle antisemitism and misconceptions about Jewish people
• Training up schools to teach Holocaust education
uclioe.info/3LkKJKo
✏️🎨 “Every school should be a creative and cultural institution"
Introducing the Creative Landscapes podcast: Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs explore how the 2012 Games catalysed one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative-media ecosystems.
Listen: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
Introducing the Creative Landscapes podcast: Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs explore how the 2012 Games catalysed one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative-media ecosystems.
Listen: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
✏️🎨 “Every school should be a creative and cultural institution"
Introducing the Creative Landscapes podcast: Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs explore how the 2012 Games catalysed one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative-media ecosystems.
Listen: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
Introducing the Creative Landscapes podcast: Hear trailblazers from East London’s Olympic boroughs explore how the 2012 Games catalysed one of the UK’s fastest-growing creative-media ecosystems.
Listen: ioe.transistor.fm/episodes/u...
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Pleased to host Dame Caroline Wilson DCMG (former British Ambassador to China) at @ucl.ac.uk for a discussion with President & Provost Dr Michael Spence and Prof Li Wei (@ioe.bsky.social) on our China priorities — including the health collaboration with @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social.
#UCLandChina
#UCLandChina
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Pleased to host Dame Caroline Wilson DCMG (former British Ambassador to China) at @ucl.ac.uk for a discussion with President & Provost Dr Michael Spence and Prof Li Wei (@ioe.bsky.social) on our China priorities — including the health collaboration with @tsinghuauniversity.bsky.social.
#UCLandChina
#UCLandChina
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The walls speak for themselves
Join TCRU's Amena Amer on 23 Oct, 12:00–13:00, where she'll explore the lived realities of Muslim women in London’s universities, through the contexts of safety, identity and belonging.
bit.ly/4hdWkad
#UCL #MuslimWomen #Diversity
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
Join TCRU's Amena Amer on 23 Oct, 12:00–13:00, where she'll explore the lived realities of Muslim women in London’s universities, through the contexts of safety, identity and belonging.
bit.ly/4hdWkad
#UCL #MuslimWomen #Diversity
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
The walls speak for themselves: Muslim women's belonging and safety in London universities
Join this event to hear Dr Amena Amer discuss the intersecting experiences of Muslim women at universities.
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October 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The walls speak for themselves
Join TCRU's Amena Amer on 23 Oct, 12:00–13:00, where she'll explore the lived realities of Muslim women in London’s universities, through the contexts of safety, identity and belonging.
bit.ly/4hdWkad
#UCL #MuslimWomen #Diversity
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social
Join TCRU's Amena Amer on 23 Oct, 12:00–13:00, where she'll explore the lived realities of Muslim women in London’s universities, through the contexts of safety, identity and belonging.
bit.ly/4hdWkad
#UCL #MuslimWomen #Diversity
@sriucl.bsky.social @ioe.bsky.social