2020-10-07 Children are more likely to introduce violent themes into their pretend play such as imaginary fighting or killing if they are with playmates whom peers consider bad-tempered new research suggests.Read the full story here. |
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2020-10-07 Four PhD candidates have been awarded PEDAL studentships – which cover the cost of a PhD course in the Centre for Research on Play in Education Development and Learning (PEDAL) – for 2020. Read the full story here. |
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2020-09-24 Free resources that help parents make COVID-19 sample-taking a little less frightening for children by turning it into a playful experience have been published by University of Cambridge researchers.Read the full story here |
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2020-09-23 The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) whose work to improve the education of marginalised girls in Africa has been supported through a research partnership with the Faculty has been awarded the world’s largest prize in education.Read the full story here. |
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2020-09-22 Researchers from more than 50 universities have launched a project which aims to piece together a coherent vision for Higher Education’s post-pandemic future while simultaneously operating as a ‘live experiment’ in how it might work. The project ‘Building the Post-Pandemic University’ is being hosted by the Faculty of Education is open to academics around the world and already involves contributions from scholars in 14 different countries.Read the full story here. |
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2020-09-01 Anna Vignoles who is Professor of Education at the Faculty has been appointed as Director of the Leverhulme Trust: one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK. She will take up her new post in January 2021.Read the full story here. |
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2020-08-28 Bookings are now open for the first in a series of free Faculty-run lunchtime webinars during September which will explore some of the many aspects of play research.Full story and booking information here. |
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2020-08-27 Catherine Ward who studied for an MPhil in Education Globalisation and International Development (EGID) at the Faculty in 2018/19 has recently had an academic paper published based on work that she undertook during her course of study. Catherine is now studying at the University of Virginia Law School. She told us a little more about the research her reasons for studying at Cambridge and how an MPhil helped her to prepare for a career at the intersections of law social justice and research.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-08-21 Gabrielle Spears is a former Primary PGCE and Masters student at the Faculty of Education. The research she undertook for her Masters thesis covered an innovative action research project in which she used fairytales to subvert traditional assumptions about gender in a particularly boisterous playground at the London primary school where she teaches. This work has since formed the basis of an article by Gabrielle which was published in an academic journal. Here she discusses how she came to study at the Faculty the research project itself and how it helped to change a group of children’s minds about what girls and boys ‘should do’.Read the full interview here. |
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2020-08-17 In an academic career that began in Ireland and has taken him to the United States and the universities of Cardiff Otago and Sussex Gordon Harold's most recent appointmen is with the Faculty as Cambridge's first Professor of the Psychology of Education and Mental Health. He told us a little about himself the importance and challenges of this exciting research field and how it may develop in his new Cambridge role.Read the full interview here |
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