IOE Insights

What affects the development of language, literacy and numeracy? What kinds of educational practice that best support the growth of these key skills?

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/embedding-research-language-literacy-and-numeracy-practice
 Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-embedding-research-language-literacy-and-numeracy-practice
 Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

Educational technology such as apps and online resources to support learning is booming, from preschool to higher education and beyond, but how can we ensure it is well designed and effective?

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/psychological-research-informing-ed-tech

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-psychological-research-informing-ed-tech

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

Discussing research on the causes of different forms of eating disorder and the development of interventions aimed at reducing the severity and incidence of these.

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/researching-causes-eating-disorders-case-decision-making-skills

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-researching-causes-eating-disorders-case-decision-making-skills

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

We learn about recent work on the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted mental health across the generations, but also specifically children with special educational needs and research students in universities, and the factors that may have exacerbated and helped reduce this impact.

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/covid-19-pandemic-and-its-impact-mental-health

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-covid-19-pandemic-and-its-impact-mental-health

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

The Department of Psychology and Human Development's research on autism exemplifies a strong ethos of collaboration and co-production with research stakeholders. Colleagues discuss why this approach is so important to them and their work.

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/collaboration-and-co-production-psychological-research

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-collaboration-and-co-production-psychological-research

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

Academics discuss their mission to develop and disseminate best practice in inclusive education, using knowledge exchange to support better outcomes for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) in a range of areas.

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/supporting-inclusive-education-through-knowledge-exchange

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-supporting-inclusive-education-through-knowledge-exchange

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

What are some of the key psychological and neural processes underpinning learning in different areas of the school curriculum and how can teachers apply that information to their practice?

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes:  https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/educational-neuroscience-and-its-application-teaching-practice

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-educational-neuroscience-and-its-application-teaching-practice

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

A conversation with Professor Peter Blatchford mapping the growth of the Department of Psychology and Human Development in the 1980s, using his many landmark studies.

Part of the Psyched about Education series. New episodes released daily between 21 February 2022 - 1 March 2022.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/brief-history-ioes-department-psychology-and-human-development

Transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120/ioe120-psyched-about-education/transcript-brief-history-ioes-department-psychology-and-human-development

Find out about IOE120: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/ioe120

This year, IOE celebrates its 120th anniversary, and Emeritus Professor John White has been around for almost half of its lifetime. He tells Emily MacLeod about what life at the IOE was like when he started and how much things have changed from a professional and personal perspective.

With his research focus on the philosophy of education, Professor White discusses student wellbeing, policy, practice, PGCEs and Plato.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/philosophys-influence-school-curriculum-rftrw-s13e04

Dr Laura Outhwaite chats to Professor David Gough to learn about research synthesis to look  beyond individual study findings in order to respond to the bigger picture, and a new frontier: why research is - or isn't - used in practice and decision-making.

And in what's become an infodemic as well as a pandemic, Professor James Thomas has been working on a living map of systematic reviews to help researchers and policy makers keep up to date with huge volumes of shifting Covid-19 evidence.

Full show notes: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2022/feb/harnessing-evidence-tackle-health-issues-rftrw-s13e03