Topic: education

The Decision Sciences and Analytics group recruits a doctoral researcher to study how AI systems should be designed around human decisions, particularly when consequences are high stakes or long term. Potential settings include clinical and legal decisions and education. The work is mainly theoretical, with experiments and external collaborations where needed, alongside teaching and student supervision. The initial appointment is 18 months, with extension toward a four- to five-year doctorate subject to progress. The start date is negotiable. Apply online with a one-page motivation letter, CV,

Chapter 2 follows Tempest McDonald's journey through higher education after earning a high-school equivalency degree and becoming a single mother.

Oh Joon examines children’s rights through the United Nations’ interconnected concerns with peace, development and human rights. He discusses the shift from treating children only as recipients of protection and education to recognizing them as rights-holders, and considers the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the role of development cooperation. The lecture applies this framework to Rohingya children displaced to Bangladesh, focusing on statelessness and barriers to education. It considers diplomatic cooperation between Bangladesh and Myanmar and the need for sustained international

Analogical reasoning is a common reasoning tool for learning and problem-solving. Existing research has extensively studied children’s reasoning when comparing, or choosing from ready-made analogies. Relatively less is known about how children come up with analogies in authentic learning environments. Design education provides a suitable context to investigate how children generate analogies for creative learning purposes. Meanwhile, the frequent use of visual analogies in design provides an additional opportunity to understand the role of spatial reasoning in design-by-analogy. Spatial reason

Cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience researchers have agreed that the replication of findings is important for establishing which ideas (or theories) are integral to the study of cognition across the lifespan. Recently, high-profile papers have called into question findings that were once thought to be unassailable. Much attention has been paid to how p-hacking, publication bias, and sample size are responsible for failed replications. However, much less attention has been paid to the fidelity by which researchers enact study protocols. Researchers conducting education or clinical tria

Evidence-based education programmes, like many clinical interventions, are multi-faceted and can be expensive to implement. In this talk I will describe an alternative: distilling the common elements across many evidence-based programmes. Published programme manuals are selected through systematic review, then extensively coded and cross-referenced. Finally, the common elements that emerge are shared with practitioners as part of a ‘library’ of practices (rather than a holistic programme manual). Although the common elements methodology has been used in the prevention and intervention sciences

Dr Juavinett will be presenting her book "So you want to be a neuroscientist?", which aims to give aspiring neuroscientists honest, informative insight about the field, as well as education and careers through it. The talk will be followed by a pub quiz (which is optional).

The European University for Brain and Technology, NeurotechEU, is opening its doors on the 16th of December. From health & healthcare to learning & education, Neuroscience has a key role in addressing some of the most pressing challenges that we face in Europe today. Whether the challenge is the translation of fundamental research to advance the state of the art in prevention, diagnosis or treatment of brain disorders or explaining the complex interactions between the brain, individuals and their environments to design novel practices in cities, schools, hospitals, or companies, brain resea