Southampton Education School doctoral researchers Jingwen Song and Aprillyana Utami were selected to attend the Malmö University PhD Summer School: Building Theory in STEM Education Research, held from 20-23 August 2025, in Malmö, Sweden. Jingwen and Aprillyana learned a lot about research paradigms, theories used in STEM education research, and their own reflections on how…
SEEN meeting 26th June 2025, hosted at Sholing Valleys Study Centre Blackbird Environmental Fund Led by Rick Page & Steve Bowles Rick & Steve soft-launched Blackbird Environmental Fund, which provides funding and support for small scale projects for Southampton schools to encourage a connection with nature. Their introduction included evidence that time outdoors positively impacts…
Southampton Education School doctoral researchers Aprillyana Utami and Jingwen Song were selected to attend the European Science Education Research Association (ESERA) Summer School, held from 9-14 June 2025 in Almería, Spain. At the summer school, Aprillyana presented her work on developing a culture-based socio-scientific issues training programme for Indonesian…
Professor Christian Bokhove published a new article titled “How far should we trust ‘edubooks’?” on Tes . In it, he suggests that reading a slew of educational books may not be the best way to make your teaching truly evidence-informed. You can read this thought-provoking piece here: https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/general/can-teachers-trust-education-books-research
SEEN meeting 6th March 2025, hosted at the University of Southampton Sustainability Support for Education Sean Phelan, Senior Product Manager, TPX Sustainability Support for Education is a free online service, commissioned by the Department for Education, that supports you to progress your Climate Action Plan. It helps you to identify the strategic next steps that are…
Professor Christian Bokhove (MaSE, Southampton Education School) and Dr Edward Redhead (School of Psychology) have published a new article “Building digital cube houses to improve mental rotation skills”. Prior research indicates that spatial skills, such as mental rotation skills (MRS), are a strong predictor for mathematics achievement, while other studies have also shown that MRS…
Dr Athina Thoma and Dr Charis Voutsina from MaSE attended and presented their work at the 14th Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME 14) in Bolzano, Italy. The Congress is structured around Thematic Working Groups (TWGs), each focusing on specific areas within mathematics education research. These TWGs cover a broad spectrum…
The next research seminar on climate change education will be hosted by the MaSE research centre, titled ‘It’s getting hot in here: is climate adaptation education a new priority for school leaders?‘, with Dr Lynda Dunlop from the University of York as the speaker. Date: Tuesday, 18th of February 2025 Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Location: 32/2097 and via Zoom…
Mrs Rachele Newman and Dr Wonyong Park published a post on the BERA blog, reflecting on the Remembering Titanic project, where they worked with science and history teachers to develop a cross-curricular unit of work relevant to the local context. Please find the post here.
On 22nd November 2024, we had the opportunity to share and reflect on the work completed during the COSMOS final conference, that took place in Utrecht, hosted by the project coordinators at Utrecht University. The COSMOS final conference brought together project partners, teacher participants, school leaders, and science education researchers to discuss how open schooling…