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Working together: Research and Practice Event 2024

Working together: Research and Practice Event 2024

  • Date21 June 2024

The South East Research Network for Schools (SERNS) aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to maximise the impact of research on practice within schools and improve outcomes for children and young people.

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Research and Practice Event Programme 2024

Thank you very much for your participation!

Please click talk/workshop titles to download resources (e.g., talk slides).

 

Programme:

08:30 

Registration, Coffee and Tea

09:00 

Welcome  

09:10 

Professor Jessie Ricketts

Working with secondary teachers to build capacity and confidence around reading 

09:25 

Dr Maria Korochkina

What does it take to read and understand the GCSE English Literature texts?

09:40 

Dr Anastasia Lopukhina

Can same-language subtitles help children become better readers? 

09:55 

Courtney Hooton

Supporting vocabulary learning in noise: what do we know and what can we do? 

10:10 

Workshop introductions 

 

10:20 

Coffee and Tea

10:50 

Rebecca Ferdinand

Mental health and the school environment 

11:05 

Dr Jessica Kingston

Suspicion and mistrust in adolescents 

11:20 

Zain Khan

Loneliness in adolescents: building social connections 

11:35 

Dr Rob Lachlan & Warren Horrod-Wilson

Teaching evolution without a time machine 

11:50 

Professor Dawn Watling

Noticing nature: Links with connectedness to nature and wellbeing  

12:05 

LUNCH 

13:05 

Workshops (75 min) 

Dr Sonia Singh - How do you motivate learners in the classroom and in digital spaces?

 

OR

 

Professor Anat Bardi - How can teachers use personal values in the classroom to encourage value development in children?

14:20 

Coffee and Tea (30 min) 

14:50 

Keynote: Professor Helen Pote

Making the most of digital approaches to mental health in schools 

15:50 

Closing remarks 

 

 

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