An international seminar and book launch including new research on how children's voices and choices shape their learning. Recorded 24th June 2025 Speakers Tracy Curran: Director at the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA), Ireland Yana Manyukhina: Senior Research Fellow, Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy (0 to 11 Years), IOE – UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, UK Susan O’Neill: Professor and Head of the Department of Learning and Leadership at IOE – UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, UK Mark Priestley: Professor of Education and the Director of the Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling, UK Dominic Wyse: Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, IOE – UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society; Founding Director, HHCP, UK

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7/1/2025

The UCL Centre for Educational Leadership invites teachers, school leaders and researchers to contemplate the research-informed big questions about NPQ learning, wellbeing and retention in schools. Panellists Chair: Dr Peter Kent, President of the International Confederation of Principals Sir Kevan Collins, Non-Executive Director at DfE Leora Cruddas CBE, Chief Executive of the Confederation of School Trusts Professor Gemma Moss, UCL IOE Report authors Professor Qing Gu, Drs Xin Shao and Sofia Eleftheriadou, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership Dr Kathy Seymour, Director of Seymour Research Emeritus Professor Kenneth Leithwood, University of Toronto

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6/27/2025

Professor Jenny Woodman talks us through her research about how we deliver health and social care services to children and families in England, especially families living in very difficult circumstances. Jenny reflects on her experience of how research can inform policy, including as co-Director of the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit, and highlight the importance of describing practice and current systems to inform policy.

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6/5/2025

Professor Tom Stern teaches in the Philosophy Department and in the European and International Social and Political Studies programme at UCL. His recent publications include a book on Nietzsche's Ethics.

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6/3/2025

The book launch of Islamic Public Value: Theory, Practice, and Administration of Indigenous Cooperative Institutions, (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar), on Tuesday 20 May, 3.00-4.30pm, at the British Library (96 Euston Road, London, NW1 2DB), Eliot Room. Edited by Wolfgang Drechsler, Salah Chafik, and Rainer Kattel, this is one of the main outputs of an eponymous project at UCL IIPP, funded by a large-scale grant by the John Templeton Foundation. A trailblazing, collaborative work involving 40 scholars, book and project both extend the Public Value paradigm theoretically and practically and position Islamic Public Administration as an existing, viable and beneficial paradigm. The launch includes comments by the editors, a discussion panel featuring Professors Karen Johnston (University of Portsmouth) and Kerem Coban (SOAS), and of course opportunity for Q&A, immediately followed by a small reception in the Bronte Room of the British Library.

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5/27/2025

2025 marks the 40th anniversary of the Whitehall II Study, also known as the Stress and Health Study. To celebrate the occasion, we hosted a morning of talks on the 16th May 2025 at UCL in Bloomsbury. Welcome Professor Mika Kivimaki, UCL Insights from the Participant Focus Group 2024 Mrs Isabelle Wilson, UCL History of the Whitehall II Study Professor Sir Michael Marmot, UCL The contribution of Whitehall study to research, prevention and treatment of diabetes Professor Adam Tabak, UCL Cognitive ageing and dementia Professor Arch Singh-Manoux, UCL Future directions & closing remarks Professor Mika Kivimaki, UCL

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5/19/2025

Recorded 8th May 2025 Digital sovereignty has become an urgent question in contemporary policy debates, due to the way in which digital platforms have become a crucial instrument of influence and infrastructural power. World regions such as Europe and Latin America that - compared to China and the US - have little domestic capacity in key digital technologies such as semiconductors, software, cloud services, and more, are now drafting policies to reclaim control over digital technology. But to what extent are these digital sovereignty agendas realistic given the enormous dominant positions of Big Tech platforms? What should the priorities for countries that want to begin establishing "strategic autonomy" in this field be? What specific indicators, milestones, and goals should policy-makers consider as they push for their countries' digital freedom from pervasive foreign political interference and technological dependence?

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5/14/2025

Mass Data Surveillance and Predictive Policing critically assesses legal frameworks involving the bulk processing of personal data, initially collected by the private sector, to predict and prevent crime through advanced profiling technologies. In the EU, mass data surveillance currently engages three sectors: electronic communications (under the e-Privacy Directive), air travelling (under the Passenger Name Records Directive) and finance (under the Anti-Money Laundering Directive), and increasingly intersects with the deployment of predictive policing techniques. The book questions the legitimacy and impact of these frameworks in light of the EU’s powers to provide security while safeguarding fundamental rights, particularly privacy, data protection, effective remedy, fair trial and presumption of innocence.

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3/28/2025