This page contains information about our upcoming seminars and seminars we have held in the past (many of which were recorded and are available to watch).

The research presented in each aligns with the work the University of Bath's Department of Education is doing. They cover topics such as research in the fields of educational leadership, management and governance, internationalisation and globalisation, language and educational practices, and learning, pedagogy and diversity.

Attend a seminar

All of our seminars are free to attend and take place on the University of Bath campus or online. If you have any questions about our seminars, please contact Dr Nicola Savvides

Upcoming seminars

We will add details of seminars to this page as we arrange them. Please check regularly for updates.

Professor Wen-Chuan Lin, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan

• Title: Integrating Al into Bilingual HPE Materials to Enhance Learning Motivation: A Cross-Domain Practice Project
• Date: 26 November
• Time: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
• Location: 1 West North, 3.09, and online

During this seminar, Professor Wen-Chuan Lin will discuss the following research:

The rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (Al) has created new opportunities for education, particularly through the application of generative Al. This project builds upon bilingual printed teaching materials for the high school Sports and Health curriculum and integrates cutting-edge technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Augmented Reality (AR), and a bilingual speech-recognition learning companion robot. By aligning Al technologies with existing resources, the project aims to enhance student engagement and motivation in Health and Physical Education while strengthening English learning.

Join online

You can join this webinar on Microsoft Teams using the details below:

• Meeting ID: 345 820 728 229 01
• Passcode: T8sF2y6x

Professor Michele Schweisfurth, University of Glasgow

• Title: Pedagogy in Comparative and International Perspective: perennial and contemporary critical issues
• Date: 1 December
• Time: 12.15pm to 1.15pm
• Location: Online

This seminar will explore the relationships between pedagogy and its local, national and global contexts. It will consider contrasting ways of conceptualising classroom practice, and how these have fostered the establishment of very different epistemic communities. It will draw on Professor Michele Schweisfurth's own research of the past 25 years on pedagogy, along with research for a recent book on the divisions found in research and planning on pedagogy.

Pedagogy includes both the observable act of teaching, and everything behind it, including philosophies, policies, and cultural and teacher beliefs (Alexander, 2001). This two-sided definition helps to explain why understandings of good teaching practice vary across cultures and scales, and why pedagogical patterns persist over long periods of time, even when global forces converge and policies prescribe change. The current context – post-COVID, mid-Sustainable Development Goals, and with the language of crisis perpetuating a sense of urgency – means that it is timely to re-examine pedagogy and situate it across different scales, from the global to the local (Schweisfurth 2023).

Join online

You can join this webinar on Microsoft Teams using the details below:

• Meeting ID: 380 331 327 632 46
• Passcode: dR3z7op6