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Education Departmental Seminar Series

We host speakers from academia and professional practice doing interesting, exciting and significant research or work in the field of education.

This page contains information about our upcoming seminars and seminars we have held in the past (many of which were recorded and 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

Find out more about our upcoming seminars. Please note: dates, times and locations of seminars may change, so check this page regularly.

Exploring instructional leadership: Insights from diverse contexts and methodologies

  • Speaker: Dr Sedat Gümüş, Education University of Hong Kong
  • Date: 29 May 2025
  • Time: 11am - 12pm
  • Location: Online

About this seminar

This talk explores instructional leadership and its impacts on educational settings, drawing on Dr. Gümüş’s research across diverse contexts and methodologies. It will trace the evolution of instructional leadership from historical perspectives to contemporary understanding. Building upon this foundation, the discussion will evolve toward the influence of instructional leadership on teacher and organizational variables. Throughout the presentation, emphasis will be placed on the role of context regarding cultural norms, organisational structures, and educational policies.

Join this seminar

You can join this seminar online via Microsoft Teams. Please join 5-10 mins ahead of the time outlined above.

Creative methodologies of future hopefulness in educational practices – sharing and developing creative methodologies

About this seminar

During this talk, Dr Kristine Bagge Kousholt will present practice research and co-researching (e.g. Mørck & Huniche 2006) as part of a critical psychological tradition as well as memory work (Haug et al. 1999) developed as part of the same tradition. Finally, she'll discuss similarities to ‘utopian methodologies’ (Rajala, Cole & Esteban-Guitart 2023). Both are about producing alternative forms of knowledge and practices that might challenge hegemonic structures and support equality. Furthermore, memory work is about exploring how we as active subjects are always part of the construction and re-construction processes of both subject formation and of social structures and how change is possible through e.g. collective memory work (Haug 1999; 2008). As Frigga Haug and colleagues has formerly putted it: Our aim, then, was to counter heteronomy with autonomy, unhappiness with a struggle for the capacity to be happy.” (Haug et al. 1999, p. 34). It is the aspiration that we at the seminar, based on this presentation, will engage in sharing different creative methodologies and their potential related to e.g. inclusion, wellbeing and sustainability with a view to further developing creative methodologies jointly, which also contain discussions of possible dilemmas inherent in the different methodologies.

Join this seminar

You can join this seminar online via Microsoft Teams. Please join 5-10 mins ahead of the time outlined above.

Previous seminars

Watch recordings of our previous seminars.

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