Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
Introducing a new evening lecture series exploring cutting edge research in psychology and neuroscience and its impact on improving education and learning.
There is an increasing recognition that psychology and neuroscience can play a huge role in helping teachers to be more effective in the classroom. This new lecture series will provide important insights for teachers and educators, from understanding the limits of their students' attention, to understanding the strategies that will help their students remember effectively.
Who is it for? Anyone with an interest in psychology and neuroscience in education, particularly teachers
When: Wednesday evenings, 26 October – 23 November 2016
Lecture: 18:30 – 19:30
Networking and refreshments: 19:30 – 20:00
Cost: £10 per lecture
Venue: Institute of Continuing Education, Madingley Hall, Cambridge CB23 8AQ
Enquiries: 01223 760861 / victoria.steenkamp@ice.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge academics will present on a wide range of topics, from attention and anxiety, to mindfulness and imagination. All evenings will be chaired by Dr Lee de-Wit. We hope the series will provide an opportunity not only to learn from Cambridge academics, but also to begin developing a local community of educators who are interested in exploring the ways in which advances in research could improve their teaching and practice.
Dr Duncan Astle is a programme leader for the Executive Processes Group at the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit where he uses non-invasive recording techniques (electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography), alongside behavioural methods, to explore the mechanisms by which we control our cognitive processes and behaviour. His research focuses on how these processes develop through childhood, and the impact of control ability differences across children on their learning.
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Dr Denes Szucs is a cognitive neuroscientist doing neuro-imaging and behavioural research on number cognition, dyscalculia, working memory and cognitive control in children and adults. Denes has been a lecturer (2004) and then a senior lecturer (2009) at the University of Cambridge where he is the deputy director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education and official fellow of Darwin College. Acknowledging his research performance he was the recipient of the prestigious scholar award of the James S McDonnel foundation (2013). He is running a major project on mathematics anxiety in the UK funded by the Nuffield Foundation. He has completed a large project funded by the Medical Research Council, involving more than 1000 children, on developmental dyscalculia in the UK.
Dr Andrea Greve's research focuses on understanding the cognitive and neural basis of human episodic memory. She is particularly interested in episodic encoding and retrieval processes and their specific interplay with semantic memories. She use a combination of behavioral and functional brain imaging techniques (MRI and EEG/MEG) to test cognitive theories and to ultimately advance our understanding of how brain networks might support different memory processes.
Dr Lee de-Wit is the Academic Director for Psychology at the Institute of Continuing Education. Lee has researched a number of areas in psychology, from the study of individual differences underlying our perceptual abilities in clinical populations including Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schizophrenia, and the development of clinical screening tests. Lee has a wide range of teaching experience at Durham University, the University of Leuven, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of Oxford and has recently given courses on the Science and Practice of Mindfulness in Cambridge.
Professor Nicky Clayton FRS is the Professor of Comparative Cognition and a University Teaching Officer in the Department of Psychology at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Clare College. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010. Her expertise as a scientist lies in the contemporary study of how animals and children think. This work has led to a re-evaluation of the cognitive capacities of animals, particularly birds, and resulted in a theory that intelligence evolved independently in at least two distantly related groups, the apes and the crows. She has also pioneered new procedures for the experimental study of memory and imagination in animals, investigating its relationship to human memory and consciousness, and how and when these abilities develop in young children.
Clive Wilkins works as a fine art painter and has exhibited widely, including at the National Portrait Gallery, London on several occasions. He has also exhibited at the Royal Academy and in private galleries in Cork Street, London – where he had a one man show in 2007. Clive has produced portraits of Sir Howard Hodgkin and Sir Peter Blake amongst others and has been presented publicly to HRH Princess Royal. He is currently Artist in Residence in the Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, a position he has held for the past four years.
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