PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION SECTION
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 20218 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Professor Jo-Anne Baord
Jo-Anne Baird is Director of the Department of Education, University of Oxford, and a member of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment. Jo-Anne’s research interests are in educational assessment, including system-wide structures and processes, examination standards, marking and assessment design. She takes an active interest in research impact and knowledge exchange with government and industry partners. Currently, she is a member of Ofqual’s Standing Advisory Group and is Chair of AQA’s Research Committee and has advised a number of other governments and international bodies, such as the OECD. In 2016-17 she was the Standing Adviser on Education to the UK parliament’s House of Commons Select Committee on Education. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the Oxford Review of Education journal and the International Advisory Board of Assessment in Education: principles, policy & practice. She has been a Visiting Professor at the universities of Bergen and Queen’s (Belfast) and received an Honorary Degree from the University of Bergen in 2019. From 2013 to 2015 she was President of the Association for Educational Assessment – Europe. Before coming to Oxford, Jo-Anne held academic posts at the Institute of Education, University of London and the University of Bristol. Jo-Anne previously held the position of Head of Research at the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance, where she managed the research programme and was responsible for the standard-setting systems for public examinations. Her first degree and doctorate were in psychology and she has an MBA. Her current research projects include Setting and Maintaining Standards in national examinations, Examination reform: the impact of modular and linear examinations at GCSE, Assessment for Learning in Africa (AFLA), intelligent accountability and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study England national centre.
Professor Noel Entwistle
Noel Entwistle is Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Edinburgh and previously was the Bell Professor (1978-2005). Before that he was Professor of Educational Research (1970-1978) at Lancaster University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Scottish Council for Educational Research, and the Society for Research into Higher Education and has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Gothenburg and Turku. He was Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and Co-ordinating Editor of Higher Education and served as President of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and, in 2001, received an Oeuvre Award from that organisation. He also served on the Education Panel of the ESRC and of an international panel evaluating Swedish research in education (1997). Amongst his many publications are a textbook on educational psychology - Styles of Learning and Teaching - and two books and numerous articles describing teaching and learning at university level.
Professor Susan Hallam MBE
Susan Hallam is Emerita Professor of Education and Music Psychology at the UCL Institute of Education. She was awarded an MBE in the 2015 new year’s honours list. She pursued careers as both a professional musician and a music educator before joining the Institute of Education, University of London in 1991. She joined Oxford Brookes as Professor of Education in January 2000, before returning to the Institute of Education in January 2001. She has received research funding for a range of projects relating to attendance at school, exclusion from school, behaviour improvement, school-home links, ability grouping in primary and secondary schools, formative feedback in learning, instrumental music services and the evaluation of various educational initiatives. In addition she has undertaken research in relation to pedagogy in secondary and higher education, text understanding and conceptions of argument of post-graduate students, homework, learning in music and the effects of music on behaviour and studying. She is the author of numerous books on education and over 200 other publications. She is a former Chair of the Education Section of the British Psychological Society and former treasurer of the British Educational Research Association. She has been awarded lifelong membership of the British Psychological Society (for services to psychology) and the International Society for Music Education and Music Mark (for service to music education). She is currently co-editor of Music Performance Research.
Professor Roger Säljö
Roger Säljö specializes in interdisciplinary research on learning, interaction and human development from a sociocultural and sociohistorical perspective. Much of this work relates to the development of symbolic technologies (writing, number systems, computers, media etc.) and the consequences of such artefacts for human cognition, interaction and social practices more generally. Between 1983 and 1987 he was professor of Communication research at the University of Linköping, Sweden, and from 1997 he has been a Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Gothenburg. He has been a Finland Distinguished Professor of the Academy of Finland (2007-2012), and he is an honorary doctor at the University of Turku and the University of Agder, and honorary professor at the University of Bath. He has served as a leader during 12 years of a National Centre of Excellence in Research (a Linnaeus Centre) on Learning and Media (LinCS, www.lincs.gu.se). He has been visiting scholar/professor at several universities, including Universität Konstanz, University of California San Diego, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, University of Oslo, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Agder and University of Stavanger. He has supervised 51 Ph. D. candidates to completion at six different faculties. He has published around 550 scholarly articles, books and papers. He is founding editor of several journals and currently he is co-editor of Learning, Culture and Social Interaction.
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