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Communicating research to support the evolution of teaching



FutureEd25
in association with Chartered College of Teaching, National Numeracy and CEN


THE WELLBEING CHALLENGE
 

Educators everywhere have become painfully aware of the impact anxiety and poor wellbeing are having on children and young people. COVID lockdowns, exam and test pressures, social media, the climate emergency, wars around the globe and continuing political and economic uncertainty have all contributed to an atmosphere which many children find extremely hard to cope with. That, coupled with disadvantage and extreme pressure on family life are having a real negative impact on children’s education.

What can educational neuroscience contribute to our understanding of the wellbeing challenge facing our children and young people and what can be done to support them? This year’s FutureEd aims to tackle the wellbeing challenge by looking in detail at some of the issues and causes, as well as giving participants the chance to question the experts and develop their own thinking.

PROGRAMME

08:30 am
Coffee & Registration
09:00 am
Welcome from Richard Newton-Chance, Chair of the Learnus Council
09:05 am
Professor Pasco Fearon, Director, Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research
University of Cambridge will talk on Child Mental Health
09:35am
Jo Van Herwegen, Professor of Developmental Psychology and Education,
Academic Head of Research for Psychology and Human Development Member of the
Board European Association. Deputy Director of Centre for Educational
Neuroscience who will talk about how the brain responds to anxiety and what impact might be on learning for typical and atypical populations
10:05 am
Q & A
10:20am
Coffee break
10:45 am
Ben Carter, Professor of Medical Statistics at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology &
Neuroscience at King's College London. His talk will be on mobile phone/social media anxiety
11:15 am
Q & A
11:30pm
Jessica Newberry Le Vay, Climate Change and Health Policy Fellow at the Climate Cares
Centre, Imperial College London, a collaboration between Imperial's Institute of Global
Health Innovation and the Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment. Her
talk will be on Climate Change Anxiety.
12:00 pm
Q & A
12:15 pm
Dr Rebecca Torrance-Jenkins former Head of Science and advisor in neuroscience-informed
pedagogy and school design. Her talk will be about
School Avoidance and Anxiety: A School
Perspective
12:30pm
Q & A
12:45 pm
Lunch
14:00pm
Dr Rosalyn Hyde and Dr Thomas Hunt will talk about maths anxiety in teachers
Dr Hyde
is Principal Teaching Fellow in secondary mathematics education at the
University of Southampton. She has particular interests in initial teacher education and
mathematics-specific pedagogy as well as the effective use of technology in teaching and
learning. She will present the findings of a recent research project into maths anxiety in
teachers commissioned by Maths Anxiety Trust.

Dr Thomas Hunt is Associate Professor in Psychology, and Director of the Mathematics
Anxiety Research Group at University of Derby who will discuss Dr Hyde
’s findings.
14:30pm
Q & A
14:45pm
Denes Szucs, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Fellow, Darwin College,
Cambridge, Deputy Director, Centre for Neuroscience in Education will talk about maths
anxiety
15:15 pm
Q & A
15:30 pm
Tea break
15:45 pm
Panel discussion and closing remarks
16:30 pm
Conference closes