Learnus Annual Lectures Understanding Learning Each year we invite an academic to speak about their research to a diverse audience of teachers, psychologists, educational neuroscientists and policy makers and to reflect on some of the implications the evidence has (or might have) for current and future policy as well as practice at the interface of education and cognitive neuroscience.
Learnus ASCL Conferences Understanding Learning The overall purpose of our one-day conferences is to provide the participants (a mix of teachers, psychologists and researchers) with up to date information and to consider how the science of understanding the brain might inform and influence practice in teaching and learning.
Learnus Workshops & Seminars UNDERSTANDING LEARNING We collaborate with other organisations to present seminars and workshops that we consider useful and thought provoking.
Learnus Annual Lectures
Learnus Annual Lecture 2019 with Dr Duncan Astle
"Supporting Struggling Learners"
. Beyond the label: Understanding why some kids struggle in school
Learnus Annual Lecture 2017 with Prof Daniel Ansari
"Building the Mathematical Brain"
Building blocks of mathematical competence: evidence from brain & behaviour
Learnus Annual Lecture 2016 with Prof Susan Gathercole OBE
"Diagnosis, which diagnosis?"
Pitfalls and prospects for supporting the struggling learner.
Learnus Annual Lecture 2015 with Prof Michael Thomas
"Genetics and Education"
This lecture explores the potential contribution of modern genetic methods and finds to education.
Learnus/ASCL Conferences
"FutureEd18" Conference
"Maximising the potential of the adolescent brain"
Prof Sophie Scott
"Communication & Laughter"
Geoff Barton
General Secretary ASCL opens the Conference
"FutureEd2017" Conference
"FutureEd17" Conference Trailer
"How Can Findings from Educational Neuroscience Reshape Teaching and Learning, now and in the Future?"
Prof Becky Francis
Director UCL Institute of Education
Opens the Conference
Prof Daphne Bavelier
Dept Psychology & Education Sciences University of Geneva
Action Video Games as an exemplary learning tool
Leora Cruddas
Director of Policy & Public Relations ASCL
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
Prof Paul Howard-Jones
Graduate School of Education - University of Bristol
Implementing Educational Neuroscience for educational progress: Do we need an "Education first" approach?
Prof Denis Mareschal
Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development Birkbeck College
The UnLocke Project: From inhibition in the brain to math & science in the classroom
Dr Alice Jones
Director of Unit of School & Family Studies Goldsmiths College
Working Collaboratively in research-based education- an SEMH perspective
Tara Deakes
Deputy Head & Provisions Manager Westfield School
Working Collaboratively in research-based education- an SEMH perspective
Judith Enright
Head Teacher Queens Park Community School
How Can leaders move from 'What works?' to ' What works, how and why?'
Prof Michael Thomas
Professor of Cognituive Neuroscience Birkbeck University of London and Director of CEN
Reflections on the Conference
The Learnus Interviews
Prof Daniel Ansari
Professor of Psychology, Dept, of Psychology and Brain and Mind Institute, Western University
Sarah Jayne Blakemore
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Deputy Director UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.
Workshops & Seminars
Prof Michael Thomas The Teenage Brain
Professor Thomas discusses old and new theories about cognitive and brain development in adolescence and how neuroscience has changed the debate.
Jonathan Hancock (Memory)
Jonathan Hancock explains how to equip student students with effective memory and learning techniques.
