Psychology of Education Section Annual Conference 2024
- Education
About
The Annual Psychology of Education Section conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners with interests in the application of psychology to all stages and types of education to meet, present research findings, and engage in scholarly discussion.
We welcome researchers and practitioners at all stages of their careers to join us, and in particular, provide a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students and early career researchers to present and discuss their work.
The conference theme in 2024 is: Supporting Learners and Supporting Learning
This year we have keynotes on this theme from Dr Siân Jones, Dr Umar Toseeb, and the 43rd Vernon-Wall lecture will be delivered by Professor Anne Edwards.
We would be delighted to accept submissions for the conference on the theme of Supporting Learners and Supporting Learning, as well as submissions concerning the psychology of education more generally.
This years conference will be held at Homerton College, University of Cambridge.
Download the conference programme
Download the conference abstracts
Accommodation
If you require accommodation for the conference, we suggest booking at Homerton College's on-campus accommodation.
Please note: accommodation is offered on a first come first serve basis.
Price: £80 + VAT for 1 single en-suite bedroom and breakfast, per room per night.
When booking your accommodation please use the promo code KX67026B&B
If you have any questions, please contact: 01223 747111.
Location:
- Homerton College,
University of Cambridge
Hills Rd,
Cambridge
CB2 8PH
How to attend
Registration must be made online.
Contact us
If you have any questions please contact us at [email protected].
Registration
Registration is available online only.
*PLEASE NOTE: Bookings for this event will close at 10.00 on 1/09/2024. We will be unable to accept any further bookings after this point.
Cost
Please note: all rates listed are inclusive of VAT at 20%.
| Delegate category | Registration fee |
| Concession 2 day attendance | £262 |
| PES member 2 day attendance | £280 |
| BPS member 2 day attendance | £297 |
| Non-BPS member 2 day attendance | £334 |
| Concession 1 day attendance | £136 |
| PES member 1 day attendance | £144 |
| BPS member 1 day attendance | £154 |
| Non-BPS member 1 day attendance | £172 |
Conference dinner
On the evening of the first day (11th Sept), the conference dinner will take the form of a BBQ. This is included in the cost of the two-day conference package and one-day conference ticket for the 11th September.
Cambridge Highlights Walking Tour
Date/time: Sept 10th 5pm – 6.30pm
Meeting place: By the front doors of the Guildhall, under the clock, looking out at the market place
Max number of people: 24
Description: Welcome to a Cambridge highlights walking tour. We'll see some of the iconic college buildings; a pub where Shakespeare's actors performed during a pandemic, and WW2 airmen left their mark; a macabre clock with coded messages; the science lab which gave rise to the greatest discoveries of the 20th century, and much more... Find out about the history of women's education, and the explosion of myths about their capabilities. There will be spies, a mad, bad and dangerous poet, (and his bear) and, of course, another bear of very little brain. Come and have fun!
How to register
Returning customers (members and non-members)
In order to register for the event you will need to sign in using your BPS website login details.
We have implemented a new Membership Database and if you haven't received your pre-registration email you will need to request your unique registration link.
Once you have the link, you can complete your registration on our portal.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
If you have forgotten your login details, you can reset your username or password.
New customers (members and non-members)
If you are not a returning customer, you will need to create your BPS account on the portal. The process is straightforward and takes just a few minutes.
Once you have registered on the portal please use your username and password to log in and register for the event.
Submissions
Key submission dates
- 14 September 2023: Online submission and registration system opens
- 14 June 2024: The deadline for symposia, oral presentations, workshop and poster submissions
- 7 June 2024: Deadline for doctoral bursary applications
- 15 July 2024: Notification of submission outcomes for symposia, oral presentations and poster
- 15 July 2024: Notification of outcomes for doctoral bursary applications
- 1 September 2024: Deadline for registration
How to submit
Please ensure you read the submission guidelines below before submitting, including the reviewer guidelines. These allow you to see how your submissions will be reviewed.
Submissions must be made via the online application portal.
If this is your first time submitting you will need to create an account.
- Submission Guidelines and Submit Symposia
- Submission Guidelines and Submit All Submissions except Symposia
If you any queries about submissions please contact us at [email protected]
Professor Anne Edwards / Professor Emerita, University of Oxford Department of Education and Fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Professor Anne Edwards
What Working Relationally Brings to Problem-Solving
Anne Edwards is a former President of BERA and Chair of the BPS Education Section. She holds doctorates honoris causa from the Universities of Helsinki and Oslo in recognition of her work on relational expertise and relational agency and in 2022 she received a lifetime's achievement award from the American Educational Research Association's cultural-historical SIG. She was Director of the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and its Director of Research.
She was a member of the Education sub-panel for the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise and has been editor of the British Journal of Educational Research; Mind Culture and Activity; and Learning Culture and Social Interaction. With colleagues at the University of Oslo, she is bringing a cultural-historical psychology lens to studying how schools support shy and anxious school students.
She writes extensively on cultural-historical approaches to learning. Her most recent books are: Edwards, A. (Ed.) (2017) Working relationally in and across practices, Edwards, A., Fleer, M. & Bøttcher, L. (Eds.) (2019) Cultural-historical approaches to studying learning and development, Dordrecht: Springer; Hedegaard, M.& Edwards, A. (Eds.) (2019) Supporting Difficult Transitions: children, young people and their carers. London: Bloomsbury, and Hedegaard, M. & Edwards, A. (2023) Taking Children Seriously: a caring relational approach to Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Dr Siân Jones / Division of Psychology, Sociology and Education, Queen Margaret University
Dr Siân Jones
Playing with Dis/ability: Representation and Inclusion in Primary Schoolchildren's Material Culture.
Sian E Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Education at Queen Margaret University, near Edinburgh, where she is also the course lead for their MA in Special and Inclusive Education. Sian draws on her lived experience of cerebral palsy in her research, which focuses on ways of fostering positive representation of, and language about, disabled children in mainstream settings.
Research tells us that, alongside participation in school life, being able to see themselves represented through 'mirrors' helps disabled children to build a sense of belonging at school. At the same time, disability representation offers non-disabled children 'windows' on their world. She and her colleagues have now completed a series of studies, working with primary schoolchildren, education practitioners, disabled adults, and families with a disabled child. They have used surveys, focus groups, play, image generation, and story writing to examine how and when representation may work best in theory and in practice.
Her keynote will review this research and consider potential UK policy changes that would help build communities of diverse learners in primary school.
Dr Umar Toseeb / Department of Education, The University of York
Dr Umar Toseeb
Rethinking Special Educational Needs - A Transdiagnostic Approach to Language, Cognition, Social, and Mental Health Difficulties
Dr Umar Toseeb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of York leading the Child and Adolescent Neurodevelopmental Diversity research group. He is interested in understanding typical and atypical development during childhood and adolescence using large population-based datasets.
Specifically, Umar and his group fit complex statistical models to behavioural and genetic data to investigate individual differences in children's development; the extent to which strengths and difficulties are related; how children develop similarly and differently; why some children have more positive outcomes than others.
Bursary
The British Psychological Society, Psychology of Education Section, will offer a number of bursaries for students (undergraduate or postgraduate) who have had a poster or paper accepted for presentation at our annual conference.
Applicants need to be members of the British Psychological Society, members of the Psychology of Education Section and must be registered as a student at a Higher Education Institution.
Details on how to join the Society can be found by visiting:
To download a Section application form, visit:
Bursaries will offer a 50% reduction in the conference fee for delegates choosing to attend the full two-day conference.
Please send a letter of application along with confirmation of your student status (e.g., a letter from your supervisor), by email to [email protected] with 'PES bursary application' in the subject line. Applications must be received by 4pm on 7th June 2024.