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• Tue 26 Apr 16 · Paul Ricouer’s Cardigan: the tangle of doctoral study and supervision (Language and Communication, Middlesex University, London)

• Sat 6 Dec 14 · ‘Para-academia’ with Deborah Withers, Alex Wardrop, and Charlotte Cooper (Housmans Bookshop, London)

• Wed 26 Nov 14 · Validity unpacked (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 29 Oct 14 · Chester College: From Teacher Training to University 1974-2014 (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Wed 22 Oct 14 · Chester College: The Transformative Years 1914-1974 (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Wed 15 Oct 14 · Chester College: The Formative Years 1839-1914 (Grosvenor Museum, Chester)

• Sun 28 Sep 14 · Thinking on Sunday - A new dawn in secondary education (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 23 Sep 14 · Reliability (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 24 Jun 14 · Test and item evaluation (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 18 Mar 14 · Introduction to the Undergraduate Certificate in the Principles and Practice of Assessment (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 26 Feb 14 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 22 Oct 13 · Shaping Higher Education Fifty Years After Robbins: what views to the future? (Old Theatre, London)

• Wed 22 May 13 · The educational standards over time: has mathematics education in England improved? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 16 May 13 · Detecting cheating and plagiarism (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 10 Apr 13 · Khan Academy - Reimagining Education (Old Theatre, London)

• Thu 13 Dec 12 · Equating and item banking with the Rasch model (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 12 Dec 12 · Are constructs really that important? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 6 Dec 12 · Introduction to Rasch (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 4 Dec 12 · Should we bother with expert judgement in awarding GCSEs and A levels? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Tue 27 Nov 12 · Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 15 Nov 12 · Ofsted, accountability and assessment (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 8 Nov 12 · Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 6 Nov 12 · Grading (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 24 Oct 12 · Translanguaging: a dynamic bilingual perspective on pedagogy, assessment and research (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 16 Oct 12 · The challenges of evaluating the impact of changes to qualification specifications on student learni (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 11 Oct 12 · Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 4 Oct 12 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 26 Sep 12 · Validity theory and validation: never the twain shall meet? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 19 Sep 12 · Research methods in action: how do researchers use the CRAS (Complexity-Resources-Abstractness and S (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 13 Sep 12 · How can we ensure the value of the assessments we create? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 6 Sep 12 · How do examiners reach judgements? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Wed 15 Aug 12 · Basic Statistics (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 8 Aug 12 · Reliability and validity (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 Jul 12 · Measurement or judgement: is assessing an art or a science? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 19 Jun 12 · Students’ and teachers’ views and experiences of A level unit re-sits (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 13 Jun 12 · Test and item evaluation (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 31 May 12 · Question Writing (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 29 May 12 · Identifying the boundaries of validity theory: what’s in and what’s out? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Mon 21 May 12 · Francis Galton, measurement, psychometrics and social progress (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 15 May 12 · (De-) Formative assessment: is formative assessment as benign as we think? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 May 12 · How can assessment support learning? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 May 12 · Vocational assessment – valid and manageable? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 18 Apr 12 · Just how closely should textbooks link to public examinations? (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 Apr 12 · What is the purpose of public assessments? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 11 Apr 12 · Question writing (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 4 Apr 12 · Making the most of our assessment data (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 21 Mar 12 · Making the most of our assessment data (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 15 Mar 12 · Current issues with National Curriculum assessment: lessons from school music education (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 8 Mar 12 · What is the purpose of public assessment? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 29 Feb 12 · Consensus, what consensus? (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 14 Feb 12 · Basic statistics (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 8 Feb 12 · High-stakes testing at the school/university interface: experiences from the former socialist states (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 1 Feb 12 · Researching impact in an educational assessment context (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 25 Jan 12 · The science of career success: personality and psychometrics in education and beyond (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 19 Jan 12 · Reliability and validity (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 8 Dec 11 · Equating and item banking with the Rasch model (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 1 Dec 11 · Introduction to Rasch (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Tue 29 Nov 11 · Influencing Young Minds (Bishopsgate Institute, London)

• Thu 24 Nov 11 · Developing a model for investigating the impact of assessment within educational contexts by a publi (OCR, Coventry)

• Tue 15 Nov 11 · The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Tue 15 Nov 11 · The effective monitoring of marking quality through on-screen marking (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Thu 10 Nov 11 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 2 Nov 11 · Metaphors, markets and marks: the general qualifications market and its deregulation (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 20 Oct 11 · Standard setting and maintaining using expert judgement (OCR, Coventry)

• Thu 13 Oct 11 · Test and item evaluation (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 6 Oct 11 · Should England’s schools become 'engines of social mobility'? (Hamilton House, London)

• Wed 5 Oct 11 · Challenges to admissions testing; how arguments for validity, reliability, impact and practicality a (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Thu 22 Sep 11 · Epistemic ascent and curriculum design (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Thu 22 Sep 11 · Epistemic ascent and curriculum design (Jesus College, Cambridge)

• Tue 20 Sep 11 · Validity: How can we ensure the value of certificates and qualifications? (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 14 Sep 11 · Trust: Can the public have confidence in national assessments? (Cambridge Assessment - 1 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 7 Sep 11 · Digging for validity: developing new ways of assessing extra-curricular achievement (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 11 Aug 11 · Educational changes under the coalition (Hughes Hall, Cambridge)

• Wed 6 Jul 11 · Plagiarism in Higher Education: is there a postcode lottery? (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 29 Jun 11 · Educational changes under the coalition (OCR, Coventry)

• Sat 25 Jun 11 · Sunday Times/Wellington College Festival of Education (Wellington College, Berkshire)

• Wed 15 Jun 11 · Measuring ‘quality’ in early education – determining whether pre-schools can support children to bec (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Thu 9 Jun 11 · Reliability and validity (Cambridge Assessment Network, Cambridge)

• Thu 26 May 11 · Grading (OCR, Coventry)

• Mon 16 May 11 · Developing a new linear qualification: how difficult can it be? Cambridge Pre-U, a case study (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 12 May 11 · Assessment for Higher Education entry: admissions testing (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Wed 4 May 11 · Is assessing an art or a science? (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Thu 28 Apr 11 · Ensuring comparability in a diverse and unregulated qualifications market (Cambridge Assessment - 9 Hills Road, Cambridge)

• Mon 21 Mar 11 · Making the most of our assessment data (OCR, Coventry)

• Wed 2 Feb 11 · The Role of Education in Greece's Recovery (LSE Campus, venue TBC to ticket holders, London)

• Wed 15 Dec 10 · Degrees of success: progressing to Higher Education through vocational pathways (Downing College, Cambridge)

• Wed 3 Nov 10 · The Art of Influencing Change (Broadway, Nottingham Media Centre, Nottingham)

• Sun 23 May 10 · Managing Diversity in Education - A Secular Perspective (Conway Hall, London)

• Tue 18 May 10 · Philosophy and education (Philosophy Cafe, Cardiff)

• Sun 5 Jul 09 · Allan Hayes - Fighting for Secular Humanism (Leicester Secular Society, Leicester)

• Tue 2 Dec 08 · The Study of the Arab World in Western Universities (Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, London)

• Thu 16 Oct 08 · Education futures... (City University London, London)

• Fri 13 Jun 08 · After McDonaldization (Oxford Brookes University, Oxford)

• Mon 17 Mar 08 · RSA Edge Lecture: Parental engagement, prejudice and personalisation (RSA, London)

• Wed 27 Feb 08 · RSA Edge Lecture: The Regulartory Framework (RSA, London)

• Thu 8 Nov 07 · Walking the Digital Dog – Work, Learn and Play in Digital Worlds - The IET 30th Mountbatten Memorial (The Institution of Engineering and Technology, London)

• Fri 5 Oct 07 · Battle of Ideas: What good is e-learning? (London Knowledge Lab, London)

• Thu 7 Jun 07 · Faith Schools (Secular Hall, Leicester)

• Tue 27 Feb 07 · Area Studies and the globalised world (Conference Centre, London)

• Mon 9 Oct 06 · Personalised Learning: The Limits to Individualism (Learning Centre, Chelmsford)

• Thu 29 Jun 06 · Mendelssohn: What can music mean? (Institut Francais, London)

• Tue 27 Jun 06 · World Poverty and the Duty of Assistance (LSE, Room E171, London)

• Mon 19 Jun 06 · Why Lassie Can No Longer Come Home (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Thu 15 Jun 06 · The Holocaust and the Postmodern (Borders, London)

• Wed 14 Jun 06 · The Vice of Speciesism (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Mon 12 Jun 06 · Animals and the Limits of Justice (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Wed 7 Jun 06 · Animality and Disability, or, Learning from Temple Grandin (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Mon 5 Jun 06 · Monsters and taxidermic aberrations: Animals' lives in artists' hands (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Sat 3 Jun 06 · Thinking in Public (LSE, Room E171, London)

• Wed 31 May 06 · Animal as a human property? Philosophical bases of this thesis and its critique (LSE, Room H102, London)

• Thu 25 May 06 · Deleuze and the Philosopht of Creation (Institut Francais, London)

• Thu 11 May 06 · Of Swans and Ugly Ducklings (Borders, London)

• Mon 8 May 06 · Plotinus: On Becoming Love (Room Manton 335, Manchester)

• Thu 27 Apr 06 · Heidegger: The Question Concerning Technology (Institut Francais, London)

• Thu 6 Apr 06 · The Objects of Social Science (Borders, London)

• Mon 3 Apr 06 · Transformation: Politics of the Messianic (Room Manton 335, Manchester)

• Thu 23 Mar 06 · Spinoza: Politics and Imagination (Institut Francais, London)

• Thu 9 Mar 06 · The Philosopher at the End of the Universe (Borders, London)

• Thu 23 Feb 06 · Freud: Dream and Meaning (Institut Francais, London)

• Mon 20 Feb 06 · Rawls, Citizenship And Dissent (Room Manton 335, Manchester)

• Wed 30 Nov 05 · Towards 2035: The School of Tomorrow (Beaconhouse School System, Lahore)

• Mon 21 Nov 05 · Forum Northwest (Room Manton 335, Manchester)

• Thu 27 Oct 05 · Dialogue (LSE, Room T206, London)

• Thu 27 Oct 05 · Provocations (Institut Francais, London)

• Mon 24 Oct 05 · Forum Northwest (Room Manton 335, Manchester)

• Thu 13 Oct 05 · The Ceremonial Animal: A New Portrait of Anthropology (Borders, London)

• Thu 6 Oct 05 · 'Re-inventing the University' (John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton)

• Mon 3 Oct 05 · Malleable Metal- Metal Materclass for Teachers (Crafts Council, London)

• Thu 1 Sep 05 · An A-Level in Linguistics? (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)

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