School of Mind, Body and Society events

Past events

Wednesday 20 May 2026

• Starting from the Middle: Institutional-Humans with Ohad Ben Shimon

Wednesday 29 April 2026

• Professor Peter Smith: A Memorial and Legacy of Anti-Bullying Work

Tuesday 14 April 2026

• Global Citizenship Education in a changing world

Thursday 26 March 2026

• Dr Itiel Dror: Why are experts inherently biased and disposed to errors?

Thursday 19 March 2026

• Prof Jörg Fachner: Music Therapy & Social Neuroscience

Wednesday 18 March 2026

• Prof. Dominik Bach: Critical Intelligence
• Prof. Dominik Bach: Critical Intelligence

Thursday 12 March 2026

• Who gets heard? Language and inequality in education
• Dr Elizabeth Evans, Durham University: Body Image and Eating Disorders

Wednesday 11 March 2026

• Free Speech, Political Impartiality and Race in England's Schools
• AI, cognition and society

Thursday 5 March 2026

• The Laws of Thought
• Cynthia Cabañas talk on Film and Psychology: Complex Stories, Flexible Minds

Wednesday 4 March 2026

• Creative Thinging

Tuesday 3 March 2026

• Theresa Norton on Your voice (really) matters: Language as a map not a mirror

Thursday 26 February 2026

• Changing face of racism in Britain
• Harin Lee talk on Aesthetic Taste Around the World

Wednesday 25 February 2026

• Ecologies in Practice and Learning: Arts Interventions in the Earth Crisis

Wednesday 18 February 2026

• Securitizing Education: From Post-Cold War Optimism to Trumpian Realities

Thursday 12 February 2026

• Ilana Harris talk on Sound and touch: how and when are they linked?

Wednesday 11 February 2026

• Predictive Play, Fun, and the Construction of Cognitive Niches

Thursday 5 February 2026

• Dr Ellie Ratcliffe: Environmental Psychology

Monday 26 January 2026

• 'Death by powerpoint': Teachers and the shift to curriculum standardisation

Saturday 24 January 2026

• 'Moving Stories'

Thursday 22 January 2026

• Local Volunteering, Adult Learning and Social Change in the Philippines
• Psychology Seminar: Dr Jamie Cummins, University of Bern

Thursday 15 January 2026

• Dr Aenne Brielmann - Decoding aesthetic value: Can machines learn beauty?

Wednesday 17 December 2025

• Michael Rosen and David Almond, in Conversation

Tuesday 16 December 2025

• Launch of Reading Children's Fairytales: Inside the Gingerbread House

Thursday 11 December 2025

• Dr Manuel Anglada-Tort: Research with the Tsimane in the Bolivian Amazon