Events

SCRCM organises various types of event, aimed at academics, practitioners and policy makers. These include a series of regular webinars, as well as larger scale face-to-face events held on the University campus.

Upcoming events

Topic Speaker Date and time Location Registration link
Culturally Responsive Curricula: Lessons from Research and Classroom Practice – plus the launch of Teacher Agency: An Ecological Approach (2nd Edition), with presentations by Mark Priestley and Gert Biesta) Dr Claire Golledge (University of Sydney)

Monday 31 August 2026, 16:00 - 18:00

 Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA Register for Culturally Responsive Curricula
Developing History Teacher Subject Knowledge and its role in Curriculum Making
  • Dr Joe Smith (University of Stirling)

Thursday 15 October 2026, 16:00 - 17:00

 Online via Microsoft Teams Register for Developing History Teacher Subject Knowledge 
Curriculum-making in the meso-level: lessons from a local authority
  • Dr David Gregory (Education Scotland)
  • Dr Stuart Farmer (Institute of Physics)

Thursday 17 Sep 2026 16:00  - 17:30

 Online Register for Curriculum-making in the meso-level

Past events

Topic Speaker Date and time Event location  
Educators’ Sense-Making of the Evolving Mathematics Curriculum in Scotland
  • Sinem Hizli Alkan (Anglia Ruskin University)
  • Corinne Angier (University of Stirling)
  • Andy Brown (Scottish Government)

Wednesday 20 May 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

 Conference Suite, Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA  
Integrating Sustainability through Socio-Scientific Issues in Chile: towards a Decolonial Chemistry Education
  • Dr Denise Quiroz Maztinez, University of Stirling

Wednesday 22 April 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

 Online  
Teacher agency: the ecological approach
  • Professor Mark Priestley, University of Stirling

Tuesday 17 March 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

 Online  
Curriculum making in Wales: what does it mean to be purpose-led?
  • David Morrison-Love, Kara Makara Fuller and Fiona Patrick (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 18 February 2026, 16:00 - 17:30

 Online  
Curricular Justice
  • Martin Mills (Queensland University of Technology), Glenda McGregor (Griffith University) & Stewart Riddle (University of Southern Queensland)
  • Joe Smith (University of Stirling)
  • Qudsia Kalsoom & Helen Coker (University of Dundee)
  • Andrea Priestley, Stella Mouroutsou & Nuzhat Uthmani (University of Stirling)
  • Rachel Lehner-Mear, Kerryn Dixon, Yuwei Xu, Catherine Gripton & Lucy Cooker (University of Nottingham)
  • Elizabeth Rushton, Brian Johnston (University of Stirling) & Nicola Walshe (University College London)

Monday 19 January 2026

10:00 - 15:30

 Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA  
System Leadership Across Three Nations: Insights from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales Alma Harris, Cardiff Metropolitan University; Alan Gorman, Dublin City University; Romina Madrid, University of Stirling

Monday 8 December 2025

16:00 - 17:30

 Online  
What kind of Climate Change and Sustainability Education do we need in complex times? Professor Lizzie Rushton, University of Stirling

Monday 24 November 2025

16:00 - 17:30

 Online  
Issues in anti-racist education David Lambert (UCL), Kelly Leon (University of Wisconsin), Angela Hinckley (Education Scotland), Khadija Mohammed (UWS) and Nuzhat Uthmani (University of Stirling)

Thursday 13 Nov 2025

16:00 - 18:00

 Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA  
The Power of Activism in the Curriculum Andy Sprakes, XP School Trust

Thursday 16 October 2025

16:00 – 17:30

 Online  
Community Curriculum Making: Going Places, Meeting People and Doing and Making Things Professor David Leat, Newcastle University

Wednesday 17 September 2025,

16:00-17:30

 Online  
Curriculum and Power
  • João M. Paraskeva (University of Strathclyde)
  • Kevin Lowe, Claire Golledge and Phil Poulton (University of Sydney)
  • Haira Gandolfi (University of Cambridge) and Elizabeth Rushton (University of Stirling)
  • Sophie Cathcart and Andrea Priestley (University of Stirling)
  • Bronwyn Wood and Judith Loveridge (Victoria University, Wellington)
  • Stephen Bullock (Education Scotland)

Thursday 4 September 2025

10:00 - 15:00

 In-person event  

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