Tuesday 21st October
Council Room at the Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG
9:00-9:20 Coffee and registration
9.20-9:40 Current funding developments in the UK, Dr Hilary Leevers, Head of Education and Learning at the Wellcome Trust Slides_Leevers
9:40-9:55 Welcome – Prof. Michael Thomas, Director, London Centre of Educational Neuroscience Slides_Welcome
9.55-10.00 Welcome – Dr Lim Khiang Wee, Executive Director, CREATE, National Research Foundation
10:00-10:30 Singapore’s education research priorities: current issues and future possibilities for the application of educational neuroscience – Dr Mariam Aljunied, Principal Specialist, Educational Psychologist, Ministry of Education Slides_Aljunied_MOE
10:30-11:00 Reasoning in the brain – Prof. Denis Mareschal, Head of Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck University of London Slides_Mareschal
11.00-11.30 Break (Tea/Coffee)
11:30-12:00 Principles of learning and the science behind it – Prof Ranga Krishnan, Dean, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Slides_Krishnan_Duke-NUS
12:00-12:30 What works in sciences lessons and why? – Prof. Andrew Tolmie, Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education Slides_Tolmie
12:30-13:00 The Science of Learning: The Field and its Work – A/Prof Manu Kapur Head, Learning Sciences Lab, National Institute of Education, Singapore Slides_Kapur_NIE
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:30 Sensitive periods in brain development and their relation to education – Prof. Michael Thomas, Director, London Centre of Educational Neuroscience Slides_Thomas
14.30-15.00 Augmented Learning in Human-Computer Interaction: Learning through multimodal approaches – Prof Ellen Do Co-Director, Keio-NUS CUTE Center Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI), National University of Singapore Slides_Do_NUS
14.00-15.30 Brain development in adolescence: Implications for education – Dr. Iroise Dumontheil, Lecturer, Birkbeck University of London Slides_Dumontheil
15.30-16.00 Break (Tea/Coffee)
16:00-16:30 Advancing the field of educational neuroscience – Prof. Derek Bell, Director of Learnus, Professor of Education College of Teachers UK Slides_Bell
16.30 -17.00 Human Cognition Initiative at NTU – Prof Balazs Gulyas Professor of Translational Neuroscience, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Slides_Gulyas_NTU
17:00-17:30 Discussion (Chaired by Prof. Derek Bell, Director of Learnus, Professor of Education College of Teachers UK)