The inaugural ENCoRE conference, hosted by the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, took place in London, UK, in April 2025. This two-day event brought together leading experts, researchers, practitioners, and early career researchers from institutions including UCL Institute of Education, University of Cambridge, Birkbeck, Chile’s Millennium Nucleus for the Science of Learning, and several international partners (e.g., from USA, Turkey, Canada). The conference aimed to foster collaboration, advance innovation, and critically explore current research trends, methodologies, and developments in the field of educational neuroscience. The published Proceedings, containing abstracts of the research presented at the conference, are available here: Encore-2025-Proceedings.

The keynote speakers were Professor Usha Goswami (University of Cambridge), who gave a talk entitled ‘Dyslexia, rhythm, language and the developing brain’; and Professor Paul Howard-Jones (University of Bristol), who gave a talk entitled ‘The journey from neuroscience research to education’. The keynotes can be viewed below (thank you to our sponsors, Learnus, for the filming and production of these videos).

For more details about the conference and a review of highlights from CEN member Mahi Elgamal, see here.