The Editorial Board of the Cambridge Educational Research e-Journal is now calling for submissions for Volume 13: Education in Changing Times.

Deadline for submissions: 22 May 2026
First decision: Within approximately 30 days of submission deadline.
Expected publication: November 2026

Pupils steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school Girls from lower-income backgrounds face a 'double disadvantage', University of Cambridge research shows

Pupils are being steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school - and girls from lower-income backgrounds face a ‘double disadvantage’, @cam.ac.uk research shows - @jabedahmed.bsky.social reports www.tes.com/magazine/new... @nuffieldfoundation.org @tesmagazine.bsky.social

A new University of Cambridge report finds that class and gender inequalities in the UK's creative industries are linked to students' experiences at school, where "educational hierarchies" steer them away from subjects like art, music and drama.

content.educ.cam.ac.uk/node/8974

Pupils steered away from ‘risky’ creative subjects at school Girls from lower-income backgrounds face a ‘double disadvantage’, University of Cambridge research shows

Lower-income pupils are steered away from creative subjects such as art, music and drama, @camedfac.bsky.social research suggests, with particular concerns about the impact on girls

Comic book of best practices aims to make comics festivals more autism-friendly

New best practices are being published to help comics festivals become more accessible and inclusive for autistic fans. And of course, they are themselves available as a comic: www.repository.cam.ac.uk/items/3b21a6...

Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2603...

A child sits with a plush robot toy on their lap, next to an adult who is smiling. The image features a text overlay that reads: "New Cambridge research: Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children".

AI toys that ‘talk’ to young children are coming, but are they safe? 🤖🧸

A new @camedfac.bsky.social report recommends safety kitemarks for AI toys, as research shows these toys can confuse children and hinder pretend play.

Learn more about this new study 👇
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Report calls for AI toy safety standards to protect young children The first systematic study of how generative AI toys affect young children finds that they can misread emotions and struggle with developmentally important types of play.

AI-powered toys that “talk” with young children should be more tightly regulated and carry new safety kitemarks, according to a new University of Cambridge report that warns they are not always developed with children’s psychological safety in mind.

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Understanding Mathematics Teacher Wellbeing An in-person Seminar and workshop event for mathematics teachers, (school) leaders, teacher educators and educational researchers.

On 25 March, the Faculty of Education will be sharing preliminary findings from the first UK study exploring the factors that shape mathematics teacher wellbeing, drawing on insights from teachers themselves.

Find out more and book a place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

Have we lost the ability to debate immigration? Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it?

Due to popular demand, we've expanded the capacity for our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social event on 18 March on immigration and education.

If you would like to come along and join the discussion, there are a few more free tickets, but please book soon.

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We only have about 25 (free!) tickets left for our @cambridgefestival.bsky.social discussion on 18 March: Have we lost the ability to debate immigration – and what can education do about it?

If you would like to join us, please sign up soon at: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...

New article out today! Children communicate differently depending on the play activity and who they're playing with. 💬

🔓 Read the open access article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Play nicely: Children who are not friends connect more through play when given a shared goal

"Play nicely, children."

This new @pedalcam.bsky.social study led by Emily Goodacre found that getting children to cooperate during play may depend less on their social skills than on what they are doing - especially if they are not already friends.

content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2602...

From ancient myths to ‘Indo-manga’: artists in the Global South are reframing the comic

A new book calls for a rethink of what “counts” as comics, arguing that Western ideas about the medium have obscured the power of visual storytelling in the Global South.

If you're interested in comics, you can access it for free via the links in our summary: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/2602...

This seminar on 3 March will explore the doctoral journeys of Global Southern Scholars at Cambridge across disciplines, national contexts and stages of the degree. Open to all members of the University. Register here: tinyurl.com/voicesfromgs

Translanguaging and English Language Education | 41 | The Routledge In Translanguaging has gained increasing attention within applied linguistics, including in the context of English language education. While its meanings and

Fluidly blending languages, sometimes called "translanguaging", is gaining growing attention in linguistics. Here, Razan El Helou and Wulandari Santoso, explore its use in English language education in Indonesia, a linguistically superdiverse society. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Have we lost the ability to debate immigration - and what can education do about it?

Join us for this free @cambridgefestival.bsky.social event on 18 March and have your say as we explore how education might support more constructive public dialogue.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-we-lo...

Cambridge-developed tool launched to steer universities through maze of free-speech checks

A University of Cambridge spin-out has developed what it says is the UK’s first automated free-speech compliance system for universities, amid concerns that institutions are struggling to interpret new freedom of speech rules.

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School Adjustment Moderates Character Strengths Interventions in Korean Elementary Schools - International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology Academic pressure in East Asia places students at heightened risk for diminished well-being, pointing to the need for interventions that sustain psychological functioning. This study investigated whet...

Academic pressure in East Asia places students at risk for diminished well-being. A new study, co-authored by Boseok Kim and Jongho Shin investigated whether character strength interventions for elementary students could help.

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Presencing Echoes in the Archive: Material Voices Through Space and Time - this new paper is by PhD researchers Linh S. Nguyễn and Elena Russo, and available open access in the journal "Arts".

www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/15...

Exporting status differences? The stratification of British transnational higher education Literature on transnational education (TNE) has grown rapidly, yet the power relations underpinning this form of internationalisation, as well as the increasing diversification of TNE provision, re...

The number of students studying for British degrees overseas has risen sharply over the past decade. This new study suggests the expansion is exporting not just British degrees, but the hierarchies of Britain’s highly stratified higher education system.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Professor Clare Brooks appointed Head of Faculty from October 2026

Professor Clare Brooks has been appointed the next Head of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. She will succeed the current Head, Professor Hilary Cremin, in October 2026.

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After more than two years of war, Palestinian children are hungry, denied education and “like the living dead”

A new report calls for an urgent increase in international aid for education in Palestine, to address both learning losses and the severe psychological impacts of the war in Gaza.

Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/afte...

Join us for the launch event: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...

The award-winning films starting new conversations about genetic science – by barely mentioning it. An emerging collection of award-winning short films, commissioned by Cambridge researchers, is being released as part of a project to widen conversations about genetic science, particularly among audi...

A collection of award-winning films, developed for the "Only Human" project through the Kavli Centre for Ethics, Science, and the Public, is widening public conversation about genetic science. Strikingly, science itself barely gets a mention.

Read more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/awar...

Self-sustaining learning: What happened when Huntingdon sixth formers took a mini-PGCE? An experimental project at a Cambridgeshire schools trust in which sixth formers stepped into the shoes of teachers has found that the approach can generate valuable forms of learning that complement ...

What happens when you teach sixth formers to teach? Charle Pettit, an affiliated lecturer on the Cambridge PGCE, decided to find out with students at his school, and early results suggest that a remarkable form of self-sustaining learning emerged.

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Exhibition traces 200 years of Black representation in children’s literature A new version of the first ever major exhibition exploring how Black people have been represented in UK children’s literature visits Cambridge’s Central Library from 15 December.

A new version of the first ever major exhibition exploring how Black people have been represented in UK children’s literature visits Cambridge’s Central Library this week, having been brought to the city by Cambridge researchers.

Find out more: content.educ.cam.ac.uk/content/exhi...

Our paper on the use of AI in child development checks is available now on the Early Childhood Education Journal:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@drjennyg.bsky.social

So excited this paper is out. What started as a brainstormed idea after an invited talk has turned into a whole line of research in my lab. Look out for more papers in the future!

Mark your calendars: The #PEDALConference2026 is coming on Thursday 11th June 2026, #InternationalDayOfPlay 🧸

More details to follow...

Majority want wider worldviews taught in Northern Ireland’s primary school RE curriculum

The Religious Education syllabus in Northern Ireland mandates compulsory teaching of exclusively Christian content, but there is strong support for change.

New research from @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social and @cam.ac.uk

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Rewilding Education - A Conversation with Prof. Hilary Cremin — Good Impact Labs The idea of rewilding is now a common topic of conversation in response to the depletion of biodiversity and natural habitats for local wildlife and widespread industrialisation and globalisation of f...

"We’ve had a discourse for decades about meritocracy, but it’s a fig leaf to hide the ways our economies are not achieving social mobility."

Hilary Cremin spoke to the Future Learning Design Podcast about why we need to "rewild" education and how to do it.

www.goodimpactlabs.com/podcast/prof...