Research

Strong academic partnerships are central to our work at Neuroscience For Education.

These partnerships improve our understanding of new developments in the field of educational neuroscience, allowing us to establish a clear and strong scientific evidence base to inform and underpin recommended teaching practice.

We have partnered with leading neuroscientists and psychologists at the University of Reading, University of Bristol and Goldsmiths, University of London to carry out exciting new research. Discover our latest key findings by clicking on the Research page under the Resources tab.

Teachers on the Neuroscience for Teachers course learn how to direct their own action based research, underpinned by the latest research findings.   They then feed this back into their own schools and their individual professional development. Projects have included:

• Using mnemonics to increase memory for science in a low-attaining Year 7 class
• Designing an intervention to teach when to use fast and slow thinking in maths
• Designing an intervention to deploy conscious states of learning in order to improve retention in primary school children
• Using spaced learning effectively in the classroom Helping students understand when stress is good and how to build resilience
• Designing an intervention which used an escape room to teach literature to a mixed ability group
• Increasing intrinsic motivation in the classroom thus increasing engagement and learning
• Improving own ability to work with difficult people

Come and join them!