Over the past few years we have welcomed a number of wonderful speakers to the Department to discuss various issues relating to Physics Education Research - see below for a list of previous speakers. We also have hosted an international workshop on Physics Teaching Labs and organise an internal Teaching Labs special interest group.
We also host a monthly internal journal club which meets online to informally discuss the months' paper of choice.
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| Date | Seminar title | Speaker and affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| 26th October 2021 | Lab instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic: Effects on student views about experimental physics in comparison with previous years | Michael Fox, Imperial College London |
| 23rd November 2021 | The Blackett Lab Family | Mark Richards, Imperial College London |
| 16th March 2022 | A systems analysis approach to the cognitive and perception processes involved in learning physics | Gareth Jones, Imperial College London |
| 10th May 2022 | Discovering demographic gaps in physics degree outcomes: an intersectional and causal approach | Astra Sword, Open University |
| 7th June 2022 | The role of, identity, self-efficacy, and imposter phenomenon in women’s experience of physics: A proposed intervention | Ewan Bottomley, University of St Andrews |
| 21st June 2022 | Barriers and biases in physics education: Three examples | Matt Mears, University of Sheffield |
| 29th September 2022 | Practical work in physics and physics in geosciences | Kirsty Dunnett, University of Oslo |
| 27th October 2022 | Panic spirals and deposits in the Bank of Previously Seen Problems: Epistemology, metacognition, emotion and community in first-year Imperial Physics students’ approaches to problem-solving | Jon Fenton, Imperial College London |
| 8th December 2022 | Creativity, agency, and cognitive expertise: A holistic approach to theoretical physics education | Ben Zwickl, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| 23rd March 2023 | Reflections from Stockholm | Amy Smith, Imperial College London |