They are among 252 leaders in academia, the arts, industry, journalism, philanthropy, policy, research, and science elected in 2026. The Cambridge academics elected are: Professor Julie Ahringer (Department of Genetics;…

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Special Needs Jungle·policy

Educational Psychologists should be at the heart of SEND reform: supporting children, families and schools to thrive

New article from Special Needs Jungle: By Dr Andrea Honess, Chair of the British Psychological Society’s Division of Educational and Child Psychology The government’s Schools White Paper and SEND consultation set out…

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SRHE Blog·edtech

Judgement under pressure: generative AI and the emotional labour of learning

by Joanne Irving-Walton What AI absorbs and why that matters Most debates about generative AI in higher education fixate on what it produces: essays, summaries, answers, paraphrases. I find myself increasingly…

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SRHE Blog·research

Can folk pedagogies help us understand the limited impact of research on higher education?

by Alex Buckley The SRHE conference is a great place to see our field in all its glory. From the sessions I attended in December 2025, one thing that was abundantly clear was the desire of so many HE researchers to…

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Cambridge Judge Business School Insight·higher-ed

How leaders turn negative emotions into positive outcomes

Scholars and the general public alike generally assume that negative emotions produce negative outcomes. That can certainly occur, such as when anger, anxiety or fear result in impetuous and harmful reactions that make…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

HE wrapped for 2025

From AI to play, academics from around the world choose the higher education stories that stood out for them in 2025 The creative scar left by GenAI The most thought-provoking story for me in 2025 is the evidence of a…

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LSE Higher Education Blog·higher-ed

We overlook music departments at our peril

As more university music departments face the axe, Thomas Graves points out what we’re all missing when we fail to recognise the unique value of music education With UK higher education (HE) in financial crisis ,…

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KCL Blogs·higher-ed

‘Expect the Unexpected’ – National Student Money Week Testimonial

Photo by J. Kelly Brito on Unsplash Entering university shifted my whole life, it was a complete change, my environment and everything I knew simply disappeared, and I was completely alone for the first time. I remember…

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ResearchEd·curriculum

Christine Counsell: The support our middle leaders need if curricula are to flourish

The session will argue that whether they are providing support or challenge, senior leaders need to listen carefully to subject discourse. Leading a subject team in curriculum design, implementation and review is a…

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Head of Psychology

Education news for this role

Cambridge academics elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Educational Psychologists should be at the heart of SEND reform: supporting children, families and schools to thrive

Judgement under pressure: generative AI and the emotional labour of learning

Can folk pedagogies help us understand the limited impact of research on higher education?

How leaders turn negative emotions into positive outcomes

HE wrapped for 2025

We overlook music departments at our peril

‘Expect the Unexpected’ – National Student Money Week Testimonial

Christine Counsell: The support our middle leaders need if curricula are to flourish

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