Deanery Digests

The University of Oxford Education Deanery’s mission is to empower educators worldwide to understand, use, and co-produce high-quality research evidence in education. In this podcast series, we explore the latest research from the Department of Education at the University of Oxford and discuss the real-world implications for teachers, parents and policy makers. Each podcast is accompanied by a Deanery Digest, a short, plain language summary of the research, which can be downloaded from our website.

Deanery Digests is a education podcast hosted by Oxford University, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Creating an inclusive languages policy for Coventry city

  Jun 8, 202636 minS0

  Languages specialist Eowyn Crisfield talks about her involvement in a project with Coventry City Ethnic Minority Achievement Service to create a languages policy for the city’s schools School language policy - do you have one? In this episode Hamish Chalmers talks with language specialist Dr Eowyn Crisfield about why language policies are central to inclusion, and how the Coventry Language Policy for schools is being developed. Grounded in both research and reality, the collaborative process Coventry Ethnic Minority Achievement Services (EMAS) has engaged in will provide a strong policy base for widening participation in languages and ensuring all students are supported...

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  Creating an inclusive languages policy for Coventry city

  Jun 8, 202636 min

  Languages specialist Eowyn Crisfield talks about her involvement in a project with Coventry City Ethnic Minority Achievement Service to create a languages policy for the city’s schools School language policy - do you have one? In this episode Hamish Chalmers talks with language specialist Dr Eowyn Crisfield about why language policies are central to inclusion, and how the Coventry Language Policy for schools is being developed. Grounded in both research and reality, the collaborative process Coventry Ethnic Minority Achievement Services (EMAS) has engaged in will provide a strong policy base for widening participation in languages and ensuring all students are supported to see themselves as language users, language learners, and language experts.   Learn more about the project at Eowyn’s website: https://ocme.uk/blog/coventry-language-policy  Read about the project at the Languages Gateway website: https://www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/blog/4-june-2026-why-school-language-policy-matters-lessons-from-the-coventry-project/   And learn about similar work Eowyn did on the Island of Jersey: https://www.gov.je/Education/Schools/ChildLearning/pages/languagepolicyjerseyeducation.aspx   Explore the WoLLoW resources that Eowyn references: https://theworldoflanguages.co.uk    Learn more about the Oxford Education Deanery: https://www.education.ox.ac.uk/about-us/oxford-education-deanery/  Join our mailing list: https://education.us21.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=2b84fd25801a8e6f131fdf744&id=1a0dba83bc 

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  Hope for Oxford: British Pakistani and Bangladeshi aspirations as intergenerational, relational and collective

  Apr 30, 202624 minS0

  Exploring the hopes and aspirations of British Pakistani and Bangladeshi families toward elite higher education. In this special edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Dr Stephanie Nowack is joined by Mitu Khan and Sadaf Yasir to explore how hope towards higher education is collective, intergenerational, and relational. The podcast draws on research from the Oxford Hope Project, led by Dr Aliya Khalid (PI), Dr Stephanie Nowack, Dr Md Sahariar Rahman, Nadia Talukder. It explores how British Pakistani and Bangladeshi students and their families hope and aspire towards higher education amidst precarity. In the podcast, the speakers explore how family...

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  The role of songs in languages learning

  Mar 10, 202622 minS0

  Teachers love using songs with foreign language learners. But do songs help with learning a new language? We explore the evidence. Singing songs with young learners is a classroom technique beloved by many teachers, especially languages teachers. Many teachers say that songs offer something special to the job of learning a new language, and that singing songs can improve foreign language learning outcomes. In this podcast Dr Cate Hamilton talks about her research exploring these assumptions. She describes her journey through the literature, which revealed poor theorising and a lack of well conducted studies that would help us to interpret...

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  Playful Pedagogies: Critical thinking, Creativity, Constructing Meaning

  Mar 4, 202628 minS0

  Exploring how play-based pedagogies can deepen thinking, spark creativity, and help children construct meaning. In this special extended edition of the Oxford Education Deanery podcast, Professor Kathy Hirsh-Pasek joins Dr Faidra Faitaki and Jasen Booton to explore how playful pedagogies can transform education. Beginning with a light-hearted exchange about climbing trees and jumping in puddles, the conversation unfolds into a compelling discussion of “active, playful learning” (or guided play) — a research-informed approach grounded in how brains learn best: actively, meaningfully, socially, iteratively, and with joy. Challenging the divide between play and more traditional approaches, the speakers reflect on classroom practice, biling...

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