Blogs by Theme - Lifelong Learning

Learning and Memory

Posted June 4, 2018 - 08:36 by Peter Kearns

The Queensland Brain Institute, located at the University of Queensland, has devoted an issue of their publication “The Brain” to the area of Learning and Memory. Learning is one of the interests of the Brain Institute which it carries forward in partnership with the Science of Learning Research Centre (SLRC) which is a national interdisciplinary research centre.

Critical Adult Education is not dead; only invisible

Posted May 10, 2018 - 10:31 by Han Soong Hee

Source: PIMA Bulletin 17, April 2018

Budd Hall’s note on ‘The Curious Incident of the Disappearance of the Policy Discourse of Adult Education in England’ revives the forgotten nature of adult education. It reminds the traditional memory of popular education, ranging from Latin America to Nordic countries, and workers education discourses in most of global contexts, especially in modern UK as well as contemporary Canada and Australia.

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships at the University of Glasgow - up to 7 years of funding

Posted April 20, 2018 - 14:38 by Mike Osborne

The College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow invites expressions of interest from external candidates wishing to apply for UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships.

Photo Exhibition and Research Results from major GCRF project on lives of Syrian Refugees - 5-8 April, Glasgow

Posted March 29, 2018 - 16:22 by Lesley Doyle

Please find featured below and attached details of a photo exhibition and linked research findings from a major project concerned with the analysis of the realities, opportunities, and challenges forcibly displaced people from Syria face as they attempt to rebuild their lives in the UK, Greece and Lebanon.

An update on the Knowledge for Change Consortium training

Posted March 28, 2018 - 17:13 by Budd Hall

As many colleagues will know, we launched the first cohort in the Mentor Training Programme for our Knowledge for Change Consortium (K4C) consortium in January with the on-line component. I am just back from India where we held the first f2f residency with 19 mentors from seven countries.