The University of East London (UEL) is helping shape national education policy through a new neuroscience research centre.
UEL has joined a consortium of nine universities to help establish the Department for Education’s new educational neuroscience policy research centre, funded with up to £3 million over two years.
The centre is led by University College London (UCL) and backed by a consortium that includes UEL, Oxford, Cambridge, and Bristol, and aims to provide rapid evidence and research to inform education policy across England.
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Professor Sam Wass, director of the Institute for the Science of Early Years and Youth at UEL, will lead the university’s contribution.
He said: "Educational neuroscience has enormous potential to improve how we support children’s learning and development, particularly in the early years where experiences can have a lifelong impact.
"At UEL, our work focuses on understanding how children learn in real-world environments and how factors such as stress, screen use, attention and social interaction shape development.
"Being part of this national centre creates an exciting opportunity to ensure that robust scientific evidence directly informs education policy and practice."
The research centre will combine expertise from neuroscience, psychology, genetics, classroom practice, and artificial intelligence to inform government decisions on issues such as special educational needs, children’s mental health, learning environments, and the impact of AI technologies on childhood development.
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