Education Research Reading Room

Education Research Reading Room

The most in-depth education podcast available. Each episode host Ollie Lovell takes a deep dive into an important area of education with an educational thought leader from around the world, from practicing teachers to university professors and everyone in-between. If you're looking to build deep knowledge about education and how learning happens, this is the podcast for you.

Episodes

July 10, 2025 131 mins

In this episode, host Ollie Lovell speaks with Amy Haywood and Nick Parkinson from The Grattan Institute on their recent research into primary mathematics and what we need to do at the system level to improve it!


Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/haywood-parkinson

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Host Ollie Lovell speaks with James Mannion about his new book, "Making Change Stick", and how to effectively implement change and improvements in schools and organisations.


Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/jamesmannion2

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This episode we’re speaking with Benjamin Riley. Ben is the founder of Cognitive Resonance, a think-and-do tank devoted to helping people to understand human cognition and generative AI. Previously, Ben founded and led Deans for Impact, a US-based nonprofit organization that works to improve initial teacher education using cognitive science. As Ben says, he likes to get people thinking, about thinking!


This ep goes much wider in...

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Host Ollie Lovell speaks with Alex Evans, Deputy Headteacher at St Luke’s Church of England School about the St Luke's change journey that moved the school from the bottom 20% of schools nationally, to the top 20%, within 4 years. This is a story of systematic instructional and curricular change, leveraging the power of Instructional Coaching.

Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/alexevans

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In this episode, host Ollie Lovell speaks with the worlds most popular Parenting author, Steve Biddulph, on his new book, 'Wild Creature Mind'.

This discussion explores the roots of our anxieties, with important implications in particular for how we support young people (and anyone close to us) at crucial times in their lives.

Full show notes at: https://www.ollielovell.com/stevebiddulph/

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In this episode of the ERRR Podcast, renowed mathematics education David Morkunas describes the ins and outs of writing high quality mathematics lessons, and particularly how these principals are embedded into the Explicit Mathematics Program.


Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/davidmorkunas

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In this episode, host Ollie Lovell speaks with acclaimed school principal Steve Capp to hear what it takes to turn around not one, but two primary schools. Steve shares countless pearls of wisdom on everything from pedagogy to management.


Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/stevecapp

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Professor Jonathan Sharples from the Education Endowment Foundation shares insights and practical advice regarding how to help educational programs and initiatives to have maximum impact in your school or organisation.


Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/jonathansharples

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In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Buckingham describes key instructional and policy differences between the UK, Ireland, and Australia, and how these contribute to differing literacy levels and achievement on international tests such as PISA and PIRLS.


Jen and Ollie discuss a multitude of factors including curriculum, instruction, initial teacher education, assessment, school inspections, as well as the all important culture and demog...

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This episode we're speaking with Ron Berger. Ron was a public school teacher and master carpenter in rural Massachusetts for over 25 years and is now a well-known national and international keynote speaker focused on inspiring a commitment to quality, character, and citizenship in students. He is the Senior Advisor at EL Education, a nonprofit school improvement organization that partners with public schools and districts across Am...

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In this episode, usual ERRR host Ollie Lovell has a recent maths lesson that he taught pulled apart by fellow edu-podcaster Craig Barton.


Craig ask's Ollie a huge number of questions about this recent demonstration lesson, asking Ollie about different pedagogical decisions he made, and what he might do differently next time.


For those looking for a truly in-depth discussion about teaching and learning, this is it!

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Adam Boxer is a chemistry teacher in North London, he writes about science education, cognitive science, evidence-based education, and many other important topics. He’s an extremely popular on teacher social media and has had a huge impact on education both locally and internationally through his writings, books, podcast, and talks. 

I’ve followed Adam for a long time and have always found his writing to be extremely logical, pract...

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Expert PD designer Harry Fletcher-Wood shares wisdom on what it takes to design truly deep and impactful PD for teachers.


See all the show notes at www.ollielovell.com/harryfletcherwood3

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In this episode we speak with Greg Ashman about what it takes to create a high performing school like Ballarat Clarendon College, Victoria's highest performing school. We touch on important factors including shared student expectations, effective professional learning, shared and prescriptive lesson plans, effective data use, and much more.

Full show notes at www.ollielovell.com/gregashman

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In this episode, Dr. Jordana Hunter & Nick Parkinson from the Grattan Institue discuss lessons from their trip to New York and England to visit 7 multi-school organisations, groups of schools working together under common governance and structures to the benefit of students.

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Regents Professor Karen Harris shares insights from over 50 years of writing instruction and refining the Self Regulated Strategy Development (SRSD) method of teaching writing.


Host Ollie Lovell applies what he's learnt from reading Karen's book to share a demo lesson of teaching using the SRSD approach, and Karen provides valuable feedback!


Full show notes with all resources at www.ollielovell.com/karenharris

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Ollie Lovell · ERRR088. Kristian Still on Test-enhanced Learning Kristian Still is a deputy head academic with over 20 years’…
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Ollie Lovell · ERRR087 Arran Hamilton and Dylan Wiliam on Making Room for Impact (De-implementation) Arran Hamilton is group director…
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Ollie Lovell · ERRR #086. Gwyn Ap Harri on Building, Breaking, and Fixing a World Famous School This episode we’re…
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Ollie Lovell · ERRR085 Jeff Robin on Teaching Like an Artist This episode we're speaking with Jeff Robin. ​​​Jeff is…
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