Workshops for teachers, academics, and other professionals
The significant increase in young migrant students over recent years presents new challenges in education. Our online workshops with teachers, academics, and other professionals to discuss the issues, and to demonstrate imaginative and innovative ways that teachers and professionals can work with migrant students, enabling them to fully participate in school communities and engage in learning.
The workshops will also encourage discussion and sharing of practice through interaction with education professionals from other schools and countries.
If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.
Upcoming workshops:
- Further events to be confirmed
Past workshops:
- 17 May 2023, 12.30 pm UK time | Talk by and discussion with Prof Joanna McIntyre from the University of Nottingham and Dr Sinikka Neuhaus from Lund University
- 24 February 2023 | Final TEAMS meeting, Edinburgh
- Presentation of TEAMS research to school staff in Sweden
- Presentation of TEAMS research to schools in Finland
- Presentation of TEAMS research for school staff in Scotland
- 3 Sept 2021 | Migrant education lessons with Finland: Opportunities, challenges and ways forward?
Art and filmmaking workshops for students
- allow students to tell their experiences in creative ways,
- work with our professional filmmaker to realise their ideas,
- allow collaboration with subject teachers (arts, history, geography and literature), and
- explore cross-curricular themes of migration and identity.
We can also help organise exhibitions and discussion of students’ artworks in school or online exhibitions.
If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.
Introduction to TEAMS project for school staff
These were for schools who expressed an interest in participation, we:
- conducted workshops to introduce the research, giving background about migration in Scotland, Finland, and Sweden,
- discussed the project aims and purposes, as well as details of the research plan, and
- shared information about the different aspects and activities of our project with schools.
If you are interested in hearing more, please get in touch with our outreach coordinator.
- No further dates planned
Past workshops: