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We were contacted by a local authority in England that asked about the overlap between Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) and deprivation, and what a school could do to help these students.
It is important to be clear from the outset: SEND should not be treated as simply another label for deprivation. SEND arise for many interconnected reasons, includ...
By Dr Emma Meaburn, Deputy Director of CEN and Reader in Human Genetics, Birkbeck.
I recently had the privilege of speaking at the Progress Educational Trust’s (PET) Annual Conference in London. This year’s conference asked, “What Does Genomics Mean for Fertility Treatment?”, and my session, “
We are delighted to announce that after 15 years serving as Director of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience (CEN), Professor Michael Thomas will be stepping back from his directorship to take up a prestigious secondment as the Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) to the UK D...
What the future of educational neuroscience looks like: a report from Chile
How do we move from understanding the brain to improving outcomes in the classroom? This was the central question as researchers from the Centre for Educational Neuroscience (CEN) travelled to Santiago, Chile, in November 2025 to share expertise at two major Latin Ameri...
The idea that coloured sheets of plastic (overlays) can treat dyslexia is now viewed with some scepticism (we ourselves called it a Neuromyth). This is because high-quality randomised controlled trials, testing the effectiveness of overlays for dysl...