Centre for Educational Neuroscience

Our first newsletter is out!

We’re delighted to share the first newsletter from the Centre for Educational Neuroscience, featuring the latest research, news, events and opportunities from acr...

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, “

CEN Director Professor Michael Thomas appointed Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department for Education

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...