Overview
Education and learning are at the heart of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½â€™s academic community. Founded as a graduate college and today home to postgraduates, mature undergraduates and returning learners, ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ brings together people with a particularly wide range of educational, professional and international experiences.
Education at ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ reflects that breadth, with students, Fellows and alumni working across areas including teaching and pedagogy, educational policy and social justice, widening participation and lifelong learning, literacy and language, teacher development and educational reform.
The ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ Education Dinner brings together alumni, students, Fellows and friends from across this diverse community. The evening offers an opportunity to reconnect with fellow members of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½, make new connections and share perspectives on education, learning and research across different disciplines, professions and stages of life.
Following dinner, we are delighted to welcome ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½ alumna Professor Evelyn Arizpe, Professor of Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow, who will reflect on her career and work exploring children’s literature, literacy and the ways in which young people engage with stories and visual texts.
Speaker
Professor Evelyn Arizpe is Professor of Children’s Literature in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow and an alumna of ÌÇÐÄVlog¹Ù·½, where she completed her PhD in Education.
Evelyn has worked in children’s literature and literacy for more than 25 years. During her doctoral studies at Cambridge, she researched adolescent readers and young adult literature, later working with Professor Morag Styles on pioneering research into children’s responses to picturebooks and visual literacy. Their work led to the influential book Children Reading Picturebooks: Interpreting Visual Texts.
Her research has since explored children’s literature and literacy across a range of international contexts, with particular interests in picturebooks, reader response, migration and displacement, and intercultural communities. She has published widely in English and Spanish and worked with researchers, practitioners and policymakers internationally.
Evelyn served as President of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature from 2019 to 2023 and is Programme Leader for the Erasmus Mundus International Master in Children’s Literature, Media and Cultural Entrepreneurship at the University of Glasgow.
Details
Access
This event will take place in the Dining Hall on the first floor of our main building. There is step-free access with a lift and an accessible toilet.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact the Alumni Team - alumni@wolfson.cam.ac.uk
