18/11/2025
🚨We’re thrilled to introduce our keynote sessions for : Applying Psychology to Challenge Inequity.
🌍✨Get ready for groundbreaking insights, bold conversations & transformative ideas to promote equity in our education system.
📣Keynote Professor Stephen Gorard on making the the school system fairer by exploring :
⚖️ factors which impact attainment and exclusion including socio-economic segregation;
🔍what drives these inequalities and actions could reduce them.
📣Keynote Professor Diane Reay on:
🪫An emotional landscape of dissatisfaction, fear and anxiety;
💷 The impact of growing class inequalities on the English education system.
📣Keynote Dr Jawad Shah on:
✨Moving to systemic,community-driven, justice-oriented practice shaped by historical and geopolitical realities;
💥A call for reflective privilege- checking, workforce diversification and policy influence to address structural inequities.
📣 Keynote Professor Julian Elliott on:
📚Differing views that EPs hold on what dyslexia is, how to define it and whether the term is useful;
💡 New scientific consensus and revised definitions, recent guidance and practical ways EPs can better support struggling readers.
🎤 DECP is honoured to be joined at our conference by the Youth Intermission Theatre performing, ‘Excluded’.
⭐️Youth Intermission Theatre is a charitable organisation which supports young people in the youth justice system through creative performance, rehabilitation, collaboration and positive personal development.
Register for DECP 2026 on 8th - 9th Jan 2026 here: https://www.bps.org.uk/event/division-educational-and-child-psychology-annual-conference-2026
British Psychological Society
