(Lia Commissar) Hi! This morning
I'm going to talk about education and neuroscience,
both generally as a field that's developing
but also, the specific work that we've been doing in this field.
The Wellcome Trust -- OK --
the Wellcome Trust, for those of you who don't know,
is the second largest charitable foundation globally,
with the aim of improving health.
And it does that by funding lots of bio-medical research, but also
by funding work in the social science and humanities,
funding lots of education work, doing lots of engagement work
and also lots of policy work.
So I'm going to talk through a few things this morning.
Firstly, what has neuroscience got to do with education?
What impact does it have on education at the moment?
The work that we've been doing and then, thinking about the future.
So, what has neuroscience got to do with education?
Well, if education is about learning something,
be it knowledge or a skill,
and neuroscience is the study of the nervous system and the brain,
then they're pretty linked, in my opinion.
And it's not new to kind of talk about the brain, in relation to education. 1:13