The Educated Guess podcast

We’re Dr Dan O’Hare and Dr Cora Sargeant, two educational psychologists. Each episode we talk about a topic in education, psychology, and society, laughing together, demonstrating just how much we don’t know, and taking an educated guess.

Along the way we’ll welcome some brilliant Educated Guests who help us shed light on some of the complexities we’ll explore.

Latest episode

Episode 11: Your Questions Our Answers

Your hosts

Dr Dan O’Hare

Hi! I’m Dan. I founded and lead edpsy, I’m an Educational Psychologist, and Senior Lecturer on the Doctoral EP training programme and the University of Bristol. I also have my own practice and service with Beacon Community Psychology.

I’m passionate about making psychology accessible and much of my work is centred around that. Building the edpsy platform and community has brought together school and educational psychologists from around the world, which is pretty neat.

At the moment quite a bit of my work focuses on the role that educational psychology has (or should have!) in responding to the climate crisis. I’m a member of EcoEdPsychs and have been part of the BPS Climate and Environmental Action Coordinating Group. I’ve written quite a bit in this area including the first professional discussion paper on this issue, thought about what EP services could do to reduce their carbon footprint, and mostly recently thinking about our lack of responses in the face of the polycrisis.

I love practising Yoga and have an aspiration to train to be a yoga teacher and no doubt i’ll keep you updated on this journey through the podcast!

Dr Cora Sargeant

I’m Dr Cora Sargeant, Educational Psychologist and Research Director for the Educational Psychology Doctoral programme at the University of Southampton.

As well as ‘The Educated Guess’ I’m also the host of the podcast ‘Classroom Psychology‘. I’ve been a guest on Agents of Hope, WhatTheTrans, and The MSSociety podcast. I’ve presented at Google’s Transconf in London, was keynote speaker for the SWEP conference last year, the Mentally Healthy Schools Conference this year, and was ‘headliner’ at the edpsy festival.

I’m probably best known for my work in the field of gender diversity, having published research in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology and the International Journal of Transgender Health, the biggest journal in our field in the world.

I also have multiple sclerosis and with my manual wheelchair, the Rocinante, you’ll often find me flying downhill far too fast to be considered at all safe, documenting my wild adventures in the disability blog RollingForInitiative.