Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
An EmpathyLab x World Book Day webinar, part of the Empathy Day Festival 2025. Join us to explore the role of book talk in reading for pleasure and reading for empathy.
A free webinar for teachers, librarians and those who live and work with young people.
Expert guest speakers include:
• Sarah Mears – Empathy Lab co-founder & Programmes Director, Libraries Connected
• Kate Sayer – Communities and Development Manager at World Book Day, a reading for pleasure charity funded by publishers & booksellers in the UK & Ireland, whose mission is to give every child and young person a book of their own
• Professor Teresa Cremin – Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University. She is co-director of the Literacy and Social Justice Centre and leads a vibrant Reading for Pleasure research and practice coalition
• Nazneen Ahmed Pathak – lecturer in Creative Writing art at the University of Exeter and author of City of Stolen Magic (Puffin).
An EmpathyLab x World Book Day webinar, part of the Empathy Day Festival 2025. Join us to explore the role of book talk in reading for pleasure and reading for empathy.
A free webinar for teachers, librarians and those who live and work with young people.
Expert guest speakers include:
• Sarah Mears – Empathy Lab co-founder & Programmes Director, Libraries Connected
• Kate Sayer – Communities and Development Manager at World Book Day, a reading for pleasure charity funded by publishers & booksellers in the UK & Ireland, whose mission is to give every child and young person a book of their own
• Professor Teresa Cremin – Professor of Education (Literacy) at The Open University. She is co-director of the Literacy and Social Justice Centre and leads a vibrant Reading for Pleasure research and practice coalition
• Nazneen Ahmed Pathak – lecturer in Creative Writing art at the University of Exeter and author of City of Stolen Magic (Puffin).
