Annual Conference Podcast Series - Tim Smith’s Journal Club: Glorious Failure

In this episode, recorded live at our Annual Conference in Brighton, we continue Tim Smith’s Journal Club series! Tim, Head at Hampton Pre-Prep and Prep, sits down with Christabel Westall, Headmistress at Terra Nova School, for a thought-provoking conversation on the concept of ‘glorious failure’. Together, they explore a series of research papers and discuss what schools can do to ensure children leave equipped to cope with failure in their lives.Articles:The Exaggerated Benefits of Failure, Lauren Eskreis-Winkler, Kaitlin Woolley, Eda Erensoy, Minhee Kim - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38856918/The Biological Benefits of Failure on Learning and Tools to Manage the Fallout, Lauren Margulieux, James Prather, Masoumeh Rahimi - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-025-10013-7Overcoming a Sense of Academic Failure Workbook, Emily Troscianko and Rachel Bray - chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.careers.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/overcoming-a-sense-of-academic-failure-workbook-june-2023.pdf