Conference Programme
Education for All: Learning Together
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Thursday 31 March 2022, Frederick Douglass Centre
Welcome to the Learning and Teaching Conference 2022. This one-day event will showcase effective, creative and collaborative approaches to learning and teaching across the University.
Programme
We have a packed programme in store for you at this year's conference, with events spread across six parallel streams of sessions. You can view our interactive programme for a live schedule of what's on, where and when. Alternatively, you can download the conference programme in document format (University login required).
Poster and Video Competition
As part of the conference, we will be running a poster competition and a video competition – the submissions are ready to be viewed and you can start voting NOW! You can view the Poster Submissions and the Video Submissions online. Please do support your colleagues who have put together some fantastic work.
Keynote: Professor Paul Ashwin
What is a university education for?
The global pandemic has led to changes to university teaching and learning practices and significant financial pressures on the higher education sector. In the face of unexpected social and economic challenges, there is a danger that the quality of higher education will be judged simply in terms of graduates’ employment outcomes and we will lose sight of the educational purposes of a university education.
In this keynote, I will argue that, in order to reinvigorate our understanding of university education, we need to focus on how students are supported to develop transformational relationships with disciplinary and professional knowledge. These relationships change students’ understanding of themselves and the world and are central to the many ways in which going to university can transform students' lives and contribute to societal well-being. I will explore the implications of this argument for our educational practices.
Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education and Head of the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education, an ESRC funded research centre involving 10 international universities. Paul’s research is focused on the educational role of higher education. His book, ‘Transforming University Education: A Manifesto’ (2020), argues for a focus on the educational, rather than economic, purposes of university degrees in order to understand their transformational impact on students and societies. He is also the lead author on Reflective Teaching in Higher Education (2015, 2020) which is written by an international team to support the development of research-informed university teaching.