Education Conference 2024

Education Conference 2024 

Facing challenges, inspiring innovation. 

Thursday 13 June 2024.

Bush House, Strand Campus. 

The King's Education Conference is King's Academy's flagship event. This year’s conference will take place on Thursday 13 June 2024 at Bush House (Strand Campus) and will be a full day of workshops, presentations and networking activities. Registration for this event has now closed.  

The Education Conference is intended to be an inclusive and welcoming space where staff from across King’s can come together to celebrate their successes and to share their ideas about teaching & learning. We are proud that previous conferences have included submissions from staff in diverse roles and departments and given many colleagues their first opportunity to speak at a conference.  

Content will focus on four conference sub-themes:  

• Pedagogies of Care: Within this theme, colleagues will share their experience or ideas of educational practices that prioritize both staff and student wellbeing and that foster a culture of empathy and support. Within this theme, we hope to explore transformative strategies that go beyond traditional teaching methods, promoting holistic approaches that nurture the mental, emotional, and academic flourishing of the whole educational community.  

• The Future of Teaching and Learning: Within this theme, colleagues will share the needs, challenges or opportunities they identify – or anticipate - as driving future developments in Higher Education teaching and learning. These may be in education for sustainability, digital futures, internationalisation, or another lens in their educational context. Colleagues could set out the situation and what it implies for pedagogy, curriculum design, educational policy and/or learning environments. How should we respond to these developments and possibilities? Or what plans and projects are already underway? 

• Inclusive Education: University communities are growing and diversifying and, at the same time, pressures on our students are intensifying. Within this theme, colleagues will prompt and contribute to conversations about creating equitable and accessible learning environments, as we explore strategies and practices that celebrate diversity, accommodate varying needs, and promote the full participation of all learners.  

• Student Partnership, Voice & Experience: Within this category, colleagues will reflect on opportunities – potential or existing – for our student community to shape their own educational journeys, and to propose ways in which we can foster meaningful partnerships, amplify student voices, increase student agency, and enhance their learning experience through collaborative engagement and co-creation.  

Content will be presented in three formats and up to six sessions will run concurrently:  

• Research or Scholarship Presentation [30-minute slot in total. Sharing a completed or partially completed educational research or scholarship practice or activity. This may include context of the practice or activity, pedagogies applied, implementation, outcomes and evaluation undertaken.  

• Workshop [1 hour slot in total]. Active learning session engaging participants in reflection or application to their own discipline or field.  

• Poster Presentation: Posters will be on open display from registration until lunch in the conference hub. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in informal 1-1 or small-group discussions.  

The full programme for the day has now been published and can be found here. Education Conference 2024 Programme

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