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Call for papers: Teaching and Learning Conference 2024

04 Apr 2024

Submissions invited from all staff and students by 5pm on Monday, 22 April

The second University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference will take place on Wednesday, 26 and Thursday, 27 June 2024.

Building on insights from last year's conference, and open to presentations and participation from all students and staff, it will showcase exemplary practice, drive discussion around teaching and learning (T&L) and facilitate network building and collaboration.

We invite submissions from all staff and students around the following themes:

  1. Student partnership and the student voice: How can we approach T&L in partnership with our students, ensuring their perspective, experience and potential is fully embraced?
  2. Exploring assessment: What does effective and authentic assessment look like at our University? What practices, processes and pedagogy can we use to ensure assessment and importantly feedback on assessment supports learning?
  3. Sustainability and the socially responsible curriculum: Where do pedagogical practice and theory intersect with social responsibility and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals? How can we bring in elements of service learning or other community led pedagogies? How can we encourage and enable students to drive social responsibility forward in their learning? 
  4. The future of T&L in HE: Critical reflections on current practice and positive changes for the sector’s long-term future, for example what is the role of AI in the future of HE? What roles will lifelong learning play? How does the sector need to support students beginning their education journey to support their future learning?   

Submissions are invited from individuals or teams and should be proposed in any of the following formats:

  • Wicked Problem Sets – 1 hour sessions in which the speaker(s) introduce an issue/big question linked to the themes of the conference with a brief presentation, before the participants act as an action learning set, joining in a roundtable discussion on the topic and putting together a summary of thoughts and recommendations at the end.
  • Standard paper presentations – paper presentations on a specific topic, 15-20 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions.
  • Poster presentations – posters will be exhibited during the conference and presenters will be asked to give a short spoken presentation on their poster. Posters will also be made available via an online gallery after the conference.
  • Lightening talks – up to 5 minutes, maximum 20 slides submitted. These should be short, snappy papers which present the essence of an activity, initiative, a pedagogic passion, or about something that went really well or something that didn’t work out in your teaching and learning.   

The deadline for submissions is 5pm on Monday, 22 April using the online form below and including the following information:

  1. Who is participating (name of presenters, whether presenters include students, email address of lead contact, and the part of the University you are based in).
  2. Which conference theme your submission predominantly addresses. 
  3. Which format your presentation will be in.
  4. The title of your submission.
  5. To provide a maximum 250 word abstract which will be anonymously assessed by the paper committee. Abstracts should reflect awareness of effective practice around inclusion, accessibility and equity and include: an explanation of how the submission is collaborative with students or show an awareness of impact on students; an explanation of how the submission meets the selected conference theme(s); and an explanation of how the submission might have wider resonances beyond the conference (e.g. how it might impact policy or practice sector-wide, how it might spark innovation or connections in your field, how it speaks to UN Sustainable Development Goals).
  6. Whether you wish to opt out of your submission being recorded.
  7. Your availability for the two days of the conference.

Submit your proposal

Submissions will be assessed by a paper committee comprised of students and staff from across our University. Speakers will be informed of the paper committee’s decision and asked to register for the conference by mid May.