Book your place at the 2025 Teaching and Learning Conference
23 May 2025
Join us for the Teaching and Learning Conference 2025 (2–3 July), a free, two-day event celebrating innovation and best practice in teaching at Manchester. Featuring keynotes, interactive sessions, and networking opportunities.
We are delighted to announce this year's University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference 2025, a pivotal event dedicated to fostering excellence and innovation in teaching and learning for staff and students. This will be a two-day, flexible, free internal conference focusing on teaching and learning at the University of Manchester.
The Conference will take place on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 July 2025 in University Place and will include a welcoming drinks reception on the evening of Wednesday 2 July at Christie's Bistro. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity for attendees to network and socialise in a relaxed setting.
Tickets
We have a range of ticket options available. You can book tickets for each individual conference day, or you can book full conference admission. For those who would prefer to attend remotely, online tickets are also available to reserve.
You are welcome to attend specific sessions based on your interests and availability. The conference schedule will be shared closer to the event, allowing you to plan your attendance accordingly.
More details can be found on the Eventbrite. If you have any further questions, please contact teaching.learning@manchester.ac.uk.
Plenaries
Wednesday 2 July, 14:00-15:00 in University Place Lecture Theatre B: University of Manchester President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Duncan Ivison, will lead a keynote on the University’s teaching and learning strategy. Duncan will be joined by a panel consisting of one member of teaching staff and one student who will reflect on the strategy from their perspective, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
Thursday 3 July, 9:30-10:20 in University Place Lecture Theatre B: Beyond satisfaction surveys: what university teaching really means to students. Within many institutions that perform poorly against student satisfaction surveys is a growing sense of exasperation. What more do our students want? How else are we supposed to teach them? Why can’t they appreciate everything we’re doing? Professor Steven Jones will explore beyond survey outcomes to unpick some of the assumptions about students and teaching that we all hold, and develop more creative ways to facilitate learning. The session will be delivered in partnership with the real experts when it comes to teaching and learning: our students.
Thursday 3 July, 16:00-17:00 in University Place Lecture Theatre B: Dr Perpetual Eze-Idehen and Emma Lewis-Kalubowila will explore specific experiences of our student communities on pathways often considered “atypical”. During this plenary, students who have taken part in different projects, such as Manchester 10/10, the Black Leadership Project, and others will reflect on and highlight their experiences of learning at the University of Manchester.
Parallel sessions
We will have a range of different sessions from across the University, centred around the following conference themes:
- Inclusive education
- Building belonging and raising student voices
- Redefining learning and teaching in HE (exploratory strand – challenging the status quo and current methods)
An exciting and varied conference programme will feature a total of 108 interactive sessions to take part in:
- Wicked problem sets – one-hour sessions in which the speaker introduces an issue or big question linked to the themes of the conference with a brief presentation, before participants act as an action learning set, joining in a roundtable discussion 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.
- Lightning talks – up to 5 minutes, featuring a maximum of 20 slides. These are short, snappy papers that capture the essence of an activity, initiative, pedagogic passion, or something that went well or didn’t work out in a teaching and learning context.
- Poster presentations – posters will be exhibited during the conference, with presenters on hand to provide a short spoken presentation.
More information about the Teaching and Learning Conference 2025
- For more information, visit the Teaching and Learning Conference 2025 information page