Learning and Teaching Conference 2025

The 4th annual Learning and Teaching Conference will take place on campus at Kedleston Road on Wednesday 25 June 2025.

Colleagues are invited to submit proposals for 15-minute presentations that develop and extend awareness and understanding of impactful pedagogic practices that exemplify this year’s conference theme, 'Connected Pedagogies.'

'Connected Pedagogies' focuses on how we link pedagogy and practice to the needs of our students, and to the needs of society, supporting our mission of driving excellent outcomes and experience for all our students as a connected community of learners. In doing this we support a wider educational and moral endeavour of social justice, a theme introduced earlier this year at our Learning and Teaching Symposium in January.

The Learning and Teaching Conference will extend this work by sharing and discussing the application and theory of pedagogies that connect students with disciplines, careers, society, and each other, to explore and achieve their full potential.

Submissions

The conference’s purpose is to showcase high-quality academic presentations that go beyond the sharing of best practice. Submissions should provide research or evaluation data, or work in progress, to support a research-driven conference and to model evidence-informed practices. Presentations should locate pedagogic practice in the relevant theory and literature, and/or research and evaluation methods, and should align with one of the following sub-themes:

Sub-themes

Pedagogies that connect students with careers, each other, communities, or professions
Pedagogies that connect academics and students, or academics with other academics, to enhance socially just outcomes in higher education and/or in society at large
Pedagogies that connect to any social justice themes, for example (but not limited to): social or economic inequality, civil or human rights, education for sustainable development, just transitions to sustainable futures, social mobility, awarding gaps, decolonisation of the curriculum, culturally sensitive curricula, belonging and mattering, student voice and co-creation, graduate outcomes and student aspirations
Pedagogies that connect students with learning and assessments for socially just outcomes
Connecting students with skills, values, behaviours that support social justice within subject pedagogies
Pedagogies that support the development of skills or knowledge needed for active citizenship or leadership in unjust social contexts
Innovative pedagogies or learning environments that connect with students to deliver enhanced equity, participation and inclusion
Connecting pedagogies with students and staff through innovative uses of digital tools and practices

Submit a proposal

This in-person event will highlight the University's broad array of subjects and discipline areas through thought-provoking discussion that explores current thinking, research, and best practice in learning, teaching and assessment.

The deadline for submission of session proposals via a written 250-word abstract is 5pm, Wednesday 12 March 2025.

Submit a session proposal

Bookings for the conference will open in May 2025 – further details to follow.