The SEDA Spring Conference 2024 will focus on the changing face of educational development in higher education. We welcome contributions from all those who lead and support effective learning and teaching practices, including educational/academic developers, learning and teaching leads, student experience professionals, learning designers/technologists, enhancement leads, and academics and other colleagues researching higher education, to share research, perspectives and practice.
As our Higher Education institutions adapt to increasing pressures on the perceived value and measured outcomes of degrees, our role to support our academic colleagues to embed new approaches has moved from thematic enhancement to regulated mandates. Challenges such as assessment reviews, engaging blended experiences and maintaining academic standards in the face of new technologies, ask educational developers to become all-rounders of higher education policy. As our business of developing reflective teachers continues, how we adapt in these environments often in third spaces requires the need to connect and share practice as a community more and more. The SEDA Spring Conference offers an opportunity for delegates to access a supportive network to work together and address our common challenges to support student and academic success. This is an opportunity to share practices you are using and the impact of these, and also to engage in some problem-solving workshops.
The Call for Contributions is now closed.
Day 1: Keynote ‘You are your best thing: Addressing differential gaps through values based, person centred education.’, Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green, Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Iwi Ugiagbe-Green has over 20 years’ experience of working in higher education and nearly 15 years’ experience of supporting students in higher education. She is Reader and a Learning Enhancement and Education Development (LEED) institutional innovation scholar at Manchester Metropolitan University, with strategic responsibility for degree award gaps and differential outcomes. She describes herself as an academic activist and anti-racism scholar. In the last five years her research has focused on race equity issues within the context of student education, experience, transition, and progression to graduate labour market and postgraduate study. She developed the very successful OfS/UKRI funded ASPIRE programme and STRIVE 100 programme. Both programmes have supported student success and led to incredible outcomes of groups of students, who are typically awarded lower degree awards or employment outcomes than other student groups.
Day 2: Opening Address and Keynote ‘Collaboration and Play: how to connect the curriculum’, Dr Alex Moseley, Anglia Ruskin University
Alex is Head of Learning and Teaching at Anglia Ruskin University, is a PFHEA and NTF. He is a leading expert in Playful Learning, chairing the Playful Learning Association and Conference since their inception, and is also a Certified Lego Serious Play® Facilitator.
Session Summary: Curricula should be co-curated with our students, staff, developers and employers: together we’ll explore this collaborative approach, drawing on playful leadership and our own agency. I really mean that: you’ll be delivering this keynote with me.
Venue
The conference will be held in Liverpool, hosted by Liverpool John Moores University in the Redmonds Building.
Conference Tickets
Tickets are available on the SEDA Eventbrite page
| Member rate (whole conference) | £220.00 |
| Non-member rate (whole conference) | £250.00 |
| 1 day rate (Thu) | £135.00 |
| 1 day rate (Thu) – non-member | £160.00 |
| 0.5 day rate (Fri) | £80.00 |
| 0.5 day rate (Fri) – non-member | £100.00 |
| Drinks/canape reception rate | £25.00 |
Hotels
The venue is very close to Liverpool Lime Street Train Station and there are several hotels nearby including:
Holiday Inn Liverpool City Centre
Delta Hotels by Marriott Liverpool City Centre
Radisson Red Liverpool
Premier Inn Liverpool City Centre (Lime Street)
Liverpool Central Travelodge
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