Each summer Lancaster University and its partners host an Education Conference. This year the conference will be held on Tuesday 24th and Wednesday 25th June 2025, in Health Innovation One on the Bailrigg Campus and online.
The Lancaster University Education Conference aims to provide a welcoming interdisciplinary space, which specifically aims to:
Please note that if you are planning to attend in person, you can park at HIC using a valid staff parking permit, the RingGo app, or by paying at the on-site, card only payment machine (paper scratch cards cannot be used on the HIC carpark).
You may also park at Car Park L(b), also known as the Bowling Green Car Park, using physical Staff or Tenant Staff Parking Scratch Card.
If you are intending to attend the conference on the above date in person, please use the below link to register.
We require each colleague who is attending to submit their own registration, as this ensures that we adequately capture dietary requirements and offer enough catering to feed everyone. Because of this we kindly ask that you do not register on behalf of other people.
If you are intending to attend the conference on the above date online please use the below link to register.
Please note that this conference is only available to colleagues of Lancaster University and the regional and international partners, so we ask that you do not share this link with colleagues outside of the Lancaster University community.
If you are intending to attend the conference on the above date in person, please use the below link to register.
If you are intending to attend the conference on the above date online please use the below link to register.
Tuesday 24th June 2025
“Don’t underestimate the role of the personal touch.”
In 2021, the Learning Development team were awarded a LU widening participation grant to create a reciprocal mentoring project that attempted to understand the teaching and learning experiences of ethnic minority students at Lancaster. The project would ultimately match Black and Ethnic Minority students with white senior teaching staff and create a space to share learning experiences, as part of a tailored programme of sessions and events. In this keynote, we will present findings from this project in relation to inclusive teaching practice and curriculum design. These findings have illuminated the importance of considering the student as an individual, and the need to create communities and spaces that facilitate in-depth and personable learning.
Wednesday 25th June 2025
This Keynote will discuss experiences from the Lancaster University College@Beijing Jiaotong University- Weihai Campus, in developing an inclusive caring Community of Practice for staff and students, in a rural, isolated area of China. Issues of ‘belonging’ and ‘community’ in Transnational Partnerships are not only focused on the student population, but also on the staff who are either based in China for the full 2 semesters or those who fly into the campus from Lancaster on either 12 week or 2 lots of 8-week assignments. The challenges of defining ‘practice’ are also problematic, with the Lancaster staff being ‘betwixt and between’ two very different cultural ways of approaching education. How do we, our Chinese lecturing colleagues and the students navigate the pedagogical and cultural differences, to move towards creating a caring community of practice?
For access to information about previous conferences please click on the links below
