Overview
Student success means different things to different people – from academic achievement and career readiness to personal growth and social mobility. But one thing unites us all: ensuring every student reaches their full potential.
In today’s evolving regulatory landscape, institutions need strategies that not only drive student outcomes but also demonstrate quality and accountability. That’s why hundreds of educators from around the world are gathering at Advance HE’s Teaching and Learning Conference 2025.
The mission? Maximising student success through:
- Connecting and recognising all student achievements
- Defining graduate attributes that respond positively to regulation
- Delivering authentic, work-based learning experiences
- Supporting the complete student journey with clear goals and effective assessment
- Building skills that employers want
- Creating communities where everyone belongs
- Preparing global citizens for an interconnected world
- Offering flexible learning that fits real lives
Whether you’re a practitioner, senior leader, or professional services colleague – especially those with Advance HE Fellowship – this is your platform to network, influence, and showcase what works.
Event Information
Date: 1-3 July 2025
Place: The Wave, University of Sheffield
Conference themes
The theme Future-Focused Education: Ensuring successful student outcomes for all will address the following areas and themes:
1. Future-Focused Education: Ensuring successful student outcomes for all
2. Education for the future
3. Education beyond borders
4. Education beyond place and space
5. Education for social impact
6. Education for all
7. Workforce for the future
Who should attend?
Any teaching practitioner, including department heads, academic programme leaders and developers, lecturers, academic and support staff, and learning technologists.
A digital badge award will recognise presenters at this event.
Speakers
Day 1
Keynote from Professor Philip Hanna
AI in Education: Defining the Challenges, Shaping the Solutions
This talk addresses the pressing question of AI’s impact on education, dissecting the challenges across pedagogy, technology, and people, all within an environment of rapid change. Rather than seeing these challenges as barriers, the talk explores how they can inform a structured approach to the integration of AI within education. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of the challenges and, importantly, a set of practical, actionable steps to harness AI’s potential within their own educational
settings.
Philip Hanna
Dean of Education for the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
Queen’s University Belfast
Panellists Day 1
Day 2
Keynote from Dr. Eleni Meletiadou
Panellists Day 2
Owen Ward
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Programme Manager for Race Equality
University of Galway
Day 3
Keynote from Debra Gray
From Gatekeepers to Guides: Teaching and Learning When AI Knows Everything
For centuries, higher education held the keys to advanced knowledge. But in 2025, those keys are digital, shared, and probably floating in a student’s back pocket on a phone running GPT-4. So, if AI knows everything, where does that leave us? In this keynote, we’ll explore how educators can move from being gatekeepers to guides, designers of meaning, curators of insight, and co-navigators in a world of abundant knowledge. We’ll look at how AI is changing what students learn, and how, when, and with whom they learn. Spoiler: they’re not always waiting for next Tuesday’s lecture.
The role of the educator isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving into something more human, more creative, and more essential than ever.
Panellists Day 3
The programme
The programme
Day 1 – Part 1
Day 1 – Part 2
Day 2 – Part 1
Day 2 – Part 2
Day 3 – Part 1
Day 3 – Part 2
Day 1 – 3 – Poster Presentations
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Day 2 – Accessible Programme
Day 3 – Accessible Programme
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Accommodation
Accessible Programme
Abstracts
Festival of Fellowship Networking Mornings
Join us at our Fellowship networking events, taking place each morning during the Teaching and Learning Conference 2025.
Date: 1-3 July 2025
Time: 8:45 AM – 9:30 AM
These networking events provide a wonderful opportunity to connect with Fellows and aspiring Fellows of Advance HE before the start of the day’s conference activities. You’ll have the chance to engage with members of our Fellowship team and meet likeminded peers, committed to advancing teaching excellence in higher education.
This year’s networking events hold special significance as we celebrate reaching 200,000 Advance HE fellowships worldwide – a remarkable milestone that demonstrates the growing commitment to professionalism in teaching and supporting learning across global higher education.
Group Discounts for Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2025
Maximise your institution’s participation with our exclusive group booking discounts for the Advance HE Teaching and Learning Conference 2025.
- 5% discount for booking 10-19 delegates
- 10% discount for booking 20+ delegates
- 50% discount for students
Contact events@advance-he.ac.uk for more details or to access the discounts.
Accommodation
Below you will find a list of hotels which have set up preferential rates for attendees to the conference.
Share and celebrate your achievements with digitally recognised learning
For much of our portfolio for 2024-25 the learning of event attendees and programme participants and conference, symposia and colloquia presenters will be digitally recognised.
This makes it easy for you to share and celebrate your achievements by adding them to your email signature or including them in your social profiles including Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Your learning certificates can also be easily verified and downloaded as a pdf.
Event Mobi
At Advance HE our conferences and events are powered by a platform called Event Mobi. Event Mobi can be accessed via any web browser or an app two weeks prior to events, and provides great opportunities to interact with other delegates, presenters and speakers. You also have the ability to personalise your own event agenda and many more things prior to, and on the day of the event.
Key features of Event Mobi include:
- Easily accessible:Via their app on the go, or on any web browser
- Personalised schedule:Create your own itinerary based on your interests and preferences
- Discussion board:Actively engage prior to and during the event with other attendees on key topics
- Speaker profiles:Learn more about our amazing speakers and their sessions
- Session abstracts:Find all the details on each session to support your agenda planning
- Event map (in-person events only):Navigate the venue with ease using our interactive map
- Networking opportunities:Connect with other attendees, arrange meet ups and build valuable relationships
- Access resources:Any relevant supporting links and documents will be provided on the platform
- Activity feed:The Activity Feed provides attendees with a fun and interactive social media-like experience within the event app, fostering open conversations and sharing of images and text in a secure environment.
- Latest updates:Stay informed with real-time announcements and updates
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