Student Engagement Conference 2025: Creating environments for development and growth

Overview

Join us at the Advance HE Student Engagement Conference on April 10th, 2025, at The Eastside Rooms, Birmingham as we come together as a community to share best practice, discuss challenges and identify opportunities to enhance how we create the right environments for our students to be successful.

The programme will include 8 institution-led workshops designed to showcase excellent practice and provide practical advice as to “what works” within the following themes:

• From student engagement to student development: How do we translate student engagement into measurable learning gain? Key words: impact, evaluation, student development, learning gain, theory of change, data driven approaches.
• Creating safe spaces for development: Classroom management, freedom of speech, managing contentious topics in learning spaces.
• Harnessing engagement from employment: Engaging with students who spend time in paid employment, caring and/ or commuting. How do we help students’ development through their non-study responsibilities and make the connections to their studies?
• Engaging effectively when students spend less time on campus: Ensuring there is an effective approach that reflects changing campus use and is focused on development opportunities for all.

Building on previous Advance HE Student Engagement Conferences we aim to support delegates and presenters showcase best practice to the community of practitioners in this space.

Speakers

Keynote speaker

Panellists

Who should attend?

Those with responsibility for the student academic experience and student engagement more widely, SU teams wishing to widen their student engagement, course leaders seeking to have a more engaged cohort and others focused on the student experience and improving student outcomes. 

A digital badge award will recognise presenters at this event.

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Founded in 2003, Explorance is headquartered in Montreal, Canada. Working with over 750 organizations around the world, including 30% of the QS-Top 100, some of Explorance’s customers include University of Pennsylvania, University of Louisville, University of California, Berkley, University of Toronto, National University of Singapore, University of Manchester, NASA, Kraft Heinz, and Microsoft.

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