Our symposium events offer staff a useful forum to encourage the exchange and dissemination of different ways of thinking about key teaching and learning challenges and new approaches. Practitioners are invited to participate in each symposium through submitting an abstract on their work as a fifteen-minute stimulus presentation and case study to support the discussions.
Structure
Each symposium is facilitated by a Senior Advisor from Advance HE with specific expertise in the area being discussed. The day will feature a keynote presentation from a leading practitioner in each area, followed by themed sessions showcasing case studies from across the sector. Delegates will have the opportunity to learn from leading practitioners in the sector, debate priority issues and learn from cutting-edge initiatives.
Benefits
The symposia provide teaching practitioners with access to an open and supportive environment and valuable peer network to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives. They enable participants to develop a principled, evidence-informed approach to devising subsequent support and guidance for change in enhancing student success in HE.
Who: Teaching practitioners including: heads of departments, academic programme leaders and developers, lecturers, academic and support staff, and learning technologists.
View the dates of the events below or in the calendar.
Artificial Intelligence Symposium 2024: AI Journeys - Being Human
Date: 10 July 2024, In-person
Venue: Manchester
The symposium will provide insights into aligning AI with the context's core values, objectives, and higher education standards.
Research Symposium 2024: Innovate, Inspire, Lead: Transforming research culture
Date: 16 July 2024
Venue: Virtual
This symposium aims to advance this conversation and discuss practical tools to develop a thriving and sustainable research culture.
5% Early Booking Discount available
There is a 5% early booking discount for bookings made before 30 September 2024 on this service. This is in addition to a 25% discount if your organisation is an Advance HE member.
Assessment and Feedback Symposium 2024
Date: 5 November 2024
Venue: Virtual
A presenter-led virtual event to learn, discuss and share the latest practices and pedagogies in assessment and feedback.
Students as Co-creators Symposium
Date: 29 January 2025
Venue: Virtual
This symposium will provide an open and supportive environment within which to share and discuss contemporary practice and initiatives relating to teaching and learning.
Artificial Intelligence Symposium 2025
Date: 25 February 2025
Venue: Virtual
The symposium will be preceded by a call for contributions, inviting practitioners to submit an abstract on their work as a stimulus presentation or case study to support the discussions.
Sustainability Symposium 2025
Date: 18 March 2025
Venue: Virtual
This symposium will provide the opportunity for colleagues to share innovations in teaching and research around progressing sustainability in the higher education sector.
Employability Symposium 2025
Date: 30 April 2025
Venue: Virtual
The Employability Symposium 2025 aims to bring together cutting-edge examples of how employability can be embedded at school, faculty/college and/or institutional levels.
NEW for 2024-25: Teaching Excellence Symposium 2025
Date: 20 May 2025
Venue: Virtual
This symposium will draw findings from the TEF 2023 outcomes to provide insight, share ideas and provide a forum to discuss methods by which to best provide a quality education experience for all
NEW for 2024-25: Inclusive Pedagogy Symposium 2025
Date: 10 June 2025
Venue: Virtual
This symposium will draw on insights from Advance HE’s recent series of change-impact programmes on Building Belonging in higher education and explore topics of inclusive pedagogies, embedding inclusion and diversity and building academic confidence.
NEW for 2024-25: Leadership Excellence Symposium 2025
Date: TBC
Venue: TBC
This symposium will leverage insights from recent strategic developments and work, such as the AHE leadership survey, to provide a forum for higher education leaders to discuss innovative approaches.
Research Symposium 2025
Date: TBC
Venue: TBC
This symposium is designed to provide reflections, ways of working, evaluation and improvement tools for existing and developing research cultures across the sector. The symposium builds on insights from REF29 requirements as they take shape with time.
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