Lancaster University Education Conference 2025

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.

Reimagining Education: Inclusive Practices and Transformative Curriculum Design

The theme of this year's conference is centered around inclusive education.

If you have any questions or are considering presenting at the conference, please contact Catherine Barber at ceda@lancaster.ac.uk to register your interest. We will them contact you personally with further information such as abstract guidelines and the submission deadline once this has been decided.

Conference aims

The Lancaster University Education Conference aims to provide a welcoming interdisciplinary space, which specifically aims to:

  • Host an inclusive and engaging event, in which colleagues share teaching and learning experiences, good practices, alongside research and scholarship findings;
  • Inspire exploration, development and creativity in teaching, learning and education through new knowledge and ideas from a broad range of international speakers, presentations and interactive workshops;
  • Deliberately support and host interesting and constructive discussions, which leads directly to collegial collaboration and learning between Lancaster Partner colleagues;
  • Close the geographical, cultural and political gap between partner colleagues building long term working relationships and initiatives.

Call for Contributions

The overall theme of the 2025 conference is Inclusion. We seek contributions from across the Lancaster University community to share your practice of Inclusive teaching, learning and support.

The conference aims to showcase diverse perspectives and innovative approaches, highlighting the many ways inclusion can be embedded across interdisciplinary and international settings. There are a number of subthemes to guide your thinking, but please feel free to submit outside of these as long as the focus is Inclusion.

Subthemes

  • Inclusive Teaching and Learning

e.g. labs, workshops, large group teaching, seminars

  • Inclusive Curriculum Design

e.g. de-colonisation, Universal Design for Learning

  • Inclusive Assessment

e.g. competencies, designing for diversity

  • Inclusive Spaces

e.g. digital cultures for inclusion, digital learning

Presentation Format

There are 3 presentation formats you may choose from:

  • 10 minute lightning talk (5 min presentation, 5 min discussion, Inclusion in practice)

This should be an example of Inclusion in Practice and consist of 3 content slides and 1 title slide. Timing will be strictly adhered to.

  • 30 minute research paper (20 min presentation, 10 min discussion)

This could be a presentation of scholarship of teaching and learning in relation to inclusive practice, or case study of practitioner research.

In both cases the presentation should be routed in the literature, with a clear narrative and be accessible to a wide audience.

  • 30 minute Interactive Workshop (30 min workshop style )

This needs to be interactive with audience tasks and discussion. Please consider how your workshop will work for both an in-person and online audience.

Deadline for contributions – Friday 18th April 2025

Please submit your abstract via this online form.

Previous Conferences

For access to information about previous conferences please click on the links below