Thursday 6th June
TIME
16.00 – 17.00
19.30 – 21.30
ACTIVITY
ALDinHE Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Virtual pub crawl – Open to all registered online and in-person delegates.
Friday 7th June – Online
TIME
9.00 – 9.30
ACTIVITY
Registration
9.30 – 10.40
Welcome Keynote – Open to all registered online and in-person delegates
10.40- 11.00
Break
11.00 – 12.00
PARALLEL SESSIONS 1 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PAPERS (25 minutes each)
11.00 – 11.25
Embedding academic literacies and skills into courses through graduate competency maps
Steve Briggs
University of Bedfordshire
This session will be recorded.
11.35 – 12.00
Talking ourselves up: Reframing Learning Development to reflect our expertise
Ian Johnson
University of Portsmouth
This session will be recorded.
Pedagogical uses of AI tools: Reflection on a case study
Arina Cirstea
De Monfort University
This session will be recorded.
ChatGPT: A force for good? Using the I.D.E.As framework to ‘develop and empower’ students
Sarah Hack
University of Surrey
This session will be recorded.
The use of AI tools in the reading-into-writing process: Gains, losses and recommendations
Peter Puxon, Jessica Brook, Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein
University College London
This session will be recorded.
Building an Academic Prompt Bank to support positive student use of Generative AI
Oli Johnson
University of Sheffield
This session will be recorded.
Engaging men aged 18-24 in Learning Development through social media
Elliot Lake, Anne-Marie Langford
University of Northampton
This session will be recorded.
How a buddy scheme created social and intercultural space for international and home students
Ebba Brooks
University of Salford
This session will not be recorded.
Using metaphors in Learning Development learning and teaching
Amy West
University of Northampton
This session will be recorded.
Promoting equity in education for sustainable development through community-based learning and teaching
Elena Dimova, Rehan Shah, Anne Preston, Stephanie Fuller
University College London, Queen Mary University of London
This session will be recorded.
12.00 – 13.00
Lunch
13.00 – 15.20
PARALLEL SESSIONS 2 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
WORKSHOPS (60 minutes)
Raising the profile of Learning Development: Thinking forwards
Sonia Hood, Edward Powell
University of Reading
This session will be recorded.
Agents for curriculum change: The role of Learning Development
Robert Walsha, Heather Barker
University of Surrey
This session will not be recorded.
Evaluating our ‘impact’ as Learning Developers: Reflections from the Personal Learning Advice Service
Jenny Hillman, Dave Lochte
The Open University
This session will be recorded.
Neurodivergence Resource Bank Showcase
Karen Clark, Jennie Dettmer
Arts University Plymouth, University of Hertfordshire
This session will be recorded.
Wild card session
14.00 – 14.20
Break
14.20 – 15.20
PARALLEL SESSIONS 3 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PAPERS (25 minutes each)
14.20 – 14.45
Ethical and effortful: Workshopping human and generative AI academic writing collaborations
Johanna Amos
Queen’s University
This session will be recorded.
14.55 – 15.20
‘The Exciting AI Adventure’: Reflections on the ethical use of Generative AI in academic writing
Simon Lee-Price
Buckinghamshire New University
This session will be recorded.
Developing a three-strand approach to playfulness in learning development
Michelle Denby, Samuel Zelibe
Oxford International Education Group
This session will be recorded.
Developing new Learning Developers: Survey results and roadmap
Kate Coulson, Matt Crofts, Sam Thomas
BPP University, University of Hull, Arden University
This session will be recorded.
Writing to learn: Creative LD perspectives for Learning Developers and students
Sandra Abegglen, Carina Buckley, Tom Burns, Sandra Sinfield, Alicja Syska
London Metropolitan University, University of Plymouth
This session will be recorded.
First Ink: The development of a magazine of exemplary academic writing ‘by students, for students’
Gerard Clough
Royal Holloway, University of London
This session will be recorded.
Keeping up with Generative AI: Understanding student use in assignment planning
Bryony Parsons, Heather Johnston
University of Liverpool
This session will be recorded.
Moving beyond embedded: A narrative account of developing an integrated, consultative learning development offer
Louisa Futter, Jonny Denham
University of Bradford
This session will be recorded.
LIGHTNING TALK & RESOURCE SHOWCASE (60 minutes)
Lightning talk
The dialogic presentation as a more compassionate approach to presentations
Laura Dyer
University of Leeds
This session will be recorded.
Resource showcase
Generative Artificial Intelligence and university study: A guide for students by the Study Advice team at the UoR
Georgia Koromila
University of Reading
This session will be recorded.
15.20 – 15.30
Break
15.30 – 16.15
Discussion and questions with poster presenters
Discussion and questions with poster presenters
Designing values-based Learning Development spaces
Barbara Nicolls and the Student Learning and Achievement Team
Buckinghamshire New University
This session will be recorded.
Academic reading: Fear and Trembling or Being and Belonging?
Jane Saville, Tasha Cooper and Stephen Hunt
University of the West of England
This session will be recorded.
Co-creation through Scholarship: The Queen Mary Academy Learner Interns Programme
Graeme Hathaway, Elise Omfalos
Queen Mary University of London
This session will be recorded.
Building inclusive Learning Development spaces “… but we don’t have time for universal design”
Alexandra Read
University of Suffolk
This session will be recorded.
Use of Learner Engagement Analytics to empower medical educators to make data-informed decisions
Lujain Alsadder, Matthew Simmons, Usman Naeem, Graeme Hathaway
Queen Mary University of London
This session will be recorded.
Tuesday 11th June – In-person
TIME
8.00 – 9.00
ACTIVITY
Breakfast networking event
9.00 – 9.15
Registration, refreshments
9.15 – 9.30
Welcome to the University of Glasgow
9.30 – 10.50
Practitioner Mini Keynotes (Download the full programme with abstracts)
Practitioner Mini Keynotes
Grounded synergy: addressing the challenge to co-construct meaningfully collaborative, quality assured, transnational education (TNE) provision
Dom Conroy
London Metropolitan University
Learning Developers as scholars: Raising our voice
Ian Johnson, Silvina Bishopp-Martin
University of Portsmouth, Canterbury Christ Church University
Interviewing the author
Jo Dowds
Spurgeon’s College
How are Learning Developers engaging with AI?
Kate Coulson
BPP University
Study Skills or Study Practices?
Matthew Phull
Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London
Industry 4.0, Skills for the future and learning development
Rebecca Wilson
University of St Andrews
Exploring academic integrity: Ownership, resilience and the role of Learning Development
Sam Thomas and Jamex Nixon
Arden University
Making it about me: Does self-disclosure enhance students’ learning or is it TMI?
Sarah Thompson-Cook
Manchester Metropolitan University
Resisting ideological echo-chambers: If we’re all critical pedagogues, how will we know we’re doing LD well?
Steven White
University of Southampton
Title tbc
Vic Boyd
University of the West of Scotland
Title tbc
Vlasios Sarantinos
University of the West of England
10.50 – 11.10
Break
11.10 – 12.10
PARALLEL SESSIONS 4 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PAPERS (25 minutes each)
11.10 – 11.35
Diagnostic testing for individualised academic writing support
Rachel Horrocks-Birss
University of Dundee
11.45 – 12.10
Embedding academic skills support in UG taught modules: The strategic position of Learning Development?
Christopher Laverty, Laura McGinnis
Queen’s University Belfast
An unconditional space to be: Redefining the 1:1 tutorial experience
Kevin Watson
Oxford Brookes University
MyFeedback: An online writing feedback service with students as partners
Ioannis Lignos
University of East London
Fostering Academic Integrity through student partnership – An Academic Integrity Ambassador (AIA) programme
Sarah Robinson, Ben Martin
Swansea University
Working with students after academic misconduct: A new role for academic skills tutors in supporting re-engagement
Sam Thomas, George Collins, James Nixon
Arden University
Study contra skills: Critical study practice as an alternative to reductive notions of ‘study skills’
Matthew Phull
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Perspective-work: A model for appraising learning development practice
Jonathan Denham
University of Bradford
What does HE in FE have to contribute to the future of learning development?
Jen Hayes
London Metropolitan University/Lancaster University
Building empowering student partnerships in transition to university: Students as change agents
Allison Aylward, Janna Thompson
Queen’s University Belfast
Course-specific pre-arrival online module
Silvina Bishopp-Martin
Canterbury Christ Church University
RESOURCE SHOWCASE (60 minutes)
Resource showcase
Not another PDF, please: Using ThingLink scenarios and Camtasia to build engaging Virtual Learning Objects
Alice Stinetorf
University of Southampton
Resource showcase
Glasgow Essentials: Redeveloping induction resources to improve the students’ sense of inclusion and belonging
Stuart Purcell
University of Glasgow
12.10 – 13.10
Lunch
13.10 – 16.40
PARALLEL SESSIONS 5 and Professional Development Networking Session (Download the full programme with abstracts)
WORKSHOPS (60 minutes)
Active listening for effective student engagement
Angela Newton
University of Leeds
Addressing psychological barriers to student learning: Our role as learning developers
Jane McKay, Anne-Marie Langford
Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Northampton
Working together to move the profession forwards (Librarians and Learning Development)
Kate Swinton, Lorraine-Marie James, Gillian Siddall
University of Northampton
Plagiaruedo: Teaching of academic integrity through a ‘whodunnit’ game (any likeness to other games is intentional!)
Ian Johnson and Laura Barclay
University of Portsmouth
The 5 Ps of LD in Practice: Student partnership approaches in 1-2-1, workshops and online work
Helen Webster
University of Oxford
Critical Learning Development and the crisis of the university: A collective consideration
Gordon Asher
Independent Developer
Artificial Intelligence – How have Learning Developers engaged?
Kate Coulson, Zara Hooley, Jennie Blake, Bev Hancock-Smith, Arina Cirstea, Jo Dowds, Steph Allen and Kerith George-Briant
BPP University, De Montfort University, University of Manchester, Bournemouth University and Abertay University
Wildcard
14.10 – 14.30
Break
14.30 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS 6 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PARALLEL SESSIONS 6
PAPERS (25 minutes each) & LIGHTNING TALKS (5 mins each)
14.30 – 14.55
Students as Healthy Learners project – Empowering students to take charge of their learning
Jamaica Ortega Marasigan, Caroline Morgan
Queen’s University Belfast
15.05 – 15.30
Integrated assignment workshops: Developing assessment literacy via collaborative exemplar analysis
Karen Hudson
University of Essex
Lightning talk
Growing transnational partnership educational provision via a Learning Development strategy: Possibilities and pitfalls
Dom Conroy
London Metropolitan University
Lightning talk
Northampton mentors go professional
Helena Beeson and Sheryl Mansfield
University of Northampton
Lightning talk
Who are we? An autoethnographic investigation into Professional Role Identity of the Learning Developer
Helen Briscoe, Claire Olson
Edge Hill University
What if I’m the story? Using self-disclosure as a teaching tool
Sarah Thompson-Cook
Manchester Metropolitan University
The rise of study skills at Strathclyde (and our part in its downfall): A BiLDungsroman
Derek Keenan, Alexander Cuthbert
University of Strathclyde
A bluffer’s guide to academic literacies: Can we communicate a complex set of ideas in simpler terms?
Steven White
University of Southampton
How to change the strategic position of LD in your institution – Learnings from a 9 month project
Jessica Cooper
Kings College London
Opening the ‘black box’: Investigating the policy, practices and preferences of academic staff assessing referencing
Darren Flynn, Fiona Watkins, Lynne York
University of Northampton
Using text-scrolling to increase student engagement in the STEM classroom: A collaboration
Suzy Beck, Jenny Eyley
University of Leeds
Bringing embodied approaches to on-campus research methods teaching for large STEM cohorts: Design, challenges, learning
Nicola Tomlinson, Sarah Kneen
University of Manchester
Building tomorrow’s learning landscape through AI integration and development in Higher Education
Shivani Wilson-Rochford, Alice May
Birmingham City University
I’m a Chatbot; Ask me anything: Building Learning Development for the future
Pauldy Otermans, Stephanie Baines, Beverley Pickard-Jones, Sarah Thomson
Brunel University London, Bangor University
15.30 – 15.50
Break
15.50 – 16.30
Professional Development networking session
19.00 – Late
Conference dinner – House of an Art Lover
Wednesday 12th June
TIME
9.00 – 9.15
ACTIVITY
Registration, refreshments
9.15 – 9.45
Welcome
ALDinHE Co-Chairs
9.45 – 10.55
Keynote
10.55 – 11.15
Break
11.15 – 12.15
PARALLEL SESSIONS 7 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PARALLEL SESSIONS 7
WORKSHOPS (60 minutes)
Building a classroom practice of free writing to build learners’ academic confidence and reduce anxiety
Pinar Aksu, Yesim Deveci
University of East London
The Future of Learning Development: In our hands
Ed Bickle, Steph Allen
Bournemouth University
Deficit to development: Rethinking centralised workshops
Michelle Schneider, Clara Hiskey
University of Leeds
Pragmatist or sellout? The role of middle managers with responsibility for Learning Development
Alistair Morey
Queen Mary University of London
Academic literacies as a theoretical underpinning for LD support
Paul Chin
University of Bath
Leading not telling – The role of the peer mentor
Stevie Prickett, Colin Slattery
Queen Margaret University
Wildcard
12.15 – 13.30
Lunch and move to Glasgow Caledonian University
13.30 – 14.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS 8 (Download the full programme with abstracts)
PAPERS (25 minutes each)
13.30 – 13.55
Online guided reflection sessions: Getting learners to think about the process of learning
Laura Hamilton
University of Surrey
14.05 – 14.30
The role of collaborative podcasting in developing student engagement and reflective practices
Kiu Sum
Solent University
“Everyone is just so furiously typing”: Supporting student choices around digital notetaking in university lectures
Beckie Arden, Simon Gamble, Jennifer Norris
University of Bristol
Step away from the paraphrase: Teaching note-taking as a gateway to knowledge transformation
Zephra Weber
Oxford Brookes University
I’m a Chatbot; Ask me anything: Using ChatGPT to improve learning experiences
Beverley Pickard-Jones, Sarah Thomson, Stephanie Baines, Pauldy Otermans
Bangor University, Brunel University London
A co-creation approach to using Generative AI for enhanced learning gain
Rachel Webster and Stephen Griffin with Postgraduate Students: Anitha Kuriakose, Irene Chatterjee and Ron Nguyen
University of Birmingham
How international PGT students experience assessment practices and what Learning Developers can learn from this
Mona O’Brien, Julia Bohlmann
University of Glasgow
Where’s the fun in that? Building an authentic, inclusive, serious-yet-playful learning development framework
Vic Boyd, Alexander MacDonald; Caroline Fleeting; Fiona Gibson
University of the West of Scotland
Breaking down barriers: Creating a community of learning development at the University of St Andrews
Eilidh Harris, Paula Villegas Verdu
University of St Andrews
Creating online, inclusive spaces for learning: ‘Study Together’ with the Personal Learning Advice Service
Janet Lindley, Mary-Jayne Wilton
The Open University
Drawing a line in the sandbox: Balancing exploration and instruction in AI playgrounds
Tim Worth
University of Bristol
How to swiftly adapt academic writing to the paradigm shift led by AI
Merve Baykan
Sabancı University
14.30 – 14.50
Break
14.50 – 16.00
Conference Delegate Reflections
Closing