Past conferences 

Lifelong learning, power and social change

Friday 30 May 2008, 9.30am - 5.00pm at Birkbeck, University of  London

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Claire Callender
Professor of Higher Education, Birkbeck, University of London
"Lifelong learning under threat: funding and part-time students"

Plenary speakers include:
Professor Alison Fuller, Head of PCET Research Centre, University of Southampton
Professor Bill Jones, Development Officer (Higher Education) NIACE
Professor Jocey Quinn, Professor of Education, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University
Dr John Vorhaus, Co-Director of the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning, Institute of Education, University of London

Please click here for a pdf copy of the Conference programme.

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Innovations in Lifelong Learning Conference

Friday 29 June 2007, 9.30am - 5.00pm

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Karen Evans
Professor John Field
Professor Yvonne Hillier
Professor Marjorie Mayo

Keynote Speaker Presentations:
Please click on the links below for PowerPoint copies of the presentations:

• Professor Karen Evans: 'What's new about workplace learning?'
• Professor John Field: 'Innovative pedagogies for part-time adult learners'
• Professor Yvonne Hillier: 'Innovations in informal learning'
• Professor Marjorie Mayo: 'Innovations in Community-based learning?'

Workshop Presentations:
Please click on the links below for PowerPoint copies of the presentations:

• Margaret Andrews: 'Policy and Practice in Further and Higher Education: Investigating "success" as lifelong learning becomes widening participation'
• Denis Edgar-Nevill: 'Motivating & Engaging Forensic Computing Practitioners in Higher Education'
• Jan Etienne: 'Lessons for an ageing society: Informal learning and community participation - good practice from the Women's Institutes'
• Ruth Helyer & Kerstin McClenaghan: 'Improving access to HE - innovative pedagogies and practices'
• Adrian Lee & Lesley C Booth: 'I Feel Like A Human Being And, Most Of All, I Feel In Control Of My Life": Raising Knowledge, Skills, Confidence and Aspirations Through Teaching Citizenship in the Community'
• Paula Nottingham: 'Why should students of Lifelong Learning be interested in Work-based Learning?'
• Hament Patel: 'Evaluating an Enquiry Based Learning Approach for Health Services Research Methods.  Does this approach have broader application?'
• Patricia Reid: 'Collaborative Working in Areas of Rural Isolation'
• Anita Walsh: 'Levels of Reflective Practice: A Flexible Recognition of Workplace Prof Dev'

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Gendered Choices and Transitions: part-time pathways, full-time lives

Friday 18 May 2007, 9.30am - 5.00pm (jointly with UALL's Women in Lifelong Learning Network)

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Heidi Mirza

For more information click here

Presentations:
Please click on links below for PowerPoint copies of the presentations:

• Jan Etienne: 'Gendered Choices: Listening to older women learners'
• Alison Fuller: 'Gender, life-course and educational decision-making: Researching adult 'non-participation' in Higher Education'
• Jeremy Gass: 'From community-based higher education to campus - one woman's story'
• Professor Heidi Mirza: 'The invisible journey: Black women's lifelong lessons in higher education'
• Linda Miller: 'Stereotyping, segregation and career choices in work-based learners'

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Post-14 Network, Institute of Education and BILL 

Series overview - click here.

First conference: 30th March 2006
Lifelong Learning for Democratic Citizenship
Click here for the programme