Learning and Teaching Conference

Learning and Teaching Conference 2025

Theme: Journey to the Leading Edge Curriculum

Date: Thursday 3rd April 2025

Venue: Frederick Douglass Centre in the heart of the Helix campus.

Conference Details

The conference is all about learning together, sharing effective practice, and exploring our Journey to the Leading Edge Curriculum.

We’ve made a commitment to develop and embed a new curriculum framework that speaks to our values, is inclusive by design, supports our disciplines with pedagogic innovation, reflects the expectations of our employers, and simplifies and harmonises structures across the University.

This year's conference is a chance for colleagues and students across the University to bring to the forefront innovative thinking, practice and projects that are aligned to the principles of our emerging Leading Edge Curriculum. Colleagues and students involved in developing the Leading Edge Curriculum Framework will be sharing progress with our education community.

Sub-themes for the conference include: 

Equity

To provide a core, universal offer for all students, including tailored provision where needed, to ensure equity of access, experience and in outcomes for all, regardless of background, identity, nationality, location or mode of study. 

How have we adapted or do we plan to adapt our curriculum to meet the needs of a diverse and diversifying student body? Bring to the conference your research and scholarship, analysis, experimental or innovative practice, projects or even ideas in development, that speak to our aim of equity in the Leading Edge Curriculum.

Encounters with the leading edge

To put at the heart of our curriculum and learning experiences, encounters with our world leading research and the leading edge of industry and practice. 

Bring to the conference examples of how you bring encounters with the leading edge into our curriculum through your research and scholarship, experimental or innovative practice, projects, or ideas in development.

Fit for the future

How our curriculum and teaching and learning approaches support students to be fit for their future

Bring to the conference examples of how you are adapting the curriculum to help our students to be prepared for and thrive in the uncertain world they face through your research and scholarship, experimental or innovative practice, projects, or ideas in development.

Previous Conferences

2024 -  Education for Life 2030

The 2024 Learning and Teaching Conference – Education for Life 2030 – A Vision for Education and Skills at Newcastle, took place on Thursday 18th April 2024 in the Herschel Building in the heart of the Newcastle campus. 

The conference was all about learning together, sharing effective practice, and exploring Education for Life 2030.