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Conference themes and subthemes
Please see below the themes and sub themes for 2024.
Governance and policy
- The evolving policy context both global and local
- Sustaining higher education
- Strategy and leadership
- Changing nature and purpose of higher education
- The broadening landscape of higher education providers
- Resilience, thriving and well-being in the academy
- Internationalisation (internal, external) and globalisation
- Regulation, metrics and measurement
Teaching, learning and the student experience
- Curricula and assessment for effective learning
- Assessment, feedback and learning
- Indigenous knowledges and education
- Modes, models and spaces of teaching and learning
- Learning technologies and the expansion of the classroom
- Data-informed; analytics to enhance and support learning
- Academic and learning support
- Student identities, diversity, inclusion, success
- Authentic experiential learning, engaging students and working with the community
- Challenging disciplinary boundaries and interprofessional education
Pathways and partnerships
- Alternative pathways, access and equity; lifelong learning
- Transitioning into, through and out of higher education
- Student-staff partnerships
- Engaging community, industry and government
- Accreditation, standards and industry perspectives
- Work-Integrated Learning
- Student mobility and transnational partnerships
Innovation and research
- Supporting innovation in a competitive environment
- Research training for diverse career pathways
- Engaging students as partners in research
- The scholarship of teaching and learning
- Educational theory and methodology in disrupted times
Professional learning for changing academic practices
- Designing professional learning to support change
- Influences, pressures and the changing nature of academic work and academic identities
- Changing teaching and learning roles and teams; the liminal nature of the third space
- Career pathways and development for a diverse and changing academic workforce
- Reward and recognition
- Careers and career development for the sessional workforce
- Regional academic work and development
Values, justice and integrity
- Social justice and higher education
- Ethics, values, access and inclusion, diversity, equity
- Integrity across the academy
- Voices, identities and power; academic freedom
- Collective and individual activism and resistance
- Social change