Conference themes and subthemes
The themes and sub-themes below provide a framework for submissions and help guide the development of the conference workshops and presentations, contributing to an engaging and educational conference program.
We encourage you to consider how your submission aligns with one of these themes and/or sub-themes.
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 assurance of learning
- Indigenous knowledges and education
- Modes, models and spaces of teaching and learning
- Technology, AI and the analogue classroom: making purposeful choices for learning
- Data, evidence and analytics to understand and enhance 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
- Ethics, values and integrity across the academy
- Voices, identities and power; academic freedom
- Collective and individual activism and resistance
- Higher education and societal impact
Education Focused Careers: Recognition, Progression and Impact
NEW FOR 2027: UNSW Sponsored stream: Submissions to this sponsored stream should engage specifically with the development, experience, recognition, contribution or future of Education Focused academic careers.
- Models, pathways and institutional approaches to Education Focused academic careers
- Professional identity, belonging, development and educational leadership
- Career progression, promotion, reward and recognition
- Scholarly practice, educational impact and evidence of effectiveness in Education Focused careers
- The evolution, longevity and future of Education Focused academic roles and career models