2023 Education Conference
The Lancaster Education Conference is an annual event that brings together colleagues from across the Lancaster University Partnerships to share practice and educational research.
The 2023 Education Conference seeks to engage debate on the future of assessment and feedback. It will provide the space to share practice and evidence-based innovations, across our academic disciplines and campuses, with an emphasis on enhancing practice. The aim of the conference is to re-imagine assessment and feedback, with the technological possibilities and challenges the sector currently faces.
Education Conference 2023 Recordings
Please click the links to view the videos of our keynote speakers and presentations. A link to the full list of abstracts and presentations can be found further down the page.
Education Conference Videos Accordion
- Keynote Speakers and Plenary
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'A' Presentation Sessions
1.a. Showcasing the Power of Portfolios
Presenter: Dr Yakubu Salifu
Chair: Simon Allan
2.a. Session Cancelled
3.a. Customised notepacks for formative assessment
Presenter: Professor Mark Shackleton
Chair: Simon Allan
4.a. Insights on assessment and feedback from widening participation students in the Law School
Presenters: Alice Mills, Joe Price, Tina McKee, Gina Collins, Claire Fitzpatrick, and Georgina Firth
Chair: Abdul Aziz Hafiz
Presenters: Pam Pickles and Rachael Sterrett
Chair: Dr Sandra Varey
Presenters: Pam Pickles and Rachael Sterrett
Chair: Dr Amanda Chapman
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'B' Presentation Sessions
1.b. Reducing ambiguity in assessment: The TAPE model as a practical tool
Presenter: Professor Clare Stone
Chair: Dr Ann-Marie Houghton
2.b. Facilitating specific pedagogical needs within the VLE
Presenter: Phil Devine
Chair: Dr Ann-Marie Houghton
3.b. AI Showcase: The art of the possible
Presenter: Zoe Sherlock and Jessica Holmes
Chair: Phil Devine
4.b. Skills 'teaching' in an HEI context: creating classroom cultures of worth, safety and fun!
Presenters: Laura Somerville and Jane Pye
Chair: Dr Sunita Abraham
5.b. Feedback to feedforward: How to build assessment literacy using video examples.
Presenter: Dr Jennifer Carter
Chair: Dr Amanda Chapman
6.b. Disrupting a final exam with poetry: Collective reflections from students and the lecturer.
Presenters: Felipe Sánchez, Marco Anabalón, Manuela Atria & Agustina Duarte
Chair: Dr Sunita Abraham
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'C' Presentation Sessions
1.c. Reflexivity and music in community-based settings
Presenter: Andrew Ford
Chair: Dr Brett Bligh
2.c. Addressing the Ethnicity Awarding Gap for Students in Higher Education
Presenters: Dr Sunita Abraham and Nafisa Baba-Ahmed
Chair: Dr Sarah Robin
3.c. The Affirmative and Affective in Assessment and Feedback Practices.
Presenters: Abdul Aziz Hafiz and Paula White
Chair: Dr Brett Bligh
4.c. Innovative assessment methods for studio-based design modules
Presenter: Dr Chaoran Wang
Chair: Phil Devine
5.c. Thinking like a lawyer: Using novel forms of assessment to close the Law student skills gap
Presenters: Sadie Whittam, Tina McKee, Kathryn Saban and Ben Mayfield
Chair: Susan Armitage
6.c. AI Showcase: The art of the possible
Presenter: FILL IN
Chair: Phil Devine
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'D' Presentation Sessions
1.d. A critique of cultural context or colonial cop-out?
Presenter: Neil Ralph
Chair: Dr Chris Longman
2.d. Using standardisation approaches to support effective team marking
Presenter: Susan Armitage and Simon Allan
Chair: Dr Amanda Chapman
3.d. Belonging through Assessment: Pipelines of Compassion
Presenter: Vikki Hill
Chair: Dr Sarah Robin
Pre-recorded
4.d. Group work and oral exams
Presenter: Mark MacDonald
Chair: Susan Armitage
Presenter: Dr Sarah Robin, Dr Elizabeth Caldwell and Ruqayyah Jhanji
Chair: Dr Ruth Mewis
6.d. Showcasing Street Law: Students taking the lead on formative feedback
Presenters: Kathryn Saban, Francesca Jackson and Nadia Patel
Chair: Abdul Aziz Hafiz
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'E' Presentation Sessions
1.e. Visual-AI as A Symbiosis Creative Tool for Precedence Studies in Creative Design Process
Presenters: Arief Ahmad Afandi, Bibi Zafirah Hanfa Badil Zaman, Nur Faridatull Syafinaz Ahmad Tajudin, Seri Intan Sidik, Amirul Idlan Mukhtar
Chair: Dr Sandra Varey
2.e. In search of learning-focused feedback practices
Presenter: Joseph Davies
Chair: Dr Sandra Varey
Presenter: Alison Montague
Chair: Dr Amanda Chapman
4.e. Generative AI: the new zero-point for student marks
Presenter: Paul Dempster
Chair: Dr Ruth Mewis
Presenter: Dr Chris Longman and APEX Colleagues
Chair: Dr Chris Longman
Abstracts and Handbook
Please click on the links below to download the full handbook and abstracts.
Day 1 - Wednesday 5th July 2023
Day 1 - Education Conference Abstracts
Day 2 - Thursday 6th July 2023
Day 2 - Education Conference Abstracts
Full Handbook and Abstract List
Please click on the links below to download the named file:
2023 Education Conference Handbook
Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th July, 9.30 am - 1 pm
This year the conference will be hybrid, returning to in-person presentations on the Bailrigg Campus as well as online.
The schedules for the conference are available to download via the links below.
Day 1 Programme - Education Conference 5th July (.doc)
Day 1 Programme - Education Conference 5th July (.pdf)
Keynote Speakers
Jan McArthur will be joining us in person on Wednesday 5th July.
Kalwant Bhopal will be joining us online on Thursday 6th July.
Reimagining assessment for joy, learning and achievement
Jan McArthur is Senior Lecturer in Education and Social Justice in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University, UK. Her research focuses on the nature and purposes of higher education and how these relate to practices of teaching, learning and assessment. She has a particular interest in critical theory and in her published work explores the ideas of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Axel Honneth, applying these to higher education. She has previously published a book exploring how Adorno’s critical theory can inform our understanding of, and engagement with, knowledge in higher education for the purposes of greater social justice: Rethinking Knowledge in Higher Education (Bloomsbury). Her second book uses Honneth's conceptualisation of mutual recognition to rethink the nature of assessment in higher education, where one is committed to greater social justice: Assessment for Social Justice (Bloomsbury). She has published a wide range of journal articles on assessment, critical theory and social justice. Jan is a researcher in the ESRC and HEFCE funded ‘Centre for Global Higher Education’, and currently working on the international and longitudinal project: Graduate Experiences of Employability and Knowledge. This builds on the previous project: Understanding Knowledge, Curriculum and Student Agency. She is also Editor of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education.
Black and Minority Ethnic experiences in higher education: social justice, inclusion and white privilege
Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre on Research on Race and Education at the University of Birmingham, UK. Kalwant’s research focuses on the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education. She has conducted research on exploring discourses of identity and intersectionality examining the lives of Black minority ethnic groups as well as examining the marginal position of Gypsies and Travellers. Her research specifically explores how processes of racism, exclusion and marginalisation operate in predominantly White spaces with a focus on social justice and inclusion. From 2017-2019 she was Visiting Professor at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Education. Her recent book, White Privilege: the myth of a post-racial society was published by policy press. Her new book (with Martin Myers) Elites and the making of privilege has just been published by Routledge.