University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference 2025 - 02-03 July 2025
We are delighted to announce this year's University of Manchester Teaching and Learning Conference 2025, a pivotal event dedicated to fostering excellence and innovation in teaching and learning for staff and students. This will be a two-day, flexible, free internal conference focusing on teaching and learning at the University of Manchester.
Save the Date
The Conference will take place on Wednesday 2nd and Thursday 3rd July 2025 in University Place and will include a welcoming drinks reception on the evening of Wednesday, 2nd July in the prestigious Manchester Museum. This gathering is a wonderful opportunity for attendees to network and socialise in a relaxed setting.
Hybrid conference format
In our commitment to accessibility and inclusivity, the 2025 conference will be a hybrid event. Attendees will have the flexibility to participate in plenaries and parallel sessions either in-person or live via Zoom. This format ensures that all members of our community, regardless of their location, can benefit from the knowledge-sharing and discussions. Just like last year's event, we will curate a legacy web resource showcasing the fabulous papers and contributions to the conference.
Open and free to attend
The conference is open to all staff and students at the University of Manchester, free of charge. It is an excellent chance for our community to come together, share insights, and learn from each other's experiences in advancing teaching and learning practices.
Call for papers
We invite submissions from all students and staff across the University around the following themes:
- Inclusive education
- Building belonging and raising student voices
- Redefining learning and teaching in HE (exploratory strand - challenging the status quo and current methods)
Submissions are invited from individuals or teams and should be proposed in any of the following formats:
- Wicked Problem Sets - 1 hour sessions in which the speaker(s) introduce an issue/big question linked to the themes of the conference with a brief presentation, before the participants act as an action learning set, joining in a roundtable discussion on the topic and putting together a summary of thoughts and recommendation at the end.
- Standard paper presentations - paper presentation on a specific topic, 15-20 minutes in length with 5 minutes for questions.
- Poster presentations - Posters will be exhibited during the conference and presenters will be asked to give a short spoken presentation on their poster. Posters will also be made available via an online gallery after the conference.
- Lightening talks -up to 5 minutes, max 20 slides submitted. These should be short, snappy papers which present the essence of an activity, initiative, a pedagogic passion, or about something that went really well or something that didn't work out in your teaching and learning.
Submissions will be assessed by a paper committee comprising of students and staff from across the University. Speakers will be informed of the paper committee's decision and asked to register their attendance. More information will be shared in April.
Submit your abstract
Support and guidance on submitting your abstract
We ran a workshop on how to write your abstract through the Institute of Teaching and Learning Open Workshop Programme. The recording of this session can be found here.
You can find examples of accepted abstracts from last year's conference via the National Teaching Repository.
If you have any questions about the formats, or are new to academic conferences and would like any support in advance of your submission, please contact the organisers via teaching.learning@manchester.ac.uk.