Conference Theme
The CSPACE conference this year will be a celebration of the rich range of research happening at every level across the College of Education and CSPACE.
An important frame of reference for this event is Hannah Arendt’s (1961)* understanding of education as ‘intergenerational passing on’. The conference aims to provide a time and space for us as educational researchers to share our work to others in the field at all stages of the research journeys that we are collectively engaged in. This includes our postgraduate community, pre and post-doctoral researchers, Early Career Researchers and established researchers. The vision is that sharing our work and our experiences in this way helps create an open research culture where everyone has a voice and we can identify synergies in our research and learn from each other.
In a move away from convention, the conference committee will not be grouping papers thematically, but will curate presentations from researchers at different stages in their careers for each session.
The plenary discussion will provide a forum for delegates to reflect on and discuss the opportunities and challenges that this unconventional organisational structure may have provided.
There is no fee to attend or present at this conference. Submissions are welcome from practitioners, researchers, students and doctoral candidates from across BCU and beyond in any area of education practice, policy or theory and utilising any methodological approach.
Draft Programme
- W elcome
- Keynote 1: Professor Mike Seal, CSPACE
- Parallel Conference Sessions + Refreshment Break
- Lunch
- Parallel Conference Sessions + Refreshment Break
-Keynote 2: Professor Amanda Bateman, Early Years, BCU
- Plenary discussion – reflections on ‘pass it on’
- Wine Reception
The final programme will be announced in due course
Conference format and call for abstracts:
Presentation Formats
There are five different types of presentation format and you are welcome to submit more than one abstract, but you will need to complete a separate pro-forma for each submission.
1. Traditional presentation (for key findings or emerging findings)
2. Lightening talk or think piece (about existing research or thinkpiece)
3. Round table discussion (max 8 panellists discussing a theme)
4. Workshop (led by experienced researcher around an aspect of their research or data analysis)
5. Poster (for proposed, existing or completed projects)
How to submit:
(pro-forma for abstract proposals and details to be circulated separately. Deadline for completion of pro-forma is 26th April 2024)
Submissions are welcome from practitioners, researchers, students and doctoral candidates from across BCU and collaborating institutions.
Contacts:
Conference convenors: Jane O'Connor and Amanda French
E mail: Jane.OConnor@bcu.ac.uk or Amanda.French@bcu.ac.uk.
*Arendt, H. 1961. “The Crisis in Education.” In Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought, H. Arendt Ed., Viking, 173–196. New York.
