Innovation Café

Our Innovation Café is a showcase event where Microgrant Fellows share the delivery, processes, and outcomes of projects funded by the Exeter Education Incubator and Global Classrooms during the 2025–26 academic year.

This year’s event will be hosted online, enabling more fellows and colleagues to take part, share their work, and exchange ideas across the community.

This is a great opportunity for University of Exeter staff to hear directly from fellows, explore innovative practice, and connect with colleagues. Whether you are seeking inspiration, interested in collaborative projects, or keen to learn more about the Microgrants programme ahead of the next funding round, all staff are welcome to attend.

Date and time: Thursday 28 May 2026, 10.30 am – 12.30 pm
Format: Online

Each project team will deliver a 10-minute presentation on their work, followed by a combined Q&A session at the end of the event for audience questions and discussion.

Live presentations:

• Michael Flexer will share the project “Sensorial Classrooms”.
• Barrie Cooper, Pierre de Brosses and Zeynep Guler will present “AI pre-processing to improve marking efficiency for labelled diagrams”.
• Emma Sweeney, Andrea Donahy, Felicia Heard and Matt Lawrence will present “AI Literacy and Responsible Use amongst International Students in Higher Education: A Change Lab Intervention”.
• Onyekachi Onuoha will share “Gamification of Risk Management for Project Management Apprentices using a Prototype VR Simulation”.
• Anke Karl will discuss “Developing a global classroom module for clinical psychological assessment using virtual avatars”.
• Iveren Winifred (Winnie) Nyinoh will share “Scaling the Impact and Reach of ‘The Belonging Game’ Across the University of Exeter and Beyond”.
• Ruth Cherrington and Jenny Tunley-Price will present “Regenerative Outdoor-Oriented Teaching (ROOT) for Management Education”.
• Angela Christidis will discuss “Decolonising Sustainability Education: Co-creating Inclusive, Intercultural and Future-Positive Curricula with Students”.
• Patrick Hamilton and Shelly (Yuktee) Dogra will share “Student-led videos to increase awareness of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN- SDG) for students in Clinical and Biomedical Sciences students”.

Poster and video showcase:

• Helena Hastie and Damien Mansell will share a video on “SDGs in South Africa: A Geography Knowledge Exchange”.
• Rebecca Williams will share a poster on “Into the Archives: Developing Skills and Experience in Physical Archives”.

Project showcase presenters are still being finalized.