Higher Education for the Common Good: Learning from COVID-19

In the age of COVID-19, changes to the world of work and study have accelerated to an unprecedented speed. The fourth industrial revolution is happening right now.

We have seen how the challenges we face at a local level are shared across the globe, how our actions have far reaching consequence and how disadvantage is dangerously life-threatening.

As HE successfully shifts to blended and remote delivery, so too does business, public services and the third sector. Across HE, values-driven creativity and innovation lead a generous, compassionate response to the pandemic: we have attempted to breach the digital divide (Lawrence and Sarjantson, 2020); adopted more inclusive pedagogic practices (Brown and Sambal, 2020), even rethought our use of physical space (Scott, 2020) and worked more flexibly (McVitty, 2020b), if harder than we have ever worked before (McVitty, 2020a). How can we meaningfully sustain our new and progressive ways of work and study and inspire a hopeful future? 'Hopefulness empowers us to continue our work for justice’ (hooks, 2003, XIV), so join us to consider how we can prepare our students and staff for an unknowable future and celebrate HE as a ‘global common good’ (UNESCO, 2015).

Conference Highlights

13th July Opening Keynote Address: Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Reflections on the Impact of Covid-19, University of Hull Vice Chancellor Professor Susan Lea

Conference SoTL Walk, Dr Natasha Taylor, Head of Educational Development, the Australian College of the Arts in Melbourne (COLLARTS)

14th July Student Keynote Address: Student experiences during COVID-19: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Hull University Students' Union President of Inclusivity & Diversity, Holly Burton and President of Education, Peace Igi-Ehon

Playful Plenary ‘Zip, Zap, Zine’, Dr Kate Cuthbert, Senior Academic Practice Consultant & Laura Stinson, Academic Practice Advisor, Nottingham Trent University.

Full programme in pdf

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The University of Hull Learning and Teaching Conference 2021