Andreas Schleicher  |  Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, and Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary-General at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris.

“Global trends shaping the future of education”

A1

Developing reflective communities in Higher Education: Learnings from the photovoice project Identities in Transition (Josephine Chikwana, Hammed Alabi & Christina Sachpasidi) [Paper]

More than a mark: Re-thinking the role of feedback in creating dialogue and reflexivity (Neneh Rowa Dewar & Suzanne Goopy) [Paper]

B1

Future Change Agents: Mapping interdisciplinary learning at Edinburgh Futures Institute (David Overend, Seongsook Choi & Andy Cross) [Paper]

Advancing Diversity on Interdisciplinary Courses through Epistemic Disobedience: Experiences from Undergrad Entry Programmes (Gisli Vogler & Brian McGrail) [Paper]

C1

The mental health experiences of LGBT+ Postgraduate Researchers in Higher Education: A mixed methods approach (Jelena Milicev, Hazel Marzetti & Maria Gardani) [Paper]

Assessing the mental health of widening participation students across their journeys into and through elite higher education institutions (Michelle O’Toole, Mary Brennan, Susan Dunnett, Tom Calvard) [Paper]

D1

Destigmatising mental health and suicide: Co-Creating spaces for healing and generative conversations about mental health and suicide now and for the future (Harriet Harris, Taryn Mansfield, Kelly Blacklock & Glen Cousquer) [Panel]

Case studies: Students’ hidden struggles in prestigious universities (Yu-Tang Huang & Sofia Shan) [Storytelling]

E1

One size does not fit all: Rethinking hybridity as accessible, agile and inspirational learning and teaching spaces (Do Coyle) [Workshop]

A2

Amplifying the student voice: Co-creation of resources to facilitate student feedback on learning and teaching across the University (Fiona McNeill, Alex Burford & Nicola Popovic) [Workshop]

B2

Tackling Wicked Problems with Design Thinking (Elias Nikolaides Vasiloudes, Mia Hashimoto, Emma Taylor, Al Lawley-Powell & Ruth Donnelly) [Workshop]

C2

The use of podcasts in online postgraduate education: A pilot study of student perceptions to supplementary podcasts on an online MSc health orientated programme (Emily O’Reilly) [Paper]

Systematic review of virtual classroom software used in Higher Education (Aurora Constantin, Cristina Adriana Alexandru & Kun Zhao) [Paper]

D2

Love, ethics & learning technology: In search of compassionate pedagogy (Robyn Pritzker) [Storytelling]

E2

Keeping the Door Open: Curating, developing and evolving University of Edinburgh teaching in spaces and places within the city and beyond (Robbie Nicol & Beth Christie) [Paper]

Digital academic support for prehonours students with a view towards hybrid (Steven O’Hagan, Konstantina Zerva & David Quinn) [Paper]

B3

Extending inter-disciplinary learning opportunities to the student and alumni community (Amanda Meyer & Liz Grant) [Panel]

‘Environmentalizing’ Learning and Teaching (Grace Garland, Talia Shoval & Joseph Conrad) [Storytelling]

C3

Student-staff co-created novel resources to help students learn effectively (Sophie Luc, Elise Darmon, Heather McQueen & Sabine Crozier) [Workshop]

D3

Role of gesture in teaching and learning (Andrew Manches & Nicola Kiernan) [Workshop]

E3

Hybridity re-imagined: An experiential hybrid clinical teaching solution for 4th Year medical students (Kirsty Egan, Martin Denvir & Ute Barrett) [Storytelling]

Inter-institutional year abroad during a Pandemic: Lessons for future practice (Helen Parker, Atsuko Moriyama & Fumiko Narumi-Munro) [Short Talk]

“I am excited for the next meeting”: Engaging student enthusiasm for library dissertation research in the Dissertation Festival (Christine Love-Rodgers) [Short Talk]

A4

Usher Masters Alumni (UMA) network: From students to alumni supporting transitions and developing connections (Barry Melia, Emilie McSwiggan, Suzanne Goopy, Annemieke Bikker, Damilola Iduye & Neneh Rowa-Dewar) [Paper]

The Informatics Tutoring Scheme: Facilitating our students to support young people in schools in deprived areas (Kasia Kokowska & Fiona McNeill) [Paper]

B4

Creative, challenge-based, interdisciplinary learning: Generating big ideas for new foundation pathways at The University of Edinburgh (James Blackthorn, Debbie Hope & Kirsty Adamson) [Workshop]

C4

Building a community of active hope (Urzula Glienecke) [Workshop]

E4

Learning and contributing: Using global health concepts to improve the quality of Wikipedia pages on public health disasters (Ewan McAndrew & Evelyn Balsells) [Storytelling]

Study Behaviour, Statistics Anxiety (SA) and Course Performance:  Does learning behaviour mediate the influence of SA on course result? (Kevin Ralston) [Paper]

A5

Peer Assisted Learning for innovative thinking and community building (Ana Diaz Vidal & Hazel Harrop) [Storytelling]

Digital citizenship: Community perceptions and supporting students (Vicki Madden & Louise Connelly) [Short talk]

B5

Building community while teaching data analysis to biologists (Crispin Jordan) [Short talk]

An exploratory project: Enhancing students’ experience through co-constructing academic community (Xiaomei Sun, Sepideh Daghbandan, Annie Yang & Farah Akbar) [Short talk]

Enhancing Postgraduate research students’ experience: Co-constructing peer support community (Chia-Ying Yang, Farah Akbar & Xiaomei Sun) [Short talk]

C5

The SDG Research Network: Using the UN SDG’s to connect postgraduate students with each other and the wider community (Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Kim Vender & Emma Yule) [Short talk]

Repair.Ed Pop-up Repair Cafe (Michael Boyd, Lucy Stanfield-Jenner, Carine Abraham & Jamie Cross) [Short talk]

How do you engage the medical school to teach planetary health and sustainable healthcare? Write a Report Card. (Agata Dunsmore, Katherina Tober & Joey Brooke) [Short talk]

D5

Multimodal coursework in linguistics (Itamar Kastner & Sumin Zhao) [Short talk]

Curriculum Transformation: What does enterprise have to do with it? (Christina Starko & Dora Handrea) [Short talk]

Identifying cognitive engagement in remote laboratories (David Reid & Timothy Drysdale) [Short talk]

E5

Fusion teaching: Stories from the Edinburgh Futures Institute (Sian Bayne, Bea Alex, Pawel Orzechowski, Jane McKie, Clare Llewellyn, Jen Ross & Joe Noteboom) [Storytelling]

Impacts of COVID-19 on teaching practice and opportunities for virtual internships (Ana Hibert, Nataša Pantić & Justine MacLean) [Short talk]