St George’s Education Days are open to everyone involved in the educational experience of St George’s students, including academics, clinical educators, professional services, and students themselves.
Two Education Days are planned for 2024, both as in-person events:
· Summer Education Day - Thursday July 4 2024
· Autumn Education Day - Wednesday 13 November 2024
Summer Education Day, July 4 2024
Call for Contributions
This is an open invitation to everyone in the St George’s education community to share their thinking, enquiry and practice on any aspect of teaching, learning, assessment, and the student experience, including its organisational aspects. We would like to hear about practical interventions, radical redesigns, collaborative partnerships, scholarly studies, insightful evaluations, knotty problems, critical and disruptive perspectives, policy changes and more.
Active involvement from students is encouraged. Students may be included as co-presenters or co-facilitators in a staff-led proposal; or may propose their own contribution either individually or with other students.
We envisage using the following formats for contributions:
contributions for Education day
| Presentations |
15-20 minutes |
Panel of speakers organised where possible by theme. |
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| Lightning Talks |
Up to 7 minutes |
Short talks designed to contribute to the rich exchange of ideas and practice on the day. |
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| Workshops |
50 –60 minutes |
Interactive workshops designed to offer participants hands-on activities. |
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| Roundtables |
50-60 minutes |
A hosted discussion that brings a variety of perspectives together around an identified issue or theme. |
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Submit a proposal
Please submit a proposal using this form to contribute in one of the above formats, by Wednesday 1 May 2024 to educationday@sgul.ac.uk.
If you’d like to talk through a possible contribution and get feedback on your idea and a possible format before submitting, please contact us. We’re happy to help!
Criteria for selecting proposals
In reviewing proposals, the Education Day planning team will ask how far the proposed contribution meets one or more of the following criteria:
- Addresses a key theme or issue for the University or sector.
- Is relevant and interesting across disciplinary and professional groups.
- Supports development and/or innovation in practice.
- Demonstrates a strong approach to evaluation with interesting results.
- Demonstrates scholarship in the field and/or theoretical frameworks that participants may benefit from.
As there are limited slots available, the reviewing team will also need to select contributions with a view to creating a positive balance of coherence and choice within the overall programme. To support this aim, they may make suggestions for slight changes to your original proposal.
Key dates
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| Deadline for submission |
By the end of Wednesday 1 May 2024 |
| Notification of selection process outcome |
Wednesday 15 May 2024 |
Please send the completed form to educationday@sgul.ac.uk.
Previous Education Days
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This event took place on Wednesday 29 November 2023.
Assessment and feedback practices are considered ‘amongst the most powerful levers educators have for improving student learning’ yet positive student experiences of assessment can often be hard to achieve. During the day we asked: How can we address this challenge? What works? Where do we need to think differently?
Professor Kathleen Quinlan and Dr Edd Pitt from the University of Kent and authors of Advance HE’s 2022 literature review on the impact of assessment and feedback policy and practice on students in higher education gave the opening keynote. View the recording of Kathleen and Edd’s keynote.
This event took place on Wednesday 3 May 2023.
The theme running through this event was community, connection and learning together. The day was opened by our keynote speaker, Dr Karen Gravett from the University of Surrey. Karen’s thinking on ‘belonging’ and ‘mattering’ in education and her foregrounding of relationships, spaces, places and objects were intended to frame the subsequent sharing of ideas, practice and challenges and stimulate insights into how these dimensions play out in the particular kinds of education St George’s values and provides.
This event took place on Wednesday 21 November 2021.
This was the first Education Day after the Covid-19 lockdowns. There was a focus on Inclusive Education, and an interactive workshop from the Bristol Improv Theatreon ways of fostering positive student engagement in learning, whether teaching in person or online, using three concepts: creative facilitation, active support and resilience.