The annual Medway Learning and Teaching conference is jointly organised by the Universities of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church and Greenwich, who share the Medway campus. The conference aims to share, celebrate, and promote best practice across the Medway campus.
This year the conference will be held on Tuesday 24 June 2025. It is free and welcomes all staff and students from the three universities and their partner institutions. The conference will be hosted online and links to the sessions will be listed in the conference programme, when it is available.
Conference registration will open on Friday 7 March 2025, and close on Friday 20 June 2025.
If you will be presenting at the conference, please also ensure you register your attendance.
The full conference programme will be made available in June and will be downloadable from this page.
In these challenging times, collaboration and partnerships are increasingly important to ensuring higher education serves our students and society. UK universities are facing significant challenges. Pressing issues such as financial sustainability, rapidly evolving skills needs, and widening participation can all benefit from stakeholders working together to address them. The shared campus at Medway affords unique opportunities to work together to serve the local community. To promote greater collaboration on educational enhancement across the University of Kent, Canterbury Christchurch University, and Greenwich University, staff or students from any of the campuses of these universities are welcome to propose a presentation and to attend.
We aim to showcase examples of ways that university staff collaborate within subject teams, across disciplines, across different staff categories (e.g. academic and professional services staff), and between staff and students to promote educational excellence. We also seek examples of external partnerships that support more innovative or effective learning experiences for students. These collaborations may be with other universities, with business or industry partners, with practitioners, service user groups, with schools/colleges, or others. Proposals may address any of a range of educational practices in higher education, including course design or development processes, curricular content, technological developments, place-based or work-based learning, assessment, feedback or evaluation of teaching and learning. They could focus on the value of collaborations for equity, employability, sustainability, efficiency or overall quality.
Paper Presentation/Discussion Paper (20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions): A traditional conference presentation for sharing ideas with the audience. This can be about a research project (whether complete or in progress) or an example of a teaching or collaboration practice you wish to share. As our conference theme is on collaboration, we encourage staff presenting about their practice to co-present with collaborators, particularly students. Discussion papers are best suited for complex presentations that involve multiple innovations or ideas. There should be clear implications for practice and/or areas of critical debate, inviting participants to engage with your findings and ideas.
Case studies (20 minutes with 5 minutes for questions): Case studies can be compelling stories on collaborative educational practices or projects based on real-world experiences with implications of wider practice. They can illustrate, describe, explore, analyse, reflect on, or challenge approaches or practices carried out to address a specific problem in a particular context. Additionally, they should describe the challenges experienced and how these were addressed, reflect on the experience, what could have been improved, describe why the case study may be of importance to the delegates and how particular principles and methods can be applied in teaching practice. Student voices are welcome.
Lightning talks (7 minutes and 3 minutes for questions): A short presentation on a topic of your choice, whether research, new ideas or sharing expertise in a quick, insightful, and easily digestible format.
Proposals will be assessed according to the following criteria:
Proposal submission opens on Friday 7 March 2025. Please use the form below to submit your proposal.
The deadline for proposal submissions is 23:59, Tuesday 22 April 2025.
If you have any queries, please contact us via heprogsadmin@kent.ac.uk.
| Registration opens | 7 March 2025 |
| Proposal submission opens | 7 March 2025 |
| Proposal submission deadline | 22 April 2025 |
| Feedback on proposals | 16 May 2025 |
| Registration closes | 20 June 2025 |
| Conference | 24 June 2025 |
Further Information
General enquiries: heprogsadmin@kent.ac.uk
Privacy Notice
When you register for the conference, we process information about who you are and your contact details. This information will be used by relevant employees at the Universities of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church and Greenwich to manage your attendance and participation at the Medway Learning & Teaching Conference 2025 and enable you to provide your feedback afterwards. The data that you provide will be held by the University of Kent according to the University’s Data Protection Policy, and will not be shared with third parties. Further information about the University of Kent’s approach to data protection and to your rights can be found here.
