Education Conference 2026
Tuesday 16 June 2026
Strand Campus
King’s Academy’s flagship event is back on Tuesday 16 June 2026, bringing the King’s community together to share ideas, discuss current opportunities in Higher Education and celebrate teaching and learning.
The Education Conference takes place every year and brings King’s colleagues together – to connect, celebrate successes, discuss current challenges and opportunities in Higher Education and share innovative practices in teaching and learning. Running for nearly 20 years, previous programmes have included presentations from staff and students in diverse roles and departments and given many colleagues their first opportunity to present at a conference. This conference is intended to be an inclusive and welcoming space for all King's colleagues involved in teaching and learning. – to connect, celebrate successes, discuss current challenges in Higher Education and share innovative practices in teaching and learning
In addition to showcasing work from the King’s community, this year’s conference will be opened by Professor Graham Wynn (incoming Vice President, Education and Student Success).
Content Categories
Wellbeing is an area of growing interest across higher education at a time when many students and staff face mounting pressures. This stimulates us to discover and embed sustainable ways of working which enable staff and students from across the educational community to flourish at King’s. Colleagues are invited to share their experience or ideas of educational practices that prioritise both staff and student wellbeing and that foster a culture of belonging, empathy and support. Content proposals to this category may explore compassionate pedagogies that support students’ mental and emotional wellbeing alongside their academic development and success. They may address staff-focused initiatives that promote educator wellbeing. They may present whole-community or structural approaches that strengthen cultures of care and belonging for both staff and students across disciplines and contexts.
Higher education is evolving rapidly in response to technological, environmental and social change. As we look ahead, particularly to the strategic objectives of our university, we need to engage critically and creatively with the developments shaping how, what and why we teach.
Colleagues are invited to share how they are responding to the needs, challenges or opportunities they identify as important for the future of education. Proposals in this category might explore themes such as, but not limited to, education for sustainability, digital transformation, internationalisation, and interdisciplinarity. Colleagues could identify the educational developments they anticipate and what these imply for approaches to pedagogy, educational policy and/or our learning environments. They may present forward-looking projects and initiatives that are already underway that could shape the future of learning and teaching at King’s.
Higher education should recognise and address the structural, social and systemic factors that can differentially disadvantage students for reasons beyond their control. It is essential that we design learning, teaching and assessment in ways that are equitable, accessible and responsive to our communities’ identities, backgrounds and experiences.
Colleagues are invited to prompt and contribute to conversations about creating inclusive learning environments that enable the full participation and success of all students. Proposals in this category could explore curriculum design and/or assessment practices. They may address strategies and practices for supporting specific student groups or celebrating diversity. They may examine initiatives that embed equity, accessibility and representation across programmes and disciplines.
Collaboration is central to innovation and meaningful change in higher education. Whether working in partnership with students, across departments, faculties, and/or professional services, between institutions, or with external organisations, bringing together diverse skillsets, lived experiences and insights can generate innovative approaches and enrich learning and teaching in powerful ways.
Colleagues are invited to share how partnership approaches have enhanced the educational environment through dialogue, co-creation and shared ownership. They may highlight cross-faculty or cross-institutional collaborations that have strengthened programmes or learning communities. They may also reflect on how meaningful partnerships have been fostered, or how cross-sector partnerships – with industry, community organisations, or international partners, have expanded opportunity, relevance or impact for our students.
Attending
This is a free event to attend. Register here from Thursday 12th March.
King’s Academy is proud that the Education Conference is an event where colleagues across different roles and disciplines come together to discuss teaching and learning. If you are involved in education this conference is for you, regardless of your contract type. This includes GTAs, Teaching and Research Fellows, and Digital Education Practitioners. Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are welcome to attend if they intend to co-present with a member of King's staff on the day.
Please note:
This event is an important development opportunity for many King's colleagues and requires substantial resource to run smoothly, at no cost to attendees. Places for this event fill quickly; each year we garner a waiting list of 100+ colleagues. Unfortunately, in recent years, we have seen a growing number of colleagues registering but not attending. We understand plans and schedules are subject to change which is why we manage a robust waiting list reallocation process. We therefore must stress that if you are no longer able to attend that you notify kings-academy@kcl.ac.uk as soon as possible so that this valuable place can be reallocated to a colleague on the waiting list.
Failing to notify King's Academy of your absence results in:
Proposing Content
All King’s colleagues working in teaching and learning - including GTAs, Teaching and Research Fellows and Digital Education Practitioners - are invited to propose content via this form from Thursday 12 March until Monday 13 April 2026.The Education Conference will be an interdisciplinary space, so contributions should be accessible and relevant beyond disciplinary contexts.
To increase representation of the student voice, King’s Academy is particularly interested in content that will be co-presented with students on the day. In the event a high volume of content proposals is received, proposals with student co-presenters may be given additional weighting in the reviewing process.
Please note, at this time, we are only able to accept proposals from Undergraduate and Postgraduate students which will be co-presented with a member of King’s staff. The staff member must lead on the submission and be onsite to co-present with the student(s) on the day.
Proposals will be double-blind reviewed.
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Poster Presentation.Posters will be on open display throughout the day in the Great Hall, which is the day’s central hub. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in informal 1-1 or small-group discussions rather than being a formal presenting timeslot. More guidance for poster presenters can be found in the FAQ section.
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Research or Scholarship Presentation [30-minute slot: inclusive of Q&A time]. Sharing completed or partially completed educational research or scholarship. This may include context of the practice or activity, pedagogies applied, implementation, outcomes and evaluation undertaken.
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Workshop [1 hour slot in total]. Workshops should be highly interactive, enabling participants to engage in activities to try out, apply, plan or co-create a concept or approach that they could apply to their own practice, discipline or field.
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Panel [1 hour slot in total]. This format must have a clear focus with a maximum of three speakers related to the panel title. Allow plenty of time for questions or discussion involving conference participants. This is an excellent opportunity to bring together a group of staff or students working on a similar topic or area at King’s.
A full, static copy of the submission form to understand the information we need at this stage can be found in our FAQ section.
FAQs
If you are a King's staff member involved in education this conference is for you, regardless of your contract type. This includes GTAs, Teaching and Research Fellows, and Digital Education Practitioners.
Undergraduate and Postgraduate students are welcome to attend if they are co-presenting content with a member of King’s staff. The staff member must lead on the proposal submission and be onsite to present with you on the day.
Please note, this PDF is for viewing only. Annotations on the static copy will not be accepted as proposals - all proposals are collected via the online form only.
view a static copy here
view a static copy here
Posters will be on open display throughout the day in the Great Hall, which is the day’s central hub. This is a fantastic opportunity to engage in informal 1-1 or small-group discussions rather than being a formal presenting timeslot.
Posters do not have to be complete at the time of submitting. It will be presenters’ responsibility to print and bring their poster to the conference - this includes any costs associated with printing. The poster boards are designed to display up to A1 for portrait posters and A2 for landscape posters, which are the sizes we recommend printing to. Printing can be arranged via KCL IT; the poster request process can be found on Remedy self-service under ‘A0 print request’ (where you can request an A1 or A2 printout).
Posters do not have to be complete at the time of submitting. It will be presenters’ responsibility to print and bring their poster to the conference - this includes any costs associated with printing. The poster boards are designed to display up to A1 for portrait posters and A2 for landscape posters, which are the sizes we recommend printing to. Printing can be arranged via KCL IT; the poster request process can be found on Remedy self-service under ‘A0 print request’ (where you can request an A1 or A2 printout). King's Academy will provide push pins for display, but you are welcome to bring your own. Please note, all posters must be collected by 16.00 by presenters - these will not be collected and stored by King's Academy.
On the submission form, there will be an opportunity to indicate if you’re proposing content in relation to a King’s Academy funded call so there are no additional steps you need to complete. Funded call leads will be involved in the reviewing process and the panel will take this into account when providing feedback.
Yes. Colleagues are welcome to make more than one proposal. This can be two separate formats for the same content (e.g. a workshop and a poster presentation) or a new proposal altogether.
One response to the form per proposal/ per format, should be submitted (e.g. this includes one for your workshop and one for your poster presentation of the same title).
Please note, in the event we receive a high volume of submissions, the reviewing panel may choose to accept only one content proposal per colleague.
Yes. Proposing content does not automatically register you as a conference attendee. You must complete the registration form in addition.
Once the content proposal deadline passes, personal details (presenter name, title and department) will be redacted from submissions before they are shared with the reviewing panel. The panel will make one of three decisions on each proposal: accepted, accepted with revisions or declined.
These decisions will be communicated by the end of May. If your proposal is successful, this communication will also include details of your allocated timeslot and logistical information on presenting.
Please email kings-academy@kcl.ac.uk