Fifth Annual Conference
Monday 13th June 2011
10.00 am - 4.35 pm
Venue: The University of Leeds
Registration form - price of registration is £80
Keynote speakers
Professor Tara Fenwick
Professor of Professional Education, University of Stirling, Scotland
Tara Fenwick is Professor of Professional Education at the School of Education, University of Stirling in Scotland. Her current research and teaching focus on professionals’ work, with particular interest in professionals’ knowledge sources and strategies in complexity, and the changing nature of professional responsibility. She is the Director of ProPEL, an international network for research in Professional Practice, Education and Learning based at the University of Stirling, www.propel.stir.ac.uk. Her most recent books include Actor-Network Theory in Education (Routledge 2010) with Richard Edwards, Knowledge Mobilization and Educational Research: Politics, Languages and Responsibilities (Routledge forthcoming 2011) with Lesley Farrell, Emerging Approaches in Educational Research: Tracing the Socio-Material (Routledge forthcoming) with Richard Edwards and Peter Sawchuk, and Educating the Global Workforce (Routledge 2007) with Lesley Farrell.
Professor Pat Dolan
UNESCO Chair and Director, Child and Family Research Centre, School of Political Science and Sociology,
National University of Ireland, Galway
Professor Pat Dolan is joint founder and Director of the Child and Family Research Centre and the Higher Diploma/Masters Degree in Family Support Studies. For over 20 years he has had an active interest at worker, service manager, academic and research levels in Family Support and community based interventions in helping adolescents. He has completed longitudinal research on adolescents their perceived mental health and social support networks. His additional research interests include Family Support; Reflective Practice and Service Development; and Youth Mentoring Models.
Professional lifelong learning: Critical perspectives on professional learning
This one-day conference is the fifth in a series on professional learning, organised by the University of Leeds, Leeds Metropolitan University and Birbeck University. It is intended for all those working with professional learning broadly defined. It will be relevant for those concerned with initial and ongoing professional learning, both in work and in educational contexts; it therefore focuses on professional learning in universities, workplaces and in and continuing professional development and education.
The theme, Critical perspectives on professional learning, signals that we have selected contributions which are critical of received ideas pertaining to professional learning. The conference is an opportunity for cross-professional debate, argument and theoretical and empirical development. Papers will draw on research, theory and critical analysis.
Participants will come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds such as education, medicine, health and social care, law, engineering and management. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners concerned with the training and development of professionals.
Papers from the first conference were recently published by Routledge in a book, Beyond Reflective Practice,edited by the organisers of this conference, Helen Bradbury, Nick Frost, Sue Kilminster and Miriam Zukas.
Provisional Programme
| 9.30-10.00 | Registration |
| 10.00-11.00 | Opening and introduction Keynote address by Professor Tara Fenwick Thinking critically about “transitions” in professional learning and practice |
| 11.00-11.30 | Tea/coffee |
| 11.30- 12.30 | Paper session 1 Participants will have the opportunity to choose from 3 groups each containing 2 papers |
| 12.30-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 - 14:15 | Keynote address by Professor Pat Dolan |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Tea/coffee |
| 14:30 - 16:00 | Paper session 2 Participants will have the opportunity to choose from two groups |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Ways forward plenary panel Closing comments |
Papers/Posters
This is a refereed conference; all abstracts have been through a reviewing process. Details of this process are available on our website. All paper presenters were asked to provide a paper of between 3,000 and 5,000 words and these papers are now available. Participants will be contacted and requested to make their paper session selections prior to the conference. Keynote addresses are also available. We will expect participants to have had the chance to read the papers for their chosen sessions, so that presenters are able to summarise and elaborate on those ideas in their sessions.
Continuing professional development (CPD)
We have applied for CPD approval from the Royal College of Physicians in London, and we will give everyone a certificate of attendance. If you have other CPD requirements, please contact Ravinder Heer r.heer@leeds.ac.uk and we will see if we can help.
The Conference Venue
The conference will be held at The University of Leeds, University House, University Road, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Further information
Further information is available from Ravinder Heer, Medical Education Unit, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9NL (r.heer@leeds.ac.uk +44 (0)113 3431657)
Papers from previous conferences are available here
