The GAA team hope everyone is enjoying the more spring-like weather and has had a refreshing Easter period. Just a few notifications this month, the big one being – it’s Research Day on Friday!!!
EDST Research Day 2024
This Friday, April 5, it’s EDST’s annual Research Day, the most established and longstanding departmental tradition. The day is a great opportunity to be inspired, to share, and feel part of the EDST community, so don’t forget to come along!
Registration begins at 9am and the program runs until around 5pm, after which you are all invited to join us for a social mingle at Koerner’s pub! The day’s program is as follows: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/researchday/
See you all there!
Final PhD Colloquium!
The final EDST PhD Colloquium is being held on Thursday April 11th at 12 pm. The speaker will be Orkhon Gantogtokh and her presentation is titled: Envisioning Doctoral Education in Mongolia. This looks set to be a fascinating talk so be sure to register here: https://edst.educ.ubc.ca/events/event/edst-doctoral-colloquium-envisioning-doctoral-education-in-mongolia/
Talks
Leading Women in Higher Education
Date: 18 Apr 2024
Time: 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (GMT+1)
Details & Registration: https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/leading-women-in-higher-education-2024
English in Multi Academy Trusts: the changing shape of the subject and its impact on teachers
Date: 17 Apr 2024
Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (GMT+1)
Details & Registration: https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/english-in-multi-academy-trusts-2024
ECR Symposium Series 2024: Being a creative researcher: creative thinking, decision making and problem solving in research
Date: 30 Apr 2024
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm (GMT+1)
Details & Registration: https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/ecr-symposium-series-2024-april-spring
Knowledge – The Most Important and Least Considered Object of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm, (GMT+8)
Date: 14 May, 2024
Mode: by Zoom
Details & Registration: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpfuurqDoiHtcrZeD4Vv_pz8PsMjr4JEFS
8th Annual Adult Centred Education Conference
Date: 16-17 May 2024
Venue: Executive Plaza Hotel Metro Vancouver
Details & Registration: https://aceconference.net/index.html
Relational pedagogies in higher education
Date: 20th May, 2024 (Monday)
Time: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. (GMT+8)
Details & Registration: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUufuGvpzIqEte88OsMRHnLsgE2U6UQ5hNo
Social theory, educational research and polycrisis
Date: 22 May 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm (GMT+1)
Details & Registration: https://www.bera.ac.uk/event/social-theory-educational-research-and-polycrisis-2024
Congress 2024
Date: 12-21 June 2024
Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Details & Registration: https://www.federationhss.ca/en/congress2024
European Conference on Politics and Gender
Date: 8-10 July 2024
Venue: Ghent University, Belgium
Details & Registration: https://ecpr.eu/Events/253
Calls for submission
10th HERA Conference
Theme: From Competition to Collaboration in Higher Education
Dates: 5-6 June 2024
Venue: National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Details & Submission: https://www.heratpe.com/callforpaper
Thirty-First International Conference on Learning
Theme: The Converging Challenges for Inclusive Education: Intercultural Competences and Digital Literacies in Global Contexts
Dates: 10-12 July 2024
Venue: Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands + Online
Details & Submission: https://thelearner.com/2024-conference
Open positions
Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Democracy and Ecological Transformations”
Location: Sciences Po
Start date: 1 Sept 2024
Deadline: 30 April 2024
Details and submission: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JLKRfT8QjjU4wBIabT8OafBZHFe0UxRy/view?pli=1
** If you know of any events, positions, or other information which might be of interest to the EDST community, please forward the relevant details to edst.gaa@ubc.ca **