Schedule
The final schedule for the conference is shown below.
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PLENARY
Welcome and Introductions
Neil Bangs; Josie Gabi; David Grey
9:30 AM- 10:00 AM Room: G.29/G.44 |
| 10:00 AM |
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STUDENT VOICES
Embedding Intercultural Education in Academic Advising and Tutoring: Intercultural Insights from International Postgraduate Learners
Samin Qasabian
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.64 STUDENT VOICES
Practical Strategies for Bridging Gaps Between Tutors and Tutees’ Expectations of Personal Academic Tutoring
Ruth Windscheffel; Ann-Marie Mafura; Laura Key et al
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.10 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Supporting advising practice: A framework for student advising interactions
Mairi Harkness; Caitlin Cryer; Scott Anderson
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.12 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Here for You - The Right Support at the right time!
Amy Chappell; Jeremy Larner
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.15 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Wellbeing A–Z: Empowering Students Through Practical, Skills-Based Resources
Nic Streatfield; Rob Heyes
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.16 SPONSOR SESSION
Advising for Success: Using Eportfolios to Strengthen Academic Advising / Personal Tutoring and Graduate Readiness
Sue Beckingham
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Viji Jayasundara; Rachel George et al; Jennifer Stockdale
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.18 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Hengyi Wang; Caroline Jones; Esther Wilson et al
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.58 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
AI is Here for Academic Advising: Are You Ready?
George Steele; David Grey
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: G.89 |
| 11:00 AM |
| 11:30 AM |
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LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Sonia Tandon et al; Ruth Windscheffel; Lindsey Munro
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.64 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Advising Through Adversities: An Interactive Workshop
Tracy Agnew; Sophie Little
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.10 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Barriers and Boundaries: Navigating Academic Advising and Pastoral Support for Neurodivergent Students in Higher Education
Janine Dixon; Neil Morrison
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.12 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Inside Our Personal Tutoring / Academic Advising Systems: Supporting Belonging and Mattering
Rabeya Khatoon
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.15 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Seeing Ourselves, Supporting Others: A Creative Framework for Tutor Reflection
Melanie Welaratne; Jelena Matic
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.16 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Hearts, Minds and Metrics: designing human centred advising that turns data into belonging, agency and outcomes
Helen Mccormick; Siobhan Barry
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Aleksey Kozikov et al; Muhammad Wajid; Mihaela Dariescu
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 12:15 PM |
| 1:15 PM |
| 2:30 PM |
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MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Building personal tutor confidence to support students with mental health issues
Vicky Martin
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 2.10 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Supporting Student Futures: Responding to Changing Demographics in Higher Education
Elena Etheridge; Laura Costin; Sara Barron
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 2.10 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Building Belonging Through Cognitive Compassionate Communication: An Interactive Workshop for Academic Tutors and Advisors
Viji Jayasundara
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 2.12 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Beyond the Dashboard: a practical workshop for ethical, human-centred data-informed advising
Helen Mccormick; Siobhan Barry
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 2.15 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Beyond the Classroom: Co-creating Student Success through Collaborative Support Pathways
Ibiyemi Olubowale
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 2.16 BELONGING AND MATTERING
The Dynamic Duo: How peer mentoring extends the reach of personal tutoring
Laura Becerra; Kris Deng
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Clair Zawada; Corinne Woodfine; Charles Vaughan
2:30 PM- 3:15 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 3:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM |
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ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Targeted, Student-Centred Pastoral Care in Higher Education: Evolution, Practice, and Impact in the School of History, Politics and Philosophy at MMU
Jo Smith; Rebecca Ball; Marcus Morris et al
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 1.64 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Guided Reflection and its place in Personal Tutor Conversations; Empowering Students to Learn from Experience and Matter to Themselves
Nicola Clarke
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 2.10 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Senior Tutors in Action: Sharing Good Practice and Creating Supportive Communities
Elena Etheridge; Larissa Nelson
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 2.12 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Listening to Students, Leading Change: Peer-Led Approaches to Gambling Harm Prevention in Higher Education
Janine Maddison; Jimmy Parkin
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 2.15 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Coaching Approaches for Student Success Amongst Underrepresented Groups in Higher Education: An Interactive Workshop
Jack Hogan; Elisabeth Davies
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Mapping the Landscape: Institutional Approaches to Academic Mentoring in a Changing Higher Education Environment
Daniela Perez Aguilar; Gelly Mitrodima; William Mitchell
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Claudia Panuta; Isabelle Brent et al; Lei Zeng et al
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 2.18 SPONSOR SESSION
Collaborative approaches to student advising: Institutional perspectives from a cross-sector project
Rachel Maxwell; Janice Kay; Nicola Watchman Smith et al
4:00 PM- 4:45 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 5:00 PM |
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STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Graduation futures: applying employability within pastoral activity.
Helen List; Vicki Markham
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 1.64 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Academic Advising for a Changing Student Demographic
Ann Bingham
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 2.10 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Voices of Success: Public Speaking as a Pathway to Graduate Outcomes
Erika Keizere
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 2.12 BELONGING AND MATTERING
From Parallel Paths to Shared Dialogues: Multicultural Work-Life Coaching for Domestic and International Students
Lotta Metsärinne
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 2.15 BELONGING AND MATTERING
What I Wish You Knew: a student/advisor listening lab under Chatham House Rule
Siobhan Barry; Helen Mccormick
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
What’s in a Name? Personal Tutoring, Developmental Advising and Coaching in UK University Policy
Isabelle Brent
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 1.66 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
From Pilot to Practice: Embedding an Integrated, Future-Facing Advising & Student Support Model
Joanna Goodey; Ellen Ballard
5:00 PM- 5:45 PM Room: 2.18 |
| 7:30 PM |
| 9:00 AM |
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MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Enhancing Student Wellbeing and Learning Through Personal Tutoring
Rebecca Upsher; Helena Zavos; Krisna Capoor
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 1.64 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Appreciative Advising Overview
Jennifer Bloom
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 2.10 BELONGING AND MATTERING
How can group tutorials promote programme coherence and student belonging in a ‘block’ learning context?
Dionne Barton; Roger Dalrymple; Erick Morataya Gatica
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 2.12 STUDENT VOICES
The Role of Personal Tutoring in Student Success: A Mixed-Methods Study
Kim Allan
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 2.15 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Supporting Students Through Their First Academic Identity Shock
Matt Rattley
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 2.16 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Holly Mccallum et al; Manju Pallam et al; Lisa Appleyard-Keeling
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 1.66 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Towards a holistic personal tutoring system: learning from our institutional review
David Lees; Gavin Schwartz-Leeper; Mark Pulsford et al
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: 1.58 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Seeing Through the Student’s Eyes: (Re-)imagining Personal Tutoring through Immersive Praxis
Josie Gabi; Melissa Jacobi; Charlotte Seager et al
9:00 AM- 9:45 AM Room: G.89 |
| 10:00 AM |
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STUDENT VOICES
Beyond Assumptions: What International Students Really Need from Personal Tutors and Academics
Araida Hidalgo; Jac Fossett
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.64 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
The Elephant in the Advising Room: Tackling Academic Engagement
Alexandra Moores
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.10 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Mediating cross-cultural challenges through Personal Academic Tutoring in UK HE: A mixed-method study of international students & faculty
Edet Okon; Gabriela Preutesei
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.12 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Real Situations, Real Skills: Scenario-Based Training for Tutors
To'neill Bala
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.15 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Navigating Structural Change: Centralised, Decentralised, and Hybrid Models of Pastoral Support
Megha Krishnakumar; Serena James; Monika Walker et al
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
‘Student advising is like onions’: Exploring a data-people-theory approach to student success at Teesside University
Nicola Watchman Smith; Rachel Maxwell
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Elisabeth Herbert et al; Jen Jen et al; Jingyi Mao
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 2.18 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Gary Jones et al; Genevieve Breau et al; Aleksey Kozikov et al
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM Room: 1.58 |
| 11:00 AM |
| 11:30 AM |
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STUDENT VOICES
The Effect of Personal Tutoring in STEM Subjects
Mohammad Saki; Anastasia Sofroniou; Hooriya Tahir et al
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.64 BELONGING AND MATTERING
What is good advising? Ethical principles for guidance in Finnish universities
Susanna Ahteensuu; Tuuli Asunmaa
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.10 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Academic Advising Continuum – the Abertay Strategy
Luke Millard
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.12 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Seeing, Hearing, Valuing: Trauma-Informed Tutoring to Strengthen Student Belonging and Mattering
Sarah Donkin
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.15 STUDENT VOICES
Supporting Student Futures in Divided Times: Belonging, Safety and Dialogue Across Campus Spaces
Patricia Perlman-Dee
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Harnessing Data for Change: Turning Insights into Action for Student Success
Elena Etheridge; Helen Mccormick; Josephine Gabi et al
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.66 MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Supporting the Supporters: Designing Mental Health Training for Tutors and Advisors
Suriyah Rashid
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 2.18 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Underemployment, Race, and Personal Tutoring - Graduate outcomes perspectives and insights on BAME STEM Graduates
Sterling Rauseo; Myrtle Emmanuel; Andrew Hansen-Addy et al
11:30 AM- 12:15 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 12:15 PM |
| 1:30 PM |
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STUDENT VOICES
Empowering Students through Personalised Study Plans: A Collaborative Approach to Inclusive Learning Practices
Kathleen Normandin
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 1.64 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Belonging by Design: Turning Early Touchpoints into Meaningful Connections
Colum Cronin
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 2.10 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Belonging Isn’t Optional: Listening to International Students, Changing Higher Education Practice
Helen Nicholson; Sarah Maclachlan; Rachel Kelly
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 2.12 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Connecting Advising Outcomes and Graduate Attributes: An Interactive Workshop on Constructive Alignment in Academic Advising
Oscar van den Wijngaard; David Grey
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 2.15 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Building Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Taster of the Intercultural Communication Course for Enhancing Tutor-Tutee Relationships in Diverse UK Contexts
Giovanna Comerio; Hengy Wang; Sandra Turner et al
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Enhancing Belonging and Success for International Nursing Students: A Transition Support Toolkit Informed by Lived Experiences
Manju Pallam; Rincy Sajith; Shiji Thomas et al
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Debra Whitehead; James Fenton; Elisabeth Herbert
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 2.18 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Sarah Chapman et al; Neil Morrison et al; Annette Hargreaves
1:30 PM- 2:15 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 2:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM |
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STUDENT VOICES
A community model of leadership in personal tutoring: Student Academic Personal Tutoring Leads
Rachael O'Connor; Hunniya Akram; Hamza Shariq et al
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 1.64 BELONGING AND MATTERING
A Contemplative Approach to Academic Advising
Elizabeth Munro
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 2.10 BELONGING AND MATTERING
Imagined futures of postgraduate students and the role of tutoring
Andrew Mearman
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 2.12 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Embedding inclusive learning in real-world challenges
Priti Chopra
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 2.15 STUDENT SUCCESS AND GRADUATE OUTCOMES
Empowering Student Success Through Coaching: Lessons from Student Development Coaching
Elina Stylianou
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 2.16 ADVISING IN A TIME OF CHANGE
Embedding policy, enhancing practice: Building coherence and confidence in Advising at Oxford Brookes University
Ben Walker
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 1.66 LIGHTNING TALKS
Lightning Talks
Isabelle Mayhew; Lelina Subedi; Andrew Flynn
3:00 PM- 3:45 PM Room: 1.58 |
| 3:50 PM |