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Schedule

The full conference schedule is shown below. 

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8:30 AM
Welcome and Introductions
Prof Jane Harrington; Neil Bangs; Michael Talbot et al

8:30 AM- 9:00 AM  Room: KW315
9:00 AM
How to stop flogging a dead horse: redesigning tutoring at the University of Nottingham
Andrew Fisher

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA110

Personal Academic Tutor Lead role: bridging the gap between Nursing and Midwifery, practice and education
Sophie Layfield

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Menna Brown; Qurat-ul-ain Jahangir; Johnny Leung et al

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA165

If you aren’t measuring it, how can it count? PAT performance and incentivising engagment
Graham N Baxendale

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA175

Effectiveness of Different Models of Academic Advising in Postgraduate Taught Courses
Sarah Bosch; Melissa Jacobi

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA180

Challenges and Triumphs: The development and implementation of an Institution-wide Personal Tutor Training Programme
Bingham Ann; Julia Kelly

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA274

All tutees are ‘personal’ … not just personal tutees
Nevin Bayoumi-Stefanovic; Six student panellists

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA265

Broad shoulders: the burden of being a Senior Tutor
Nienke Alberts

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA280

Developing students as professionals - tutor involvement in achieving veterinary competencies.
James Littlehales; Adelle Bowden

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA238
10:00 AM
Morning Refreshments - Day 1

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
10:30 AM
Belonging and mattering for personal tutors
Karen Kenny

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA110

A ‘design thinking for life’ approach to enhance tutee engagement, inclusive and empathetic peer dialogue and support core skills development
Nigel Page; Carmen Ecookit

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Rosie MacDiarmid; Will H Essilfie; Paty Paliokosta et al

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA165

Contexts of the Third Space: Learnings from two Professional Personal Tutoring Models at King’s College London
Xiaozhe Cai; Daniel Gellai

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA175

Empowering Student Achievement: An holistic approach to student support through predictive analytics, qualitative insights, and proactive solutions for Personal Academic Tutors.
Kate Newby; Leon Crosby

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA180

Empowering Student Success: The Role of Trauma-Informed Academic Advising in Higher Education
Michelle Stephenson

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA274

Evaluation Special Interest Group - Inaugural Meeting
Peter Fitch

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA265

Unleashing innovation in Personal Academic Tutoring – The University of Sunderland's strategic management paradigm.
Kate Newby; Celia Samater; Phillip Miller et al

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA280

Achieving Recognition through the UKAT Professional Recognition Scheme
Helen Tidy;Gary Jones; Elizabeth Munro

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA238
11:30 AM
Lunch - Day 1

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
12:30 PM
Keynote
Sarah Bosch

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM

1:30 PM
The Experiences and Challenges of personal tutors at University
Rebecca Upsher; Selin Hasgul; Katherine Embleton

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA110

Finding Focus: Developing an Institutional Vision That Fits Your Institution
Iris M Burks; Lena S Gromotka; Oscar van den Wijngaard

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Mark van der Enden, Emily Pentland-Hill, Najaah Oozeer; Samuel Fairlamb; Juliet Holdstock et al

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA165

Equity in Higher Education: A Round Table Discussion on Inclusive Personal Tutoring Practices
Denise A Miller; Eleanor St-Hilaire; Josephine Gabi et al

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA175

Painting a Picture: Using Student Data to Improve Outcomes.
Suzanne Horton

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA180

Guided Reflection and Personal Tutor Conversations
Nicola M Clarke

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA274

Navigating a pathway to create a multi-layered approach to personal tutor CPD
Eve Rapley, Rachel George, Peter Brown

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA265

Next Level personal tutoring; supporting hard to reach students through mentoring and signposting to mainstream academic support
Jules Mundair; Sharon Perera

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: QA238
2:30 PM
Afternoon Refreshments - Day 1

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
3:00 PM
The Politics of Student Voice and the Future of Personal Tutoring: How might tutors and advisers begin to address epistemic injustices played out in the tutor-student encounter?
Owen G Barlow

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA110

Role of tutoring, advising and coaching in Educational Gain
Isabel Hallam; Karen Kenny; Hetal Buckhurst

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Lisa Gannon; Barbara L Silcox; Melissa Jacobi et al

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA165

Advocating for Advising: A cross-institutional approach to Academic Advising at Oxford Brookes University
Ben Walker

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA175

Both a megaphone and a seat at the table: student voice in the development of advising support
Jennie R Blake; Emma Sanders; Raluca-Elena Valcescu

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA180

Supporting personal tutors to meet the needs of students on placements
Karen A Moore; Jennifer Oates

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA274

Seeing the Invisible: How student engagement data is providing new insights to enable successful student outcomes
Rachel S Maxwell; Will Ashbey; David Gilani et al

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA265

Organisational Enhancement of Personal Tutoring and Advising.
Kathryn Woods; Peter Fitch

3:00 PM- 3:45 PM  Room: QA280
6:00 PM
Conference Dinner

6:00 PM- 10:00 PM

7:15 AM
Business Breakfast and Networking

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
8:00 AM
Building Teacher-Student Relationships (TSR) in Higher Education: An interactive workshop discussing the importance and strategies to support TSR.
Zainab Nurji

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA110

A course level holistic approach to core skills development for international PGT students: sharing practice & ways of working
Jane Fearon; Alison McCamley

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Sarah L Bennett; Anisha Bharat Jethwa; et al

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA165

Personal Tutor and Academic Advising Training ideas.
Julie J Warden; Peter Fitch; Hengyi Wang

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA175

Introducing an 'Academic Personal Tutoring' Team: Early Findings into the Pilot Scheme on both Student Progression Metrics and the Student Experience
Charlie Seager; Vish Maheshwari

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA180

Recognising the individual: re-thinking engagement and the staff student relationship
Jon Down; Ellie Garraway; Rachael O'Connor

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA274

Graduate Programs in Academic Advising at Kansas State University
Craig M McGill; Dionne Barton

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA265

Harnessing the power of collaboration, co-creation and relational pedagogy to deconstruct and redesign our approach to personal tutoring.
Barbara L Silcox; Lisa Gannon; Kelsey Howard-Matthews

8:00 AM- 8:45 AM  Room: QA280

Let's Be Playful - Mapping the Student Journey with Students and Advisors at Your University
David Grey; Hugh Mannerings; Majella Votta et al

8:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA238
9:00 AM
Contextualising Competencies for Advising
Oscar van den Wijngaard

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA110

Risk and protective factors for well-being in personal tutors.
Elizabeth Halstead; Elisabeth Herbert

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Elena Etheridge ; Joanne Irving-Walton, Helen Tidy; Larissa Nelson

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA165

Getting from what we have, to what they need: a coaching approach to personal tutoring
Ritta Husted; Anna Hardiman-McCartney; Dominic Micklewright

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA175

Fostering Intellectual Virtues: A Guide for Academic Advisors on Motivating Students to Cultivate Critical Thinking, Responsibility, Accountability, and Independence.
Molly Jack

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA180

Creating an intercultural welcome pack that supports international student transition into UK higher education
Hengyi Wang; Sarah Watson

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA274

UKAT Professional Development Curriculum Taster Session
Xaiozhe Cai; Karen Kenny; Jelena Matic et al

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA265

Mini Modules – Supporting Academic, Personal and Professional Development.
Melissa Jacobi; Sarah Bosch

9:00 AM- 9:45 AM  Room: QA280
10:00 AM
Morning Refreshments - Day 2

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
10:30 AM
Putting the Personal into Personalised Support: Developing models for personal tutoring – what works well, where, for whom and how?
Katie Webb; Samantha Holloway

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA110

Collaboration in Action: Building a future provision for Personalised Support
Ann McManus; Angharad Naylor

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Victoria Adkins; John Morton; Divya Vinnakota , Chandeera Gunawardena

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA165

Setting Boundaries as Personal tutors: how do we maintain our own mental health and wellbeing?
Nevin Mehmet

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA175

A tale of doughnuts and student support
Wendy A Garnham; Katherine Kruger; Emily Baker

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA274

Lightning Talks
Genevieve M Breau; Karen Kenny; Kim Allan

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA265

Let us tell you how to support us! Student perspectives on academic support
Denise Morrison; Jan Bamford

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA280

Unlocking Potential: co-creating evaluation and impact measures for academic advising and personal tutor provision
Glenda Saint John

10:30 AM- 11:15 AM  Room: QA238
11:30 AM
Lunch - Day 2

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
12:30 PM
Quack, Quack Duck: LEGO® Serious Play® Group PAT session with International Students.
Sally P Laurie; Anna Poole; Gosia Plotka

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA110

Empowering Tutors and Advisors: Nuturing Growth Through Professional Development
Dionne E Barton

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA139

Lightning Talks
Roberta Faraone; Gabriela Preutesei; Ann McManus et al

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA165

Supporting international postgraduate students in the School of Education-What do our students need?
Elina Stylianou; Ziyi Wang; Tingting Zhang

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA175

The Future of Personal Tutoring: Integrating Analytics and Generative AI
Aniekan Essien; Susan Smith; Oyegoke Bukoye

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA180

Paving the way for a fresh approach to personal tutoring
Matt James; Clare Saunders

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA274

Developing Racially Inclusive Advising
Nathan Ghann

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA265

Student skills development: making it harder not to do.
Julian M Kendell

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA280

Student diagnostics that build foundations for success : Insights from a QAA Scotland Collaborative Cluster project
Luke Millard

12:30 PM- 1:15 PM  Room: QA238
1:30 PM
A Collective Manifesto for the Future of Personal Tutoring
Michael Talbot

1:30 PM- 2:15 PM  Room: KW315
2:30 PM
Afternoon Refreshments - Day 2

 Room: Refresment Rooms QA163/173
3:00 PM
Closing
Michael Talbot; Jenny Marie; Neil Bangs

3:00 PM- 3:30 PM  Room: KW315