Call for Proposals
The theme of this year’s conference, ‘Spotlight on Student Futures’, reflects our commitment to empowering students to achieve their full potential through dedicated personal tutoring and advising, broadening their horizons, fostering a sense of belonging and feelings of mattering, supporting mental health and well-being, and continuation and graduate outcomes.
Contributions are being invited that will speak to our specific themes:
1) Student voices. Contributions produced by and/or with students who can share their perspectives on and views of personal tutoring and advising, what they value, and what they need.
2) Belonging and Mattering. Contributions considering how personal tutoring and academic advising foster a sense of belonging and mattering that enables students to engage more successfully with their education.
3) Mental Health and Well-being. Contributions which reflect on how academic advising and personal tutoring can improve student well-being and support students with mental health concerns.
4) Student Success and Graduate Outcomes. Contributions focusing on how academic advising and personal tutoring can empower students to be more successful and achieve a broad range of graduate outcomes, within and beyond their HE studies.
5) Advising in a Time of Change. Contributions which consider how personal tutoring and academic advising can help HE institutions address the diverse and interconnected challenges that they face.
Conference Session Formats
Presentation [50 minutes]
Individual, a pair or a small team of presenters, present in depth for 50 minutes on an area in which they have significant experience/expertise, and which will be of interest to and have impact for the audience. Time should be allocated for a few questions.
Interactive Workshop [50 minutes]
A participatory interactive workshop should enable delegates to work actively towards learning something new in relation to a specific topic. It should include discussion and collaborative activities which enable reflection on delegates’ own and others experience and sharing and analysis of knowledge.
Lightning Talk [15 minutes]
10-15 minute presentations grouped on a common theme managed by a facilitator within a 50 minute session (three Lightning Talks per session). Each presentation is on a single topic, issue, experience, research area, or innovative practice. Maximum of 5 slides per talk. Any questions to be asked at the end of all the talks. Where possible we will attempt to make time and space available immediately after the session for informal discussions to continue between presenters and delegates.
Discussion Panel [50 minutes]
50 minute discussion focused on a specific topic by a panel of experts. The facilitator and/or audience ask questions of the panel pertinent to the topic and the panellists each give their expert perspective on the questions. The proposal must identify the topic for the session, the name of the facilitator and the names and brief biographical details of the experts who will constitute the panel. Note that including the names of the experts in the proposal does not commit them to participating at this stage, it simply provides useful information to reviewers on likely panellists and their depth and breadth of experience
The Call for Proposals is now closed. Proposers who have had proposals accepted can manage their submission using the Online Submission System.