Sustainability & Resilience

Teaching & Research Conference | Part of the Focus on Pedagogy Series

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OXFORD, UK

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Event: 14 – 16 July, 2027      |      Abstracts: 25 July, 2026

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CONFERENCE

Teaching & Research | Understanding the Modern Academy

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Sustainability & Resilience Strand

 

The Sustainability & Resilience strand of this conference is interested in teaching and learning set within the broad categories of sustainability and resilience. It explores these practices as both subjects of academic research in their own right and as integrated goals in contemporary teaching and learning. It welcomes contributions on the embedding of SDGs in the curriculum, papers on sustainable modes of teaching and learning for educators and students, examinations of dedicated sustainability programs internationally, the integration of sustainability into disciplinary teaching practices and projects, and more.

The overall event forms part of the International Focus on Pedagogy series with previous conferences held in San Francisco, Madrid, Toronto, Florida, Prague, LA and elsewhere. It examines teaching and research at a moment when the ways knowledge is produced, taught and experienced is changing at dizzying speed. Whether it be AI, tools like ChatGPT, reflexive research practices, microlearning, participatory action research or learning analytics, the plethora of new and emerging factors informing the modern academy is enormous. We seek to better understand best practice teaching in this context and, in addition, ask whether this scenario could blur the difference between classroom teaching, investigation and published research.

Taking place in the historic city of Oxford, UK, the site of the conference is one of the world’s most renowned centres of scholarship and learning. It has centuries-long academic traditions, colleges and architecture, as well as a current, vibrant and cutting-edge intellectual life today. It thus offers an ideal backdrop for discussions about the evolving role of teaching and research in the modern academy. Bringing together participants from across disciplines and institutions to this iconic venue, we seek to foster new conversations about how teaching and research can inform, challenge and enrich one another in various fields.

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Disciplinary Themes

 

SUSTAINABILITY & RESILIENCE

Themes include but are not limited to:

Case studies of teaching the environmental sciences, innovative pedagogies in addressing resilience in the built environment, and the alignment of STEM curricula with SDG’s. It is also interested in perspectives on sustainability related avoiding burnout in students and educators, or ensuring the long term sustainability of community facing teaching models, and much more.

Other themes:

Teaching & Learning | Methods, modes of practice and innovations in both how we address health and wellness in how we teach and what we research.
Art & Design | Best practices in art and health research for wellness and mental health in patients, students and teachers.
Humanities & Social Sciences | Examinations of innovative education and research in diverse fields that interlink with public health: sociology, geography, psychology and more.
Built Environments | Presentations on Covid-19, design for life, sick building syndrome, care in the community, healthy cities, sanitation and public health, and more.
Science & Technology | Considerations of how technologies like AI can support health and wellbeing – from wellness apps to innovative health research and practice.

Further details and to submit your abstract: