Warwick Education Conference
Event details
Thursday 4th June 2026
The Warwick Education Conference is a significant annual event providing space for all members of our Warwick education community to connect, share and inspire each other.
Keynote speakers
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Warwick Education Conference 2025/26
Learning for a Complex and Hopeful Future: Pedagogies of Empowerment, Equity, and Global Readiness
Higher education has the power to cultivate hope, promote equity, and prepare graduates to thrive in an interconnected and uncertain world. This theme invites us to explore teaching approaches that centre lived experience, challenge systemic barriers, and nurture students' capacity to imagine and enact meaningful change. It also calls for practices that build the critical, adaptive, and collaborative skills essential for navigating complexity—empowering learners not only to understand the world, but to shape it with purpose and compassion.
Join us in exploring through dialogue, innovation and shared inquiry how higher education can inspire hope, promote equity, and prepare students to thrive in a complex global future. Sessions might explore:
Warwick Education Conference 2025/26
Keynote Speakers
Dr Karen Gravett is Associate Professor and Associate Head (Research) at the Surrey Institute of Education at the University of Surrey, UK, where her research focuses on the theory-practice of higher education, and explores the areas of digital education, belonging, and relational pedagogies. She is Co-Director of the Language, Literacies and Learning research group, an Associate Editor for the journal Sociology, and Executive Editor for the journalTeaching in Higher Education. She is also a a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) and an Honorary Associate Professor for the Centre for Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Karen’s latest books are Reconceptualising Teaching in Higher Education: Connected Practice for Changing Times, Critical Practice in Higher Education, and Relational Pedagogies: Connections and Mattering in Higher Education.
You can find some of Dr Gravett's e-books available from our Warwick digital library
Professor Arday is the 2002 Professorial Chair in the Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education. Previously, Jason was Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in the School of Education, College of Social Sciences.
Professor Arday has also held the position of Associate Professor in Sociology at Durham University in the Department of Sociology and Deputy Executive Dean for People and Culture in the Faculty of Social Science and Health. He is a Visiting Professor at The Ohio State University in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, University of Glasgow in the School of Education and an Honorary Professor at Durham University in the Department of Sociology.
He is a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank and the British Sociological Association (BSA). Jason sits on the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS) National Advisory Panel, the NHS Race and Health Observatory Academic Reference Group and the ITV Cultural Advisory Council.
Professor Arday’s research focuses on the areas of race and higher education, intersectionality and education, mental health and education, neurodiversity and cultural studies.
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