27th June 2025

The Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community (WPTC) warmly invites you to its first conference, ‘Evolving Experiences in Postgraduate Teaching: Navigating Changing Landscapes, Practices, and Technologies’.

As the landscape of higher education continues to transform, postgraduate teaching stands at the intersection of innovation, adaptation, and tradition. Within this dynamic environment, postgraduate teachers (GTAs) face challenges such as navigating evolving pedagogical practices, adapting to emerging technologies, and balancing the complexities and pressures of our backgrounds and positionalities whilst maintaining the rigour and depth of higher education teaching and learning.

This trans-disciplinary conference invites GTAs to reflect on and share their experiences with the broader postgraduate teaching community here at Warwick, exchanging narratives, insights, and strategies relating to the shifting landscape of postgraduate teaching and the evolution of their roles and practices as GTAs. Some themes that submissions may wish to discuss are:

• Positionality and Teacher Identity: Exploring how personal experiences and equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) intersect with and shape postgraduate teaching identities.
• The Evolution of GTA Teaching: Examining the journey from novice to expert as a GTA and the milestones, challenges, and skills associated with that transition.
• Navigating Technological Shifts in Teaching: Addressing the impact of technological advancements, such as the role of artificial intelligence (AI), in higher education teaching and learning – whether as a transformative tool or a challenge to traditional pedagogy.
• Cross-Cultural and International Perspectives: Understanding the importance of culturally diverse approaches to and experiences of teaching and learning in higher education.
• Balancing Wellbeing and Professional Growth: Reflecting on the relationship between maintaining personal wellbeing while seeking professional and academic success.

With this theme, the conference serves as an opportunity for GTAs from all walks of life to engage in thought-provoking conversations, connect with peers, share successes and challenges, and develop new approaches that elevate their teaching practice. Join us as we chart a course across the shifting landscapes of postgraduate teaching, leveraging change to enhance the pedagogic experience for educators and students alike.