2018 IPDA Conference
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2018
The Annual Conference 2018 took place on 16–17 November 2018 at Aston University, Birmingham, with the theme Border Crossings: Professional Development in the 21st Century.
For full details of presentations made you can download the conference programme.
Border Crossings: Professional Development in the 21st Century
Contemporary practice environments require professionals to engage in increasingly complex learning & development. Modes of professional learning are being re-written & re-shaped for new times as institutional, geographical, methodological, pedagogical & identity borders are crossed & blurred in & across practice contexts.
Keynote Speakers
Expertise and identity in interprofessional work: Conceptual and practical challenge
Professor David Guile
University College London
You can watch this keynote in full below.
What can complexity do for education, health and social care? Getting outside of the evidence based box
Professor Robert Geyer
Lancaster University
You can watch this keynote in full below.
Panel: Gender, Race & Professional Learning
Professor Jas Dhillon (University of Worcester),Â
Professor Vini Lander (University of Roehampton),Â
Dr Karima Kadi-Hanifi (Newman University)
Panel: Researching ethically in complex contexts: education professionals, radicalisation and extremism
Chair: Prof Hazel Bryan
Dr Francis Farrell (Edgehill University)
Dr Lynn Revell (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Dr Sally Elton-Chalcraft (Cumbria University)
Expertise and identity in interprofessional work: Conceptual and practical challenge
Professor David Guile. (Click image to watch on Twitter.)
What can complexity do for education, health and social care? Getting outside of the evidence based box
Professor Robert Geyer
AWARDS
IPDA Prize
In 2018 we awarded two IPDA Prizes. Find out more about the work of the recipients in our news article.
- Dr Tish Balfe for her dissertation for a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at Dublin City University entitled ‘A Content-focused, Social Constructivist Model of Professional Development: Exploring its Effects on Adults’ Knowledge of Social Communication Development, their Style of Interaction and on Pupil Outcomes in Autism Specific Classrooms’.
- Dr Vince Clarke, University of Hertfordshire, for his EdD thesis entitled ‘The Theory-Practice Relationship in Paramedic Undergraduate Education’.
IPDA Fellowship
IPDA Fellowships were awarded to:
- Dr Caroline Daly
- Dr Aileen Kennedy
PDie Best Paper Award
The PDiE Award for best paper presented at ECER 2018 was awarded to Hanan Ramahi for: A professional learning programme aimed at developing teacher leadership in Palestine.
PDie Best ARTICLE Award
The prize-winning article for Volume 44, 2018, is:
Rethinking models of professional learning as tools: a conceptual analysis to inform research and practice.
Volume: 43.1, p120-139. Authors: Mark Boylan, Mike Coldwell, Bronwen Maxwell and Julie Jordan.
Cartoonist captures scenes at IPDA 2018
During the conference cartoonist Jonathan could be found perched in the corner capturing speakers and scenes with his unique caricature style.
