17 June 2025: IPDA Four Nations Workload Online Symposium 

IPDA Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales are working in collaboration to host a small symposium/webinar online to examine common challenges affecting teachers’ workload and wellbeing in the divergent education policy contexts they represent.  

The webinar will take place on Tuesday June 17^th  at 4pm–5.30pm and will provide a great opportunity to share perspectives and compare patterns of workload, wellbeing and capacity across the four nations involved.  

Find out more about the representatives for each nation: 

• Scotland: Greg Dempster (AHDS) & Prof Moira Hulme (UWS) 
• England: Dr Lizana Oberholzer/ Derek Boyle 
• Ireland: Prof Catherine Furlong/ Dr Pia O’Farrell 
• Wales: Dr Rhiannon Packer and Gwen Morgan & Rachel Sidoli  

Please click here to register with Zoom.

Agenda

The webinar will be chaired by Catriona Oates, organiser and chair of IPDA Scotland on the following basis:  

• Welcome and introductions 

• Part 1: Brief presentations on current issues on the topic (maximum 10 minutes each) from professional associations and/or researchers from each of the national associations – 40 mins 

• Part 2: A moderated panel discussion with audience questions suggested in advance on this padlet (password –4Nations) 

• Plan/actions for future work on this theme and/or agenda setting 

• Close at 5.30 

We very much look forward to welcoming you to the event.

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