June 3, 2025
This conference is being hosted in partnership with the the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Rabat, Mohammed V University where the event will take place. The theme is ‘The Future Trajectory of Professional Development: Innovations, Equity, and Global Perspectives’. The event Read more…
June 2, 2025
This conference is being hosted by Hanoi University of Science and Technology and in partnership with IPDA Vietnam. The conference theme is ‘Reimagining Education: Inclusive Education, Educational Collaboration, and Lifelong Learning in a Globalized World’. Call for papers: Abstract submission Read more…
May 23, 2025
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 Read more…
May 14, 2025
On Saturday, 10th May 2025, education professionals from various universities, schools and organisations came together to discuss and reflect on professional learning. In a symposium hosted at Queen Margaret University and the outdoor learning hub, members of the IPDA Scotland Read more…
May 9, 2025
IPDA England Conference 10-11 October 2025 Reclaiming professional learning –the ball is in our court…. We are pleased to welcome colleagues to join us for this IPDA England Conference, which takes place as a face-to-face event, at the University of Read more…
May 8, 2025
On 2o May 2025 we were delighted to meet with colleagues for the IPDA Cymru Relaunch event. The event was hosted by Professor Gary Beauchamp and Ulrike Vogel. The relaunch was framed as an informal discussion with our members in Read more…
April 3, 2025
IPDA hosted our second Spotlight Session for early career researchers, this time focusing on ‘De-mystifying the Viva’. The session took place on 8 May 2025. In this spotlight session, we covered:
February 14, 2025
IPDA Ireland hosted our Emerging and Early Career Researcher Event on 20 March 2025, hosted by Dr Niamh Hickey. IPDA Ireland’s first Emerging and Early Career Researcher Event offered an opportunity for emerging and early career members of the IPDA Read more…
February 4, 2025
On 5 March 2025 IPDA England held this session with Professor Gary Beauchamp looking at research impact: what it means and how it could be evidenced. The session was delivered in hybrid format in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church University. Read more…
January 13, 2025
On 5 February 2025 IPDA Scotland held this webinar ‘in conversation with the authors’ of the recently published Teacher Workload Research Report. Professors Moira Hulme and Gary Beauchamp shared their insights from research in this discussion webinar. Event host: Lynn Nisbet, Read more…
December 9, 2024
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Our third IPDA Lightning Conference will take place in June with the theme : “I am the Doctor – the Oncoming Storm”. The Becomings of a Doctor in Doctoral Research. Date: Saturday 21st June 2025Time: 10am to 1pm (online)Cost: £10.00 Read more…
November 22, 2024
This event took place on Thursday 12th December 2024. IPDA welcomed all doctoral researchers to our very first Spotlight Session. In the session we talked through all things theoretical! Including: IPDA members can watch the recording in the ECR group Read more…
October 7, 2024
This event took place on 7th November 2024. IPDA England and India welcomed colleagues for a stimulating discussion on how mentoring is used within the Indian and English context to facilitate professional learning conversations. The event included presentations from key speakers Read more…
This event took place on 16 October 2024 at Canterbury Christ Church University. This session aimed to provide Early Careers Researchers, Post-Doctoral Researchers, and anyone who is interested in learning how to develop a bid or a grant application in Read more…
September 27, 2024
We are delighted to invited colleagues to engage with the following professional learning opportunities: Developing your academic writing skills to publish in the IPDA JournalsDate: 30 September 2024, 15.00 – 17.00 (UK) / 17.00 – 19.00 (Nigeria) Developing your academic Read more…
September 18, 2024
On 26th September 2024, IPDA Ireland hosting the fourth event in our Journal Club Series entitled: ‘Journaling where we have not journaled before’. IPDA Ireland vice-chair, Dr Eimear Holland hosted the event. After journal club delegates explored the themes of Read more…
June 24, 2024
IPDA England is aiming to provide a series as blogs over the summer from its IPDA England committee to outline the work that the committee is undertaking, and to encourage colleagues to engage with our work. Derek Boyle shared his Read more…
June 4, 2024
Author: Derek Boyle This article documents the journey that I have taken to get to the point where I am about to start a Doctorate while working as a full-time educator developing future teachers. Hopefully through sharing my journey, this Read more…
January 26, 2024
This first meeting of the year for the International Professional Development Association’s Research Network took place on 25 January 2024. As always, the network meeting was split into two sections. The first 45 minutes handed over to our guest speaker Read more…
November 18, 2023
The IPDA England Early Career Researcher Celebration bought together a group of researchers at various stages of their journey at the University of Wolverhampton’s Walsall campus in October 2023. Key presentations were made by Diana Bannister, Director of the University’s Read more…
November 8, 2023
On 30 November 2023, IPDA Ireland hosted an exciting online event exploring professional learning across different professions from an Irish perspective. In the event we explored how professional learning is structured, supported, and enacted in different professions from an Irish Read more…
On 13 December 2023 IPDA England hosted a book discussion continuing on the theme of coaching and mentoring to support professional learning, focusing on: Mentoring and Coaching in Education: A Guide to Coaching and Mentoring Teachers at Every Stage of Read more…
On 23 November 2023 IPDA England hosted a vibrant discussion focusing on Coaching and Mentoring in Teacher Education, in collaboration with the International Journal for Mentoring and Coaching, where we discussed the key learning, findings and insights of this special Read more…
October 29, 2023
IPDA Scotland hosted this event on 8 November 2023 with Dr Suzie Dick and Dr Helen Burns discussing their paper ‘Professional learning and an emergent community of practice on the Scottish islands as viewed through Biesta’s educational domains’ The paper Read more…
October 9, 2023
IPDA Ireland hosted the third Journal Club event on 8th June 2023, hosted by Dr Eimear Holland and with author Philippa Cordingley. Host: Dr Eimear HollandJournal Paper: Cordingley, P. (2015) ‘The contribution of research to teachers’professional learning and development’, Oxford Read more…
On 7t November 2023 IPDA England held this workshop with Dr Liz White and Dr Miranda Timmermans. Our international collaborative research project explored the experiences of student-teachers in school-university partnerships in the Netherlands and England, focussing on dilemmas in their Read more…
September 20, 2023
IPDA England presented the first online ‘lightning conference’, giving researchers and early career researchers the platform for short, 7 minute prensetations on an issue/topic regarding qualitative data collection and generation methods. The lightning conference, just like the main IPDA conference, Read more…
July 18, 2023
Following the success of the first online IPDA Researchers’ Retreat, the second event took place on 30 September 2023. This online event was aimed at MA, EdD, PhD, early career researcher and took place online. Whether you’re working on writing, Read more…
June 1, 2023
The 11th annual “Partap International Professional Development Association (IPDA) International Conference 2023” was organised by Partap College of Education, Ludhiana, in collaboration with IPDA UK on the theme ‘Professional Learning in Multidimensional and Multicultural Educational Context’ under New Education Policy, Read more…
April 16, 2023
This event took place on 28 April 2023. Participants engaged with the joint IPDA England and IPDA USA facilitators to discuss mentoring and coaching is used to engage with professional learning conversations in education and how different educators make use Read more…
April 5, 2023
Within England there are several distinct types of organisations that can provide Initial Teacher Training or Initial Teacher Education programmes that lead to the award of (QTS) Qualified Teacher Status. These organisations are collectively referred to as ‘providers’ within the Read more…
March 28, 2023
In April 2023, IPDA’s first online ‘Researchers’ Retreat’ took place. The event was a very busy, but productive day, of focused work and an opportunity for the 25 attendees who signed up to make a good dent on their research Read more…
