April 3, 2025
If you’re a doctoral researcher, you are warmly invited to join the online IPDA Spotlight Session, ‘De-mystifying the Viva’. Date: 8 May 2025Time: 6.00pm – 7.00pm Cost: FreeRegistration: Register with Zoom In this spotlight session, we will take you through Read more…
February 28, 2025
IPDA Scotland is delighted to invite you to our summer Professional Learning Symposium at Queen Margaret University. IPDA is an international professional development association that promotes educators’ professional learning in practice, across disciplines. In the current context of renewing and Read more…
February 14, 2025
IPDA Ireland is pleased to announce that we will be hosting our first Emerging and Early Career Researcher Event in March 2025. Date: 20th of March 2025Time: 17.00 – 18.30Host: Dr Niamh HickeyVenue: OnlineRegistration: Eventbrite IPDA Ireland’s first Emerging and Read more…
February 13, 2025
The purpose of this group is to develop and sustain a space for the discussion of how mentoring can be used to support the professional learning of trainee and student teachers and their placement mentors in England. Find out more Read more…
February 4, 2025
IPDA members are warmly invited to attend a session with Professor Gary Beauchamp looking at research impact: what it means and how it could be evidenced. The session will be delivered in hybrid format in partnership with Canterbury Christ Church 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…
September 1, 2024
Following the success of our previous Researchers’ Retreats, we are hosting the next event in February. Date: 15 March 2025Time: 9:00-15:00Registration: Sign up with Eventbrite This online event is aimed at MA, EdD, PhD, early career researchers. Whether you’re working 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…
March 1, 2023
IPDA Ireland facilitated this open Twitter Chat on 19th April 2023 to prompt thought and discussion around the topic of Universal Design for Learning and its implications for professional learning and development. In our Twitter chat, through focused prompts and questions, Read more…
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to postpone this event. A new date will be announced shortly. We apologise for any inconvenience and hope you will be in a position to join us for the rescheduled event. Read more…
by Dr Dev Acharya Feedback is a vital part of the learning process that helps to improve students’ performance as they progress through their studies (Earl, 2003). It is useful for reflective learning and to process the knowledge that students already have. The practice of Read more…
