IPDA England Bulletin Spring 2020

Annual IPDA Conference 2019

It was lovely to see many of you at the 2019 conference in Birmingham, and to hear so many interesting presentations and join in the stimulating conversations.

IPDA England Committee

Thanks were expressed to Coleen Jackson for her work as co-chair of the IPDA England committee, enabling it to become the active group that it is today. We wish Coleen well as she moves on to new opportunities to support the professional and personal development of others.

Lizana Oberholzer from UEL was welcomed onto the committee. Lizana also serves on the conference committee and has a wealth of experience in professional development to bring.

Chair: Dr Pauline Smith Independent Consultant
Hon. Treasurer: Dr Linda Devlin University of Wolverhampton
Hon. Secretary: Dr Liz White University of Hertfordshire
Cliff Jones: Independent Consultant
Dr John Mynott: Central Primary School Watford
Dr Emily Perry: Sheffield Hallam University
Karen Vincent: Canterbury Christ Church University
Lizana Oberholzer: University of East London

IPDA England Seminar 29/01/2020: Collage as a means of meaning-making

Dr Suzanne Culshaw will be sharing her research using an arts-based methodology to study what it means to be struggling as a secondary teacher in England at the Sheffield Hallam Research Engaged Practice network on 29 January 2020 (4.30-6.30). All welcome.

Find out more:

Research event 16/05/2020: Research on… Teacher wellbeing and its implications for professional development

This event will take place at the University of Wolverhampton on Saturday 16 May 2020.

A free open research event for everyone researching or interested in teacher wellbeing and professional development.

Dr Suzanne Culshaw will be the main speaker at the first of a new style of event that IPDA England are hosting. sharing her research on ‘What it means to be struggling as a secondary teacher in England’

If you are researching in this field and would like to present a Paper, we would love to hear from you. This is an event where colleagues from all phases, primary, secondary and FE are welcome.

Find out more:

Annual IPDA Conference 2020: Imagining the post-professional

The 2020 IPDA Conference will take place from 27-28 November 2020 at Aston Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham – see key dates for submission and registration on the website.

IPDA Membership

Don’t forget to renew your IPDA membership if you were not able to come to the conference this year. There are discounted memberships for groups. Membership includes access to the Online Member Portal which gives you access to several features including:

Member notifications and updates, minutes and documents from IPDA committeee meetings and AGMs, as well as full online access to the following journals made available by Routledge, Taylor Francis exclusively for IPDA members:

Professional Development in Education
Practice: Contemporary Issues in Practitioner Education
Globalisation, Societies and Education
International Journal of Lifelong Education
Journal of Education for Teaching
Critical Studies in Education
International Journal of Training Research
Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies

Twitter Slow Chats

If you are on twitter, please follow us at IPDA England @EnglandIpda. We are hosting a slow chat looking broadly at Teacher wellbeing and its implications for professional development from 2pm to 8pm on Sunday 23 February 2020.

We would like your questions and look forward to you joining us in discussion over the weekend. The chat will be led by Dr Suzanne Culshaw an MFL teacher whose research has considered what it means to be struggling as a secondary teacher in England. Please send in your questions and comments and join in by following #ipdaengland.

IPDA England seminars

There will be an IPDA England seminar in Spring on Teacher professional development – fit for purpose? in London and Wolverhampton. Details will be in the next newsletter.

If you are interested in hosting an IPDA England event do contact Liz (england@ipda.org.uk). This is a great opportunity to meet and network with IPDA colleagues. Let us know if you have ideas for events or activities that you would like IPDA England to run. Visit our webpages to find out more.

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