IPDA Hong Kong to bring two #IPDAConversations webinars in April and May

Given the complexity of the current context in Hong Kong, rather than hosting face to face events for the remainder of the academic year, IPDA Hong Kong are running a special series of webinars connecting last years #IPDAconversations theme of ‘Harnessing creativity in changing times: Risk, resilience and professional learning across the professions’ and this year’s theme ‘Imagining the Post-Professional: identity, ethics and response-ability beyond professional standards’.

This free webinar series is open to IPDA members only. IPDA membership is available to all those with an interest in professional learning across sectors, professions, and industries. Find out more.

This series started off with a webinar led by Dr. Aileen Kennedy on ‘Networking as professional learning: a good thing?’ on Tuesday 10th March. Check out the #IPDAconversations hashtag for highlights, and the associated twitter slow chat. 

Coming up, we have:

The role of research in professional learning

• Monday 4th May 2020 – 4:30pm (Hong Kong)
• Dr. David Aldridge, Brunel University London
• View full details

David Aldridge is Director of Research in the Department of Education at Brunel University London. He is an editor of the British Educational Research Journal and assistant editor of the Journal of Philosophy of Education.  His research interests are literature and education, moral and religious education, and the relationship between technology and education.

Mobilising knowledge for professional learning: what should leaders be doing and how can networks help?

• Thursday 21st May 2020 – 4:30pm (Hong Kong)
• Chris Brown – University of Durham
• View full details

Professor Chris Brown is Professor in Education at Durham University’s School of Education. Chris is seeking to drive forward the notion of Professional Learning Networks (PLNs) as a means to promote the collaborative learning of teachers. The aim of this collaborative learning is to improve both teaching practice and student outcomes, not only in individual schools, but also in the school system more widely. Alongside his research into PLNs Chris also has a long-standing interest in how research evidence can and should, but often doesn’t, aid the development of education policy and practice.

In 2018 Chris was also awarded a Siftung Mercator Foundation Senior Fellowship. Each year Siftung Mercator identifies and invites just six people world-wide to apply each year for one of its fellowships. Potential Fellows are identified by a panel as ‘exceptionally talented and outstanding researchers and practitioners’ from areas seen as relevant to the themes and fields of activity of Stiftung Mercator. The purpose of the Mercator Fellowship programme is to offer selected fellows the space and freedom to also devote themselves to exploratory and unconventional research and practical projects (typically for six months). Previous fellows include advisors to former US President Obama and current French President Macron. Other recent prizes include the 2015 American Educational Research Association ‘Emerging Scholar’ award; the 2016 AERA Excellence in Research to practice award and the 2016 UCEA Jeffrey V. Bennett Outstanding International Research award.)