2018 IPDA Conference
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2018
The Annual Conference 2018 took place on 16–17 November 2018 at Aston University, Birmingham, with the theme Border Crossings: Professional Development in the 21st Century.
For full details of presentations made you can download the conference programme.
Border Crossings: Professional Development in the 21st Century
Contemporary practice environments require professionals to engage in increasingly complex learning & development. Modes of professional learning are being re-written & re-shaped for new times as institutional, geographical, methodological, pedagogical & identity borders are crossed & blurred in & across practice contexts.
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Keynote Speakers
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Expertise and identity in interprofessional work: Conceptual and practical challenge
Professor David Guile
University College London
You can watch this keynote in full below.
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What can complexity do for education, health and social care? Getting outside of the evidence based box
Professor Robert Geyer
Lancaster University
You can watch this keynote in full below.
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Panel: Gender, Race & Professional Learning
Professor Jas Dhillon (University of Worcester),Â
Professor Vini Lander (University of Roehampton),Â
Dr Karima Kadi-Hanifi (Newman University)
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Panel: Researching ethically in complex contexts: education professionals, radicalisation and extremism
Chair: Prof Hazel Bryan
Dr Francis Farrell (Edgehill University)
Dr Lynn Revell (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Dr Sally Elton-Chalcraft (Cumbria University)
AWARDS
IPDA Prize
In 2018 we awarded two IPDA Prizes. Find out more about the work of the recipients in our news article.
- Dr Tish Balfe for her dissertation for a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) at Dublin City University entitled ‘A Content-focused, Social Constructivist Model of Professional Development: Exploring its Effects on Adults’ Knowledge of Social Communication Development, their Style of Interaction and on Pupil Outcomes in Autism Specific Classrooms’.
- Dr Vince Clarke, University of Hertfordshire, for his EdD thesis entitled ‘The Theory-Practice Relationship in Paramedic Undergraduate Education’.
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IPDA Fellowship
IPDA Fellowships were awarded to:
- Dr Caroline Daly
- Dr Aileen Kennedy
PDie Best Paper Award
The PDiE Award for best paper presented at ECER 2018 was awarded to Hanan Ramahi for: A professional learning programme aimed at developing teacher leadership in Palestine.
PDie Best ARTICLE Award
The prize-winning article for Volume 44, 2018, is:
Rethinking models of professional learning as tools: a conceptual analysis to inform research and practice.
Volume: 43.1, p120-139. Authors: Mark Boylan, Mike Coldwell, Bronwen Maxwell and Julie Jordan.