2019 IPDA Conference

2019 International Conference

Harnessing Creativity in Changing Times

Risk, resilience and professional learning Across the Professions

The Annual Conference 2018 took place on 29–30 November 2019 at Aston University, Birmingham, with the theme Harnessing creativity in changing times: Risk, resilience and professional learning across the professions.

For details about the sessions you can download the conference programme and abstracts booklet.

Risk, resilience and professional learning across the professions

The following questions served to guide the sessions:

  • What is creativity in the context of professional learning? Do we need it?
  • What are the associated risks and benefits? For practitioners? For professional identities? For learners? For pedagogies? For research and researchers?
  • Is there a relationship between creativity and resilience?

View a Twitter feed for the conference hashtag #IPDA2019.

PERIPHERY NOTICINGS OF THE MATERIAL KIND

Throughout the conference, Bayley Morris and Clair Meares, both PhD students at Birmingham City University, operated at the edge of the room on a creative installation based around working with material to explore themes being raised. The video below shows them speaking about their work. 

VIDEOS CAPTURED AT THE CONFERENCE

Photo Gallery

Full resolution images can be viewed and downloaded from the Flickr gallery.