United Kingdom  

We are inviting submissions for our Association for Academic Outreach (AFAO) Annual Conference.

Context

We are interested in critical reflections on national and international higher education outreach policy and practice and its implications for practitioners, academics, students and their communities.

We invite contributions that examine (but are not limited to):

• Perspectives on current outreach as practised by academic faculty or partnerships of academics with others, including students
• Reflections on the broader context shaping outreach e.g. targeting, data, markestisation/massification
• Analyses of processes by which (in)equity and (dis)advantage emerge through the experiences of delivering, taking part in or researching outreach

This could consider pertinent questions such as:

• What is the specific value and contribution of academics as ‘actors’ in outreach?
• How is academic outreach shaped by broader concerns shaping the higher education sector including massificiation, marketisation, globalisation and precarity?
• How can academic outreach be theorised or understood as part of academic career trajectories?
• How do questions of (in)equity and (dis)advantage emerge through the experiences of delivering, taking part in or researching outreach?

Submissions

We invite contributions in a number of different formats, including

• Five-minute ‘lightning’ papers;
• Fifteen-minute paper presentations;
• Sixty-minute workshops or roundtables consisting of three fifteen minute presentations and fifteen minute discussion, and
• Posters

We also welcome submissions that adopt any other creative and/or inclusive approaches.

We will seek to organise panels thematically in ways that promote discussion between papers.

Please submit abstracts of 250 words alongside full author details (name, position, contact details and institutional affiliation(s)) by 17:00 on Monday 14^th January 2019 to Tony Chapman-Wilson [email protected]

Funding

This conference is being supported by the UEA Widening Participation Team, a discretionary travel fund is available for individuals please contact [email protected] for details.

Find out more about AFAO: http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/afao