The Department of Lifelong Learning and Outreach, University of Limerick, Ireland and the Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning at the University of Wales, Newport are hosting a second international conference discussing the role and links between higher education and community regeneration.

The conference will present an international comparative dimension and will focus on the transformational potential of learning, both for those living within, as well as outside of, regeneration communities. 

 

All are welcome—community groups and representatives, members of the public, practitioners, policy makers and academics.

 

• Community Engagement and Learning

• Regeneration Policy and Practice

 

Submission of abstracts may include reporting on policy development, innovative practice, research in progress or completed research, methodological issues, theoretical issues or conceptual issues in the following topic areas.

 

1.      Higher education working with communities

2.      Integration and understanding difference

3.      A vision for a new 14-19 landscape

4.      Addressing disadvantage and exclusion

5.      Digital inclusion

6.      The challenge of re-skilling communities in de-industrialised regions

7.      The role of employers in raising skills levels for regeneration

8.      Social enterprise as a means of combating social exclusion and reducing poverty

9.      The effectiveness of regeneration in enhancing social capital

10.   Lessons from international development

11.   Intergenerational learning and education

12.   Community-led learning

13.   Experiences in physical regeneration

 

 

The Education as a Catalyst for Regeneration Conference welcomes the following types of submissions:

Case Studies: Case studies in any of the topic areas listed above or related areas.

 Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for Future Research: Incomplete research or ideas for future research in order to generate discussion and feedback in any of the topic areas listed above or related areas. 

Reports on Issues Related to Teaching: Reports related to innovative provision and pathways or research related to teaching and pedagogy in any of the topic areas listed above or related areas.

 

Paper sessions will consist of three to four presentations in a 90 minute session.  The session will be divided equally between the presenters.

Workshop presentations will be given a 60 minute session.

 

Panel sessions will provide an opportunity for three or more presenters to speak in a more open and conversational setting with conference attendees.  Submissions for these 90 minute sessions should include the name, department, affiliation, and email address of each panellist in addition to a description of the presentation or topic area.

 

Poster sessions will last 60 minutes and consist of a large number of presenters.  Poster sessions allow attendees to speak with the presenters on a one-to-one basis. 

 

 

 Submission of Abstracts:

Abstract submission deadline: Friday 12th February 2010

Notification of paper acceptance: Friday 12th March 2010