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Connecting research, policy and practice: Leading into the future

30 January 2023–31 January 2023, 1:00 pm–3:15 pm

Group of people attenting a conference. Image: ThreeRooms for UCL Centre for Educational Leadership

Join this conference where various experts will address key issues and formulate agendas that are fundamental to improving the quality of education in schools.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Sold out

Cost

Free

Organiser

Rahil Alipour

Location

Holiday Inn
Coram Street
London
WC1N 1HT
United Kingdom

This conference will create a space for dialogue between researchers, teachers, school leaders and key stakeholders from government and non-government agencies in the UK. It will address key issues and formulate agendas that are fundamental to improving the quality of education in schools. 

The event will draw attention to more promising, more productive, and more hopeful evidence and insights to advance understandings of how schools can become spaces for all teachers to thrive through continuing learning and growth - and through them, improve the learning and life chances of every child and young person.

Programme

Day 1: Monday 30 January 2023 - Theme: Compassionate leadership

13:00 -  Registration and coffee

13:45 - Welcome and opening

  • Professor Wei Li - Director and Dean of IOE and Social Research Professor
  • Professor Qing Gu - Director, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

14:05 - Keynote: Compassionate leadership

  • Professor Kathryn Riley - Professor of Urban Education, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, UCL IOE

14:35 - Q&A

14:45 - Panel response with Q&A

Chaired by Professor Louise Stoll, Professor in Professional Learning, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

Panellists:

  • Professor Gemma Moss - Professor of Literacy, IOE
  • Professor Mel Ainscow - Emeritus Professor, University of Manchester
  • Professor Christine Gilbert - Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE
  • Roger Pope CBE - Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

15:45 - Break

16:15 - Breakout Sessions

Breakout room 1: Developing teachers and school leaders over a career: Will the recruitment and retention policy work?

Chaired by Dr David Godfrey, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, Centre Academic Programmes Leader, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

Speakers:

  • Professor Qing Gu - Director, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE
  • Professor Leslie Saunders - Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE
  • Dr Vanessa Ogden - CEO, Mulberry Schools Trust

16:45 - Group reflection and dialogue

17:45 Reflection and dialogue: How do we improve the work and lives of our teachers and leaders together?

Breakout room 2: Wellbeing in schools

Chaired by Dr Rupert Higham, Associate Professor in Educational Leadership, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

Speakers:

  • Professor Caroline Daly - Director of the Centre for Teachers and Teaching Research, IOE
  • Martin Pratt - Deputy Chief Executive and Executive Director Supporting People, London Borough of Camden
  • Dr Katharine Vincent - Director, Reconnect London

16:45 - Group reflection and dialogue

17:45 Reflection and dialogue: How do we improve wellbeing in schools together?


Day 2: Tuesday 31 January 2023 - Theme: Sustainable leadership for the future

9:00 - Registration and coffee

9:30 - “Quick Fire” Keynote: Sustainable leadership for the future

Chaired by Dr Karen Edge, Reader in Educational Leadership UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

Keynotes speakers:

  • 9:30: Andy Moor - Chief Executive Officer, Holy Family Catholic Multi Academy Trust
  • 9:45: Dame Alice Hudson - Executive Headteacher, Twyford Multi-Academies Trust
  • 10:00: Professor Louise Stoll - Professor in Professional Learning, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

10:15 Q&A

11:00 - Break

11:30 - Breakout sessions

Breakout room 1: Developing leadership over a career

Chaired by Dr Trevor Male, Associate Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

Speakers:

  • Dr Andy Hodgkinson, Programme Leader, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, UCL IOE
  • Sufian Sadiq, Director of Chiltern TSH and previous DfE lead for BAME in to Leadership programme
  • Ros McMullan, Ex MAT CEO and founder of Headrest wellbeing support for school leaders
  • Christalla Jamil, CEO of LDBS MAT and National Leader for Women Ed

Breakout room 2: Leading teacher development for the future

Chaired by Dr Aly Colman, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE

  • Mark Quinn, Associate Professor (Teaching), UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE
  • Liz Cullis, Vice Chair of UCL ECF Governance Board, TSH Lead and Assistant Headteacher
  • Jane Kennedy, Director, Inspire NW TSH Patrick Garton, TSH Lead and Director of Oxfordshire Teacher Training SCITT
  • Patrick Garton, TSH Lead and Director of Oxfordshire Teacher Training SCITT

13:00 - Lunch and early career researcher poster presentations

14:00 - Question time

Panellists:

  • Sir Kevan Collins, Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE
  • Dr Peter Kent, Honorary Professor of Practice, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE and President of the International Confederation of Principals
  • Professor Pam Sammons, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford Leora Cruddas CBE, Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE and Chief Executive and Founder
  • Leora Cruddas CBE, Visiting Professor, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership, IOE and Chief Executive and Founder

This event will be particularly useful to researchers, teachers, school leaders, postgraduate students, practitioners and any key stakeholders who are concerned with leadership in education.


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