| Festival of Learning
Call for contributions
Showcase your creative practices through a diverse array of formats and activities.
Photo credit: Kamilla Vati, Photography (Editorial and Advertising) BA (Hons)
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Call for contributions now open
Your submission
We welcome submissions for the 2026 Festival of Learning from all parts of the University and partner institutions, delivered as individuals or as teams (as academics and professional services staff). Our aim is to engage you with a diverse array of educational opportunities, challenges and responses.
Submissions should fit one or more of the following themes:
- Gloucestershire Curriculum priority areas
– Digital Education
– Global Literacy
– Inclusive Education and Practice
– Professionalisation
– Sustainability - Decolonisation
- Curriculum Design/Transformation
- Student Experience
- Assessment and Feedback
- Student Voice
- Co-Production with Students
Collaborative work (including working groups) within or between schools/professional services departments, with academic partners, with external stakeholders or with students is particularly welcome.
What can you contribute?
You can select from four types of contribution:
Verbal presentation of 15 minutes, with 5 minutes per presenter for questions.
Verbal presentation of 5-6 minutes, with 2-3 minutes per presenter for questions. This could be Pecha Kucha style (15 visual slides displayed for 20 seconds each), or a short presentation based on a few guiding slides.
Establishing provocations, exchanging insights, discussing, and learning from each other’s experiences. Panellists will give a view on a topic or provocation, after which plenary interaction will be facilitated by the workshop convenor(s). This will fill either a 1.5-hour (am) or a 1-hour (pm) slot.
An opportunity for creative thinking, problem-solving and action-planning about curriculum development, educational practice, support for learning or assessment. You can share best practice or seek feedback on ideas in progress. This will fill either a 1.5-hour (am) or a 1-hour (pm) slot.
You’re welcome to offer more than one type of contribution, but you should present different work across each type, or complement and build from one type to another. You should not present the same material across two different types of contribution. You will need to complete an online submission form for each contribution you wish to make.
All schools will be expected to showcase good practice, or seek feedback on changing practice, as picked up through the ACEM process, through the undertaking of pedagogic scholarship, or as recognised via external award. Examples from the Revalidation Project would be particularly welcome.
Professional services staff are encouraged to present their activities and resources in support of teaching, learning and assessment, either together or co-working with academic colleagues.
Photo credits: Sinead Fernandes (left image) and Kamilla Vati (middle and right images), Photography (Editorial and Advertising) BA (Hons)
Submitting a contribution
- You may submit your proposal individually or as a team (comprised of UoG/partner staff, or with external stakeholders and students).
- Please choose the type of contribution that best suits your content from those outlined above.
- The deadline for abstract submissions is midday on Wednesday 8 April 2026.
- For all contributions, the title and abstract/summary that you submit will be posted on the Festival of Learning website so please try to make them engaging and self-explanatory.
If you have any questions about the process, please email [email protected].
Selection criteria for contributions
Your abstract/summary should clarify how:
- The work you present offers clear take-home messages for delegates.
- Your work will be sufficiently accessible and interesting to a wide audience.
- Your contribution will encourage best practice across the institution.