Conferences
Teachers, researchers and students at Uppsala University are invited to spend an intensive conference day sharing their knowledge and experience of teaching and educational development and to avail themselves of the immense aggregate knowledge within the University. The conference is intended to serve as a forum for enhanced cooperation across subject and discipline boundaries, to provide an opportunity for participants to enhance their own teaching qualifications and find new inspiration.
The 2025 Learning and Teaching Conference will take
place on November 13th!
This year’s conference theme is: Examination, Assessment and Feedback in Practice: Current Issues, Opportunities and Challenges.
This year's Learning and Teaching conference invites you to jointly explore examination, assessment and feedback in practice - focusing on current issues, challenges and opportunities. By highlighting themes such as collegial development of examination and assessment practices, feedback that promotes student learning and alternative forms of examination, we want to emphasise the role of examination as a central part of pedagogical development work. How can we develop engaging and motivating forms of examination and meet current challenges such as fair examination, adaptation to AI development and a heterogeneous student group with different needs and conditions?
Our keynote speaker is Rachel Forsyth from Lund University, author of the book Confident Assessment in Higher Education (2022) and co-author of GenAI in Higher Education: Redefining Teaching and Learning (2025). Rachel’s research interests include assessment and feedback, generative AI in higher education, inclusion, and student engagement. She has extensive experience in educational development in the UK and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Student Engagement in Higher Education 2017 - 2025.
Rachel Forsyth
Call for Contributions
We welcome contributions that address any aspect of this theme. Submissions on other topics are also very welcome.
- Presentation of a development project, best practice or similar: 15 minutes for presentation followed by 5 minutes of discussion.
- Workshop involving active exploration: 60 minutes in total, including 15 minutes for introduction and conclusion.
- Roundtable discussion: A 30-minute session where participants discuss and examine a key issue from multiple perspectives – for example, a pedagogical challenge.
- Poster presentation: A summary and reflection on a project or similar.
- Idea and Feedback Workshop: A short presentation of a pedagogical question, idea, or reflection (5 minutes), followed by 10 minutes of feedback from participants.
- If you have an idea for an another session format, feel free to propose it! (maximum duration: 60 minutes)
Contributions can be held in either Swedish or English. Presentations may also be conducted online. The Recording Studio at Campus Blåsenhus will be available throughout the day if you wish to organise an activity there. Contributions involving collaboration between students and teachers are strongly encouraged!
All proposals will be reviewed by teaching staff and educational developers at the Unit for Academic Teaching and Learning. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out during week 40.
Registration for Conference Participation. Deadline 4 November 2025
Submission of Contributions to the Conference. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2025
Please send questions about the conference to konferens.univped@uu.se