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Annual Learning and Teaching Conference and Teaching Excellence Awards
Thursday 19 June 2025 - Thursday 19 June 2025, 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Harnessing GenAI for Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research
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Dr Charles Knight
Director, Advance HE
With many years of experience in academic leadership and management consultancy, Charles is passionate about creating high-quality, innovative Higher Education. As Director of Leadership, Governance and Management at Advance HE, He leads a team of consultants who offer events, analysis and consultancy services to global university partners. Prior to this he worked in leadership roles in a range of UK Business Schools.
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Professor Danny Liu
Professor of Educational Innovation, Uni of Sydney
Danny is a molecular biologist by training, programmer by night, researcher and faculty developer by day, and educator at heart. A multiple international and national teaching award winner, he works at the confluence of artificial intelligence, student engagement, and educational technology. A Professor of Educational Technologies at the University of Sydney, he co-chairs the University's AI in Education working group, and leads the Cogniti.ai initiative that puts educators in the driver's seat of AI.
Harnessing GenAI for Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research
The day will be opened by our PVC Education and Student Experience, Dr Ellen Buck, followed by keynotes from Dr Charles Knight, Advance HE (Is AI Making Us Dumber? Personal Reflections and Strategic Questions for Harnessing GenAI in Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Research) and Professor Danny Liu, University of Sydney (From ‘policing’ to ‘possibilities’). 30 different presentations/workshops from colleagues in London, Dubai, and Mauritius, will be delivered, including a panel discussion hosted by Professor Kurt Barling to lead us into the Celebrating Teaching Excellence portion of the day.
All sessions will be live-streamed, allowing colleagues from Dubai and Mauritius to actively participate. We encourage all colleagues at Hendon to join us on campus from 8.30 for registration, networking and tea and coffee, with welcome and the first keynote starting at 9.00am.
Further on the page you can view the programme of sessions for the day. We will run three different session tracks throughout the day (track 1, 2 and 3) with six sessions running simultaneously in each track. There will be opening and closing keynotes. You can register to attend any session you are interested in.
The conference will be followed by the Teaching Excellence Awards 2025 ceremony to recognise and celebrate the valuable contributions colleagues make to learning, teaching and the student experience across our global community.
Recordings of the presentations and workshops are available to watch.
Teaching Excellence Awards 2025
Facilitated by:
Professor Shân Wareing, Vice Chancellor, Middlesex University
Dr Ellen Buck, PVC Education and Student Experience, Middlesex University
Dr Phil Barter, Academic Director, Middlesex University Mauritius
Professor Tenia Kyriazi, Deputy Director Teaching and Learning, Middlesex University Dubai
These awards are an opportunity to recognise and celebrate the valuable contributions colleagues make to learning, teaching and the student experience across our global community. They also highlight the outstanding work across academic, technical and professional service teams who help shape the kind of education that transforms lives. This year, we will have 4 award categories:
- Transformative Education (Lifelong Learning): for innovative and student-centred approaches that bring in new ideas to education that transforms students’ lives
- Community Impact: for significant contributions to communities we serve and support locally, regionally, or globally
- Employability Impact: for supporting students’ aspirations and careers so they become the talent that helps them and employers succeed
- Impact on Health and Wellbeing: for work that supports students’ wellbeing, both in and beyond their learning experience.
The awards will be handed to the winners during the ceremony, straight after the conference, starting at approximately 3.30pm. Please join us to celebrate the excellent work of colleagues.
For further enquiries, please contact cape@mdx.ac.uk.