DART-P Annual Conference 2025: Call for Abstracts

The abstract submission deadline is Monday 28 April.

The overall conference theme will be 'Delivering high-quality psychology education in challenging times'.

In these times of constraint and challenge, we aim to create a space for our community to support each other. We will invite delegates to share their research, scholarship, or creative approaches to maintaining the delivery of high-quality psychology education.  

We will invite abstract submissions relating to the following sub-themes:

• Innovative and sustainable teaching practices
• Collaboration and community
• Supporting staff and student wellbeing
• General (we also welcome proposals outside of any of the above themes)

Conference keynote speakers

Keynote Speaker: Prof Louise Taylor (Oxford Brookes University)

Louise Taylor, PhD, CPsychol, is a Professor of Education and Student Experience at Oxford Brookes University, where she teaches psychology in the School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health. She is a National Teaching Fellow and Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, recognised for her leadership in teaching and research to support student identities and inclusion.

Her research applies psychological theory to understand what makes successful learning and teaching, both in the contexts of the marketisation of higher education and ethnicity degree-awarding gaps.

Louise has published in leading journals including Studies in Higher Education and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education and she is Senior Editor for the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. She mentors a number of staff in teaching-focused career pathways and supervises PhD and EdD Professional Doctorate students.

She recently co-founded a Teaching Focused University Network (T-FUN) for those on teaching-focused career pathways. Her teaching toolkit, Balancing Students' Identities as Learners and Consumers was published by Advance HE and is freely available for educators to use to support conversations with students about their identities.

Follow her on LinkedIn, see her website for more information, get in touch with her via email.

Keynote Speaker: Prof Victoria Bourne and members of the THESIS pedagogic research group

Teaching in Higher Education: Supporting and Inspiring Students, or THESIS, is a group of education focused academics in the Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, led by Prof Danijela Serbic.

The group has a dual focus in supporting university students through their studies and supporting academics in their career development through education, pedagogy and scholarship.

For this keynote, Prof Victoria Bourne, one of the founding members of THESIS, will provide an overview of development and structure of the group, and then staff and students from the group will provide further insights into some specific THESIS initiatives around developing pedagogic research, supporting student wellbeing and diversifying the curriculum.

For more information about THESIS see their website, for follow @THESIS_RHUL on X.