Annual Conference

Friday 22 March to Sunday 24 March 2024
New College, Oxford University, Oxford, UK

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Three sessions at the conference will be reserved for invited plenary papers. Our 2024 keynote speakers will be:

Professor Quassim Cassam
University of Warwick, UK
Professor Peter Roberts
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Grace Lockrobin
Co-director, SAPERE, UK
Emma Swinn
Co-director, SAPERE, UK

Programme

Please click here to view the programme.

The Poster Session

The poster session will take place at 3.45 pm on Friday afternoon.  Posters will be displayed in the Junior Common Room.  Poster presenters are asked to be beside their posters to speak to attendees about their work.  This is the busiest time but the posters stay in place for the full conference so that people can go to see them at any time.  It is therefore useful to have some printed material attached to the poster board for people to read or take away, along with your contact details.

Posters are A2 – 420mm x 594mm (usually portrait).  Posters should be put up before the pre-conference workshop, which starts with lunch at 1pm.

Pre-Conference Student Seminar

The PESGB pre-conference student seminar will take place on Friday 22nd March 2024 at New College, Oxford. The pre-conference begins at 1pm with lunch for students and teachers who are registered for the main conference, before continuing with a workshop from 1.45 – 3.30pm.

The theme of this year’s workshop is ‘Philosophy of Education in the Academy and Wider World’. The speakers are Áine Mahon, Martin Gough and Diana Murdoch.

Áine and Martin will be examining the place of philosophy of education in doctoral research, based on their experiences of teaching and supervising, whilst Diana will be offering a pan-European perspective on educational theory through her current research role.

Áine’s presentation focuses on an exciting new module she is developing at University College Dublin called ‘The Affective Researcher: Being and Becoming Through the PhD’ whilst Martin, who works at Liverpool University, will present the case for greater use of philosophical resources in educational research, where its significance is often underplayed and undervalued. Finally, Diana, who is a researcher for the European Agency for Special Needs and Inclusive Education, will be discussing how the voice of the philosopher can be heard and brought to bear in educational policy-making and in its implementation into practice, across educational systems.

 

Teacher Bursary Awards 2024

*New: Bursaries for educators outside the school sector

Closing date: Monday 19 February 2024

The PESGB is delighted to announce the award of up to 8 scholarships, (4 for full time schoolteachers – 0.8 FTE or above – and 4 for teachers/teacher educators coming from all sectors outside schools, e.g. community, museums, home educators etc.) wishing to attend its annual Oxford conference for the first time. These are offered by open competition and are worth up to £375. They cover:

a. the conference fee, including full board accommodation for two nights in Oxford (equivalent to £275)
b. a contribution to travel costs (up to £100).

Initial orientation to the conference will be provided to successful applicants. Teachers attending an academic conference for the first time may appreciate having identified colleagues to attend some sessions with them and talk the papers through afterwards. It is expected that successful applicants will negotiate the particular kinds of support they would appreciate with us.

Interested teachers who meet the selection criteria should:

  1. Email their name, contact details and a short expression of interest (100 words maximum) explaining reasons for wishing to attend the conference to pesgb@sasevents.co.uk on or before 4.00 pm on 19.2.2024.
  2. Provide a short letter of support of a senior member of their school’s leadership team or similar e.g. headteacher/principal/Officer of a professional association/academic supervisor.

Applicants will be expected to:

  1. Attend the conference in full (except where agreed in advance with the Society, for example, due to teaching commitments) and
  2. After the conference write a short reflective blog piece for the PEGSB website/a social media forum used by teachers based on their experience of attending the conference or one aspect of it.

Applications will be reviewed by a panel of members of the PESGB Executive Committee. Members of the panel will provide brief feedback on request in cases where applications are unsuccessful but reserve the right not to engage in lengthy correspondence.

Notes:
1. Successful applicants will be expected to pay the conference fee in advance, sign a written declaration confirming their status as a full-time serving teacher and to attend the conference in full, unless special arrangements have been agreed in advance with the PESGB Executive.
2. The fee will be re-imbursed and a contribution made to travel upon receipt of the blog post and travel receipts, up to a total of award of £375.
3. Reimbursements are conditional on applicants meeting all the requirements of the award.
4. The Society reserves the right to withdraw the award at any time if applicants are found to have provided the panel with false information.