Pre-conference workshops

Session day: Sunday, 9 of November 2025
Session time: 16:30-18:30
Facilitator: Tony Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Workshop participation fee: 60 euros (plus taxes if applicable)

Workshop details:
As part of your professional career, you often need to introduce yourself, whether it be one-on-one at a networking event, or one-to-many at the start of a talk. We will begin by looking at the self-introduction and what makes one memorable. Participants will then have a chance to craft one of their own. Finally, we’ll see how you might apply the very same ideas to the design of an introduction for a presentation you might give.

Target audience:
Higher education educators, teachers from primary, secondary, and further education.

Session day: Sunday, 9 of November 2025
Session time: 16:30-19:00
Facilitators: Bernard Goldbach. Technological University of the Shannon (Ireland).
Brigit Kolen. Fontys University of Applied Science (Netherlands).
Workshop participation fee: 60 euros (plus taxes if applicable)

Workshop details:
This dynamic, hands-on workshop shows educators how to keep the human at the heart of an AI-assisted storytelling process. The workshop starts with a creative framework that Brigit Kolen uses when teaching GenZ students how to write well. Then Bernie Goldbach shows how to maintain authenticity and empathy while repurposing those original ideas with multimodal AI tools. This authoring method incorporates a process that embellishes human creativity while using large language models.

Target audience:
Higher education educators, teachers from primary, secondary, and further education.

Session day: Sunday, 9 of November 2025
Session time: 16:30-19:00
Facilitators: Dr Helen Kara. We Research It Ltd (UK)
Dr Kate Mawson. Nottingham Trent University (UK)
Workshop participation fee: 60 euros (plus taxes if applicable)

Workshop details:
This will be an interactive workshop with hands-on activities. The workshop will begin with a short awareness-raising presentation on creative research methods in education from Helen Kara. The first hands-on exercise will be object interviews: each participant will be asked to select an object they have with them which represents some aspect of their research or other work, then they will interview each other about the objects they have selected, in pairs, for five minutes each. Then we will all discuss the affordances and limitations of this method and why/when/where/how it might be used.
The second hands-on exercise will be poetic analysis: each participant will be given a piece of writing about practitioner research and some options for ways to analyse it poetically. They will do this individually and then discuss the process, their experience and learning in pairs, before a big group discussion of the affordances and limitations of this method and why/when/where/how it might be used. There will be time for a final Q&A before the workshop ends.

Target audience:
Practitioner-researchers in education at any level.