Co-Creating Knowledge: Developing Research & Practice in Lifelong Learning

This session provides a collaborative space for colleagues interested in developing research, scholarship of teaching and learning, or practice-based inquiry focused on lifelong learning. Rather than presenting finished work, it offers a structured opportunity to shape research questions, methods and potential collaborations grounded in real institutional challenges.

Through facilitated discussion and small-group work, participants will explore shared interests including the experiences of lifelong learners across different life stages and modes of study, pedagogic and assessment practices that support belonging in episodic learning, and how lifelong learning policy is experienced in practice. The session also considers appropriate methodological approaches, including design-based research, partnership with learners and practice-informed inquiry.

The session is open to colleagues at any stage of thinking and aims to support collaborations that can continue beyond Professor Dunbar-Morris' Visiting Fellowship, including joint research, publications or pilot projects.

To attend online, follow this link at the scheduled time of the talk. (You can choose this option if the event is sold out!). Please note that this event will be recorded.

To attend in-person, please book a place on this page. Places to attend in-person are limited and will be available on a first come, first served basis. This event will take place in the Stopforth Metcalfe Room in Rewley House.

Designing Lifelong Learning: Evidence, Belonging and Co-Creation in Practice is a series of three interconnected events moves from theory to practice to collaboration. While designed as a coherent whole, each session can also be attended as a standalone event. Colleagues across Oxford Lifelong Learning are invited to engage with the series with a view to developing joint research or practice during and beyond the Visiting Fellowship. Find the first two events of this series on our Eventbrite page.

Professor Harriet Dunbar-Morris is Provost and Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Higher Education, at the University of Buckingham. She provides strategic leadership for learning, teaching and research and is widely recognised for her work on student experience, student–staff partnership and evidence-informed educational change. Among other cross-institutional initiatives, she is currently overseeing work on her institution’s approach to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement, exploring its implications for curriculum design, pedagogy and flexible provision.