Conference

Mobilities and Transitions: Learning, Institutions, Global and Social Movements

Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK

25-27 June 2013

This conference brings together the SCUTREA Annual and CRLL Biennial Conferences to provide a forum for the international lifelong learning and adult education communities to debate and discuss the theme of Mobilities and Transitions: Learning, Institutions, Global and Social Movements.  The conference will take place at the campus of Glasgow Caledonian University in the heart of the city of Glasgow. 

Conference Theme

The joint CRLL-SCUTREA Conference provides a platform for researchers and professionals engaged in Lifelong Learning and the Education of Adults to address key areas of international concern.  The conference aims to promote discussion and international networking opportunities across a broad field of interdisciplinary study. It will also include keynote presentations by distinguished international speakers. The Conference theme – Mobilities and Transitions – expresses the need to explore and understand the implications of change, turbulence and fluidity that characterises the field of post-compulsory education in different global contexts. ‌

Newsflash!

Keynote speakers for the Conference have been confirmed. 

Professor Mary Stuart is Vice-Chancellor University of Lincoln, United Kingdom.  Her research interests are focused on life histories, social mobility, higher education students and community development.  Professor Stuart’s new book Social Mobility and Higher Education: The Life Experiences of First Generation Entrants in Higher Education is due to be published in January 2013.  

Professor Patricia Gouthro is Associate Professor at Mount Saint Vincent University, Novia Scotia, Canada.  Her research interests include critical feminist theory and pedagogy, policies and practices in lifelong learning, active citizenship and adult learning. 

We are delighted that the Conference will include keynote presentations by two thought-provoking and influential researchers.

Shortly before the 2013 the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning and the Standing Conference on University Teaching and Research in the Education of Adults the University of Stirling will be hosting the RWL 2013 Conference. The over-arching theme for the conference will be 'The visible and invisible in work and learning. The RWL Conference will run from 19-22 June 2013 at the University of Stirling. Further information can be found here.