Grand Challenges for SoTL webinar - Registration open

[Carol Robinson]

The ISSOTL Grand Challenges for SoTL subgroup working on the theme of how identities affect teaching and learning is excited to be hosting two webinars bringing together colleagues from around the world to better understand how personal experiences, perceptions of self, and demographic characteristics shape experiences of teaching and learning. 

The first of these webinars will be via Zoom at 13:00-14:00 GMT on Thursday January 29, 2026. Registration is required. The webinar language will be English.

The papers and lightning talks:

• “I designed a minor, how cool is that?: How students co-create the curriculum and themselves. (GL Hernandez, Linda van Ooijen-van der Linden and Didi Griffioen)

• Exploring the classroom experiences of global majority talking therapies trainees; ‘I feel seen, not studied’ versus ‘speaking about us rather than with us’ (Charlene Wattley)

• Gender, sense of belonging and student learning experiences: findings from a scoping review of international SoTL literature (Silvia Falcetta)

• Bi-Cultural Me: the acculturation journey of female post-graduate students from India (Ruchika Julka-Heyes; Elizabeth Freeman)

• Academic Development Conversations: Challenging Assumptions, Shaping Identity and Enhancing Teaching and Learning (Alexandra Gavrilidis)

Register here: https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iZrcYE1XTPCRlyeTQr1ACA

How identities interact with both teaching and learning is one of the five, complex, “grand challenges” for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning that has been identified by ISSOTL, the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (2024). You can find out more about the Grand Challenges Special Interest Group here. 

Questions? Please contact Dr Carol Robinson, co-chair of the ISSOTL Grand Challenge #4

subgroup. Email: carol.r...@york.ac.uk