‘Reimagining Student Engagement – Innovate, Include, Inspire’

The Centre for Transformative Learning, in collaboration with the four academic faculties at the University of Limerick, is delighted to announce the 2025 Learning, Teaching and Assessment conference which will take place on campus on Tuesday, 13^th January 2026.

About the Conference Theme

Student engagement remains a cornerstone of meaningful learning, yet its nature continues to evolve in response to shifting educational paradigms, technological advancements, and diverse learner needs.

How we teach is not often something we share as we see it as simply part of our job and something we all do. Fantastic and innovative teaching is evident across the UL campus and, while we may think how we teach, facilitate learning and engage with students is how others do it, that is not often the case. Teaching, learning and assessment takes many different forms across, and within faculties, and this conference provides the opportunity to share our practice and learn from others.

About the Speakers

Plenary Speaker: Tom Lowe

Assistant Head of School Finance and Accounting, University of Westminster

Biography

Tom Lowe has researched and innovated in student engagement across diverse settings for over 10 years, in areas such as student voice, retention, employability and student-staff partnership.

Tom works at the University of Westminster as Assistant Head of School (Student Experience) in Finance and Accounting where he leads on student experience, outcomes and belonging. Tom is also the Chair of RAISE, a network for all stakeholders in higher education for researching, innovating and sharing best practice in student engagement.

Prior to Westminster, Tom was a Senior Lecturer in Higher Education at the University of Portsmouth, and previously held leadership positions for engagement and employability at the University of Winchester.

Tom has published two books on student engagement with Routledge; ‘A Handbook for Student Engagement in Higher Education: Theory into Practice’ in 2020 and ‘Advancing Student Engagement in Higher Education: Reflection, Critique and Challenge’ in 2023, and has supported over 40 institutions in consultancy and advisory roles internationally.

About the Conference Schedule

The conference will also include Lightning Talks, Workshops, Practice Papers and Research Papers.

Further details of the conference schedule will be released on 15th November 2025 once abstract submissions have been shortlisted.