C-SAP has hosted an annual conference for the subject community since 2002. These have all been successful events, bringing together a wide range of academic staff, students, and others invovled in delivering teaching, in order to focus and reflect upon the state of learning and teaching within the subject disciplines.

November 2009 - Roles, Rights and Responsibilities: Negotiating Relationships

Dates: 25 - 27 November 2009
Venue: Jury's Inn Hotel, Birmingham
Keynote Speakers: Professor Kevin Bonnett, Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Student Experience, Manchester Metropolitan University; Prof Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge; David Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Oxford; Dr Jacqui Briggs, Political Science Association (PSA); Rob Mears, Professor of Sociology, Bath Spa University (Chair, BSA Council); Pam Tatlow, Chief Executive, Million+; Rosemary Deem, Dean of History and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway, University of London; Aaron Porter, National Union of Students (NUS)

Please see the full conference mini-site for details about the conference programme and papers. Presentations from the programme are available (look for icons).

January 2009 - The Virtual University? Social Science Critiques of Learning and Teaching in the Age of Digital Reproduction

Date: 16th January 2009
Venue: Radisson Edwardian Grafton Hotel, London

Keynote Speaker: Dr Martin Oliver, London Knowledge Lab

Please see the full conference mini-site for details about the conference programme and papers. Presentations from the programme are available (look for icons).

November 2008 - The Internationalising of UK Higher Education Learning and Teaching:
Reflections on policy, practice and theory

Dates: 27th to 28th November 2008
Venue: The George Hotel, Edinburgh
Keynote Speakers: Prof Ronaldo Munck, Dublin City University; Prof Philip Garrahan, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Sheffield Hallam University; Professor Andrea Nolan, Vice Principal for Learning, Teaching and Internationalisation, University of Glasgow; Dr. Rosa Becker, The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education.

Please see the full conference mini-site for details about the conference programme and papers. Presentations from the programme are available (look for icons).

November 2007 - Teaching in Public - the Future of Higher Education?

Dates: 21st to 23rd November 2007
Venue: Mariott Hotel, Cardiff
Keynote Speakers: Norman Shaprp (QAA Scotland), Professor Michael Burawoy (UCLA), Irena Bauman (Bauman Lyons Architects Ltd), Professor Frank Furedi (University of Kent)

Please see the full conference mini-site for details about the conference programme and papers. Presentations from the programme are available (look for icons).

November 2005 - New Contexts in Learning and Teaching: International Perspectives

Dates: 23rd to 25th November 2005
Venue: Jury's Inn, Birmingham
Keynote Speakers: Professor Robert Burgess, Professor Antonia Darder, Professor Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha, Professor Michael Apple

Programme overview: final conference programme

Synopsis
The conference focused on international perspectives of learning and teaching. Themes included e-Learning, globalisation, vocationalism, widening participation, employability, pedagogy, student perspectives, race and ethnicity.

Feedack from the conference has been collated and can be read in this document.

2004 - Looking back, taking stock: reflecting on five years of learning and teaching

Dates: 18 to 20 March 2004
Venue: Campanile Hotel, Aston, Birmingham

Synopsis
The conference examined current debates and practices within learning and teaching agendas, and also looked forward to policy changes impacting on our experiences as learners and teachers. Themes included widening participation and student retention, employability, social theory, change in higher education, theory in the curriculum, e-learning, FDTL 5.

Feedack from the conference has been collated and can be read in this document.

2003 - Dynamics of Change in Higher Education

Dates: 3 to 4 April 2003
Venue: Campanile Hotel, Aston, Birmingham
Keynote Speakers: Liz Thomas, Mick Healey, Keith Trigwell
Presentation abstracts: abstracts.

Synopsis
The conference used the theme of "dynamic change" to help identify how C-SAP could act as an agent of change within the subject disciplines. Other strands included widening participation, race in the curriculum, the scholarship of learning and teaching and studnet retention.

2002 - The New Higher Education? Learning and Teaching in a "Knowledge Society"

Dates: 11 to 12 January 2002
Venue: Lakeside Centre, Aston University, Birmingham
Keynote Speakers: Alan O'Shea, Alan Staley, David Watson, Penny Welch
Programme overview: final conference programme

Synopsis
The first C-SAP annual conference focused on a number of themes, particularly those relating to assessment and the audit culture of universities. Also, innovations in ICT and studies of academic literacy were discussed, and emphaisis was placed on the nature of subject benchmarking and the role of the subject centre.