LSE Education Symposium

Our annual Education Symposium took place on Thursday 5 June (10am-4pm) on the theme of 'Shaping the World: Impactful Education for Changing Times'. The Symposium examined how an LSE education addresses pressing global challenges, fosters critical thinking, and prepares students for their futures in an interconnected world.

View the Symposium schedule here

Keynote speakers:

Prof B. Mairéad Pratschke

The New Hybrid: Living, Learning and Working with Intelligent Machines

AI Strategist and Advisor in Digital Education, Visiting Professor at the LSE Data Science Institute and at Abertay University in Scotland, Research Fellow at the USA’s National AI Institute for Adult Education and Online Learning (AI-ALOE)

Prof Jonathan Grant

The New Power University: The Social Purpose of Higher Education in the 21st Century

Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia and author of The New Power University: The Social Purpose of Higher Education in the 21st Century

The 2024 Symposium, based around 'Education Futures' was held on Thursday 6 June.

What strategies can we use to educate students in the face of rapidly evolving landscapes? How can we ensure that LSE is ready to maximise the opportunities of technological developments in HE? How can we build a constructive dialogue between LSE and the student community regarding the speed and scale of these potential changes? 

The LSE Education Symposium 2024 brought together colleagues from across the School and ideas from the wider sector to engage in dialogue around these questions and reflect on ways to respond with resilience to these current challenges and opportunities. Several LSE colleagues also presented papers based on their recent practice and insights.

Videos from the Symposium

Professor Siân Bayne - watch her keynote address on Desirable Higher Education Futures 

Professor Larry Kramer, Professor Emma McCoy and Dr Claire Gordon - watch their panel on Education Futures at LSE

Sinead Gavin - watch her provide an update on LSESU Democracy Review: 2 Years On

Download the programme for the Education Symposium.

Our annual LSE Education Symposium took place on Friday 9 June 2023 (10am-4pm GMT) on the theme of ‘Assessment: what is it good for?’

This theme we hoped was particularly timely given discussions in the higher education sector about the future of education and assessment in the context of the rapidly changing world of work and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools.

The Symposium combined guest speakers from outside the School with intriguing practice sharing from our LSE colleagues. We hope this provoked a series of interesting presentations and discussions! 

The Symposium was a hybrid event taking place on LSE campus in the Marshall Building with the possibility for speakers and attendees to join online. It was open to all LSE staff and students. You can download the schedule here

Our Education Symposium this year was held on campus in the Marshall Building (and online) on Friday 10 June (10am-4.15pm), chaired by LSE Pro-Director for Education Professor Dilly Fung, and organised around the theme of ‘Educating for the Common Good’. 

We were pleased to be able to welcome James Purnell (Vice-Chancellor, UAL), Martin Weller (Professor of Educational Technology, Open University) and Andrew Kirton (Lecturer in Sociology, University of Liverpool), who spoke to our theme from their respective experiences in HE. We also welcomed many LSE colleagues and student partners to make varied contributions regarding their practice and perspectives.

Please download the programme schedule here (pdf). You can also view some segments of the Symposium on our Eden Centre YouTube channel.

Our annual Education Symposium took place online on Thursday 10 June (pm) and Friday 11 June (am) via Zoom. Our focus was ‘What will an LSE education look like in 2030?’

Over two half-day sessions, we encouraged the School community of educators to reflect on the tumultuous and intensely adaptive year behind them, and to contribute to understanding and developing the emerging challenges of the years ahead of us.

The event featured TeachMeet presentations* from LSE colleagues, panels and perspectives from newer and experienced academics and guest external keynote speakers Kathe Pelletier, Mark McCormack and D. Christopher Brooks from EDUCAUSE and Gilly Salmon. 

Take a look at the full Final 2021 schedule. 

*for those unfamiliar with 'TeachMeets', please see this useful summary document, especially if you're interested in presenting at a future Education Forum. If you are, please contact us on eden@lse.ac.uk.

This was held on Tuesday 16 June (1-3pm). It was purely an online event for the first time, due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Download the ST2020 LSE Education Forum Schedule here 

Pro-Director for Education Dilly Fung and other LSE colleagues contributed to a panel debate on the question “Post COVID-19, will education at LSE return to business as usual, or will there be lasting change?”, while staff from across the School talked about how they have adapted their approach to teaching and learning in response to the challenges of the global pandemic. The Forum closed with an eye firmly towards the future, with discussion groups focusing on LSE Curriculum Shift 2020 and planning for the coming academic year. 

You can watch presentations given at the Forum by our colleagues below:

Jacob Breslow (Department of Gender Studies)

Rishita Nandagiri (Department of International Development)

Jet G. Sanders (LSE Psychological and Behavioural Science)

This took place on Thursday 2 May at The Lincoln Centre and two smaller LSE venues. See below for a summary of the schedule. You can download a more detailed programme schedule for the Symposium here.

The event featured presentations from members of the first cohort of LSE Student Change Makers.

The event was followed by the LSE Teaching Awards held in the Saw Swee Hock building in the evening.

Both LSE Director Dame Minouche Shafik and Pro-Director for Education Professor Dilly Fung addressed the Symposium in the afternoon. 

The LSE Education Symposium 2018 focused on celebrating the best of education at LSE. It took place on Wednesday 9 May from 12.30-18.00 in the Parish Hall. 

Programme:

12.30- Lunch and poster display

13.20- Welcome

13.30 - 14.15 Session 1 options

Teaching in a team: with Dr Sadie Wearing, Dr Jessica Templeton, Dr Jillian Terry, Chiara Sotis

Peer mentoring: with Dr Pik Liew and students

Academic Advising: with Sophie Wise

Capture the Market: with Geraldine Foley, Dr Jose Olivas-Osuna

14.25- 15.10 Session 2 options

London as my Lab: with Dr Taylor Sherman, Dr Ioanna Gouseti, Dr Tom Smith

Learning through film-making: with Dr Shani Orgad, Dr Lijing Shi

Building student community: with Adam Judge, Carl-Ludwig Campbell, Dr Richard Perkins

The Long Day of Young Peng (An Anthropology game): with Dr Andrea Pia

15.35 - 16.20 Session 3 options

LSE LIFE: Sunny side up – Engaging students by making connections: with Dr Erik Baurdoux, Maria Bell, Maria Laura Rojas-Vallejo, Gemma Stansfield and Jack Winterton

Blended learning: with Dr Savvas Verdis, Darren Moon

The Lottery of Life (A Social Policy game)

16.30- Professor Dilly Fung, Pro-Director for Education (Designate) will give the closing address:

Excellent education in research-rich institutions: towards a menu of opportunities for the LSE

What is distinctive about studying in LSE's research-rich culture? How can we build on this so that students from all backgrounds feel fully included, as co-investigators and producers of knowledge, in our scholarly community? In this session Professor Dilly Fung will explore a menu of opportunities for departments.

17.00- 18.00 Soft drinks and snacks ahead of the Students' Union Teaching Awards 2018