Each of the parallel sessions has been coded to one or more of the faculty themes as follows:
| Early Years Education, Families, and Communities | EYE |
| Inequalities, Health, and Wellbeing | IHW |
| Philosophy, Values, Ethics, and World Views | PVE |
| Teacher Education and Professional Learning | TPL |
| Transformative Education | TED |
Lecture Theatre
IHW / EYE
| Chair | Professor Vicky Duckworth |
| Kath Fraser-Thompson and Jenny Holder Liverpool Learning Partnership | Creative participation approaches to address health and educational inequalities in schools |
| Kathryn Morris Blackpool Better Start | The Blackpool Super Six – How developing and sharing language development strategies is tackling inequalities |
| Natasha Harrison Better Start / NSPCC | Ready Steady School – A shared approach to supporting school readiness outcomes |
| Dr Karen Boardman, Kath Whitehouse, Katie Smith, Silvia Cont Edge Hill University | Engagement and Attendance in Primary Schools: A Research Circle Study |
0.30
IHW / EYEF
| Chair | Laura Gregory |
| Gill Holden NCB | The Impact of the National Rollout of Stronger Practice Hubs |
| Dominique Heffes-Doon Spark Child | Spark Child Presentation Proposal: A Holistic Well-being Intervention for Vulnerable Children – From Trinidad & Tobago to the UK |
| Dr Sara Muršić Toyscope | Developmental diversity meets one-size-fits-all: The complex challenge of toy safety for children with special educational needs and disabilities |
| Dr Nicola Wallis and Kate Noble The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge | Museums as Spaces of Possibility in Early Childhood: Insights from the Fitzwilliam Museum |
0.29
IHW / EYE / TPL
| Chair | Dr Clare Woolhouse |
| Becky Reynolds The For Baby’s Sake Trust | Breaking Cycles, Building Futures: The For Baby’s Sake Trust Approach to Early Intervention and Trauma-Informed Support |
| Georgina Roberts Edge Hill University | Arts Therapies Approaches to Supporting Parent-Infant Relationships: Developing a Creative Intervention Toolkit |
| Rebecca Atherton and Josh Fearon Knowsley Council | Capturing the Voice of the Child through Early Years Practice |
| Evonne Bixter and Jen Hardy Shakespeare North | Oracy, inclusion and creative learning |
0.11
IHW
| Chair | Dr David Haycock |
| Elizabeth Twigge and Chloe Blackman, HF Works | Reinventing the Wheel: Developing a Community Model for Wellbeing |
| Lisa Ball, Adam Halton, Emma Atkiss Wigan Council | Shaping the Next Generation of Mentally Healthier Schools |
| Professor Vicky Karkou, Robyn Dowlen, Ken Fletcher, Beckie Clark, Pui Sze Cheung, Anna Smirnova, Miriam Sakwa and Nicola Brophy Edge Hill University | Arts4Us: Working together to scale up place-based arts initiatives that support the mental health of children and young people (CYP) (9-13). |
| Dr Gary Tebble Edge Hill University | Co-Creation: Developing an adapted model of pluralistic counselling with boys with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) |
1.06
TED / IHW / TPL
| Chair | Dr Seán Henry |
| Ben Broadhurst Edge Hill University | “It’s like my gender identity and sexuality take a back seat”: The experiences of personal and professional identities of LGBTQ+ pre-service teachers. |
| Anna Wooley Edge Hill University | Improving outcomes for care-experienced and estranged students (CEES): Co-producing cross-sector support through a Theory of Change approach |
| Simon Dougherty Edge Hill University | Experiences and observations of Early Career Teachers regarding homophobia in boys’ secondary Physical Education |
| Hannah Smee Edge Hill University | Identity Threat, Menopause and Teaching |
0.09
TED / IHW
| Chair | Dr Kate Burrell |
| Dr Heather Lloyd, Charlotte Molloy, Michelle Davis Edge Hill University | Unlocking opportunities in Widening Access and Student Success: A call for collaborative and impactful research. |
| Professor John Sandars Edge Hill University | Applying Sen’s Capability Approach to understand and improve the experience of widening participation learners |
| Ellie Jennings Shaping Futures | Shaping Futures and the role of place in widening access and student success in Knowsley. |
| Kevin Hornblower Shaping Futures | Helping to reduce inequalities in access to HE and the future of collaborative outreach |
0.10
TPL / IHW
| Chair | Michelle Pearson |
| Dr Marie Caslin and Ellie Curran Edge Hill University and Liverpool Hope University | Get Britain Working – a reflection of the barriers encountered by young disabled people when entering the world of work |
| Paul Semple and Paul Williams Career Connect | Introduction to Career Connect |
| Ying-Chih Chen Edge Hill University | Exploring adolescents’ embodied experiences of creative arts therapy in a residential centre in Taiwan |
| Michael Pennington and Josh Cliff Edge Hill University and Positive Footprints | Positive Footprints Project: A raising aspirations programme for children and young people to close the skills gap in the UK and open up the world of work |