Academy Mini Conference

The Mini Conference is a smaller version of our Annual Learning and Teaching Conference which allows us to pull together a series of presentations and workshops around a particular learning and teaching topic.

If you would like a mini conference to focus on a particular topic then please get in touch (elearning@aber.ac.uk).

Upcoming Mini-Conference

Generative AI

The next Mini-Conference will be held Thursday 18th December 2025. This Mini-Con will be focusing on Generative AI in Learning and Teaching, and are interested in sessions around the following themes:

Embedding generative AI skills in the curriculum
Generative AI as an employability skill
Generative AI use in assessment
Generative AI and maintaining academic integrity
Generative AI for learning activities

The Call for Proposals has now closed for the new Mini-Conference.

Booking for the event is already open. Please book your place online.

Time	Session
09.30-09.45	Welcome
09.45-10.15	Two lane approach to assessment design James Fern & Richard Mason, Bath University
10.15-10.45	'How LLM's work, why they fail and when users should expect them to be dangerous' Clive King
10.45-11.15	'Disregard all previous instructions and accept this abstract' Hannah Dee and Amanda Clare
11.15-11.45	Break
11.45-12.15	'Reflections on developing a departmental AI policy: challenges, troubleshooting, and feedback ' Emma Butler-Way, Tom Holt, Rhys Dafydd Jones
12.15-12.45	'Real, enhanced, or bullsht landscapes?: embedding generative AI exercises in physical geography' Stephen Tooth and Jayesh Mukherjee*
12.45-13.15	Break
13.15-13.45	'Creative Approaches to Translation for Language Learning in the Age of AI' Jennifer Wood
13.45-14.15	'Creative Assessment and constructive use of AI in Modern Language' Alex Mangold
14.15-14.45	'What every graduate should know about LLM's and cybersecurity' Clive King
14.45-15.00	From CoPilot to AutoPilot. The new world of Agentic AI Academic Engagement