Following on from Research Day, academic staff are invited to gather on Thursday 5 June for the 2025 University of Divinity Teaching Conference. The theme for this year’s conference is Engaging Students in Learning.

Student engagement is one of the most important elements of higher education effectiveness and student success. With the disruptions of the last five years caused by the COVID pandemic, the subsequent shift to online learning, and the recent increase of the use of Generative Artificial Intelligence, there has been a dramatic impact to all facets of the teaching and learning environments.

This conference aims to highlight the successful holistic and agile approaches that have been implemented and tried at the Colleges and Schools of the University to support and enhance student experience and engagement. It also provides us with an opportunity to learn from each other and from the current advancement in teaching and learning techniques to support positive scaffolding of students’ learning experience. Our diverse and unique perspectives and pedagogies across the University allow for more relational communities to be built in our learning environments. This is worth showcasing.

This year we will also have a separate stream directed towards the Registrars and Student Services personnel, who will join the conference for the plenary then separately have their stream workshops and discussions for the rest of the day. 

The University has consistently delivered ‘the best University study experience of any University in Australia’. This day will be an opportunity to demonstrate the high calibre of our learning and teaching practices, and celebrate our successes.