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ALA webinar: Learning Resources – Adaptation and implementation to meet individual learner needs

This interactive webinar focuses on enhancing trainer understanding of key resource development techniques considerations.  This session delves deeper into how resources can be used and adapted to enable educators to utilise the same learning materials to meet the different learner needs and levels within their classroom.

New White Paper on the benefits and challenges that immersive technologies

Lavinia Hirsu and Gabriella Rodolico, both members of CR&DALL, are co-authors of a new University of Glasgow White Paper on the benefits and challenges that immersive technologies like virtual reality can bring to education. This work has been carried out within the Scoping Extended Educational Realities (SEER) research group led by Professor Neil McDonnell of the School of Humanities.

Somerville College, University of Oxford

We are pleased to provide details of the conference, Education for All: Challenging Orthodoxies and Fostering Inclusion, which is to be held at Somerville College Oxford on 4 April 2024. This one day event is being organised in collaboration with the Council for Education in the Commonwealth in honour of the late Professor Lalage Bown.

Valuing non-formal and informal learning for sustainability

We are pleased to publish this article originally published in the Discuss Community of Practice on Lifelong Learning by Randolph Preisinger-Kleine. It is a publication in German, entitled "Valuing non-formal and informal learning for sustainability" draws conclusions on expert interviews on education for sustainable development in Germany. The author is Dr. Mandy Singer-Brodowski, Freie Universität Berlin, Institut Futur, and the report, in German, is featured below and attached.

Anna Wilson appointed Deputy Director of CR&DALL

We are delighted to report that Dr Anna Wilson, Reader in Interdisiplinary Research within the School of Education, has been appointed Deputy Director of CR&DALL.

New book "Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives" in honour of Professor Lal

A new book "Adult Education and Social Justice: International Perspectives" was published just before Xmas 2023 in honour of the adult educator par excellence, Professor Lalage Bown, who died just over two years ago. Edited by Maria Slowey, Heribert Hinzen, Michael Omolewa and myself, it contains contributions from many esteemed adult educators, many from the core CR&DALL team and others beyond, particularly those with connections to Africa.

CR&DALL Seminar Series 2023-24: Carbon Capture (Use) and Storage – 29 Jan 2024

This event has been rescheduled and will now be held on Monday, 29th January, 1-3pm.

This event is co-hosted with the University of Glasgow's Sustainability Interdisciplinary Research Theme and funded by the EPSRC through the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre

Dr Dely L Elliot has joined the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science

At the beginning of January 2024, we are pleased to inform you that Dr Dely Lazarte Elliot – a core CR&DALL member from the University of Glasgow – is now part of the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS). Funded jointly by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Scottish Funding Council, SGSSS is ‘the UK’s largest facilitator of funding, training and support for doctoral students in social science’.

Call for Papers Special Edition: Australian Journal of Adult Learning Power, policies, and practices

This Special Issue of the Australian Journal of Adult Learning (AJAL) will explore various trends developing at the forefront of literacies in adult education, to consider ways that literacies are being defined and enacted in current times in research and practice.

Reflections on 2023 from Adult Learning Australia

A big thank you to all ALA members, my board colleagues, and the ALA team for championing adult learning and community education throughout 2023. Our collaborative efforts help keep our initiatives vibrant and relevant. I am looking forward to 2024, where our combined expertise can help shape policy, transform lives, and open new doors of possibility. Special mention to Board members Nigel Wilson and Stephen Billet who finished up on the Board this year. Season’s greetings and best wishes to all!  Kathleen Priestly

The special issue of Convergence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ICAE

Editors Timothy D. Ireland and Shermaine Barrett introduce the special issue of Convergence to commemorate the 50th anniversary of ICAE.

Remembering our dear friend and colleague Srabani Maitra

It is with a heavy heart and deep regret that we announced that our dear friend and colleague Srabani Maitra has died. Srabani, who was Professor in Sociology of Adult and Vocational Education within the School of Education at the University of Glasgow, contracted meningitis, and despite all efforts over a two-week period could not recover.

Professor George Openjuru named as African Educationist of 2023

We are thrilled to announce that our good friend and UNESCO Chair collegue, Prof George Openjuru, Vice-Chancellor of Gulu University has been elected as the African Educationist the Year by the African Leadership Persons of the Year organization.

Factory chimneys at Grangemouth in Central Scotland

Core CR&DALL member Anna Wilson, University of Glasgow, has recently launched a new project funded by the UK's EPSRC through the Industrial Decarbonisation Research and Innovation Centre. CC(U)S Futures is a collaboration between staff at the University of Glasgow, University of Stirling and University of Strathclyde. It is developing Place-Based Participatory Speculative Fiction as a tool for exploring workforce understandings of and imaginary constructions about the possible impacts on local landscapes and lives resulting from large-scale implementation of carbon capture, use and storage (CC(U)S) technologies.

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