The Annual Conference is the high point of the UALL year, and we are pleased that the 2018 Conference will be held at Downing College, Cambridge, between Wednesday 21 and Friday 23 March. The theme of Opportunities for lifelong learning in a changing world has strands addressing the context of lifelong learning which enhances local, regional and global development.

Sustainable Futures in Africa is an interdisciplinary collective aiming to build understanding, research, and practice in socio-ecological sustainability in Africa. In order for relationships to be built, methodologies to be explored, and to achieve the shared understanding that is aspired for, the SFA network is running trial research projects. These are being run with an emphasis on the trial and error aspect, for researchers to explore the unfamiliar, social scientists exploring hard science and vice versa.