Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh 2026

The programme of presentations and workshops

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Designing Sustainability at Scale: A Collaborative Model for Interdisciplinary Learning – Annabel Robson and Michelle Feng, University of Manchester

Enabling Interdisciplinary Learning within Discipline-Based Curricula – Esra Kurul and Lucy Turner, Oxford Brookes University

Interdisciplinary opportunities to embody health and wellbeing practice through literacy and numeracy related pedagogical content knowledge – Alison Murray and Nuzhat Uthmani, University of Stirling

Teaching Criminological Theory Through Interdisciplinarity: A First-Year Case Study in Critical Thinking – Evelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham

Reimagining English for Specific Purposes as a Creative, Interdisciplinary Space in Agricultural and Forestry Education – Dian Islami Prasetyaningrum, University of Limerick

Guardians of the Layered Learning Galaxy: A Spiral Model for Health Care Education – Ailsa Dollard, University of Lancashire

Teaching Criminological Theory Through Interdisciplinarity: A First-Year Case Study in Critical Thinking – Evelyn Svingen, University of Birmingham

Standing out from the crowd: What perspectives do students have about their identity when enrolled in a distinctive postgraduate multidisciplinary program? – Jay Rixon, Mary Keys and Lorna Sibbett, The Open University

Dialogue as Pedagogy: Designing Conversation-Based Assessment for Interdisciplinary Learning – Jillian Terry and Chris Blunt, London School of Economics and Political Science

Teaching Leadership as Interdisciplinarians: Creating Space for Creativity and Complexity in Higher Education – Amélie Mons, University of Manchester

Jack of All Trades, Master of Research – Adam Mountford, University of Birmingham

From Nonformal Learning to Interdisciplinary Practice: Designing Pathways into Higher Education – Lorna Sibbett and Rob Tumilty, The Open University

Creative learning activities in interdisciplinary bachelor education – Anastasia Hacopian, Utrecht University

Keele’s Global Challenge Pathways – embedding an institution-wide interdisciplinary elective pathways programme – Katie Szkornik, Keele University

Don’t Solve It, Re-Make It: Joint Problem Framing as Interdisciplinary Art – Peter Hochenauer, University of Vienna

Bridging Disciplines, Building Communities: An Interdisciplinary Model of Service-Learning – Eva Van Moer, University of Antwerp

Low threshold interdisciplinary encounters  – what and how? – Mira Vogel, King’s College London

Tricky Encounters: Creative Practice as the Solution to Interdisciplinary Speed Dating – Mark Hamilton, Catherine Davidson, Oliver Sterland and

Interdisciplinary learning journeys: start where we are – Elaine Brown, Anglia Ruskin University

Bridging Disciplines, Building Communities: An Interdisciplinary Model of Service-Learning – Eva Van Moer, University of Antwerp

Partnerships Across Boundaries: Making Employer-led Interdisciplinary Student Projects Work – Joy Perkins, Heriot-Watt University and Stuart Durkin, University of Aberdeen

From Review to Opportunity: Expanding Interdisciplinary Curricula and Practice in Higher Education – Emma Bolger and Lorna Sibbett, The Open University

Create a Course Challenge – Marleen van der Meer and Andrea Manneke, University of Amsterdam

The Cambridgeshire Witches in Iambic Pentameter: one secondary school’s interdisciplinary tales of success and development – Joanna Stell, Impington Village College