The 2026 conference will present an overarching theme, accompanied by four sub themes:
The ICALLD Symposium Over Time 2026 invites colleagues to look beyond survival narratives to explore questions of agency, advocacy, and impact in Learning Development. We welcome proposals that centre our successes, trace the scope and impact of diverse third-space professional journeys, and examine how Learning Developers shape, influence, and communicate their value within complex institutional ecosystems.
This symposium offers a space to reflect collectively on Learning Development as purposeful, relational, and influential practice, and to share the ways in which we exercise agency and create impact – even and especially in challenging times.
Inviting accounts of initiatives, collaborations, pedagogies, or moments where Learning Development has made a clear, positive difference to students, staff, institutions, or communities. Successes worth celebrating, however small or large.
A space to share how your professional journey has informed and shaped your Learning Development practice. For example: how has your path into Learning Development shaped the opportunities for practice you now have, and/or how did your path shape the ways in which you use these opportunities?
Encouraging reflections on how we navigate, shape, and influence the ‘third space’, including advocacy strategies, boundary-spanning roles, leadership practices, and ways we communicate our value within complex institutional ecosystems.
We welcome proposals across the following submission types:
We welcome proposals across the following submission types:
Please submit proposals via this Microsoft Form. We look forward to hearing from you!
We are delighted to announce the 9th International Symposium Over Time! Over two days, rolling around the clock, participants from member associations will take turns facilitating discussions. All attendees are encouraged to share answers, experiences, and observations. Facilitators will compile and share key points and outcomes.
Bring your tea and biscuits, and join the conversation!
(ATLAANZ, New Zealand – June 2021) Learning advisors at Student Learning Te Taiako regularly evaluate our Tertiary Learning Advice Consultations (TLACs), workshops and programmes, by conducting student surveys and focus groups, together with staff peer-observations and one-minute papers. In response to recent calls in the literature to go beyond attendance data and perceived student satisfaction to ‘measure’ impact, we have begun using Hamilton et al.’s (2019) ICALLD evaluation model.
ICALLD (the International Consortium of Academic Language and Learning Developers) is a global community of higher education practitioners working to enhance students’ learning and academic literacies. Our member organizations are from all around the world: Canada, the United Kingdom, Scotland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
One of ICALLD’s key aims is to facilitate professional development opportunities for its members. To that end, the “symposium over time” was born: a conference that occurs in small increments over the year, at varying times and with rotating host organizations. A full record of the symposium presentations is available on our website’s blog.
(AALL, Australia – May 2021) Dr Sally Ashton-Hay, Alex Barthel and Dr Amanda Müller spoke about updating the Australian University Register of Academic Language and Learning (ALL) Centres / Units. The aim was to capture the structures in which we work, the contexts in which ALL happens, and the practices that we engage in. The update provided a snapshot in time, revealing a significant increase in Australian tertiary student enrolments in the last ten years, a dramatic reduction in ALL staff employed across the sector, and a proliferation of new services offered particularly online.
ICALLD (the International Consortium of Academic Language and Learning Developers) is a global community of higher education practitioners working to enhance students’ learning and academic literacies. Our member organizations are from all around the world: Canada, the United Kingdom, Scotland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
One of ICALLD’s key aims is to facilitate professional development opportunities for its members. To that end, the “symposium over time” was born: a conference that occurs in small increments over the year, at varying times and with rotating host organizations. A full record of the symposium presentations is available on our website’s blog.
(ScotHELD, Scotland – February 2021) ScotHELD’s symposium reflected on student learning development throughout the Covid pandemic. The presentation discussed the benefits and challenges the enforced move to online and hybrid teaching models brought to learning development in Scotland and presented findings from a recent ScotHELD conference on how the profession sought to enhance student learning and wellbeing during these troubled times.
ICALLD (the International Consortium of Academic Language and Learning Developers) is a global community of higher education practitioners working to enhance students’ learning and academic literacies. Our member organizations are from all around the world: Canada, the United Kingdom, Scotland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.
One of ICALLD’s key aims is to facilitate professional development opportunities for its members. To that end, the “symposium over time” was born: a conference that occurs in small increments over the year, at varying times and with rotating host organizations. A full record of the symposium presentations is available on our website’s blog.