Symposium theme: Beyond Survival: Agency, Advocacy and Impact in Learning Development
Join us for the ICALLD Symposium Over Time 2026, where we will move beyond survival narratives to explore the agency, advocacy, and impact at the heart of Learning Development. This year’s symposium invites colleagues to reflect on our collective successes, share the diverse journeys of third‑space professionals, and consider how Learning Developers shape, influence, and articulate their value within complex institutional landscapes.
This event creates a space for connection and shared reflection highlighting Learning Development as purposeful, relational, and influential practice. Together, we will explore the ways we exercise agency, foster meaningful change, and create impact, especially in challenging times.
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Links to join the symposium will be sent to registrants ahead of the event.
Presentations
Grouped by time zone
Beyond ‘Fixing Writing’: How Learning Advisors Navigate Role Ambiguity and Build Professional Credibility
Kaaryn Cater
Cherie Todd-Williamson
Andrea Trueman
“Language, Thought, and Reality”, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -How can Tertiary Educators use this concept to the benefit of our learners?
Hua Dai
Combining student-centred pedagogies with an AI agent to help students sharpen the focus of a research topic
Vanessa van der Ham
Andre Breedt
Third space advocacy – Navigating identity, relationships, and impact in technology-enhanced learning and teaching roles in Australian Higher Education
Meredith Hinze
Kashmira Dave
Kate Mitchell
Emotionally Intelligent Learning Strategies: A First-Year Course Collaboration
Christina Page
Nina Jauernig
Srividhya Mouli
The LC-DC Podcast: Bringing learning strategy direct to students’ ears
Ryan O’Connor
“How are we decolonially socially responsive in the writing centre?”: Academic Literacy Practitioners reflecting on their Learning Development praxis in a University of Technology in South Africa
Puleng Sefalane-Nkohla
Thembinkosi Mtonjeni
Lutendo Nendauni
Going Beyond: Shifting the boundaries of the Learning Development field through scholarship
Ian Johnson
Silvina Bishopp-Martin
Here and Back Again: A Tale of Two Learning Developers Journey
Alexander Cuthbert
Derek Keenan
From Survival to Agency: Intercultural Education and A Third-Space Journey in Learning Development
Samin Qasabian
My third-space Professional Journey – From LD Tutor to Director of Learning, Teaching and Libraries
Steve Briggs