ALN conference 2025

We are pleased to announce that once again we're running our annual conference split between an online and an in-person day. More information will follow over the coming months, but a few key pieces of information follow:

The wholly online day will be held over Teams on 18 June 2025, and the in-person day will be at Manchester Metropolitan University on 11 July 2025.

Our Call for Papers is now open!!

Sustainable Innovation: moving forward in challenging times.

We know our members are rising to the challenge of continuing to thrive whilst across the sector, finances and staff time is tight. How do we choose what to focus on, what to drop, and how we manage our teams to get them through difficult times? This conference asks how we might continue to move forward, to innovate, and to share the positive changes we’ve made in these challenging times. Further details of the conference theme and sub-themes can be found here.

We invite submissions exploring any aspect of the topic and in the following formats: Workshops (in person day only), Short papers, Lightning Talks, Panel Discussion, or even a Wild Card format! We welcome papers from all colleagues working within any institutions, whether they are ALN member institutions or not.

How can we help?

We understand submitting a proposal can be a daunting task! We have created this resource to support you when developing your proposal. This is aimed in particular at first-time presenters, but everyone is welcome to view it. It will give you an idea of what ALN is looking for from conference contributors and provide you with top tips for writing conference submissions and presenting at the ALN conference.

Proposals should be submitted via this form by 14th March 2025. You will be asked to answer a short set of questions, which will be combined to form an abstract.

Ticket prices

For presenters and early bird, bookings will be discounted to £30 (online), £75 (in-person) for ALN members and £45 (online), £110 (in-person) for non-ALN members. (Bookings not yet open - we'll promote it as soon as they are - watch this space!)

Keynotes

We are excited to anounce our keynotes for our two days:

Helen Rimmer, owner of the Kind Brave Leader, will provide the keynote at our online day (Wednesday 18 June).
Monica Westin, Associate Director Content & Discovery at Manchester Metropolitan University, will provide the keynote at our in-person day (Friday 11 July 2025).

More details, including a biography and synopsis of their keynotes, to follow soon.

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