6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: Resources and recordings

Thank you for joining this year’s International Conference on Employer Engagement, hosted by Education and Employers in partnership with the Edge Foundation.

Download the Delegate CPD Certificate

Download the Presenter Certificate

30 profile pictures of speakers who attended the conference
Just some of the 99 speakers who took part in this year’s conference

Presentation slides and recordings

– Day one

Welcome and Keynote Speakers: Dr Andrea Laczik, Professor Prue Huddleston, Nick Chambers, Professor Phillip Brown, Marie-Therese McGivern

Breakout 1, session 1. Speakers: Rob Smith, Michaela Brockmann, Vanessa Cui, Susan James Relly, Ashmita Randhawa, James Robson, Jim Hordern

Breakout 1, session 2. Speakers: Haryanti Affandi, Kristen Osborne, Paul Quigley

Breakout 1, session 3. Speakers: Irina Maslo, Roy Priest, Kat Emms, Natasha Kersh, Andrea Laczik

Breakout 1, session 4. Speakers: David Leat, Robert Craig, Catherine Sezen, Lynne Rogers, Alan McKenna

Breakout 1, session 5. Speakers: Nicola Stenberg, Katey Curtis, Sam Wood, Kelsy Wharton

Case Study – Westminster Kingsway College – Preparation for Work: Linking Colleges and Employers. Speakers: Paul Jervis

Breakout 2, session 1. Speakers: Christine Looser, Tina Götschi, David Kaye, Rachel Kitley, Tom Harding, Nigel Harley, Iain Mackinnon

Breakout 2, session 2. Speakers: Deirdre Hughes, Ifza Shakoor, Jansev Jemal, David Gallagher, Hannah Blake, Jill Hanson

Breakout 2, session 3. Speakers: Anna Trocme Latter, Adam Wilson, Fernando Marhuenda

Breakout 2, session 4. Speakers: Susan McGrath, Sarah Taunton, Maia Madhvani, Emily Kay

Breakout 2, session 5. Speakers: Mary Lyons, Louise Loxton

Panel Session 1 – Employer Engagement: Curriculum, Qualifications and Assessment. Speakers: Professor Prue Huddleston, Suzie Branch-Haddow, Patrick Craven, Jennifer Coupland

 

– Day two

Panel Session 2 – Skills Development: The Role of Employers. Speakers: Dr Andrea Laczik, Professor Ewart Keep, Professor Hubert Ertl, Gert Rohrmann

Breakout 3, session 1. Speakers: Lynne Rogers, Bev Jones, Ruth Gilbert

Breakout 3, session 2. Speakers: Erica Smith, Annette Foley, David Turner, Holly Henderson, Kat Emms

Breakout 3, session 3. Speakers: Xin Zhao, Belgin Okay-Somerville, Stephanie Allais

Breakout 3, session 4. Speakers: Isobel Finlay, Allegra Spender, Alma Sobrevilla, Malcolm Greig, Zoe Mackay

Breakout 3, session 5. Speakers: Emily Tanner, Emma Parry, Sarah Brooks

Case Study – School 21 – Real World Learning. Speakers: Cassie Cramer, Oli de Botton

Breakout 4, session 1. Speakers: Belgin Okay-Somerville, Simon O’Leary, Heidi Ashton

Breakout 4, session 2. Speakers: Mark Addis, Stephen Sowa, Graham Attwell, Sophia Roppertz

Breakout 4, session 3. Speakers: Pauline Holbrook, Carmel McKeogh, Susie Rutkowski

Breakout 4, session 4. Speakers: Alison Whelan, Faye Jones, Dan Gourley, Sam Holmes, Aron Rouse

Breakout 4, session 5. Speakers: Niamh McGarry, Freya Jamieson-Smith, Leon Gidigbi

Panel Session 3 and Conference Close – Employer Engagement: International Perspectives. Speakers: Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Dr Anthony Mann, Sareena Hopkins, Dr Paul Comyn, Alice Barnard

 

About the organisers

Education and Employers is an independent UK-based charity launched in 2009 with the vision of providing children and young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential. Learn about our programmes.

Our Research Library provides a comprehensive repository of the different and effective approaches to employer engagement and careers education. Developed over the last decade it brings together the latest thinking with selected research published over the past 40 years for the benefit of researchers, academics and policy makers.

You can also sign up to our research newsletter for regular bulletins with new research from the education sphere.

The Edge Foundation undertakes high quality independent education research, which helps to underpin our policy development as well as our work with grant-funded projects and our delivery work in schools and colleges. Find out more about our research.

Join one of the Edge research networks and sign up to the Edge newsletter and receive the latest news and research updates.