Posted on Mar 26, 2025
Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) Network 2025 Annual Conference
4-5 September 2025 – University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
The Conference Committee is inviting proposals for presentations during our parallel sessions. Proposals will explore topics within four main tracks:
- Widening Access: exploring effective ways to boost participation of underrepresented groups and widen equality, diversity and inclusion in HE.
- Supporting Retention: investigating what provision and interventions allow HEIs to support all students throughout the student lifecycle.
- Improving Outcomes: tackling the link between learning and attainment, student experience and employability, within and beyond national policy frameworks.
- Informing Policy: harnessing research and evaluation and promoting collaborations to bridge institutional practice and HE policy.
We are welcoming proposals for the following presentation formats:
- Research and Evaluation Papers: A 20-30 minute presentation followed by a brief question and answer session. This format is suitable to detail research and evaluation projects that have been completed. The presentations will generally be structured as: (i) introduction and motivation, (ii) discussion of data/evidence and methodology used for the analysis and (iii) discussion of the results and conclusions.
- Lightning Talks: A 5-10 minute presentation that could describe a successful initiative or practice from a case-study, pitch an idea for future research, call for collaboration across institutions, or present preliminary results from work in progress. The aim of these presentations is to spark conversations and develop further work.
- Poster and Pitch: The opportunity to display a poster and pitch its content for 1-2 minutes during a bespoke conference session, inviting conference delegates to network over coffee.
Authors submitting a proposal will be invited to:
- select a conference track,
- suggest a presentation format.
To facilitate effective coordination of the conference programme, the Conference Committee will value the preferences expressed by each author but reserve the right to allocate proposals to different conference tracks and presentation formats.
The Conference Committee will evaluate proposals according to the following criteria:
- overall clarity of the proposal;
- academic rigour;
- relevance and potential for impact;
- topic alignment to the conference themes and tracks.
The call for papers will close on Sunday 4 May 2025.
Authors will be notified of decisions by Friday 15 June 2025.
Submission
To be considered for a presentation in any of the available formats, please submit a proposed title and an abstract of no more than 100-150 words.
- For Research and Evaluation Papers, and Posters
abstracts should include: title, main subject, aims and objectives, approach or analysis undertaken, results and key findings, conclusions or next steps.
- For Lightning Talks
abstracts should convey a clear idea of future projects, calls for collaboration, or preliminary results presented.
- For ALL submission formats, please also include three keywords that capture and summarise the proposed content.
To submit your proposal please follow this link.
Contacts
For any queries, please email: heir.2025@uea.ac.uk.
