Saturday 21 November

Saturday 10:00

Overcoming barriers to enter surgical training: is it possible?

Top tips on how to enter surgical training

Haseem Raja

Haseem is a ST1 ENT trainee currently working in Birmingham. He graduated from The University of Manchester in 2018 with several awards and prizes. He also received a full scholarship to complete a Master’s degree in Oncology at the world-renowned Christie Hospital, gaining the award of Distinction. Haseem is passionate about mentoring students and junior colleagues to achieve their goals.

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Saturday 10:15

Encompass Education: Reducing the attainment gap

Why it’s important to us, and what we are doing about it.

Encompass Education

Encompass Education is a social enterprise committed to reducing the attainment gap between secondary school pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds and their classmates, by providing high quality tuition that they may not usually be able to access.

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Saturday 10:30

Reframing Widening Participation

This keynote will consider the limitations of current widening participation frameworks, particularly those seeped in deficit assumptions. Introducing principles from social justice theories, I will offer new ways of thinking about widening participation. This will include unsettling taken-for-granted assumptions about, for example, potential and capability. I aim to enable a dismantling of deficit assumptions, a critique of “excellence” and the facilitation of equity-principled widening participation frameworks.

Professor Penny Jane Burke

Professor Penny Jane Burke is Global Innovation Chair of Equity and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Equity in Higher Education at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Passionately dedicated to developing methodological, theoretical and pedagogical frameworks that support critical understanding and practice of equity and social justice in HE, her authored books include Accessing Education effectively widening participation (Burke, 2002, Trentham Books), Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning: Feminist Interventions (Burke and Jackson, 2007, Routledge), The Right to Higher Education: Beyond widening participation (Burke, 2012, Routledge) and Changing Pedagogical Spaces in Higher Education (Burke, Crozier and Misiaszek, 2016, Routledge). Penny is an Executive Editor of Teaching in Higher Education, Global Chair of Social Innovation at University of Bath, honorary professor at University of Exeter and has held the posts of Professor at the University of Roehampton, the University of Sussex and Reader at the Institute of Education, University of London.