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Supporting student success in a time of challenge and change
Supporting student success in a time of challenge and change
The 6th annual City of Glasgow College Learning & Teaching conference took place at City Campus on Tuesday 20th January 2026. The conference's main theme explored how tertiary education can evolve to meet the needs of a diverse and changing student population. It brought together practitioners to share strategies for fostering student success through inclusive support, responsive pedagogies and future-focused innovation.
The conference programme included a range of presentations, workshops, lightning talks and posters focussed on 4 sub-themes:
Inclusion and belonging – widening access, accessibility, elevating the student voice, diverse communities.
The changing learner – anticipating diversity, recognising the ‘whole student’, trauma informed practice, Universal Design for Learning.
Employability – industry-preparedness, creative approaches to developing metaskills, embedding employer partnerships, igniting citizenship.
Supporting successful outcomes – exploring retention, developing flexible learning pathways, responsive pedagogies, students as partners.
Programme
Programme
9.30 - 10.00: Welcome and opening: Professor Paul GK Little CBE DL
10.00 - 10.50: Keynote: Darren McGarvey
10.50 - 11.10: Break
11.15 – 12.15: Parallel sessions 1
12.15 - 12:55: Lunch
13.00 - 13.40: Panel
13.45- 14.45: Parallel sessions 2
14.50 - 15.00: Close (& refreshments)
Explore summary information for posters and parallel sessions below.
CoGC_conf_prog_26.pdfKeynote address: Darren McGarvey
Keynote address: Darren McGarvey
This year’s theme, Supporting Student Success in a time of Challenge and Change, was explored through a full programme of sessions, and we were delighted to welcome Darren McGarvey as our keynote speaker.
Darren, author of Poverty Safari and Trauma Industrial Complex, is widely respected for his work on social inequality, community experience, and the realities facing working-class families.
Discussion panel
Discussion panel
As well as delivering our keynote address in the morning, we are delighted that Darren could join our afternoon discussion panel to consider insights and perspectives on supporting students success from across the sector.
Our other warmly welcomed panel members were:
Vikki Hill, Director of Learning Enhancement and Academic Development, Queen Margaret University
Eve Lewis, Director, sparqs
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