The EFL project team coordinates an annual Showcase event that brings together fieldwork educators from a range to disciplines to share innovations in field teaching and learning with a particular focus on the use of technology.
We are delighted to announce that the 16th Enhancing Fieldwork Learning Showcase will focus on the theme of ‘Bridging the Divide’. The free Showcase Event will be held on 8-9th September 2026. The hybrid event will be in-person at the University of Southampton and broadcast online.
We are pleased to confirm two Keynote speakers – Dr Nicholas Worsfold (Brunel University) and Alan Parkinson (King’s Ely Prep School / Royal Geographical Society) – who will speak about their experiences of bridging the divide from school to HE in addition to reflecting on how AI can be used most effectively in bridging digital and real world learning. There will also be opportunities to trial innovative survey and field sensing technologies with Environmental Sensing @ Southampton: https://esas.soton.ac.uk/.
This year’s broad theme of ‘Bridging the Divide’ could include pedagogic research and scholarship into fieldwork topics such as:
* Bridging geopolitical divisions through international field experiences
* Bridging AI (& big data) and real-world learning
* Bridging gaps in staff and student expectations/wants from fieldwork
* Bridging route from school to HE to employment
* Bridging human vs physical geography
* Bridging between field and lab
We are accepting abstracts for presentations and field demonstrations: https://forms.gle/puD2sARkKSzVzrxTA. Deadline 5th June.
Registration for online and in-person attendance is also open: https://forms.gle/nnefo7F7pLxRNdiS6
Join us for talks, hands-on workshops, field-based learning and lots of discussion!