How do distance doctoral students learn about and access conferences? (James Burford)

In this post, Conference Inference Co-Editor James Burford considers the experiences of distance doctoral students in accessing conference opportunities and introduces a new survey he and colleagues have launched on distance doctoral education.

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Can making connections between flying-less & decolonizing universities help us understand how to reduce air travel & resource consumption in higher education? (Stephen Allen, Joe Nevins & Matt Watson)

In this post, Stephen, Joe and Matt explain how calls to decolonize universities need to connect with action to reduce academic flying to conferences and meetings.

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Going Rogue: Teachers designing their own conferences as a transgressive act (Philippa Nicoll Antipas)

In this post, Philippa Nicoll Antipas re-considers conferences as sites for teacher professional learning and development. She details her PhD research project Plan D, a game-like collective activity whereby teachers are supported to go rogue and design their own professional learning and development needs.

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An experiment with listening: Creating found poems from conference presentations (Adrian Schoone & Sarah Penwarden)

In this post Adrian Schoone and Sarah Penwarden describe how writing found poetry can be a creative approach to engage with conference presentations and provide pointers for writing conference poems.

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Another year of conference inferences! 5th anniversary post (James Burford & Emily F. Henderson)

In this post, we reflect back on another extraordinary year of blogging about conferences.

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Life behind the screen: Reflections on gathering online (Lee Smith)

In this post Lee Smith reflects on the experience of attending the same conference twelve years apart and the high and low points of online versus in person conferences and symposia.

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Life after the online conference: Where do we go from here? (Geoff Lewis)

In this post, Geoff Lewis explores some of the challenges that online conferences have posed for the research community as well as the possibilities these virtual events present for the future.

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The Conference as Village: Oceanic Sociality in Academic Spaces (Kabini Sanga & Martyn Reynolds)

In this post Kabini Sanga & Martyn Reynolds discuss ideas of the conference as village informed by Oceanic wisdom.

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Systemic Functional Linguistics and its application to the study of academic conference presentations (Carolina Viera & Maite Taboada)

In this post, Carolina Viera and Maite Taboada analyze the language of conference presentations, focusing on their structure and linguistic characteristics. They find that presenters of linguistics and literature academic presentations in Spanish shape their discourse around social and professional expectations, with the more experienced presenters following the conventions of the genre more closely when the social function of the language is considered.

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