Professional Development Events and Seminars
LEAD offer a range of professional development events, workshops and seminars throughout the year aimed at enhancing academic practices. These events include a combination of peer-led practice sharing exchanges, inter-institutional seminars, support for technology-enhanced learning and workshops led by a range of national and international experts on topics of strategic importance. Staff from all departments and at all stages of their careers are warmly encouraged to attend and we welcome suggestions for PD events that might be useful to your team or department.
What to know what's on? Check out our schedule of events below:
October 2026
Please click on the headings below for more information on each event and how to register.
Venue: GATE Centre – B10A, John Henry Newman, MIC Limerick
What might you try? This interactive session invites participants to explore practical digital pedagogy approaches that support meaningful and engaging learning. Through shared ideas and hands-on experimentation, participants will consider strategies that connect with their own teaching context and have time to play, adapt and try something new.
Venue: N/A
This event is open only to those who have been nominated for the 2026/27 Regional Teaching Excellence Awards.
Venue: GATE Centre - B10A, John Henry Newman, MIC Limerick
LEAD are delighted to welcome all staff and postgraduate students to the Welcome Launch of the Graduate and Academic Teaching Enhancement (GATE) Centre. This centre is a dedicated teaching, learning and digital resource space available to all MIC staff and postgraduate students. The resources and technology available in the GATE Centre will help support staff and postgraduate students in their teaching and learning, promotion of research and development of technical and transferable skills. We believe the resources within this centre will allow inclusive practices to flourish in the college. Please come and check out the GATE Centre and all that it can offer you, at a time that suits you between 1pm and 4pm, on Monday 5th of October. No registration necessary.
Venue: Hybrid: Online and GATE Centre – B10A, John Henry Newman, MIC Limerick
Explore ideas from the Core Four Theme 1: Designing for Quality Learning, with plenty of space to connect, share experiences and talk teaching with colleagues.
Venue: GATE Centre – B10A, John Henry Newman, MIC Limerick
All are welcome to join this session, offered as part of the Early Career Pathway on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. This workshop will explore how we can gather feedback on our teaching through multiples lenses (including ourselves, our students and our peers). It aims to help participants answer an important question, how can we know that we are doing in our classrooms is working?
Venue: Online
Keynote Presentation for National Academic Integrity Week with Prof. Mary Davis, Oxford Brookes University
This session will focus on ways to build institutional cultures of academic integrity through a strong focus on inclusion in policies and practice, building in Universal Design for Learning. It will advocate for the development of specific roles for students as champions of academic integrity who can help to ensure academic integrity is relevant, engaging and meaningful to all students.
At the heart of the session is a simple proposition: academic integrity in an AI-enabled university cannot rest on students, individual academics or policy alone. It depends on clear expectations, coherent approaches and collaboration across the institution.
Venue: Online
Keynote Presentation for National Academic Integrity Week with Dr Hazel Farrell, South Eastern Technological University
As generative AI becomes increasingly embedded in higher education, responding effectively requires more than individual policies, guidelines, or assessment changes. It requires a coordinated institutional approach that connects governance, communication, capability-building, curriculum and assessment, and places shared responsibility at its centre.
In this session, Dr Hazel Farrell, Academic Lead for Generative AI at South East Technological University (SETU), will explore how to move from initial reactions towards a more cohesive approach to responsible and meaningful AI integration.
Venue: GATE Centre – B10A, John Henry Newman, MIC Limerick
All are welcome to join this session, offered as part of the Early Career Pathway on the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice. This workshop will introduce the concept of SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) and support participants to identify potential SoTL questions arising from their own practice. Different ways of sharing academic practice will be explored, with a focus on identifying appropriate disciplinary fora for sharing teaching and learning enhancements.
