Registration for RExChange 2026 is now open!
Friday 9th and Saturday 10th October 2026
This is a virtual event and will take place via Zoom.
RExChange 2026 Programme
Please click on the date below to expand the programme details for each day.
Friday 9th October 2026
| Time | Session Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Welcome, Keynote and Q&A | Navigating Controversy: Teaching in Unsettled Times Speakers: Amy Ark, Fay Lowe, Shammi Rahman |
| 2:00pm | Break | |
| 2:15pm | Seminar 1 | Delegates will choose one option on the day Justine Ball: Informed Encounters: Using Research to Improve Visitor Engagement in RE Catriona Card: Using Persona Dolls for a disciplinary approach to Early Years RE Paul Hopkins: Why Religion and Worldviews Education needs to be engaged and active on G-AI Jas Jacques-Butterworth: Can the gender gap be closed in religious studies? Ann Pittaway: Supporting Primary RE Teachers to Foster Pupil Spiritual Oracy Kuljinder Shokar and Kelly Keatley: Dipping our toes into research: Two examples of first-time research projects. Alice Thomas: Developing ‘Dialogue, Diversity and Worldviews’ within the Nottingham Local Agreed Syllabus. |
| 3:00pm | Break | |
| 3:15pm | Seminar 2 | Delegates will choose one option on the day Geneva Blackmer: Who gets to speak? Representation, Coloniality and Disruptive Praxis in Interfaith Engagement. Trevor Cooling: Theology, Faith and Research: Autobiographical Reflections on Personal Knowledge Angela Goodman: Understanding Critical Religious Education (CRE) in practice Lucien Likandja: Engaging with Global Learning in RE Paul Marvin: Spaces of Discomfort and their importance in the RE Classroom Adam Robertson and Josh Cass: Contested Issues and Trade-Offs: Extending Freedom of Religion or Belief frameworks from Primary to Secondary Classrooms Leo Taylor and Elizabeth Phillips: From outreach to partnership: Embedding Interfaith Learning in Schools. |
| 4:00pm | Break | |
| 4:15pm | Seminar 3 | Delegates will choose one option on the day Sarah Dennis: Teaching sacred stories through a multidisciplinary approach to Upper Key Stage 2 Rob Freathy: Assessment and (Digital) Badges: New Terrain for ‘Ways of Knowing’? Stephen Pett and Jon Lanman: Exploring Atheism: exploring data on non-religion in the classroom Mark Plater and Louisa Newton: Worldviews Clarification Classroom Project Joseph Ramsden, Roman Williams and Amina Atiq: Lessons from Interfaith Photovoice in Liverpool Steph Whyte: What even is Religious and Moral Education? Sharing Practice in RME (RMPS) Samuel Yates: What would a robust non-religious curriculum feel like? |
| 5:00pm | Break | |
| 5:15pm | Two parallel In Conversation sessions | Religion and worldviews education – why it matters beyond the classroom A: Geo-Political Perspectives B: Social and Community Perspectives |
| 6:00pm | Break | |
| 7:00pm | Keynote | How storytelling can lead to transformative conversations about race and religion Speakers: Robert Beckford, Alexandra Brown, Janet Orchard |
Saturday 10th October 2026
| Time | Session Title | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00am | Welcome and recap on Friday sessions | |
| 9:15am | Seminar 4 | Delegates will choose one option on the day Elaine Arundell: Designing Inclusive RE Experiences through Creative Song Claire Clinton, Lucy Still, Taranum Afshan and Marie Hardie: Learning from pupils in RE Shazia Gleadall: How do religious studies teachers talk about Israel and Palestine? Phoebe Harvey: The Role of RE in Challenging Misogyny in UK Secondary Schools Tom Haward and Alexis Stones: Art and History for RE: Seeing, Knowing, Feeling Krishan Parker: Teaching Dharmic Traditions: Lived Experience in the RE Classroom Jane Yates: Untranslatability in Religious Education: From classroom curiosity to PhD research |
| 10:00am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Keynote Session with Q&A | Curriculum Research Conversations: Four nations perspectives Richard Kueh with Katie Freeman (England) James Nelson with TBC (NI) Stephen Scholes with Terri Barry (Scotland) Jennifer Harding-Richards with Jennie Downes (Wales) |
| 11:15am | Break | |
| 11:30am | Three Parallel In Conversation Sessions | Building inclusive, reflective and relational approaches to religion and worldviews education A: Inclusion, including SEND and Alternative Provision B: Personal Knowledge and Reflexivity C: Interfaith and Belief Relations |
| 12:30pm | Plenary and end of conference reflections | Ian Coles (NATRE, Primary) Tim Hutchings (TRS-UK) Kelly Keatley (NATRE, Secondary) Ruth Marx (AREIAC) Fiona Moss (Culham St Gabriel’s) Ed Pawson (RE Council)Paul Smalley (NASACRE) Sean Whittle (AULRE) Kathryn Wright (Culham St Gabriel’s) |
| 1:00pm | Conference ends |
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