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
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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) Stephen Scholes (AULRE, Scotland) Paul Smalley (NASACRE) Sean Whittle (AULRE) Kathryn Wright (Culham St Gabriel’s) |
| 1:00pm | Conference ends |
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