RExChange 2026

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
TimeSession TitleDetails
1:00pmWelcome, Keynote and Q&ANavigating Controversy: Teaching in Unsettled TimesSpeakers: Amy Ark, Fay Lowe, Shammi Rahman
2:00pmBreak
2:15pmSeminar 1Delegates will choose one option on the dayJustine Ball: Informed Encounters: Using Research to Improve Visitor Engagement in RECatriona Card: Using Persona Dolls for a disciplinary approach to Early Years REPaul Hopkins: Why Religion and Worldviews Education needs to be engaged and active on G-AIJas Jacques-Butterworth: Can the gender gap be closed in religious studies?Ann Pittaway: Supporting Primary RE Teachers to Foster Pupil Spiritual OracyKuljinder 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.
3:00pmBreak
3:15pmSeminar 2Delegates will choose one option on the dayGeneva Blackmer: Who gets to speak? Representation, Coloniality and Disruptive Praxis in Interfaith Engagement.Trevor Cooling: Theology, Faith and Research: Autobiographical Reflections on Personal KnowledgeAngela Goodman: Understanding Critical Religious Education (CRE) in practiceLucien Likandja: Engaging with Global Learning in REPaul Marvin: Spaces of Discomfort and their importance in the RE ClassroomAdam Robertson and Josh Cass: Contested Issues and Trade-Offs: Extending Freedom of Religion or Belief frameworks from Primary to Secondary ClassroomsLeo Taylor and Elizabeth Phillips: From outreach to partnership: Embedding Interfaith Learning in Schools.
4:00pmBreak
4:15pmSeminar 3Delegates will choose one option on the daySarah Dennis: Teaching sacred stories through a multidisciplinary approach to Upper Key Stage 2Rob 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 classroomMark Plater and Louisa Newton: Worldviews Clarification Classroom ProjectJoseph Ramsden, Roman Williams and Amina Atiq: Lessons from Interfaith Photovoice in LiverpoolSteph Whyte: What even is Religious and Moral Education? Sharing Practice in RME (RMPS)Samuel Yates: What would a robust non-religious curriculum feel like?
5:00pmBreak
5:15pmTwo parallel In Conversation sessionsReligion and worldviews education – why it matters beyond the classroomA: Geo-Political Perspectives
B: Social and Community Perspectives
6:00pmBreak
7:00pmKeynoteHow storytelling can lead to transformative conversations about race and religionSpeakers: Robert Beckford, Alexandra Brown, Janet Orchard

Saturday 10th October 2026
TimeSession TitleDetails
9:00amWelcome and recap on Friday sessions
9:15amSeminar 4Delegates will choose one option on the dayElaine Arundell: Designing Inclusive RE Experiences through Creative SongClaire Clinton, Lucy Still, Taranum Afshan and Marie Hardie: Learning from pupils in REShazia Gleadall: How do religious studies teachers talk about Israel and Palestine?Phoebe Harvey: The Role of RE in Challenging Misogyny in UK Secondary SchoolsTom Haward and Alexis Stones: Art and History for RE: Seeing, Knowing, FeelingKrishan Parker: Teaching Dharmic Traditions: Lived Experience in the RE ClassroomJane Yates: Untranslatability in Religious Education: From classroom curiosity to PhD research
10:00amBreak
10:15amKeynote Session with Q&ACurriculum Research Conversations: Four nations perspectivesRichard Kueh with Katie Freeman (England)
James Nelson with TBC (NI)
Stephen Scholes with Terri Barry (Scotland)
Jennifer Harding-Richards with Jennie Downes (Wales)
11:15amBreak
11:30amThree Parallel In Conversation Sessions Building inclusive, reflective and relational approaches to religion and worldviews educationA: Inclusion, including SEND and Alternative Provision
B: Personal Knowledge and Reflexivity
C: Interfaith and Belief Relations
12:30pmPlenary and end of conference reflectionsIan 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)
1:00pmConference ends

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