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Research // Engaging with research // Conferences // RExChange 2026

RExChange 2026

RE x Change by Culham St Gabriel's

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

  1. Justine Ball: Informed Encounters: Using Research to Improve Visitor Engagement in RE
  2. Catriona Card: Using Persona Dolls for a disciplinary approach to Early Years RE
  3. Paul Hopkins: Why Religion and Worldviews Education needs to be engaged and active on G-AI
  4. Jas Jacques-Butterworth: Can the gender gap be closed in religious studies?
  5. Ann Pittaway: Supporting Primary RE Teachers to Foster Pupil Spiritual Oracy
  6. Kuljinder Shokar and Kelly Keatley: Dipping our toes into research: Two examples of first-time research projects.
  7. 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

  1. Geneva Blackmer: Who gets to speak? Representation, Coloniality and Disruptive Praxis in Interfaith Engagement.
  2. Trevor Cooling: Theology, Faith and Research: Autobiographical Reflections on Personal Knowledge
  3. Angela Goodman: Understanding Critical Religious Education (CRE) in practice
  4. Lucien Likandja: Engaging with Global Learning in RE
  5. Paul Marvin: Spaces of Discomfort and their importance in the RE Classroom
  6. Adam Robertson and Josh Cass: Contested Issues and Trade-Offs: Extending Freedom of Religion or Belief frameworks from Primary to Secondary Classrooms
  7. 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

  1. Sarah Dennis: Teaching sacred stories through a multidisciplinary approach to Upper Key Stage 2
  2. Rob Freathy: Assessment and (Digital) Badges: New Terrain for ‘Ways of Knowing’?
  3. Stephen Pett and Jon Lanman: Exploring Atheism: exploring data on non-religion in the classroom
  4. Mark Plater and Louisa Newton: Worldviews Clarification Classroom Project
  5. Joseph Ramsden, Roman Williams and Amina Atiq: Lessons from Interfaith Photovoice in Liverpool
  6. Steph Whyte: What even is Religious and Moral Education? Sharing Practice in RME (RMPS)
  7. 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

  1. Elaine Arundell: Designing Inclusive RE Experiences through Creative Song
  2. Claire Clinton, Lucy Still, Taranum Afshan and Marie Hardie: Learning from pupils in RE
  3. Shazia Gleadall: How do religious studies teachers talk about Israel and Palestine?
  4. Phoebe Harvey: The Role of RE in Challenging Misogyny in UK Secondary Schools
  5. Tom Haward and Alexis Stones: Art and History for RE: Seeing, Knowing, Feeling
  6. Krishan Parker: Teaching Dharmic Traditions: Lived Experience in the RE Classroom
  7. 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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