ECE2025

July 10–14, 2025 | SOAS & University College London, UK

The 13th European Conference on Education (ECE2025) was held in partnership with Birkbeck, University of London, the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, and in affiliation with University College London (UCL).

It was wonderful to be able to welcome delegates back to London, and to an interdisciplinary event that has firmly established itself in the conference calendar of the International Academic Forum, one that has attracted some 600 attendees from more than 70 different countries to engage across the boundaries of nation, culture, and discipline.

This year brought together the 13th European Conference on Education (ECE2025), the 13th European Conference on Arts and Humanities (ECAH2025), and the 5th European Conference on Aging and Gerontology (EGen2025), with four packed and carefully curated days onsite, followed by one online. Days 1 and 2 were plenary days designed to bring together delegates across disciplines at the intersection of academic knowledge, everyday knowledge, and public policy, with featured speakers and panels. The plenaries also offered different spaces for engagement, discussion, and networking, including our poster session, our Forum session, but also our welcome reception, conference dinner, and pub quiz event! Days 3 and 4 were thematically streamed parallel sessions and form the heart of the academic conference, continuing online on day 5.

We would like to acknowledge the International Academic Board and the local conference and Review Committees for their work in ensuring the event continues to be a success; the keynotes, plenary speakers, and panellists; and our global and local partners: most notably for this event to University College London (UCL), Birkbeck University of London, and the University of Sussex.

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The Conference in Pictures

Conference Committees

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Global Programme Committee

Professor Anne Boddington, IAFOR, Japan (IAB Chair)
Dr Joseph Haldane, IAFOR & Osaka University, Japan, & University College London, United Kingdom
Professor Jun Arima, IAFOR & University of Tokyo, Japan
Professor Virgil Hawkins, IAFOR Research Centre & Osaka University, Japan
Mr Lowell Sheppard, IAFOR & Never Too Late Academy, Japan

Dr Susana Barreto, University of Porto, Portugal
Professor Grant Black, Chuo University, Japan
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, United Kingdom
Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States
Professor Brendan Howe, Ewha Womans University, South Korea & The Asian Political and International Studies Association (APISA)
Dr James W. McNally, University of Michigan, United States & NACDA Program on Aging

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Professor Anne Boddington, Executive Vice-President and Provost, IAFOR & Middlesex University, United Kingdom
Dr Evangelia Chrysikou, Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Mehmet Demir, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom
Dr Joseph Haldane, IAFOR and Osaka University, Japan, & University College London, United Kingdom (Conference Co-chair)
Professor Donald E. Hall, Binghamton University, United States
Dr Jacqueline Lottin, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Dr David Mallows, University College London Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Professor Andrea Révész, University College London Institute of Education, United Kingdom
Dr Ian Scott, University College London, United Kingdom
Dr Marcelo Staricoff, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Conference Review Committee

Dr Akeem Adekunle, University of Lagos, Nigeria
Dr Samra Afzal, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr Pallavi Aggarwal, University of Missouri-Sanit Louis, United States
Professor Adelina Asmawi, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Dr Chahra Beloufa, Arab Open University, Saudi Arabia
Dr Sook Fui Chin, Quest International University, Malaysia
Dr Trinette Colina, University of the East Manila, Philippines
Dr Hazel Diaz, Central Luzon State University, Philippines
Dr Doaa Hamam, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Dr Wendy Hiew, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
Dr Aderinsola Kayode, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Dr Lewis Teo Piaw Liew, Politeknik Kuching Sarawak, Malaysia
Dr Christopher Martin, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Dr Hiea Mizyed, Higher Colleges of Technology, United Arab Emirates
Dr Angela Mary Nicol, All Saints' College, Australia
Dr Obianuju Okeke-uzodike, Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Dr Catherine Phillips, Lakehead University, Canada
Professor Alexandra Sofia Rodrigues, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Dr Dilnoza Ruzmatova, Uzbekistan State University of World Languages, Uzbekistan
Dr Ying Wu, University of Dundee, United Kingdom
Dr Cordelia Yates, Morningside University, United States
Dr Yvonne Chin Chen Yong, Ministry of Education, Brunei

IAFOR Research Centre (IRC) – “Innovation and Value Initiative”

The IAFOR Research Centre (IRC) is housed within Osaka University’s School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), and in June 2018 the IRC began an ambitious new “Innovation and Value Initiative”. Officially launched at the United Nations in a special UN-IAFOR Collaborative Session, the initiative seeks to bring together the best in interdisciplinary research around the concept of value, on how value can be recognised, and measured, and how this can help us address issues and solve problems, from the local to the global.