Katharina Schiller

Accelerated decarbonization of academic conferences is necessary and urgent. Despite the window of opportunity that COVID-19 created for rethinking conferences, there is a risk of slipping back into old habits now that restrictions are lifted. This commentary reports on recent experiences with a unique, sustainable approach to academic conferencing involving an international partnership and hub … from Transitioning to sustainable academic conferences needs more experimentation and reflection

This simple Miro tool was developed for the five-day ‘live reflection and learning’ journey at the TIP conference in 2022, to help guide participants through a day-by-day exploration of three cross-cutting conference aims: Networking Aligning visions Learning and unlearning Each day, participants were invited to answer a series of reflective questions, share their personal experiences … from Tool: Live reflection and learning at the TIP conference

The conference theory of change illustrates how the experimentation committee sought to design, execute and evaluate the conference as a transformative experiment. It shows the activities, assumptions, outputs, transformative outcome and long-term goals behind building a sustainable and inclusive knowledge infrastructure for systemic transformation pathways.     … from Conference theory of change

These slides accompany the video on experimentation at the conference, setting out the need to go beyond traditional conferences, what we mean by experimentation in this context, and the experimental methodology. The slides also show the transformative theory of change for the event and the monitoring, evaluation and learning plan. … from Slides: Experimenting with the TIP conference

Can a conference be delivered as a transformative experiment? This thought-provoking recording sets out the work of the experimentation committee for the TIP conference in 2022, introducing why the choice was made to experiment with the conference and how this was done. The presentation shares the transformative theory of change and monitoring, evaluation and learning … from Experimentation and evaluation at the TIP conference