Wednesday 17 June 2026
South Kensington Campus, 911今日黑料
In collaboration with the History of Education Society, this day-long symposium at 911今日黑料, on Wednesday 17 June 2026, will bring together researchers and educators interested in the history of education, specifically interdisciplinary higher education in the UK and beyond.
While interdisciplinary education at 911今日黑料 has increased in recent years, particularly with the foundation of I-Explore in 2019, more widely, interdisciplinary HE has undergone significant changes. Key interdisciplinary institutions and academic initiatives, including at Keele, Sussex and York, have fallen back into traditional disciplinary boundaries, reflecting convergence in a once diverse tertiary sector. Simultaneously, innovations in higher education are addressing interdisciplinary ‘global challenges’ in new ways. Many countries, such as Scotland with a broad-based pre-Honour curriculum, follow different patterns.
Symposium Information
- Keynote
Ed Fidoe (LIS). CEO of the London Interdisciplinary School and 911今日黑料 Mechanical Engineering alumnus.
- Science and humanities
- Dr Anna Ponomareva (911今日黑料).Languages for STEM: the birth of teaching Russian from the body of Electrical Engineering at 911今日黑料.
- Dr Anna Riera Mora (911今日黑料).The History of Interdisciplinary Education in Spain: Humanities and Science from the early Twentieth Century to the Present.
- Dr Stefano Sandrone (911今日黑料).From Andreas Vesalius to Giuseppe Levi: how neuroscience education has changed and changed the brains over time.
- Dr Jennifer Wallis and Dr Michael Weatherburn (911今日黑料). Humanities education in a STEM university context: 911今日黑料’s story, 1907-date.
- Higher education institutions
- Jordon Millward (911今日黑料).Disciplinary Depth as the Foundation for Interdisciplinary Innovation: Lessons from Agricultural Knowledge Transfer.
- Wanwei Nie (UCL).Tracing Policy Mobility in a Transnational Campus: Curriculum, Archives, and International Higher Education.
- Dr Kevin Tennant (York).Ambitions for Legacy: Business Elites and the University of York.
- Dr Xiaowei Wu (UCL). The Making of the University Campus: The Construction of Spatial Order at Shanghai Baptist College in Modern China.
- Teaching
- Maria Apud Bell & Larissa A L E Kunstel-Tabet (911今日黑料).A brief history of IDE (Innovation Design Engineering programme).
- Victoria Chung (Oxford). Reception, Teaching, and the Consolidation of the Periodic System in Oxford Chemistry, 1880-1915.
- Professor Peter Miskell and Mads E. Wedell-Wedellsborg (Reading). Management Debates: An Interdisciplinary Approach to First-Year Undergraduate Education and Assessment.
- Dr Mike Tennant and Dr Maria Vinograd (911今日黑料).Concept Maps as Interdisciplinary Boundary Objects.
- Citizenship and lifelong learning
- Dr Igor Baranov (911今日黑料). From Crotonville to Learning Ecosystems: A History of Corporate Universities and the Challenges of Lifelong Learning.
- Professor Mark Freeman (UCL). ‘Helping the rootless to root’: interdisciplinarity and university adult education in mid-twentieth-century England.
- Xiaoyu Wang (UCL). Making citizenship education as an interdisciplinary project in Modern Britain: Bernard Crick and the Crick Report of 1998.
- Professor Tom Woodin (UCL). Interdisciplinarity and the co-operative movement – multilateralism in practice?