UFHRD Conference 2013

HRD in Turbulent Seas - Continued Global Economic Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities

5th to 7th June 2013
Brighton Business School, University of Brighton


UFHRD Teaching & Learning Prize 2013

The UFHRD Programme and Qualification Activities Committee is delighted to announce a prize of £500 for the best contribution to the UFHRD Teaching & Learning Resource bank.

The Teaching & Learning Resource Bank is a web-based facility which exists to support UFHRD members and to promote excellence in the teaching of HRD. Contributions to the Resource Bank can include case studies, designs for teaching and learning activities, reusable materials and more.

The prize will be a cheque for £500 made payable to the winning contributor (or the first named contributor in the case of multiple contributors).

Please see here for more details.


Special Issue Opportunities

Conference Chair, Maura Sheehan, is pleased to announce the opportunity to publish in Special Issues that have been agreed with journals, based on papers presented at the UFHRD conference in Brighton.

All papers submitted to Stream 1 of the conference, as well as relevant papers in other streams, will also be reviewed for publication in the journal Action Learning: Research & Practice.

In addition, best papers from Streams 6, 9, and 10 will have the opportunity to be considered for publication in special issues of Journal of Workplace Learning, Human Resource Management (Warsaw), and European Journal of Training and Development respectively.

The best papers from Stream 14 will also be reviewed for publication in a Special Issue of the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET) on Technology Enhanced Learning at Work.

Discussions are ongoing with other journals and we hope to announce additional Special Issues shortly.


Key dates:

We think it is important to examine HRD in the context of continued global economic uncertainty and volatility. The implications of this global economic climate for researchers, practitioners, and both private and public sector organisations will be examined.

The chosen theme, HRD in Turbulent Seas - Continued Global Economic Uncertainty: Challenges and Opportunities, reflects the location of the conference – Brighton, a popular seaside town - and the anticipation of continued global economic volatility and turbulence. It also reflects the forecasted general global slowdown in growth - including within the BRIC countries and economic stagnation and an increasing probability of a return to recession in key countries such as the US, the UK and Japan.

International Advisory Board


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