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Professor Ellen Boeren gave a keynote presentation at the Lifelong Learning Conference, which took place in Brussels on 17 and 18 April 2024. Organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, this event was attended by a wide range of relevant lifelong learning stakeholders from across the European Union.

Many CR&DALL members and subscribers will have known or known of Professor John Field, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Stirling. It is with great sadness to report that he died on Monday 25 March.  He was a titan in the field of adult education and great fun to be with.

Kate Reid, Core CR&DALL member has just returned from Indonesia (Yogyakarta) with other UoG colleagues from MRC/CSO Social and Public health sciences unit. This was a collaborators meeting to support continued research activity and capacity building with our research partners located from - Department of Psychology De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and our hosts for the week, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada.

This joint CR&DALL and Waste Stories Briefing Paper argues that we need to cultivate waste literacies – capacities to read and make meaning from signs and symbols relating to waste – if we are to navigate a path out of the current Waste Age. It puts forward three different ways that literacies allow learning and meaning-making, and gives examples of what waste literacies might look like in practice.

Qualitative research has increasingly been utilising visual methods such as drawing to collect richer insights from participants of all ages and backgrounds, including vulnerable populations. In this presentation, Dr Sarah Anderson and Dr Yulia Nesterova (University of Glasgow) demonstrate the methodological potential of a structured arts-based workshop and reflect on its effectiveness in collecting rich data with young people.
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