CGHE 12th annual conference 2027: Call for panel, roundtable and workshop proposals

CGHE 2027: Universities in an algorithmic age: Data, AI and the future of higher education

Date: 22-23 April 2027

Location: Department of Education, Oxford University

Higher education systems around the world are being transformed by the embedding of algorithmic capitalism into teaching, learning and research. Commercially-owned large language models and AI tools are transforming the way academics and students think, collaborate, write and publish. Whether discussed through the analytical lens of ‘platformisation’, ‘big data’ ‘learning analytics’ or ‘ed-tech’, differential digital access and support within and between higher education systems is creating new divides and enclosures. Critics point to growing surveillance, data-extractivism and the corruption of science.

As ever, with threat comes opportunity. AI tools accelerate research and discovery, enable new forms of pedagogy, facilitate virtual mobility and open up access to knowledge. There is also growing resistance to corporate logics, with calls for regenerative, ecologically sustainable and reparative universities. Many academics and research policy actors are committed to building not-profit Open Science infrastructures and a shared knowledge commons.

We invite research students, researchers and higher education professionals to propose panels, roundtables and other forms of inclusive dialogue (e.g. sandpits, creative workshops, collaboratories) that they would like to convene at CGHE 2027 on these and related topics. Proposals will be selected on the basis of their fit with the conference theme and available room space and time.

Deadline for panel proposals is 30 September 2026. Please send to david.mills@education.ox.ac.uk