Practitioner Development Workshop (PDW) Proposals

Submit your PDW Proposal here by 1 December 2025:

To the submission system

Specific guidelines

PDW Sessions should focus on an issue in practice, such as the development and delivery of enterprise and entrepreneurship courses, pedagogic practice and learner communities, programme development and entrepreneurial learner journeys, extra-curricular initiatives, education strategy or stakeholder engagement. The purpose of the sessions is to share practice and provide opportunities for discussion.

It is particularly important that presenters include approaches that will encourage activation, interaction and that will help the audience with their professional development. Given the theme of the
conference, workshops with a responsible, systemic and/or democratic element will be especially
welcomed. As this is a research conference, we are interested to receive submissions that present
examples of practice that have been informed by research with impact, however this is not an essential
requirement for submission and should not be the focus of the PDW presentation at the conference.

Proposals should not exceed two (2) single-spaced pages and may not exceed the maximum limit of 700 words. The author(s) name and information should NOT appear anywhere on the proposal. If you submit more than 2 abstracts, we will ask you to withdraw the additional abstracts.

Proposals should include the following information:

  • Importance of the topic for entrepreneurship education practice
  • Questions, challenges, and problems to be asked and addressed
  • How you intend to engage the audience and what takeaways a delegate should expect for their own practice context from participation.

As a guideline, we strongly suggest that PDW Proposals are structured under the following headings:

  1. Workshop title
  2. Questions we care about – Aim and summary
  3. Workshop Approach
  4. Expected Outcomes
  5. Details of any related research
  6. Takeaways for EE teaching practice

When a PDW proposal is deemed more suitable for a research paper by reviewers, authors will be asked whether they would submit instead as a Research Paper abstract. If affirmative, they are required to follow the Research Paper abstract format and prepare for a presentation session instead.

A Best PDW Award will be given to the workshop with an interesting question we care about, and with an engaging execution of the workshop.