The conference welcomes papers, roundtables, symposia and posters which address one or more of the following themes and aspects:

• Neoliberalism and marketisation and its impact on learners, adult educators and institutions as well as strategies and policies to overcome this in different learning contexts

• Using adult education as a space for resistance for building a more humanistic education for social purpose and social justice

• Issues of access and who gets access to what

• The development of learning careers and identities

• Issues of inequalities (class, gender, ethnicity, disability and age) and the intersection of these

• Methodological approaches.