Pharmacy Education Conference 2025

Bringing together scientists, pharmacists and educators involved in pharmacy teaching.

The twelfth Pharmacy Education Conference takes place on Monday 30 June 2025 in University Place, Manchester. We are looking forward to welcoming you.

This conference seeks to bring together scientists, pharmacists and educators involved in undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy teaching. It is an opportunity to meet colleagues, share good practice and learn about developments in pharmacy education. 

Abstracts

Once again we are inviting colleagues to submit abstracts for the conference, to one of two streams:

The abstract submission portal will open at the beginning of December and close on Monday 27th January 2025.

This year’s theme:

Shaping the Future of Inclusive Pharmacy Education and Practice: Collaboration, Innovation, and Excellence.

Completed work

Abstracts presenting scholarship based on COMPLETED pharmacy education research (including completed teaching evaluation) that include a study design, methods and results.

Teaching innovation and Work in progress

Abstracts describing INNOVATION in pharmacy education that report novel teaching, learning or assessment approaches which have not yet been fully evaluated OR abstracts describing pharmacy education research WORK IN PROGRESS where preliminary findings can be presented at the conference in June.

Please submit abstracts using our dedicated portal:

Registration

There will be a conference early bird rate of £80 per delegate until Friday 2nd May 2025. The standard rate of £90 per delegate will be payable after 2nd May until the final deadline for registration on 13th June 2025.

You will be able to book tickets here from Febraury 2025

Getting in touch

If you have any questions about the event, email pharmacy.conference@manchester.ac.uk

Making your way to the University of Manchester

Previous events

Previous events have included a keynote address from the following speakers:

  • Professor Anne Boyter (University of Strathclyde)
  • Damian Day (Head of Education at the General Pharmaceutical Council);
  • Dr Keith Ridge (Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, Supporting NHS England, Department of Health and Health Education England);
  • Professor Stephanie Marshall (Chief Executive, Higher Education Academy);
  • Professor Ian Bates (Professor of Pharmacy Education, UCL. Director, FIP Education);
  • Professor Phil Race
  • Professor Lezley-Anne Hanna (Queen’s University Belfast)
  • Marc Donovan (Chief Pharmacist, Boots UK)

Previous conferences have also included oral presentations, workshops, posters and a technology showcase.

Please see links below for abstracts featured in the Pharmacy Education Journal: