Escape Rooms in Education
Showcase 2026 - Dates to be confirmed
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Escape Rooms in Education Showcase 2026 ….

Conferences Chairs: Clare Thomson, Heriot-Watt University and Briyana Morrell, University of Indianapolis.

Following another fun filled two days in 2025 we are already planning new and exciting sessions for the coming year. Watch out on social media and inboxes for news and confirmation of dates in 2026. Check out the fantastic talks from 2025 on the playlist list on the LTA YouTube channel.

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Feedback 2025: Experience in three words

Previous Showcase Resources

Escape rooms are rising in prominence within education and whilst colleagues have shared their experiences at conferences, we wanted a dedicated online event to showcase and champion their use across the sector. So, in 2023 we put together an exciting line-up of keynote talks, workshops and shared practice sessions with colleagues across education into an online showcase. This turned out to be not only a day to escape from presentations and escape rooms but one that give attendees the opportunity for escapism from the day job. Overall, this was very much a cameras on by choice event – with pets and children joining in across the day – and was a very energetic end to the academic year. Building on this success the second showcase took place on 10 May 2024 and the third on 15-16 May 2025. Links to resources and recordings for each year can be accessed below.

2025

Conferences Chairs: Clare Thomson, Heriot-Watt University and Briyana Morrell, University of Indianapolis.

Keynotes

Thursday

Scott Nicholson, Professor, Game Design and Development, Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford, Ontario, Canada.

Friday

Dr Jasmeen Kanwal and Kate Farrell, the Data Education in Schools project, the University of Edinburgh, UK.

2024

Conference committee: Clare Thomson, Gimhan Godawatte, Gordon Craig, Rachel Goh, Rosemarie McIlwhan and Suzanne Lampert.

This was such an inclusive event, thank you for making it possible for me to attend at a distance and in another time zone.

It was a great day and I liked how things were planned out with the breaks between sessions and a clear overview of what was on at each session. Well done to all who put it together – I can’t imagine how much organisation went into it all!

The balance of “here’s some inspiration based on what the speaker has done” with the “this is a framework/ guidance for how you can do it” and the “here’s the theory underpinning it” was absolutely spot on. I felt like I have ideas, but also know how to start with them and why they might be effective too. Really well done.

2023

Conference committee: Clare Thomson, Rosemarie McIlwhan, Coral Condeco-Dunachie and Debb Baff