<p dir="ltr">The <a href="https://blogs.edgehill.ac.uk/acre/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">2024 Annual Conference for Research in Education (ACRE), 'The purpose, politics, and prospects of higher education'</a>, at Edge Hill University from 26th-28th June 2024, offers a forum for exploring and questioning policies and practices that shape higher education today, and the future prospects of the sector.</p><p dir="ltr">The posters presented here are:</p><ul><li>Danielle Byatte (Edge Hill University): Visual Literacy: A tool to develop academic participation within Education and lifelong applications.</li><li>Silvia Cont (Liverpool John Moores University): ITE trainee teachers’ experiences of Forest School Training Level 1: suggestions improvement and policies development.</li><li>Blessing Ogechukwu Patrick (Edge Hill University): The Role of Students' Perception of Internationalization of Higher Education (IoHE) in Mitigating Culture Shock for International Students.</li><li>Christina Rimmer (Edge Hill University): Exploring Mental Health: The Experiences of Higher Education Students.</li><li>Kellyann Stephen (Edge Hill University): Can co-creation using interactive learning tools (ILT) enhance student engagement in HE? A small-scale pedagogic research study using mixed method questionnaires.</li><li>Claire Wicher (Edge Hill University): Using co-design to conduct equitable research.</li><li>Anna Wooley (Edge Hill University): "I’m doing what I can with what I’ve got" - Staff perceptions of support for students with care experience in Higher Education.</li><li>Nathan Workman (University of Bath & Wenzhou Kean University): Access and opportunity: How Socio-economic Factors Influence the Challenges and Barriers Faced by Prospective International Students.</li></ul><p><br></p>