UNICOIL - The UK and Ireland COIL Network
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Not-for-profit
Leeds, United Kingdom
- Adults
- Undergraduate students
- Graduate students
All regions
2025
- Conferences, workshops and webinars
- General consulting
- English
UNICOIL 2026 SYMPOSIUM
Location: Sheffield Hallam University 23 April 2026
Format: Hybrid (In-person attendance £50; virtual attendance £25)
Who's it for: UK, Ireland and international education academics and professionals with an interest in Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
UNICOIL is a consortium-based network which seeks to stimulate the scaling up of COIL and COIL-related research at universities across Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Great Britain through forming and sustaining a supportive COIL community.
UNICOIL seeks to:
- Scale up COIL capacity: raise awareness of COIL amongst students, faculty, and staff; identify and/or establish Teaching and Learning opportunities to develop COIL skills; develop COIL resources; seek funding streams to support COIL projects, including pilot projects.
- Research COIL: conduct baseline surveys of COIL offerings at members’ HEIs; establish pilot COIL projects for the purposes of study; establish and disseminate mixed-method studies of COIL projects, with control groups, to evaluate the impact of COIL on intercultural learning and to refine COIL pedagogy.
- Develop a supportive COIL community: establish a strong UNICOIL Network presence on social media; organise virtual symposia and workshops; hold an annual hybrid conference, including student participants; leverage existing COIL expertise in international alliances and partnerships.
These are the services we provide to the field:
In addition to our annual symposia/conferences, we aim to offer webinars, COIL CPD, and other activities.
Please check back here for updates as UNICOIL grows
UNICOIL steering committee members represent 11 institutions in every nation across Ireland and the UK, as well as institutions in the Netherlands and Germany, and has a membership of 15. The steering committee is made up of COIL practitioners, scholars, and professional service colleagues with diverse expertise, all of whom are spearheading COIL initiatives at their various institutions.
Discussion of Costs and Fees
UNICOIL charges no fees except for attendance at symposia and conferences and related events in order to cover the organisation and delivery costs of those events