session 4

Title

In Orbit: Postgraduate Space Education

type

oral

Description

This session addresses space education initiatives tailored to postgraduate learners, with a focus on advanced, specialised, and research-driven training aligned with professional and academic careers in the space domain. Contributions may include postgraduate course design, interdisciplinary or industry-linked projects, research training programmes, doctoral education, and advanced work placements. Presentations should emphasise how programmes support deep technical expertise, independent research capability, innovation, and leadership development. Authors are encouraged to discuss programme structure, impact assessment, and how insights gained are informing the evolution of postgraduate curricula, research training models, or industry engagement strategies. This session also invites contributions on the professional development of postgraduate educators and supervisors, as well as advanced educational methodologies relevant to postgraduate teaching, supervision, and mentoring. When submitting abstracts for this session, please: • Clearly identify the connection to the session’s described scope and to space. • Briefly describe what you will present, including results and evaluation of your work, if it has been completed, or a thorough description of the expected outcomes of the work. • Include information about what makes your work unique, original or innovative and worth sharing with the international space community. • State your work’s goal, the intended audience, the measurable objectives that were set, and if the work is in planning or has already occurred. • Provide context describing the research and/or analysis you conducted in choosing the purpose of the activity, the intended audience, and the design of the activity. • Include reference to quantitative or qualitative data gathered through evaluations, surveys or other means. • If any theories are developed, please include information about the practical applicability of the information. • Consider that your audience is international and focus on what others working in the field can learn from your work. Include lessons learned, recommendations or other takeaway messages. • Make sure that the abstract provides a coherent idea or narrative for someone unfamiliar with your work.

Date

2026-10-07

Time

10:15

Room

E1

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Ms. Olga Zhdanovich, Modis, Netherlands (Kingdom of the);

• Co-Chair: Dr. Vera Mayorova, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russian Federation;

• Rapporteur: Ms. Kaori Sasaki, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Carol Christian, STScI, United States;