Human behavior, thinking, and interaction have a tendency to become institutionalised in traditions, recurrent practices, and routines. This tendency may save energy, appear efficient and predictive but it also risks limiting learning and personal development. Ever since the start, SoTL has had an agenda to change and improve higher education, and this conference adheres to this call. The conference is about how SoTL can impact people and practices (or how SoTL has attempted this but failed). The conference will address the general theme in a variety of formats – papers, workshops, symposia, roundtables, and posters. We welcome submissions of emerging, ongoing, and finalised inquiries on how SoTL contributes to transformed patterns of learning and behavior in and between

• students,
• teaching and teachers,
• collegial communities,
• departments and institutions,
• leaders and managers, and
• society