**NEW APPLICATIONS OPENING MID 2026**
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Join Australasia’s very own 2025 Mayfield Project Cohort as they present an update on their research to our A4LE colleagues!
📅 Thursday 29 January 2026 (in NZ + Australia, Wednesday 28 January for United States)
⏱️ 1.00pm NZ Aotearoa
⏱️ 11.00am Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart
⏱️ 10.30am Adelaide
⏱️ 10.00am Brisbane
⏱️ 8.00am Perth
The Mayfield Project is Learning Environments Australasia’s collaborative research experience for emerging professionals. Running every two years, it brings together early career educators, architects, interior designers, landscape architects, planners, education administrators, consultants and policymakers. Check out the video above for a taste of what it means to be a ‘Mayfielder’.
Are you an emerging professional who’s looking for a unique, challenging
and exciting professional development opportunity?
Are you interested in exploring the physical and pedagogical elements
that create high-quality, enduring and successful learning environments?
Are you curious about directly engaging with educators and students
to understand how their experiences might guide the development and
use of learning environments in the future?
Then the Mayfield Project may be for you.
Past participants have credited the Mayfield Project with their expansive growth in professional development and have gone on to build successful careers designing, managing, and teaching in learning environments. The program aims to expand participants’ knowledge, meet like-minded people across Australia and New Zealand, work together towards an authentic shared goal, and have the opportunity to share their new-found knowledge.
How will the Mayfield Project be run in 2026-2027?
Following the success of our recent projects, we once again plan to combine online elements with face-to-face workshops and presentations. Because our Mayfielders come from all over Australasia, we will support the face-to-face component of the program with a number of online workshops in the lead-up to the 2027 LEA Annual Regional Conference (location announced in May 2026).
We want applicants to know what they’re signing up for, so the dates below are an estimate of what the 2026-2027 program may look like. We’ll do our best to stick to these dates; however, there may be some minor movement if we encounter some unexpected challenges (such as another global pandemic…):
- Early November 2026: ONLINE @ 5.30 pm AEDST (7.30 pm NZDT/2.30 pm AWST)
This will be a startup session to meet one another and the facilitators, discuss the program, and get an understanding of what sort of activities will be happening in the coming months. It will last approximately 1.5 hours.
- Late November 2026: HOBART, Tasmania – OPTIONAL ACTIVITY
The Regional Day Out is LEA’s one-day conference. We encourage participants to consider attending the conference to connect with other Mayfielders, learn a little more about LEA, and enjoy professional learning in an informal and dynamic environment. Attendance it this event would be at participant’s own cost.
- End November 2026 – End February 2027: Case Study Activities: ONLINE AND F2F
Mayfielders will be able to connect to undertake preliminary case study research as a foundation for the weekend workshop experience. We anticipate this would amount to approximately 10 hours across the three-month period.
- Late February/early March 2027: SYDNEY
Mayfielders will arrive in Sydney on a Thursday afternoon to participate in a 2.5-day, face-to-face workshop held over the weekend.
- Mid-March 2027 – End April 2027: ONLINE @ 4.30 pm AEST (6.30 pm NZDT/2.30 pm AWST)
Participants will continue to drive the project through fortnightly online, self-directed group collaboration in preparation for the 2027 LEA Annual Regional Conference (location announced in May 2026) presentation and project deliverables. It is anticipated that these sessions would be approximately 2 hours; however, work to progress the project would continue between structured sessions.
- Tuesday 6 May 2027 – Friday 9 May 2027: CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Participants will arrive in the conference location (to be announced in May 2026) early on Tuesday 6 May 2027 and spend the day finalising the group’s conference presentation. Mayfielders will attend the conference from Wednesday to Friday and present their findings to the delegates in a dedicated keynote session.
- May 2027 – June 2028 ONGOING
Mayfielders will be expected to engage with their local Chapter and will be given the opportunity to sit on Chapter and Regional Subcommittees. They will be provided with an LEA membership to allow them to attend events over the following twelve months, including running a dedicated session at a Chapter level discussing the activities and outcomes of their Mayfield experience.
