Learning and Teaching Conferences
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May
Writing for Publication Workshop: Disseminating Teaching based Research
21st May 2009, Coventry University
This workshop will provide valuable space for reflecting upon ways of disseminating pedagogic practice and research. The workshop aims to boost participants’ productivity by sharing strategies for enhancing publication outputs and offering tips on submitting papers to HEA publications and other scholarly journals. Topics will include planning, revising, and submitting scholarly publications as well as strategies for giving and receiving feedback. The workshop will be especially useful for colleagues specialising in Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP).
The workshop is funded by the HEA Subject Centre for Social Work and Social Policy (SWAP). It will be held at the Centre for Academic Writing at Coventry University:
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/cu/caw For further details, please contact Miriam Evans (Tel: 02476 887902). The workshop will be run by Dr. Mary Deane and Dr. Lynn Clouder. Booking is essential as places are limited. To book visit: www.swap.ac.uk/events/swapevents/210509disseminatingteaching.html
June
8th Learning and Teaching Conference: Support the Student Learning experience
18th June 2009, University of Worcester Conference Centre
With Key note presentations from Professor James Wisdom and Professor Lewis Elton. Also featuring over twenty sessions on learning and teaching innovation and research.
For further information and to book your place please visit the web site:
http://www.worc.ac.uk/adpu/1104.htm
Or email Flo (e.floisand@worc.ac.uk)
July
The Higher Education Academy Conference 2009: The Future of the Student Learning Experience
30 June to 2 July 2009, University Place, University of Manchester
The title of the Academy's 2009 Annual Conference is ‘The Future of the Student Learning Experience'
For further details please see: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/conference
2nd Institutional Research Conference 2009: Building a Community for Institutional Research in the UK and Ireland
8-9th July 2009, Sheffield Hallam University
The main themes we wish to explore include:
- Variety in institutional research - conceptions, methodologies and institutional location.
- Using institutional research to inform policy and practice.
- Capacity building in institutional research.
- Understanding and enhancing the student experience and expectations.
LTEA 2009 and Reading Teaching and Learning Conference
14-15 July 2009, University of Reading
The fourth LTEA Conference will be at the University of Reading, building on previous successful events at Sheffield (2008), Surrey (2007) and Manchester (2006). The event will be a joint event with the University's Teaching and Learning Conference, hosted by both CETL-AURS and the University's Centre for the Development of Teaching and Learning (CDoTL).
The aim of the conference will be to bring together diverse perspectives on enquiry-based learning, showcasing the varied approaches to engaging students and the impact on their learning experiences. We will also be focusing on the staff perspective of using enquiry-based learning in the curriculum.
The conference will provide the opportunity to exchange research and practice and enable participants to make new connections with each other across disciplines, professional roles and institutions.
For further details, please see: http://www.reading.ac.uk/cetl-aurs/LTEAConference2009/cetl-aurs_LTEAConference2009.asp
August
AISHE-C 2009: Valuing Complexity
27-28 August, 2009, NUI Maynooth
AISHE returns in 2009 to NUI Maynooth, for its fifth international conference. In keeping with the mission of the society and of this conference series, this is a premier venue in Ireland for presenting research and practice in higher education teaching and learning. The overarching theme of this year's conference is Valuing Complexity: Celebrating Diverse Approaches to Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. The conference showcases the best of scholarship within the island of Ireland, but also warmly welcomes international participants who can share wider experience and perspectives.
For further details, please see: http://ocs.sfu.ca/aishe/index.php/international/2009/index
September
Improving Student Learning – For the 21st Century Learner
The 17th Improving Student Learning Symposium,
7 –9 September 2009, Imperial College, London
In 1993, the first Improving Student Learning Symposium was held at Warwick University in England. Since then it has become an established event on the international calendar, with up to 200 participants from over 15 countries at each conference. The major aim of the Improving Student Learning Symposia is to provide a forum which brings together those who are primarily researchers into learning in higher education and those who are primarily practitioners concerned more pragmatically with improving their practice, but from whichever starting point, papers are only accepted if they take a sufficiently scholarly, research-based approach.
The 4th International Inquiring Pedagogies Conference (iPED) 2009
14 - 15 September 2009, Coventry
The theme of the conference is 'Researching Beyond Boundaries' with a particular focus on ‘Academic Communities without Borders' Further details are available on the conference website.
Deadline for abstracts: April 5, 2009
The 5th Education in a Changing Environment International Conference
15-16 September 2009, Learning Development Unit, University of Salford
The conference title is "Critical Voices, Critical Times: Is the Student Really at the Heart of Higher Education?"
Specific themes of the event include: Giving Voice to the Student Experience: methods, approaches and evidence; Emerging Technologies, the Curriculum and Student Engagement; Student Diversity, Internationalisation and Managing Change; Scholarship as Critical Pedagogy.
Further details are available on the conference website.
Deadline for abstracts: April 7, 2009
October
November
C-SAP Annual Conference 2009
25 - 27 November 2009, Birmingham
The theme of the conference is Roles, Rights and Responsibilities: Negotiating Relationships.
The focus will be on examining the roles of students, the University, academics generally, and social scientists in particular in the present era;
- the rights and responsibilities of teachers, students, Higher Education Institutions and the sector as a whole;
- the relationships that create learning communities within the sector and determine the engagements of social scientists with both wider politics and our publics.
The organisers welcome papers that address the above themes, please see the call for papers for more detail about each theme and guidance notes for information on the types of sessions and presentations they are looking for.
Further details are available on the Conference website: http://www.c-sap.bham.ac.uk/events/conference_09/index.html
December
2nd INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON PBL
3 - 4 December 2009, Melbourne, Australia
The Office for Problem Based Learning in the Faculty of Health, Engineering and Science at Victoria University Melbourne Australia, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair for Problem Based Learning Aalborg University Denmark, are proud to announce and invite you to the 2nd International Research Symposium on PBL, in the city of Melbourne. The deadline for Abstract submission is 5 July 2009, and Full paper submission by 15 September 2009.
For more information please visit the symposium website at: www.vu.edu.au/pblsymposium.