FW: Enhancing the employability of bioscience students

 

The Society for Experimental Biology, Physiological Society and British Ecological Society are organising a one-day employability information day on 12^th September in London for those who support and advise students in the biosciences. The event features speakers working in different bioscience career sectors and aims to help university staff to find out more about how they can enhance the employability of their bioscience students. For example, we will provide information on the role of learned societies in assisting students with their careers, including offering placements, internships and employment opportunities. There will be plenty of scope for discussion and questions during the day, as well as resources to take away.

 

For more information and to register for the event go to: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/enhancing-the-employability-of-bioscience-students-tickets-36539346168 or please pass the information on to teaching colleagues or career staff who you think would like to attend.

 

With best wishes.

 

Sarah

Sarah Blackford, BSc, MA CIEGHE

Head of Education & Public Affairs

Society for Experimental Biology

Bailrigg House

Lancaster LA1 4YE

www.sebiology.org

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/sarahblackford

+44 1524 594850

 

FW: #DEL17 Conference: EARLY BIRD ENDS 01 AUG

DEL 2017: Teaching Making/Making Teaching
University of the Arts London,14 - 15 September 2017

 

*Early Bird ticket rate ends on 1 August. Don't miss out!*

DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. We welcome submissions from individuals and groups across all creative disciplines, working in roles including instructors, lecturers, researchers, artists and designers, support staff, instructional designers and technicians.
 
Themed 'Teaching Making/Making Teaching', DEL 2017 seeks to explore digitally engaged practices and processes of teaching, making and researching within the creative disciplines. By 'digitally engaged', we are referring to practices that are actively with, about or in digital tools and spaces.

The full 2017 Conference schedule is now available online.

 

Keynotes

This year there will be keynotes from:

• Thomas Castro, Founder, Owner, Partner, Designer LUST/LUSTlab
• Diana Arce Artist, researcher, and activist
• Student panel addressing 'designing a feminist internet'

Journal

All presenters are invited to submit their papers to UAL's open-access online journal, Spark. For details on how to submit visit our journal page.

For more information and to submit, please visit the DEL 2017 website.

DEL 17 is an international partnership with Penn State University, Texas State University, The New School and the University of the Arts London.
 
General Enquiries: Claudia Roeschmann, roeschmann@txstate.edu
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Active Learning Conference

Active Learning Conference 11 & 12 September 2017 at Anglia Ruskin’s Cambridge campus.

Afternoon of 11 September - pre-conference Master Classes in: SCALE-UP (Student-Centred Active Learning Environment with Upside-down Pedagogies), Team-based learning (TBL) and TEAL (Technology-Enhanced Active Learning).

The main conference will be opened on 12 September by Professor Mike Sharples, Chair in Educational Technology Learning and Teaching Innovation, Open University, whose keynote address will focus on ‘Designs for Active Learning’. 

The conference will link Team-Based Learning at University of Bradford, SCALE-UP at Nottingham Trent University and Anglia Ruskin University’s active learning practices as part of a HEFCE Catalyst funded project to address barriers to student success, hence the main conference is free to delegates from HEFCE funded institutions, while there is a modest £100 fee for those from other institutions.

Conference aims:

·         introduce active learning approaches through master classes;

·         share good practice in using and embedding active learning approaches in the curriculum;

·         provide opportunities to learn new skills and techniques

http://www.anglia.ac.uk/anglia-learning-and-teaching/cpd-opportunities/events/active-learning-conference-2017

FW: Digitally Engaged Learning Conference 2017 - Early Bird rate ends 1st August

 

Digitally Engaged Learning Conference 2017: Teaching Making/Making Teaching

Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 14 - 15 September 2017

 

Registration is open for DEL 2017, to be hosted at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 14-15 September 2017. For more information, visit the DEL 2017 website.

 

**Early bird rate ends 1st August**  

 

DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. Themed 'Teaching Making/Making Teaching', DEL 2017 seeks to explore digitally engaged practices and processes of teaching, making and researching within the creative disciplines. By 'digitally engaged', we are referring to practices that are actively with, about or in digital tools and spaces.

 

Keynotes

 

This year there will be keynotes from:

 

·       Thomas Castro, Founder, Owner, Partner, Designer LUST/LUSTlab

·       Diana Arce Artist, researcher, and activist

·       UAL Futures student panel: Designing a Feminist Internet

 

For more information, visit the DEL 2017 website.

 

DEL 17 is an international partnership with Penn State University, Texas State University, The New School and the University of the Arts London.

 

General Enquiries: Claudia Roeschmann, roeschmann@txstate.edu

FW: DEADLINE APPROACHING: PROVCATIVE PEDAGOGIES - PERFORMATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

*DEADLINE 14TH JULY*

PROVOCATIVE PEDAGOGIES: PERFORMATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING School of Fine & Performing Arts, University of Lincoln, UK

http://leecampbellartist.blogspot.co.uk/p/conference-provocative-pedagogies.html

14 October 2017

Organisers:
Dr Lee Campbell, Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln, UK Lisa Gaughan, Director of Teaching & Learning and Principal Lecturer, University of Lincoln
Keynote: Fred Meller, Senior Lecturer, Performance: Design & Practice, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London


PROVOCATIVE PEDAGOGIES: PERFORMATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING is an international conference exploring the possibilities of the emerging field of 'performative pedagogy' and its potential as useful and applicable to enabling learning across a range of artistic and possibly other disciplines.

We welcome submissions from individuals and groups across all creative disciplines who deploy pedagogic approaches with an emphasis on performativity to drive learning. We invite papers, provocations and practical demonstrations that showcase good practice of making positive usage of performative teaching and learning.

Submitting a proposal:
• We welcome proposals for 15-20 minute papers and practical workshops (to last up to 1 hour)

Please use the following format for proposals:
• Name, institutional affiliation, contact details
• Title of paper or workshop
• 250-word paper summary (max 1 page A4)
• 50-word contributor biography
• Send proposals as a Word doc by email to Dr Lee Campbell,
at: lcampbell@lincoln.ac.uk and Lisa Gaughan, lgaughan@lincoln.ac.uk
• **DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 14TH**

All abstracts will undergo a peer review process to ensure quality and relevance to conference theme and ambition.

Dr Lee Campbell Ph.D., is an artist, curator and lecturer in Fine Art at University of Lincoln. His practice plays with the parameters of contemporary art that draw attention to the performative and the participative within an art historical vernacular and explore how meaning is constructed through politics of space and the politics of artist articulated through visual and verbal languages. He has published extensively in the journals/books International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media, Performativity in the Gallery, Body Space Technology, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research, and will publish in Scenario - Journal for Drama and Theatre in Foreign and Second Language Education, SPARK, and Journal of Pedagogic Development later in 2017. In August 2017, he has been invited to conduct a project at the Barbican Centre, London through their Creative Learning initiative to explore the relationship between performative pedagogy and vision impairment.

Lisa Gaughan is the Director of Teaching and Learning for the School of Fine & Performing Arts University of Lincoln. She has worked at the University of Lincoln for 12 years and taught across a number of Degree Programmes. She has a background in Community Theatre and Student Engagement initiatives. She recently led a project on Student's Engagement in Curriculum Design which she will be presenting on at the National HEA Conference in Manchester in July 2017.

Fred Meller's research interests lie in the process of making performance as a dialogical design practice. Specifically, how the principles and characteristics of Performance can be used to interrogate, explore and expand the nature of teaching and learning in the subject area. In particular, she has been researching disruptive pedagogy and relationships of power in teaching and learning and design practice.