Academic Practice Conferences and other information

Monday, 13 August 2012

Fwd: Call for Papers: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2012)!

Kindly email this call for papers to your colleagues,
faculty members and postgraduate students.

CALL FOR PAPERS

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London International Conference on Education (LICE-2012)
November 19-22, 2012, London, UK
(www.liceducation.org)
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The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international
refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices
in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians
and professionals from Education.

The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals
from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the
knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy.
The LICE-2012 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis,
design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will
appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be
published in special issues peer reviewed journals.

The topics in LICE-2012 include but are not confined to
the following areas:

*Academic Advising and Counselling
*Art Education
*Adult Education
*APD/Listening and Acoustics in Education Environment
*Business Education
*Counsellor Education
*Curriculum, Research and Development
*Distance Education
*Early Childhood Education
*Educational Administration
*Educational Foundations
*Educational Psychology
*Educational Technology
*Education Policy and Leadership
*Elementary Education
*E-Learning
*ESL/TESL
*Health Education
*Higher Education
*History
*Human Resource Development
*Indigenous Education
*ICT Education
*Kinesiology & Leisure Science
*K12
*Language Education
*Mathematics Education
*Multi-Virtual Environment
*Music Education
*Pedagogy
*Physical Education (PE)
*Research Assessment Exercise (RAE)
*Reading Education
*Religion and Education Studies
*Rural Education
*Science Education
*Secondary Education
*Second life Educators
*Social Studies Education
*Special Education
*Student Affairs
*Teacher Education
*Cross-disciplinary areas of Education
*E-Society
*Other Areas of Education

SUBMISSION:
Please email your research paper to papers-2012@liceducation.org

IMPORTANT DATES:

Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: August 31, 2012
Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: August 15, 2012
Proposal for Workshops: August 31, 2012
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012
Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: September 1, 2012
Camera Ready Paper Due: October 10, 2012
Participant(s) Registration (Open): May 25, 2012
Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): August 01 to September 16, 2012
Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): September 17 to October 30, 2012
Conference Dates: November 19-22, 2012

For further information, please visit www.liceducation.org

David Andrew,
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor

The Learning Institute
Queen Mary, University of London

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Friday, 10 August 2012

Fwd: Invitation to The Fifth Annual Student Writing in Transition Symposium

Dear all,

I would like to invite colleagues to the following upcoming event at Nottingham Trent University.

The Fifth Annual Student Writing in Transition Symposium

A 1-day symposium at Nottingham Trent University

Tuesday 11th September 2012

The Learning Development Team, in conjunction with the European First Year Experience Network, is hosting a 1-day staff development symposium to look at strategies for helping students adapt to learning and writing in higher education.

Student Writing in Transition offers a space for staff to discuss:

The differences between learning in school, college and university and what impact this might have on the way that students engage with learning in the first year.
Strategies and approaches for helping students to make the transition to learning at university, both in the curriculum and through professional support.
Issues and approaches associated with supporting students as they learn how to write in HE.

We are pleased to have as our keynote speakers this year:

Professor Liz Thomas, The Higher Education Academy (HEA)

Lisa Clughen and Christine Hardy, Nottingham Trent University

Delegates will be able to choose from a range of parallel sessions that address the symposium themes such as:

Amanda French, Senior Lecturer, Wolverhampton University’ ‘Talking about the ‘F’ word’
Pat Hill, Senior Lecturer/Academic Skills Tutor, University of Huddersfield’ ‘Invisible writing and the link between semi-colons and stupidity’
Jackie Dunn, Senior Library Assistant, Robinson Library, Newcastle University and Ann-Marie Laws, Librarian/LRC Manager, Ponteland High School, Northumberland, ‘Bridging the Divide: Information Literacy, the forgotten link’

Topics from experts within the university include: overcoming some of the barriers to writing academically, transitioning into postgraduate writing and how to scaffold research and writing skills for level 1 students.

The day will conclude with a ‘Mentoring/Buddying Show and Tell’; an interactive session that will showcase a variety of schemes.

All colleagues are welcome to attend this free event.

If you would like to book a place please complete a booking form.

If you would like to display a poster at the event, or if you would like any further information, please contact Sarah Lawther or Sarah Johnson.

The findings of the HERE Project, a three year project looking at student retention and engagement in Higher Education, can be found on the HERE Project website.

Study Skills Workshops to support students in transition are now being run by the Learning Development Team. To view the current programme, visit Study Skills Workshops or http://www.ntu.ac.uk/llr/news_events/ to book a place.

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Friday, 3 August 2012

Fwd: Workshop: Student-Generated Induction: A Social Identity Approach

Dear All,  We recently ran this event in York and all the places were taken. We  are therefore repeating this workshop in London.  on Thursday September 27th. The workshop is called 'Student-Generated  Induction: A Social Identity Approach.'    This event provides alternative design, theories and practices for  induction.  It should have appeal for those interested  in induction, transition, retention and PDP.    The booking form is attached with more details. There is also an  alternative online booking facility at  http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/4050557326    Best wishes,  Nick      --------------------------------------  Nicholas Bowskill,  Faculty of Education,  University of Glasgow    Shared Thinking - a Collectivist Pedagogy    Web Site: http://www.sharedthinking.info

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Head of Academic Practice
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Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS

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Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Fwd: Identities, Pedagogies and Inclusion in Higher Education 8th November invitation

Dear colleagues

Apologies for cross posting. Please find below an invitation to a presentation and debate with Professor Les Ebdon, Professor Sue Clegg, Professor Monica Maclean and the Roehampton research team on the 8^th November at University of Roehampton London.

If you would like to attend please contact Carolyn Gallop, GaP Project Administrator on c.gallop@roehampton.ac.uk. Please feel free to pass this on to other colleagues and networks.

All welcome,

Julie Hall

SEDA co-chair and Director Learning and Teaching Enhancement University of Roehampton London

Identities, Pedagogies and Inclusion in Higher Education

10.00 – 17.00, Thursday 8^th November 2012

University of Roehampton

This event presents the key finding from the Formations of Gender and Higher Education Pedagogies (GaP) project, funded by the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellowship Scheme and directed by Professor Penny Jane Burke. Additionally, the event will include a keynote panel of policy-makers and academics who reflect on the implication of the project for widening participation. Speakers include Professor Monica McLean, Nottingham University; Professor Becky Francis, King’s College London; Professor Gill Crozier, Dr Barbara Read, Julie Hall and Jo Peat, University of Roehampton; Professor Penny Jane Burke, University of Sussex; and Professor Les Ebdon CBE, Office for Fair Access.

GaP makes a unique contribution to the development of higher education (HE) pedagogies by exploring its relationship to complex identity formations of gender, and other social identities and inequalities. Through this exploration, the project plays an important role in broader widening participation policy agendas, paying close attention to pedagogical issues beyond ‘raising aspirations’ and ‘fair access’. Connected to this, and with consideration of recent panics about men’s HE participation (HEPI, 2009; HEFCE, 2005), the project provides a qualitative account of gendered experiences of higher education practices and relations, with attention to the complex formations of masculinities and femininities in pedagogical relations and practices.

The project took a participatory methodological approach, which involved methods of qualitative data collection about HE teachers’ and students’ experiences and perspectives of HE pedagogies (through in-depth and detailed interviews) and of their practices (through observations of classroom practice). Additionally, the project sought to enhance participation in considerations of pedagogical relations, experiences and practices through a range of participatory methods including workshops, forums, seminars and discussions. The research was designed to create dialogic spaces of reflexivity in which HE teachers and students critically discussed and reflected on their pedagogical experiences and practices in a wider social context that explored the relationship between HE pedagogies, complex inequalities and exclusions at the micro-level of classroom experiences and the significance of identity formations in shaping HE pedagogies and spaces.

If you would like to attend please contact Carolyn Gallop, GaP Project Administrator on c.gallop@roehampton.ac.uk.

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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Events from the Higher Education Academy newsletter

Events

19.HEA STEM: Transitions, employability and professional identity: case study in Architecture, 4 September 2012, University of Ulster

This seminar will showcase and reflect on learning activities with level 4 architecture students to introduce them both to higher education, and the construction of a professional identity. It will reflect on learning activities in the University of Ulster and will provide the opportunity for networking and discussion between academics and practitioners.

20.Changing Englishes in internationalising universities: increasing the language awareness of home and international students and academic staff, 7 September 2012, York St John University

This event is being hosted as part of the HEA’s Workshop and seminar series. The seminar aims to address changing ideas about English, and especially the variable and dynamic nature of English as used in international contexts.

21.Teaching History in higher education: HEA Teaching and Learning Conference 2012, 11 - 12 September 2012, Senate House, London

Sessions will explore theory and practices in teaching, learning and assessment in critical areas such as public history and community engagement, the use of new technologies, the interface between school and university pedagogies, curriculum development and the student and staff experience.

22.HEA STEM (Maths, Stats & OR): Induction course for new lecturers, 12 - 13 September 2012, University of Nottingham

This course is designed for lecturers who are new to teaching and the content includes key practical and pedagogic aspects of teaching, learning and assessment from the perspective of the MSOR academic.

23.Inclusivity in the classroom, 13 September 2012, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

The Embedding Equality and Diversity in the Curriculum programme, funded by the Scottish Funding Council, is holding a one day conference to allow Scottish further education colleges and higher education institutions to showcase the work they have done in addressing the 2010 Equality Act.

24.Higher level skills for the green economy, 13 September 2012, Anglia Ruskin University

This event aims to crystallise the characteristics of a graduate required to contribute to and influence the transition to a green economy. It will also look at how HEIs can develop these characteristics through an open and transparent education.

25.HEA STEM: Enhancing fieldwork learning showcase, 14 – 16 September 2012, Preston Montford Field Studies Centre, Shropshire

This event will showcase a number of simple technologies which can enhance fieldwork learning and should be of interest to Physical Geography, Human Geography, Earth, Environmental and Bioscience practitioners.

26.Internationalising the curriculum: Improving staff development initiatives, 14 September 2012, Manchester Metropolitan University

This workshop will focus on MMU as a case study to consider staff development to support internationalisation of the curriculum. It is being hosted as part of the HEA’s Workshop and seminar series 2012.

27.HEA STEM (Maths, Stats & OR): Workshop for postgraduate students who teach, 18 September - Queen's University of Belfast, 24 September - University of Southampton, 26 September - University of Leeds, 27 September - University of Nottingham, 28 September - Queen Mary, University of London, 8 October - University of Bristol, 9 October - University of Sheffield,1 November - University of Manchester, 9 November - University of Lancaster, 14 November - University of Leicester

These workshops will be delivered by experienced academics who are subject specialists in Mathematics, Statistics and Operational Research (MSOR) and the content and delivery will be discipline specific.

28.Student Engagement with International Curriculum Development, 19 October 2012, Cardiff Metropolitan University

This seminar will focus on a student centred project carried out at Cardiff Metropolitan University and will cover the student involvement in international curriculum design, how their recommendations were put into practice and the conclusions drawn from the experience.

David Andrew,
Head of Academic Practice
Senior Tutor

The Learning Institute
Queen Mary, University of London

Mile End, London E1 4NS

02078822803

02081446753

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