The Student Education Conference is back for 2025! It'll be taking place 9-10 January – get the date in your calendars. We've got a jam-packed programme for you this year at SEC, with a brand new welcome reception including dinner on Wednesday 8 January. As usual, the first day of the conference kicks off with a student...
Our next spotLITE workshop, open to anyone across the University with an interest in student partnership work, considers how we currently engage students in our educational and research work, and how we can do it better.
A workshop exploring how disciplinary methods, standards and norms can be democratically owned and accessible to all social demographics; regardless of class, gender, racial/ethnic background or age. The organiser and speakers work in analytic philosophy and will be discussing philosophy’s methods, but participants from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome and valued. We intend to explore how...
Our next spotLITE workshop, open to all professional services and teaching staff, is led by Gabriel Jones, who will be taking us through the findings of his LITE fellowship. In this in-person session, you’ll learn about staff experience and attitudes towards using fully-immersive virtual reality (VR) at the University, and hear his suggestions for improved...
Looking to try something different in the classroom during the next academic year? Open to discovering innovative, critically minded and cross-disciplinary approaches to Teaching & Learning? Interested in being part of a collaborative network of SoTL-invested colleagues? If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, we invite you to join us as we put pedagogic...
Looking to try something different in the classroom during the next academic year? Open to discovering innovative, critically minded and cross-disciplinary approaches to Teaching & Learning? Interested in being part of a collaborative network of SoTL-invested colleagues? If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, we invite you to join us as we put...
Following the briefing sessions for colleagues interested in LITE fellowships starting in September 2024, we are holding two post briefing discussion sessions. Each session will involve 'Shut up and write' space (quiet room), an unsupervised space for colleagues to work on their proposal (8.11E). Noisy room, where several members of the LITE team will be...
The sessions, led by Bridgette Bewick are a space for staff and students to regularly come together to explore and discuss how we might develop a more compassionate curriculum at the University of Leeds. The conversations are hybrid events that you can join either in person. Bridgette will be hosting conversations at the following times. To...
Join Emma Peasland (LITE Research and Impact Officer) and Richard de Blacquiere-Clarkson (Scholarship Ethics Lead for the BESS+ FREC) for a session discussing ethical issues common to LITE Fellowships, a brief introduction to the online application system and common pointers drawing Richard’s experience of reviewing relevant research ethics applications. There will also be time to...