Events

STUDENT experience of assessment during the pandemic will be the focus of an online Share, Adopt, Adapt workshop. The event – Assessment in 2020 will be run by Bridgette Bewick (Medicine), Emma Pittard (Lifelong Learning), and Alison Voice (Physics and Astronomy).   Bridgette will report on student experiences of assessment under COVID experiences before Emma and Alison speak…

LESSONS learned in delivering virtual pre-sessional summer schools to international students will be shared in this online Share, Adopt, Adapt workshop. The Language Centre had to adapt the delivery of their extremely popular pre sessional summer schools very quickly in response to the Covid-19 crisis. Delivering a range of sessions from large lectures to smaller…

A FOCUS on the Student Centred Active Learning Approach (SCALA) teaching model will be the first in an online relaunch of the Share, Adopt, Adapt series of workshops. This session, hosted by James Pickering, Dave Lewis, Charlotte Haigh, Chris Randall and Sue Whittle from the Faculty of Biological Sciences, will share the thinking behind the…

Ruth Payne and Andrew Mearman will be sharing some of the outputs of their LITE fellowship exploring induction and transition through presenting their principles for induction. Given the current context for delivering student education the session will also focus on planning for online induction activities. The workshop will be delivered via Blackboard Collaborate Ultra  through…

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE. This workshop will be led by Craig Evans (School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering) and Sam Wilson (School of Computing). The session will give staff a chance to try out some C/C++/Python coding examples and see how grades and rich feedback can be generated automatically….

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE. Led by Niamh Mullen and Peter Matthews, this workshop will give insight into early findings from The Academic Listening Project, a LITE project aimed at investigating issues surrounding second language listening on PGT modules and their possible impacts on student education. This is looked at…

OUR APOLOGIES – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE. This Masterclass will be led by Professor Nazira Karodia (Wolverhampton), Lara Lalemi (Bristol), Professor Paul Taylor (Leeds), Dr Katherine Haxton (Keele) and Dr Neil Williams (Kingston) and will focus on decolonising the STEM curriculum. This interactive session aims to start a conversation about decolonising…

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE. Led by Professor Mick Healey, this interactive workshop aims to unpack some of the mysteries of publishing in a variety of genres. Colleagues will be assisted in developing their voices through valuing the variety of writing genres, including empirical research articles, conceptual research articles, literature…

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL A LATER DATE. Following on from our previous RBL training session on student project supervision, Academic Panel member Clare Wright will be delivering a workshop session aimed at staff supervising PGT dissertations and projects, with a particular focus on international students on one-year programmes. The session will be…

SORRY, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED This interactive workshop, led by Dan Pullinger and Jiani Liu from Skills@Library, will explore research findings from a project which evaluated the academic skills and support needs and expectations of taught postgraduate students. Participants will be provided with initial results and introduced to a new online resource. Participants will…