Events

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 in The Marjorie and Arnold Ziff Building, Room 12.05 or…

You can view all of the videos from the conference here A Curriculum for the Future – Rising to Grand Challenges This two-day hybrid conference will provide insights into a wide range of research and interventions across campus, delivered through a series of exciting presentations. We are also offering longer workshops as part of a…

University of Leeds Staff can view this event here. In the next Assessment Matters session we will explore the concept of ungrading – a broad approach that questions why we give students so many marked assignments, how this shapes education, and considers how it might be changed – and how this pedagogical approach may be…

Our Compassionate Campus Conversations are set to restart for the new semester!     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…

University of Leeds staff can view this event here. Initiated last year by Patricia Quinn and Ruth Payne, the Pedagogical power of PebblePad series are monthly 30 minute sessions that focus upon one way that you can utilise PebblePad. This month’s speakers are Rachael O’Connor and Judith Simpson. You can sign up for this event…

University of leeds staff can view this event here. This workshop will draw on a completed LITE project and a published paper which examined learners’ and tutors’ experience of assessment criteria and how they impacted their assessment practice and learning experience. The workshop will invite you to critically reflect on your use of assessment criteria…

University of Leeds Staff can view this event here. This is the first of a monthly series of events, curated by Pam Birtill, Academic Lead for Leeds Expectations on Assessment and Feedback (LEAF), to explore how we might improve our own practice. Aimed at all academics, from post-graduate teaching assistants to professors, directors of student…

In this introductory session you’ll have opportunity to explore with Bridgette Bewick ‘What is a compassionate campus’ and ‘why do we need conversations about it’. There will be around a 15 minute presentation with the remainder of the time given over to discussion and questions.   This ‘beginners session’ is designed for anyone (staff and…

University of Leeds Staff can view this event here. Our next Share, Adapt, Adopt workshop, in collaboration with the TIPS Community (OD & PL) introduces the concept of Dyadic Microcommunities for Professional Development. I saw Deak Kirkham and Chris Janetta present a paper on their own microcommunity at the EuroSOTL conference and immediately thought that…

Our Compassionate Campus Conversations are set to restart for the new semester!     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…