Events
Professional Service Scholarship Celebration
There is a burgeoning culture of scholarship taking place within the professional services at Leeds, and, at LITE (Leeds Institute for teaching Excellence) we want to celebrate, nurture, and promote it! On the afternoon of Wednesday 7th June we would like to invite anyone based in a professional service to showcase their work to a…
Compassionate Campus Conversations
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…
Reverse Mentoring Celebration Event
You are warmly invited to join students and staff from across campus to celebrate the end of our two year reverse mentoring project, which is part of Rachael O’Connor’s LITE Fellowship (you can read more about the project here). Rachael will share an overview of the scheme and some initial reflections and we will hear…
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LITE Masterclass: Capturing the value of a university education – reflections from the United States
BETTER UNDERSTANDING the value of a university education from a U.S. perspective is the focus of the next LITE Masterclass. Visiting LITE Fellow, Professor Peter Lennie, who is a former Provost at the University of Rochester in New York, will deliver the presentation in which he’ll reflect on the US model of higher education, the…
EVENT: Unbundling Higher Education – A new site of contestation for curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment
THE OPPORTUNITIES and challenges presented by breaking up and repackaging public higher education institutions in South Africa, is the theme of a Research Centre for Digital Learning seminar. The event will will explore the affects on teaching, learning and assessment highlighted by the ‘unbundling’ – the separation and reassembly – of the higher education space…
Exploring the ‘Civic Curriculum’ colloquium (updated with slides)
DESIGNING A curriculum that forges productive links with regional politics, culture and business was the focus of a successful LITE event. The ‘Exploring the Civic Curriculum Colloquium’ – organised by the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) – explored the role of a university and its relationship with its surrounding region and community. READ: full…
Interactive student education seminar
AN INTERACTIVE seminar focusing on defining ‘excellence’ in student education will be led by an award-winning academic. Professor Prem Kumar, Director of Education at College of Medical & Dental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, will lead the event: ‘I don’t know what it is but I’ll recognise it when I see it – What’s…
LITE: Lunchtime Work in Progress seminars
THE LEEDS Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE) is currently planning the next series of fortnightly Work in Progress seminars to showcase teaching innovation and scholarship projects throughout the University’s student education community. This series (see below) of lunch-time talks captures a small selection of the innovative pedagogic research and projects currently being undertaken on campus….
LITE Masterclass: Curating the Curriculum
UNDERSTANDING students’ experience of curation is the focus of a LITE Masterclass. The presentation will be led by Dr Nick Grindle, art historian at University College London (UCL). Dr Grindle has explored the experiences of curation by students in a number of short publications and through his use of curation activities both in his teaching and as…
EVENT: Digital Learning Research Symposium
THE UNIVERSITY’S new interactive collaborative lecture theatre will be the venue for a Centre for Research in Digital Learning Research Symposium. The day-longevent, which will involve presentations, panel debates, poster presentations and networking opportunities, will be held at the recently refurbished Mechanical Engineering Lecture Theatre B and is for internal staff only. A keynote presentation will…
HEA Symposia Series: Transforming Assessment in Higher Education
THE ROLE of assessment in the ever changing world of higher education is the focus of a symposia. The last in the Higher Education Academy’s (HEA) ‘Transforming Assessment in Higher Education’ symposia series aims to bring together cutting edge examples of effective efforts at sustainable and manageable change at programme, school, faculty, college and or…
EVENT: Students as Problem Solvers
SUPPORTING STUDENTS to become successful problem solvers across STEM subjects is the focus of a joint masterclass by a world renowned academic. Tina Overton, Professor of Chemistry at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will lead the event run jointly by the Pedagogic Research in Mathematics and Physical Sciences Group (PrISM), and the Leeds Institute for Teaching…