Academic Development Directorate @ York St John University

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Social accounting and social auditing are now mainstream activities in the world of social enterprises and those organisations contributing to the social good. Essentially, York St John underwent the process only last May to achieve the Social Enterprise Gold Mark but we need to embed our own auditing systems in […]

Social Audit Network workshop Liverpool

January 23, 2017 in Events / Social Innovation tagged Social Enterprise / Social Innovation by m.calvert2

10 January 2017, London The meeting included two presentations: one by Gordon McKenzie (GuildHE) on the developments regarding the Higher Education Bill and the other by Steven Hill (HEFCE) on the proposed changes for REF 2021. The first presentation provided the context for the second one. Among the key points […]

CREST/GuildHE REF Consultation Meeting

January 16, 2017 in Events / Research / Research training and events tagged Research by Admin

On Wednesday 7 December the Academic Development Directorate ran a Masterclass with Dr David Roberts from Loughborough University. David has been conducting research for a number of years on Multimedia Learning (MML) and how to create more effective methods of large group teaching. David argues that the ‘orthodoxy of text’ […]

Visionary Learning: ADD Masterclass write-up

December 13, 2016 in Contributors / Events tagged learning / masterclass / MML / Multimedia Learning / Pedagogy / Research by Rosie Hare

Talking About Teaching: Exploring Graduate Attributes, York St John University, 20th January 2017 TAT is York St John University’s annual Learning & Teaching conference. If you want the opportunity to share good practice with like-minded professionals, to help generate discussion and debate, or wish to present your recent research […]

Talking About Teaching 2017

October 17, 2016 in Events tagged Events / learning / teaching by Gabby Wilson

Earlier this year, I attended the 2nd Research Reflections conference at York St John University, hosted on Thursday 8th September 2016 by the Academic Development Directorate. As part of the administrative staff here at York St John, I have been highly involved in organising and running research events, but this […]

Research Reflections 2016

October 3, 2016 in Events / Learning and Teaching / News / Research tagged conference / event / Research by Gabby Wilson