YSJ, Academic Development Programme

Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research

YSJ Pedagogy: Creativity

On campus - TBC

This session explores the concept of creativity within the university, including how teaching practices may impact creativity, how creativities may interact with each other, and how creativity may be embraced as a way of being within learning. This session is one of three 'YSJ Pedagogy' sessions, led by Dr Murphy McCaleb. See the event calendar […]

Maintaining Academic Standards: the Development of External Examiners

Online

The External Examiners’ system constitutes an important part of quality assurance in the UK. According to the 2018 UK Quality Code, External Examiners have three key roles: maintainers of academic standards, guardians of national standards and process checkers (UKSCQA & QAA, 2018, p.4). Although the External Examiner system is highly regarded for its role in […]

Introduction to Comprehensive Meta-Analysis

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Session facilitator: Dr Daniel Madigan In this session, I aim to provide a summary of meta-analysis for those unfamiliar with this analytical approach. I hope to cover: (1) what meta-analysis is, (2) the types of questions that can be answered with meta-analysis, (3) how to conduct meta-analyses, and (4) what software is available to do […]

Reviewing for peer-review journals

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Session facilitator: Professor Andy Hill, Head of Postgraduate Research  This session will provide guidance on expectations, typical practice, and handy hints and tips regarding how to review for academic journals. As a consequence, attendees will be able to provide more effective reviews and build a reputation as a timely and excellent reviewer. It will be […]

Q&A with journal editors

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Session facilitators: Professor Andrew Hill, Professor Matthew Reason & Associate Professor Sarah Lawson-Welsh  This session will provide the opportunity to ask experienced journal editors from different disciplines questions regarding aspects of the publication and peer-review process. A brief introduction from the editors followed by a Q & A format. Learning Outcome: Novel insight into the […]

Navigating early career research

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Session facilitator: Dr Daniel Madigan In this session, I will draw on my experiences of early career research and I will provide some thoughts on four main topics: (1) Publishing, (2) peer-review, (3) grants, and (4) public engagement/impact. Learning Outcomes: (1) Understand the key aspects of peer-review and publishing in academic journals for the first […]

Interviewing in qualitative research

On campus - TBC

Facilitator: Dr Maria Fernandes-Jesus RDF Indicator: A1 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Research Methods Taking place in CD/103 Session Overview: Interviews are widely used as a method for data collection in social and human sciences. This session will give you methodological tools to design and conduct qualitative interviews. Learning Outcomes: After participating in […]

Text and discourse based analysis

Microsoft Teams --, United Kingdom

Session facilitators: Professor Matthew Clarke, Dr Clare Cunningham and Dr Brett Heasman This session is aimed at researchers interested in considering text and discourse approaches to research. The session will introduce some fundamental theoretical principles common to various discourse analytic approaches and outline how we can view various discourse analytic approaches on a continuum between […]

AdvanceHE: Sustainability Symposium

Online

This symposium provides the opportunity for colleagues to share and discuss innovations in and research about progressing sustainability in the sector. We invite colleagues to consider how higher education now needs to move forward with sustainability initiatives and education. The symposium will be preceded by a call for contributions inviting practitioners to submit an abstract […]

UKAT Annual Conference 2022 (online)

Based on our collective recent experiences, the 2022 UKAT Annual Conference will explore how we might reimagine advising/tutoring so that it is more relevant to students, more effective at helping all students and institutions to achieve their intended outcomes, and more efficient in its operation. The conference will focus on five key themes: Digital technology […]