YSJ, Academic Development Programme
Professional Development for Learning, Teaching and Research
This symposium will provide staff with a useful forum to encourage the exchange and dissemination of new approaches to curriculum design and development. The aim is to offer reflections, insights and solutions to issues of curriculum design, as well as exploring how colleagues across the sector are reshaping their curricula using new and innovative methods. […]
External examining is a key feature of the UK higher education system. This course has been developed as part of the Degree Standards project on external examining that has run from 2016 to 2021. The overarching aim of the Professional Development Course is to contribute to maintenance of degree standards and their reasonable comparability across the UK higher […]
Facilitator: Professor Matthew Reason, Director of Institute of Social Justice RDF Indicator: B1, B2, D2, D3 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Events, Institute of Social Justice Booking link to be confirmed
Facilitator: Professor Andy Hill, Head of Postgraduate Research RDF Indicator: D1 Programme: CPD Programme 2021-22 Theme: YSJU Supervision, Leadership and Mentorship Session Overview: This session will provide a series of key lessons regarding successful (and less successful) postgraduate researcher supervision. As a consequence, attendees will be aided in their own development as effective supervisors. […]
Session facilitator: Professor Steve Rawle Session Overview: There are so few academic disciplines as publicly maligned as Film and Media Studies (now often under the umbrella of Screen Studies), despite the centrally of forms of media to our everyday lives. Yet, Media Studies remains a political hot potato. In a discipline where there are also sharp divides […]
Session facilitator: Professor Vanessa Corby The aim of this session is to equip PGRs and staff with a sustainable approach to their PhD and research projects. Historically, research has been billed as an isolating experience, legitimated by the romantic vision of the solitary (usually male) scholar immersed in dusty texts or pouring over pestilent petri-dishes. […]
Facilitator: Professor Andy Hill, Head of Postgraduate Research RDF Indicator: D1 Programme: CPD Programme 2021-22 Theme: YSJU Supervision and Leadership Session Overview: This session will provide a practical guide to the opportunities and challenges associated with establishing and running a research group. As a consequence, attendees will be better able to take on the […]
Facilitator: Associate Professor Dai O'Brian RDF Indicator: B1, B3 Programme: Theme: Early Career Researchers (staff in first five years since PhD) Facilitator: Dr Dai O'Brian, Associate Professor and Programme Lead of BSL, Deaf Studies and Linguistics Session Overview: How and why should we plan our research careers? In this session we will discuss how and […]
Facilitator: Professor Helen Sauntson RDF Indicator: B3 Programme: CPD Programme 2021-22 Theme: Early Career Researchers (staff in first five years since PhD) Session Overview: This session focuses on the processes involved in producing an edited book. The session includes information on early decisions which need to be made in the planning stage, how to write […]
Advance HE’s flagship three-day Teaching and Learning Conference for 2022 will continue to position the spotlight firmly on teaching in a global context. The conference will create space for delegates to engage in critical and creative thinking around teaching and learning towards continuous enhancement and innovation. It will aim to increase knowledge and confidence of […]
Facilitator: Jack Marley RDF Indicator: A1 Programme: PGR Research Skills Programme 2021-22 Theme: Academic Skills Session Overview: The Conversation is a news analysis and opinion platform of articles written by academics and funded by more than 70 UK and European universities. Working with an editor, researchers write short pieces that deliver academic expertise directly to the […]
External examining is a key feature of the UK higher education system. This course has been developed as part of the Degree Standards project on external examining that has run from 2016 to 2021. The overarching aim of the Professional Development Course is to contribute to maintenance of degree standards and their reasonable comparability across the UK higher […]
