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Doing Research to Improve Practice:
Qualitative Research Approaches for Higher Education Staff
A day conference for Higher Education practitioners will take place at
Sheffield Novotel on
Tuesday 11 November 2002
10.30 am - 4.00 pm
Policy and practice in higher education are increasingly informed by
research, and many staff are actively engaged in evaluating their own
practice. The Conference will offer an opportunity for practitioners to
engage with a number of strategies for qualitative research:
phenomenography, evaluative research and action research. The Conference
will offer delegates the opportunity to work with experts in the field
looking in-depth at these strategies. The workshops will be practical with
time to explore those projects with which participants are currently
engaged or seeking to develop. The Conference will be particularly useful
to practitioners whose own disciplinary background and training are not
primarily in education research, but who now find themselves involved in
research into higher education.
Programme:
10.30 - 11.30 Introduction : Approaches to qualitative research -
*Professor Peter Ashworth
11.30 - 13.00 Parallel Seminars:
*Dr Keith Trigwell - Phenomenography,
*Ranald Macdonald - Evaluation Research
*Liz Beaty - Action Research
13.00 - 13.45 Hot and cold buffet lunch
13.45 - 15.15 Parallel Workshops: Delegates will be invited to contribute
based on the issues they are currently exploring or research being planned.
Workshop leaders as in the Seminars
15.15 - 16.00 Panel: to be chaired by Professor Sue Clegg
For further information and a booking form please see
http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lti/ltri/newsletter/newscurrent/2b19conf.htm
Booking forms should be returned to Meg Handscombe at Sheffield Hallam
University by Friday 4 October 2002.
The speakers:
*Dr Keith Trigwell Phenomenography
Keith is the Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s
recently established Institute for the Advancement of University Learning,
where he directs the Institute’s learning and teaching research programme.
His own research is in qualitative differences in university learning and
teaching – the ways in which, for example, students’ perceptions of
material to be studied vary. Previously Director of the Centre for Learning
and Teaching at the University of Technology in Sydney, he was the co-
author with Michael Prosser of Understanding Learning and Teaching: the
Experience in Higher Education (1999).
Useful background paper:
http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/iaul/Phenom_ISL_paper.pdf
Web page: http://www.learning.ox.ac.uk/iaul/IAUL+6+1.asp
Professor Liz Beaty Action Research
Liz is Director of the Centre for Higher Education Development at Coventry
University, and is Programme Leader for the University’s MA in Learning and
Teaching in Higher Education. Among her current research interests are the
experience of first year staff and students; action research on innovative
approaches to teaching in higher education; the management of change, and
new technology and higher education practice. She was co-author (with I
McGill, 1995) of Action Learning: a guide for management, professional and
educational development, and – among many other papers and chapters – wrote
the chapter on ‘The world of the learner’ (with A Morgan) in The Experience
of Learning edited by F Marton, D Hounsell, and N Entwistle (1997). She is
co-chair, with Ranald Macdonald, of the Staff and Educational Development
Association (SEDA). Web page: http://www.ched.coventry.ac.uk/ched/beaty/
*Ranald Macdonald: Evaluation
Ranald is Head of Academic Development in SHU’s Learning and
Teaching Institute, which he joined in 1994. His current research and
development interests are problem-based learning, staff and student
conceptions of learning and teaching, and learning outcomes. He has just
completed editing The Scholarship of Academic Development (with Heather
Eggins). He has been Co-Chair (with Liz Beaty) of SEDA – of which he is a
Fellow - since May 1998. Web page:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lti/people/rfm/index.htm
*Professor Peter Ashworth
Peter has been Director of the Learning and Teaching Research Institute at
SHU since 1994. He has been concerned with the theory and application of
qualitative research methods for some thirty years. Among his early
publications is Qualitative Research in Psychology (edited with A P Giorgi
and A de Koning, 1985), and among the most recent is a nearly-completed
text on Phenomenology and Psychological Science (edited with M C Chung). He
contributed the chapter on qualitative methods in educational development
to Ranald’s forthcoming book.
Web page: http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lti/ltri/who/peter.htm
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