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> From: Dan Fleming
> Reply To: Dan Fleming
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 18:34 PM
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> The Media Studies group at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, is
> looking to participate in the bidding process for HEFCE's Centres for
> Excellence in Teaching and Learning, if we can identify a willing
> partner in England. As a Northern Ireland university we cannot bid on
> our own behalf, but the Dept. of Education and Learning (DEL) in Northern
> Ireland will support the participation of the University of Ulster in
> collaborative bids with English HEIs where the English HEI is the lead
> partner bidding to establish a CETL. Importantly, if such a joint bid
> is successful, DEL will cover the NI share of the bid (excluding capital
> developments). DEL is making available up to £500K per annum for this
> purpose over 5 years.
>
> Closing date for HEFCE-CETL bids is 23 April. See
> http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/CETLs/
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> Media Studies at Ulster has a long established and successful track
> record in teaching and learning in this field (matched by its research
> reputation), so is looking for an English partner of similar standing
> that may already be planning (or that we might prompt!) to bid for CETL
> funding. We have a particular current interest in 'next generation'
> approaches to media practice teaching using software/new technologies
> and its embedding in the critical culture of media studies. So some
> congruence with an English partner in that area of teaching and learning
> might strengthen a collaborative bid.
>
> For example, we're currently very interested in adapting some of
> Linker's and Mongrel's principles to media practice within a Media
> Studies programme: http://www.linker.org.uk and http://www.mongrelx.org/
> and this sort of thing might be flagged as one of our distinctive
> contributions to an England-based CETL? But we're open to other and
> broader forms of collaboration in the field of Media Studies teaching
> and learning.
>
> If you're interested in our contributing to a CETL bid that you'll lead,
> please contact:
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> Dan Fleming, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of
> Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland BT52 1SA. Tel.028 7032 4479 email
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