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Apologies - it should be Tuesday 19 November Ranald > -----Original Message----- > From: Macdonald, Ranald F > Sent: 27 June 2002 12:30 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Conference on research to improve practice > > > Apologies for cross posting > > 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 > > > >