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Enhancing the Quality and Outcomes of Disabled Students’ Learning in Higher Education Conference

 

Wednesday 24^th October 2007 - 10.00am – 4.00pm

 

Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh

 

Booking are now being taken for the above conference.  This one-day conference will present the key findings that come from the ESRC TLRP Phase III research project and look to the future by examining the impact of the Disability Equality Schemes in Higher Education.

 

This is a four year longitudinal project and involves collaboration between four HE institutions – University of Gloucestershire, University of Edinburgh, University of Lancaster and the University of Central Lancashire. 

 

The main focus of the research is disabled students’ experiences of teaching and learning within higher education.  It aims to understand how disabled students’ academic performance and experience of teaching learning and assessment varies by disability, subject studied and by type of institution; how this experience develops during their course and how their learning outcomes compare with those of non-disabled students. In addition the study also aims to investigate the views of academic staff in relation to teaching and supporting disabled students’ and the issues for institutions based on key informant interviews.

 

The conference will be of interest to academics, practitioners, students and disability advisers.

 

Contributors to the Conference include:

 

• Mike Adams, Disability Rights Commission
• Miriam David, TLRP
• Paul Brown, University of Dundee, SHEFC-funded Scottish Disability Team
• Dai Hounsell, University of Edinburgh
• All members of the Project Team:–

University of Gloucestershire - Professor Mary Fuller, Professor Mick Healey, Katie Kelly and Dr Jan Georgeson

University of Edinburgh – Professor Sheila Riddell and Dr Elisabet Weedon

University of Lancaster – Dr Moira Peelo

University of Central Lancashire – Professor Alan Hurst

• Students involved in the Project research

 

Venue

The event is being held at the Godfrey Thomson Hall, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh.  Further information and directions are available on the website http://www.ed.ac.uk/maps/

 

Bookings

Further details and booking forms are available from

 

Gillian Oddy, Department of Education, University of Gloucestershire, Francis Close Hall, Swindon Road, Cheltenham GL50 4AZ. 

Telephone – 01242 714737

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or from our website http://www.glos.ac.uk/faculties/ehs/education/tlrp/conferenceoct07.cfm