***Apologies for cross-posting*** Research informed Teaching: Delivering participation, engagement and enquiry Wednesday July 14 2010, 9.30am - 4.45pm Staffordshire University Keynote Speakers: Prof. Alan Jenkins, Oxford Brookes University Prof. Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners, academics, researchers, students, policy makers and learning support staff to explore the pedagogic issues and policies surrounding the contested notions of Research informed Teaching and the research-teaching nexus in higher education. Provisional Programme: Registration 9.30am - 10.00am Welcome 10.00am - 10.15am Keynote 1: Alan Jenkins 10.15am - 11.00am Parallel session 1 11.00am - 12.00pm Lunch 12.00pm - 1pm Keynote 2: Stuart Hampton-Reeves 1.00pm - 1.45pm Parallel session 2 1.45pm - 2.45pm Break 2.45pm - 3.15pm Parallel session 3 3.15pm - 3.45pm Notes from rapporteurs 3.45pm - 4.30pm Concluding remarks 4.30pm - 4.45pm 4.45 Close and depart Workshop themes: Papers and posters are welcomed on any of the following themes, with an overall focus on Research informed Teaching/ research-teaching nexus in higher education: · Pedagogies for the research-teaching nexus for example, enquiry/inquiry-based learning · The student voice in Research informed Teaching · The role of technology in the research-teaching nexus · The role of information literacy in the research-teaching nexus · Reports from Research informed Teaching projects - design and impact · Fostering communities of practice in Research informed Teaching · Benchmarking Research informed Teaching Call for Papers & Posters: Abstracts for the conference to be submitted by FRIDAY FEBRUARY 28, 2010 Notification of acceptance will be made by WEDNESDAY MARCH 31, 2010 Presentations will be 30mins in length, 20mins content plus 10mins for questions Posters should be A0 in size. In your abstract please use the following guidelines: The title of the presentation or poster Indicate clearly which theme(s) it will address Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words. Please visit the following website to submit your abstract: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/events/submissionform/ Papers accepted for this conference will be given the opportunity to submit a full article to a special edition of an HE teaching and learning journal. Registration Registration is now open. Please use the online booking form at: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/events/bookingform/ Cost of attendance: £95 (£45 Staffordshire University employees) For more information on the conference please visit the conference web page at: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/research/research_informed_teaching/events/index.jsp#conference We look forward to seeing you on the 14th of July. Dr Geoff Walton, BA (Hons), MA, PhD, PgCHPE, FHEA, MCLIP Subject Librarian & Research informed Teaching Project Co-ordinator, Information Services, D112 Thompson Library, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2XS Tel: 01782 294448 Fax: 01782 295799 The information in this email is confidential and is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee, is prohibited and may be unlawful. Kindly notify the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your computer.