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The deadline for registrations for this event has been extended to 23rd August 2010.  For more details, or to register, please visit http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/PrsEvents/473

 

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AUDTRS / Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies event – Theology and Religious Studies: Priorities and Impact, 2-3 September, Liverpool Hope University

 

Extended registration deadline: Monday 23rd August

 

This two day event will examine the challenges facing Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) in this difficult time for HE, providing an opportunity for delegates to be better informed about the changes taking place and their significance for TRS in a fast-changing landscape, to garner different perspectives and to feed into discussion about ways forward at a national level.

 

The AUDTRS Committee is acutely conscious of the need for everyone within our membership, and our disciplines in general, to be able to address these challenges. In light of this, AUDTRS and the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies are co-organising this event to create a space for reflection on these important issues. The event will include this year’s AUDTRS AGM.

 

A number of speakers who are able to explore these issues from a range of perspectives have agreed to join us, including:

 

  • Professor Dianne Willcocks (Vice Chancellor of York St John University)
  • Professor Gerald Pillay (Vice Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University)
  • Professor Robin Osborne (Arts and Humanities User Group)
  • Professor Douglas Davies (President of the British Association for the Study of Religions)
  • Professor Helen Beebee (Director of the British Philosophical Association)

 

There will be workshops on:

 

·         Taught postgraduate benchmarking

·         Representing the interests of research students and those in post-doctoral positions

·         The REF and the ‘impact’ agenda

 

As well as members of AUDTRS, this meeting is open to all members of staff in TRS departments, and to those who identify themselves as teaching TRS outside of TRS departments.

 

Full attendance costs £106.45. Day rates are available.

 

Please see http://prs.heacademy.ac.uk/view.html/PrsEvents/473 for more information, including the draft programme and details of how to register.

 

Dr Rebecca O'Loughlin

Academic Coordinator (Theology)

Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK

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