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Dear Colleagues, The Easter break will shortly be upon us. If you intend coming to the" Designing learning, teaching orientation events for new academic staff" workshop on 12 April, I would strongly encourage you to contact SEDA to book your place before Wednesday 4th April to ensure you have a place. The session is very timely in light of the forthcoming changes to the QAA Code of Practice and the recent guidance on Inclusive Curriculum Design in Higher Education launched by the HEA last week. This workshop will explore the needs of academics and learning support staff when joining a new higher education institution. It will help address key questions:· * How do new staff find out about the culture of learning and teaching, and the ethos of research and scholarship?· * How do they identify staff who will support them?· * What resources are available and where can they be found?· * What support is there for scholarship and their continuous professional development needs? The workshop will consider strategies for providing timely information and support building on best practise and using lessons learnt from student orientation. Dr Helen Gale, Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at the University of Wolverhampton, will set the scene based on her research into academic identities amongst early- career academics (Gale 2011). The workshop provides the opportunity to disseminate the results of research undertaken by Dr Sally Bradley and Sue Beckingham, through the support of a SEDA Grant, examining the development needs of new academic and learning support staff. Colleagues from the Higher Education Academy will share how the academy continues to support new academic staff through the range of resources, pedagogic and subject based, and activities available through the Higher Education Academy site. Programme: 9:30 Coffee and tea available on arrival 10:00 Welcome and background to the event 10:30 Dr Helen Gale - Research findings on academic identities amongst early- career academics 11:30 Coffee 11:45 Workshop - Designing a Learning, Teaching and Assessment Orientation 13:00 Lunch 13:45 Higher Education Academy - New academic staff support: What is happening? What is available? 15:15 Coffee and Cake 15:30 Plenary 16.00:00 Close Reference and resources Gale, H. (2011) The reluctant academic: early-career academics in a teaching-orientated university, International Journal for Academic Development 16(3), 215-227. Supporting New Academic Staff (SNAS) database http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/snas Date: 12 April 2012 Location: Sheffield Hallam University Price: £40.00 To book a place, please go to http://www.seda.ac.uk/?p=14_2&e=428 Kind regards, Sally Bradley and Sue Beckingham Dr Sally Bradley FHEA and Sue Beckingham FSEDA, FAUA, FHEA Sheffield Hallam University 1-11 Arundel Gate Sheffield S1 1WB Telephone : 0112 225 4749 email: [log in to unmask]