Apologies - it should be Tuesday 19 November

Ranald

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> From: Macdonald, Ranald F
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> Subject:      Conference on research to improve practice
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> Apologies for cross posting
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> Doing Research to Improve Practice:
> Qualitative Research Approaches for Higher Education Staff
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> A day conference for Higher Education practitioners will take place at Sheffield Novotel on
> Tuesday 11 November 2002
> 10.30 am - 4.00 pm
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> 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.
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> Programme:
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> 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
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> For further information and a booking form please see http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lti/ltri/newsletter/newscurrent/2b19conf.htm
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> Booking forms should be returned to Meg Handscombe at Sheffield Hallam University by Friday 4 October 2002.
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> The speakers:
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> *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
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> Professor Liz Beaty   Action Research
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>               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
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