> Apologies for cross posting
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Sincere apologies for the confusion but we have had to change the date of this event because of a clash with the SEDA
Conference. It is now Friday 22 November. The web site is now live for those who were unable to get through before.
Please look at the web site or contact Meg Handscombe ([log in to unmask]) for further details.
Thanks
Ranald
> 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
>
> For further information and a booking form please see http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/lti/ltri/newsletter/newscurrent/2b19conf.htm
>
> Booking forms should be returned to Meg Handscombe at Sheffield Hallam University by Friday 4 October 2002.
>
> The speakers:
>
> *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
>
> 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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