UCLan University Conference: Mon 8th - Thurs 11th June 2009
Full Conference Programme (PDF file) or Timetable only (PDF file)
The conference is free of charge and everyone is welcome!
Please register here for your free place.
The UCLan University Conference 2009 will focus on our collective contribution to the student learning experience. This four day event will celebrate our highly successful current achievements and showcase future ideas and activities.
There are three main conference themes:
Partnerships – with students; with colleagues; with colleges; with employers; internationally; with networks; and within UCLan
Elevation – elevating and enhancing research and scholarship in the disciplines; elevating and enhancing learning, teaching and assessment
Shared Identity – developing communities of practice; developing learning spaces; engaging with policy and strategy
Each day has a particular focus:
Monday 8th June takes an overview of current issues relating to the student learning experience. The day includes keynotes on the changing themes in education and looks at how the UCLan Estate has grown to meet the needs of our learners. Sessions on this day will consider a number of areas, including: feedback (an increasingly important issue as evidenced by the National Student Survey); social networking; student focused issues; and animation. There will also be a Turnitin plagiarism debate and a project launch and celebration from the Preston Science Partnership.
Tuesday 9th June has more of a scholarship and research feel to the day. The keynote provided by Professor John Cowan looks at ‘Beyond Alignment’ which considers how well education has achieved alignment of outcomes, assessment and learning and teaching activity, and then considers what the next steps might be beyond this position. Also on Tuesday we are hosting an SRHE Student Experience Network Event focusing on undergraduate research. The day also shares a Pedagogic Research Forum with delegates, and has papers and workshops relating to: CPD; Coaching; Skills; Powerpoint; Management and Partnerships.
Wednesday 10th June is focussed on knowledge transfer, employability and retention issues. The keynote from Howard Atkin addresses the question, ‘is there any point in improving contacts between the University and Industry?’ and this is followed by workshops related to knowledge transfer. The day also considers employability frameworks and models, retention issues and the new UCLan Futures Award. The focus on the student learning experience continues with sessions relating to first year student engagement, writing, skills and feedback.
Thursday 11th June marks the final day of the conference and brings together a set of workshops and papers relating to: partnership themes; the link between teaching and research; how research informed teaching can be developed; the changing experience of the students with consideration of new ways to enhance learning. There will also be a Digital Natives debate with a focus on emerging technologies and their impact on teaching and learning. The conference will close with lunch and the opportunity for an open network with colleagues.
Throughout the conference there will also be the opportunity to view the posters that will be on display in the foyer outside the Greenbank Lecture Theatre - where the keynotes addresses are taking place. On Monday 8th there is an LIS interactive session taking place in the foyer area that will provide you with hands-on experience of what is on offer to library users with respect to research and database use.
For further information on all of these events please see the Programme Timetable and for fuller details of the sessions please see the abstracts on pages 8-17 of the full Conference Programme.
If you require further information, please contact William Fisher cwfisher@uclan.ac.uk or, for administrative issues, Trudi Emmens tmemmens@uclan.ac.uk
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
‘Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view’ Robert Hutchins (1899 - 1977)
