Calling BU creative colleagues – an extended deadline… ===== Dear colleagues, I’d like to draw your attention to a CfP relating to a Creativity Special Issue of RAISE’s Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal (SEHEJ). I previously circulated the details (below) – but I’m sending this because the DEADLINE for Expressions of Interest/Abstracts HAS BEEN EXTENDED… Read more » about CALL FOR PAPERS Special Issue of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal CREATIVITY FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: PURPOSE, PROCESS, PRODUCT
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Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: Qualitative Approaches to Policy Analysis & Research
Dear colleagues, apologies for cross posting: ========= Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist (1.311 Impact Factor) on QUALITATIVE APPROACHES TO POLICY ANALYSIS & RESEARCH Editors: Monica Reid Kerrigan, Rowan University, and Ane Turner Johnson, Rowan University Abstracts Due: December 1, 2017 • Full Manuscript Due: May 1, 2018 The purpose of… Read more » about Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue: Qualitative Approaches to Policy Analysis & Research
Free workshop: the use and abuse of the Student Voice
Thanks to SEDA for sharing Dear Colleagues, Apologies for any cross-posting. Please see details below of a free workshop to be held in Sheffield on 20th October concerning some LFHE-funded research into use and abuse of the Student Voice. If you can make it, the booking link is at the bottom of the message. Please… Read more » about Free workshop: the use and abuse of the Student Voice
Using Fieldscapes as an authoring tool for creating immersive learning
Dr Liz Falconer, Denyse King (Midwifery Lecturer) and David Hunt met with Nash Mbaya and David Burden from Daden Limited today; to continue their collaborative development of a Virtual Maternity Urinalysis Clinic using ‘Fieldscapes’. The meeting was part of the Collaborative Alternative Augmented Reality Series (CAARS)- a project that is creating a 3D virtual environment… Read more » about Using Fieldscapes as an authoring tool for creating immersive learning
New book by CEL’s Dr. Jenny Hall
Congratulations to Dr. Jenny Hall in the Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL) who published a new book this month Spirituality and Childbirth: meaning and care at the start of life. The book is published by Routledge (which is part of the Taylor & Frances Group) and co-edited by Professor Susan Crowther, at The Robert Gordon University… Read more » about New book by CEL’s Dr. Jenny Hall
CEL was represented at BERA 2017
In this year’s annual conference of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), the Centre for Excellence in Learning (CEL) at Bournemouth University had a significant presence. Dr. Sue Eccles presented a paper on the subject “Young People in Care: Aspirations and Experiences of Progressing to Further or Higher Education”. The number of care leavers progressing… Read more » about CEL was represented at BERA 2017
REF and TEF: the connections – a national conference hosted by BU, Wednesday 11th October 2017
Please see below details of a one day conference we are running here at BU – we would love you to attend – Debbie =================== REF & TEF: the connections – 11th October 2017 The outcomes of this year’s Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the direction for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) as set out in the… Read more » about REF and TEF: the connections – a national conference hosted by BU, Wednesday 11th October 2017
An article from a CEL funded project just published
We are very pleased to announce that an article written by Venancio Tauringana, Marcellus Mbah and Phyllis Alexander has been published online in the Journal of Further and Higher Education. Title: Interrogating the importance and awareness of NSS improvement initiatives: a case study of final year undergraduate students Abstract: This paper reports the results of a case… Read more » about An article from a CEL funded project just published
Special Issue of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal CREATIVITY FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: PURPOSE, PROCESS, PRODUCT
Colleagues, I know there are some experts out there! Please do consider contrinuing to the special issue – i understad there may be some flexibility for the September 1000 word expression of interest. Debbie Call for papers: Special Issue of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal CREATIVITY FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: PURPOSE, PROCESS, PRODUCT Much… Read more » about Special Issue of the Student Engagement in Higher Education Journal CREATIVITY FOR STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: PURPOSE, PROCESS, PRODUCT
Students’ Union Partnerships for Widening Participation (WP)
An online resource has been published to support Students’ Unions, Universities and others in the HE sector to build stronger research partnerships, in order to work and learn together for WP research, policy and practice. This resource has been created to share the findings of a BU project which aimed to establish the best ways… Read more » about Students’ Union Partnerships for Widening Participation (WP)