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CEL researcher travelling to Colombia – fostering links with Latin America

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Jacqueline Priego is presenting at the Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences – get in touch for potential collaborations. This week, CEL’s Jacqueline Priego is travelling to Medellin, Colombia, to present at the VII Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences, Organised by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). This… Read more » about CEL researcher travelling to Colombia – fostering links with Latin America

Horizon2020

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  Debbie Holley went along to the stunning British Academy building in London for a Horizon 2020 briefing day about social science and research. Calls are already well documented, insert link, but keynote speaker Phillippe Keruafran, Deputy Head of Unit Research and Innovation, traveling from Brussels to give his talk, encouraged social scientists to look… Read more » about Horizon2020

Fair Access Regulation and Fair Access Research

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  In a follow-up post to her thoughts about student loans, Hannah Arendt, and the limits of life, Dr Alex Wardrop discusses why an independent fair access regulator can help us tell stories about widening participation differently. “If we keep continue to speak the same language to each other, we will reproduce the same story. Begin… Read more » about Fair Access Regulation and Fair Access Research

Suggestions for the TEL/IT seminars in Semester 2?

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CEL is scheduling at least 8 seminars/workshops in semester 2 on issues related to technology enhanced learning and IT in teaching and learning. We are looking to include topics such as social media,  student engagement using Peerwise, use of the new presentation equipment and lecture video capture using panopto to mention but a few. If… Read more » about Suggestions for the TEL/IT seminars in Semester 2?

CELebrating our students’ achievements

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Graduation Ceremonies have been taking place all week CELebrating the fantastic achievements of our students. In particular, one student from the Faculty of Management was selected to participate in the 2015 series of The Apprentice. Jenny Garbis, a BA (Hons) Business Studies with Finance student, not only achieved a First in her degree but was… Read more » about CELebrating our students’ achievements

Call to academics to participate in flipped classroom resource bid

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How often do you hear students saying ‘oh that was really boring’ about various lecture content, even though we, as lecturers, thought that was our best ever explanation of a challenging topic? The flipped classroom is one method of addressing undergraduate apathy towards lectures and traditional methods of teaching. The optimal two-way relationship is often… Read more » about Call to academics to participate in flipped classroom resource bid

A digital challenge for November!

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Dear All, Colleagues from Hybrid Pedagogy have organised November as Gigi-writing month – and we are all invited to join in: http://www.digitalwritingmonth.com/home/ Here’s the invite: How Does One DigiWriMo? 1. There are no secrets to doing DigiWriMo, no right way and no wrong way to do it. Some people may write a novel using their… Read more » about A digital challenge for November!

Free data workshop: Los Angeles – some funding available – see below

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Debbie Holley has been thinking about data this week, and shares a tip for keeping up-to-date with data issues, events, publications and lots more … Interested in data? The UKdataservice have an excellent JISCMAIL list – free to join, and there are are range of interesting opportunites, both in the UK and abroad. This caught… Read more » about Free data workshop: Los Angeles – some funding available – see below