The next 3Ps: Pizza Pop and Practice workshop will take place on 29th November 2016.
The topic is ‘Dialogues’ and draws together sessions on storytelling using Microsoft Sway and the complexities of designing materials accessible to all students.
The event will take place between 12 and 2pm in the Hope and Tees Clusters of the Robinson Library.
There will, of course, be pizza and pop available before the workshops begin.
Please do register here.
We look forward to seeing you there!
At the end of week one of Hadrian’s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier we have been asking “Why was the Wall built?”
If you would like to find some of the diverse views on this topic you can watch this extra discussion that Professor Ian Haynes held with world experts on Hadrian’s Wall.
In this 13 minute film, recorded in 2014, you will see Ian talking with:
Have their ideas changed your own thoughts at all?
The submission dates for ULTSEC Innovation Fund have been announced for 2016/17.
Responsive
Autumn – Monday 7th November 2016
Spring – Monday 10th April 2017
Summer – Friday 26th May 2017
Strategic
Semester 1 – Friday 20th January 2017
Semester 2 – Friday 26th May 2017
We will be running some webinars and workshops which will be available to book on to via the ULTSEC Innovation Fund webpage shortly.
There will also be training workshops giving useful advice on preparing submissions. Please see our website for details.
The next annual North East Regional Three Rivers Learning and Teaching Conference will be held on the 17 March 2017 at Teesside University.
Now in its 10th year, this regional conference builds upon the success of previous partnership events held by the region’s Universities (Northumbria, Sunderland, Durham, Newcastle and Teesside). The conference title is ‘Transformations, Transitions & Territories’ and further information can be found on our website.
We would like you to participate in this year’s conference by submitting an abstract for a 20 minute paper presentation by 16th December 2016 that is focused on one of the following areas of the student journey:
Submissions are welcome from all staff at participating institutions and joint student/staff submissions are encouraged.
Please read the supporting information before writing your abstract.
Please submit abstracts by 16th December 2016.
Proposers will be informed of the outcome of the selection process in January 2017.
Conference bookings will open in the New year. Please see our the Three Rivers website for more information
For further information, please contact Rosa Spencer in Newcastle’s SDU or Richard Sober at Teesside.
Monday 24 October sees the launch of the 2016 International Student Barometer (ISB), which Newcastle is taking part in for the eleventh time.
The ISB gives European Union and international students the opportunity to give their opinions on their experiences at Newcastle, from arrival at the University, through to teaching, accommodation and employability
We will survey all full-time and part-time EU and international undergraduates, taught and research postgraduate students, as well as study abroad and exchange students, based here in Newcastle and at Newcastle University London. We are unable to survey non-UK based and distance learning students as part of the ISB.
What is the ISB?
The annual ISB, which is run by i-Graduate, asks European Union and international students in around 200 universities across the world about their course and learning experiences. In 2016, the ISB will run at Newcastle between 24 October and 2 December.
What questions does it ask?
The survey includes questions about the whole student learning experience, including:
Who benefits from the ISB?
Schools, professional support services and NUSU examine the anonymised ISB data internally to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses. This information can be used to help effect changes designed to enhance or improve the student experience for both current and prospective students.
Some examples of changes implemented in recent years can be found at https://internal.ncl.ac.uk/yousaidwedid/actions/
Want to know more?
More details about the ISB, including access to previous year’s results, can be on the University website or obtained by emailing the team.
The ERDP (Unit for Educational Research, Development and Practice) will welcome Pauline Kneale PVC(T) Plymouth University for as part of their seminar series next month.
Pauline has led the development within Plymouth of a very active and successful Pedagogic Research network.
She will be leading a workshop in the morning of 8 November on evaluating teaching development which will be based upon the findings of an HEA-funded project.
She will also be delivering a seminar at lunchtime on that day, in which she will be sharing her reflections on developing pedagogic research.
Pauline is an excellent speaker and her presentations will be of interest to anybody interested in developing pedagogic research whatever stage their career is at or is interested in evaluating the impact of their teaching.
If you wish to attend this event please register.
This information, as well as details of other upcoming ERDP events, is also available at on the FMS website.
With increasing developments and discussions around teaching excellence in the sector, the Edubites sessions this year will be delivered as a Teaching Excellence Series to discuss this topic from a range of perspectives.
Everyone is invited and welcome to attend as many of the sessions as they wish.
As always, Edubites offers you the opportunity to share your practice and discuss issues or points of interest with other colleagues, so please do come prepared to contribute.
Lunch will be provided, so please register if you wish to attend.
Each year we open up Hadrian’s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier to thousands of new learners.
While we know Prof Ian Haynes as the architect and lead Educator of Hadrian’s Wall, this is only a small facet of his life as an archaeologist!
Ian spoke to Archaeosoup Productions as part of their “Meet the Archaeologist” series – you can find out more about Ian’s interests and projects from this YouTube video:
Ian has made much of his scholarly work available on academia.edu – this can be accessed by creating a free account.
View Ian’s papers on Academia.edu
Find out about the next scheduled dates for Hadrian’s Wall: Life on the Roman Frontier
Peer parenting, or mentoring, inductions have taken place across campus.
The university’s mentoring scheme is gearing up for another busy year of supporting first year students through the first term of University here at Newcastle.
The scheme involves recruiting second year students to act as mentors, or parents, to first years offering advice on academic work as well as on other aspects of University experience.
In the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (APL), Caroline Armstrong, Student Recruitment and Wellbeing Manager, organises the scheme, and the new “families” are all set for the new year.
Caroline said: ‘We call them parents in this school, rather than mentors.
‘We’ve been doing this for years now.
‘I just think that it’s such a good way of helping students to settle in.
‘I pick out the groups as soon as the firm offers are confirmed and students are contacted before they start by their new university “parents”.’
Caroline thinks the scheme is invaluable for new students in the School.
‘Just having someone there, who was in your position last year, to say “it gets better” makes all the difference.
‘Our students, like many others from across the University, are used to being real shining stars at School and when they get to University can struggle as they adjust to new subjects and new ways of thinking.
‘The have a social room, like a Common Room in the School and knowing and socialising with the second and third years can help them to feel comfortable and relaxed in these public spaces.’
The School have recently run their induction event, at which mentors meet their mentees for the first time.
‘We just get them together and they get a tour of the School and then have lunch with their new “families”.
‘To break the ice we gave them spaghetti, marshmallows and fruit pastels and told each “family” [a group formed of two mentors and a number of mentees] to build a structure.’
The scheme is so popular that the “parents” now have “grandparents”, third year students to help initiate them into their parental duties.
‘We might try brightly coloured jackets, to make the mentors really easy to spot in freshers week and to help promote the scheme to our other students.’
Caroline is currently planning feedback meetings, where students will be able to raise any pitfalls or benefits of the scheme.
‘Then it’s already looking forward to January, where we will start contacting this year’s first years to see if they want to parent next year’s students.’
Do you need help or advice about Peer Mentoring? Contact ltds@ncl.ac.uk.
There is a new collection of resources on the LTDS website designed to help you navigate your way through the process and help you assemble a case for promotion based on excellent or exceptional teaching.
As well as collecting together all the useful links from Human Resources, you will find pointers to case studies from people here at Newcastle University who have done it already, supporting materials such video clips which describe the pitfalls and common mistakes, workshop materials and links off to supporting literature and resources. We hope you will find this collection useful.
