Yesterday I was invited to attend an IL day at Sheffield University, the special guest for the day being Christine Bruce from QUT. Christine came to the UK to do a keynote speech at the LILAC conference and is coming up to the NE today so that she can run a workshop in Newcastle on monday. I’m planning to get some advice on my own project this weekend, in between doing some quick sightseeing around the region.
The meeting in Sheffield was excellent – in the morning we had an informal seminar in which Christine addressed some presubmitted questions around topics such as IL in the workplace, IL and Web 2.0, IL and threshold concepts. Lots of things to think about! In the afternoon she explained what the research group at QUT are working on and we also heard from Sheila Webber and Bill Johnston on their research into academic conceptions of IL in chemistry and english academics.

Durham riverbanks