Here are some participants’ notes I was given after the 20th April event:

• the Societal Challenge Themes as a stimulant for curriculum innovation
• the importance of identifying change leaders
• the importance of getting SCT leaders together to cross-fertilise both people and curricula, with all 3 SCTs across all 3 Faculties
• opportunities for Newcastle University Students’ Union to link with the SCTs, and to work in partnership with Academic Units
• the importance of ownership of and credit for work that is initiated
• time constraints for staff [and for students]
• legal constraints, particularly visa conditions that could limit international fee students’ participation in employment-based projects
• opportunities for an organic, bottom-up approach across the University
• opportunities for using developments at the University as a context for learning and teaching projects, for example a student project to measure the impact on energy use when a School moves from one building to another
• the need to keep this SCT in Learning and Teaching network of people going, using periodic updates or meetings.

If you took part in the event please add your own notes: either comment on this post or email me (lydia.wysocki@ncl.ac.uk) and I’ll upload them.  If you weren’t at the event you’re equally welcome to add your comments.