Events for 2013

INSTIL run a number of events throught the year, see more details below. Further information on each event will be available nearer the time.

Learning and Teaching Conference 2013
Assessing and giving feedback: can we get it right?

Date: Tuesday 25 June 2013
Location: Paragon, Brentford Campus
Time: 9.30am - 4pm
Registration from 8.45 am

Followed by The Vice-Chancellor's Awards Ceremony at 4.30pm

This year's conference will include two keynote speakers, two expert workshops, a plenary discussion, parallel sessions, posters, a TEL corner with case studies, and exhibitions from the Library, the One-Stop-Shop and Careers. It will be followed by this year's Award Ceremony presided over by the Vice-Chancellor and celebrating the success of colleagues across the University. This year, we also encourage students to submit poster presentations in the 'Student Poster Zone'.

Keynote speakers

Haydn Blackey is Head of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Glamorgan. He will talk about student feedback.

Sue Bloxham is Professor of Academic Practice and Director of Education Research at the University of Cumbria.  Her talk is entitled 'Understanding the rules of the game: helping students really grasp what we are looking for when we mark'

Expert workshops

There will be two expert workshops from Ron Barnett, visiting INSTIL Professor and Peter Chatterton, visiting Professor in the Learning and Teaching Institute at the University of Hertfordshire.

Call for papers

Please see link (pdf) for call for papers. The deadline for submission has now been extended to  Friday 31 May 2013.

Book your place now

For further information please contact alison.clerkin@uwl.ac.uk