HEA partnership awards 2013

Taken from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/annual-conference/partnership-awards

Partnership Awards

Powerful partnerships: enhancing the student experience

This year’s Higher Education Academy (HEA) annual conference, Powerful partnerships: defining the learning experience, is examining how partnerships within higher education affect the student experience and educational outcomes. Partnerships may arise in many forms and might include interactions between students, employers, teaching staff, research staff, and wider organisations.

To recognise and celebrate partnerships with students, the HEA is launching two awards which will be presented at the Annual Conference, 4 July 2013.

HEA student and staff partnership award

How do local partnerships between staff and students impact the student experience?

The HEA invites joint submissions from staff and students who have worked together to effect change and enhance the student experience. This could be through a formal research or enhancement project, or locally developed working practices. Each submission should be co-authored by a staff member and student from the institution (though it can reflect the work of a larger team of staff and students).

HEA and NUS joint Students’ Union and institution partnership award

How do strategic partnerships between students’ unions and institutions impact the student experience?

The NUS and HEA invite joint submissions from representatives of institutions and their students’ unions, associations or guilds that have developed strategic approaches to partnership working to effect change enhance the student experience. This could be through joint institutional initiatives around key learning and teaching priorities, development of strategies or policies, and governance. Each submission should be co-authored by someone from both the institution and students’ union (though it can reflect the work of a larger team).

Each award comes with a prize fund of £500 (with conditions on how these funds may be spent). Completed applications should be e-mailed to thestudents as partners team by 5 May 2013.

Full guidance on how to apply may be found in the following documents:

• HEA student and staff partnership award guidance and application form
• HEA and NUS joint Students’ Union and institution partnership award guidance and application form

If you have any questions about the awards contact the students as partners team.

HEA STEM: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2013: Call for papers

Taken from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2012/17_18_Apr_HEA_STEM_2013_Conf_Bham 

HEA STEM: Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2013: Where practice and pedagogy meet

• Date: 17 Apr 2013 - 18 Apr 2013
• Location/venue: University of Birmingham

Call for papers

The Higher Education Academy's second annual learning and teaching STEM conference entitled “Where practice and pedagogy meet” will take place on 17-18 April 2013 at The University of Birmingham.

Higher education has changed dramatically over the past ten years with advances in technology, the changing expectations of students, growing diversity and the increasing variety of higher education institutions. This conference aims to disseminate evidence based, effective practice and to examine how this impacts on STEM disciplines.

The Conference will explore the relationship between pedagogy and practice across the full range of HEA STEM disciplines (see below for the full list of HEA STEM disciplines).

Areas for consideration at the conference will include, but are not limited to;

• Improving the employability skills of STEM graduates;

• Innovative approaches to teaching and assessing large classes;

• Giving effective feedback to students;

• Growing diversity in the student population;

• Practices in peer mentoring;

• Impact of information technology in learning and teaching;

• Students as partners.

Important dates/deadlines:

1 September 2012 - call for, full papers, abstracts for oral presentations, abstracts for posters and workshops submissions;

21 November 2012 - deadline for the submission of full papers, abstracts for posters and workshops;

17 February 2013 - deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers;

1 March 2013 - at least one presenting author must be registered.

Review process

The HEA STEM Conference Committee is responsible for handling the review process for the conference. The Conference Committee consists of an Editor-in-Chief (Conference Committee chair), nine Editors and external reviewers.

PresentationsPresentations should describe the purpose, methods, and conclusions of your work. We are pleased to accept submissions under 4 options: to present as full papers, as oral presentations, as poster presentations, or as workshops.  (Please note, last year’s conference was hugely popular and the number of presentations we can accept for inclusion in parallel sessions is restricted).

Option 1 - Full paper presentationEach presenter will be allocated 20 minutes to present, including time for questions / discussion. Submissions should occupy no more than 5 A4 pages; accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings.

Option 2 - Oral presentationEach presenter will be allocated 20 minutes to present, including time for questions / discussion. Submissions should be in the form of an abstract and should be a maximum of 300 words.

Option 3 - Poster presentationPoster sessions at the conference will consist of posters displayed for informal browsing with opportunities for individual discussion with authors. Submissions should be in the form of an abstract and should be a maximum of 300 words.

Option 4 – WorkshopWorkshop sessions will be up to one hour in length. Submissions should include the title of the workshop and the motivation and description of the objectives of the workshop. Submissions must not exceed one A4 page.

Guidelines for submissions are provided in a separate document. Further guidelines will be provided for accepted submissions.

Submissions should be emailed to:Catherine Redfern, Administrator for STEM: catherine.redfern@heacademy.ac.uk

STEM Subjects

Biology, Zoology, Genetics, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Biophysics and Biochemistry, Others in Biological Sciences, Psychology, Forestry, Food and Beverage studies, Agriculture, Chemistry, Physics and Astronomy, Forensic and Archaeological Science, Geology, Ocean Sciences, Others in Physical Sciences, Human Geography, Physical Geography and Environmental Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Operational Research, Computing, General Engineering, Mechanical, Production and Manufacturing Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Naval Architecture, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical, Process and Energy Engineering, Others in Engineering, Materials and Minerals Technology, Maritime Technology, Others in Technology, Architecture, Building, Landscape Design, Planning (Urban, Rural and Regional), Others in Architecture, Building and Planning.

Contact email

• Catherine Redfern: Administrator for STEM

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An online version of THE PROCEEDINGS OF 7TH CHINA - EUROPE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SOFTWARE INDUSTRY- ORIENTED EDUCATION held at the University of Northampton, May 2011  is available online at: http://www.web-sustainablity.net/conference/GreenConferenceBook.pdf

learning dialogues conference, 13th May 2010

The School of Science and Technology has four presentations at the forthcoming Teaching and Learning Conference in a number of areas.

These are:
Soft skills for scientists; not a soft option
Andrea Duncan, Department for Enhanced Learning, Teaching, Achievement and Employability, and Rashmi Dravid, School of Science and Technology, The University of Northampton


Problem Solving and Creativity in Engineering: conclusions of phenomenographic study of novices and professionals
Jonathan Adams, School of Science and Technology, The University of Northampton



PowerPoint is just the start
Scott Turner, School of Science and Technology, The University of Northampton
Initial Experience of using Audio Feedback
Scott Turner, School of Science and Technology, The University of Northampton

Details of the conference can be found at: http://www2.northampton.ac.uk/learningteaching/conference10/programme


Registration is free to members of the University of Northampton staff and can be done through: http://www2.northampton.ac.uk/learningteaching/conference10/registration