Our activities and events

Activities:

• Internal and external promotion of the latest research, good practice, and other Ped Res activities and outputs
• Collate and disseminate Faculty/Institute Ped Res conferences and publications
• Ped Res methodology/methods case studies
• Develop a Digital Hub of pedagogic strands illustrated by case studies
• Improved institutional staff directory/profile database to include research interest search
• Audit pedagogic research and innovation across our institution
• Liaise with RIDO to enhance institutional REF contribution
• Undertake institutional impact evaluations
• Develop ethics discussion paper leading to institutional support (especially the use of student data)
• Support and encourage colleagues in, or transitioning into Ped Res (e.g., via PGCert/LTiP, and during appraisal season)
• Bring teaching, research, and practice together for knowledge exchange
• Identify, promote, and share ARU Ped Res activities and expertise internally via Faculty Liaison with DDE/DLTA and DDR/DoR, and school meetings
• Identify, promote, and share ARU Ped Res activities and expertise (inter)nationally
• Environmental scan of LTA funding opportunities including research funding (e.g., SRHE)
• Support/mentor colleagues with Ped Res activities and publications
• Support/mentors for ECRs and ECTs
• Build relationships with national bodies and organisations (e.g., SRHE, Advance HE, SEDA, PLA (Playful Learning Association), ALT (Association for Learning Technology, WonkHE)
• Look for and respond to sector collaborative LTA projects (e.g., AdvanceHE, OfS, QAA, SRHE)

Specific Activities:

• Manage, support, and promote Education Sabbaticals
• Engage in professional enquiry
• Develop and support key initiatives pedagogically (e.g., Race Equality Strategy, Ruskin Modules (RMs))
• Build in impact mechanisms and carry out Impact Evaluations as indicators of pathways to impact (such as with Active Curriculum Framework, RMs)
• Support faculties in developing their own Ped Res programmes/centres (e.g., FBL)
• Support colleagues during their Ped Res journey by linking activities to different stages of career development

Regular Timetabled Activities:

• TeachMeets (online or face-to-face)
• Monthly lunch-time transformative conversations
• Monthly interactive Open Studios Sandpit meetings [open to local/national colleagues and organisations] discussing a topic and with facilitated support
• Monthly Ped Res meetings
  • Record presentations for editing and dissemination in a variety of formats
• Monthly drop-in writing cafés
• Trimester Writing Retreats (full day)
• Trimester Academic Writing workshops (2 hours)
  • Getting published
  • Managing rejection
• Workshops in Ped Res methodologies (e.g., NVivo training workshops in qualitative data analysis)
• Transitioning into Ped Res workshops
• Engage annual learning and teaching conference with Ped Res focus
• Ped Res theme/strand at ARU Research Conference
• CIHE annual conference - save the date for 2025's on Friday 4 July (Cambridge).

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