Programme

 

Session formats

Workshops or symposiums are both 90 minutes long and expected to engage the audience. Symposiums are expected to have 2 short presentations followed by  discussion.

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08:30 - 09:00 Registration (Quad)
Welcome (CG77)	09:15-09:30 Welcome and Vice-chancellor Professor Tim Blackman
Keynote (CG77)	09:30 – 10:20 The changing HE landscape: implications for your teaching practices Helen King, Senior Policy Advisor for Learning and Teaching Development, HEFCE
10:30 – 12:00 Parallel sessions
Conference strand: Diversity as a resource for student success
Session 1 Workshop (CG13)	Conceptualizing, listening and supporting students across diverse gender identities Professor Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Professor in Social Care; Alfonso Pezzell, Associate Lecturer in Mental Health; Rebecca Manning, Middlesex Alumni; Laura Cole, Research Assistant, King's College London
Session 2 Symposium (CG09)	Reflections from delivering a criminology module in HMP Wandsworth Prison Jenni Ward, Senior Lecturer in Criminology ‘I Am A Magazine’: diversity in a large scale collaborative, interdisciplinary, self-directed learning project Peter Thomas, Senior Lecturer in Academic Writing and Language; Alison Tanner, Senior Lecturer in Photography
Conference strand:  Employability in the hourglass: preparing students for lifelong employability
Session 3 Symposium (C110)	Giving our students the best chance: evaluation and critical scrutiny of key module design and content to enhance student employability within the science, business and performing arts world Nick Kassouf, Technical Tutor Biomedical Science; Eleonora Pantano, Lecturer in Marketing; Lauren Patman, Technician (Stage Management) Preparing students for lifelong employability within nursing: Experiences of programme development and delivery Professor Kay Caldwell, Head of Institute of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work; Georgina Cox, Senior Lecturer in Nursing
Session 4 Symposium (C111)	Enhancing student employability confidence Simon Roberts, Director of PG Leadership, Work & Organisation Programmes (Business School) Students’ work aspirations among employed/ unemployed students and the link between aspirations and employability Dr Sumeetra Ramakrishnan, Senior Lecturer in International Tourism & Hospitality
Session 5 Workshop (C109)	STEP: Strengthening Team-based Education in Practice Kathy Wilson, Associate Professor; Pam Hodge, Lecturer in Practice Learning; Julie Moody, Senior Lecturer (Practice) Adult Nursing
Conference strand:  Navigating uncertainty with data
Session 6 Symposium (CG15)	Advancing education beyond the audit; preparing students for life choices in the age of neoliberalism Susan Scott-Hunt, Associate Professor in Law; Renu Barton-Hanson, Acting Director of Programmes for Law; Dr Elvira Domínguez-Redondo, Associate Professor; Dr Maureen Spencer, Associate Professor in Law ‘Eduveillance’: re-imagining the age of Bentham’s Chrestomatic-Panopticon Professor Balbir Barn, Deputy Dean, Science and Technology
Session 7 Workshop (CG49)	How to beat fake news: advanced verifiability skills with Wikimedia Stefan Lutschinger, Associate Lecturer in Digital Publishing
Conference strand:  Technologies for teaching/technologies for learning
Session 8 Workshop (CG10)	Student-generated questions and volunteering experience are effective tools for participatory learning in STEM subjects Massimiliano Marvasi, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology
Session 9 Workshop (CG51)	Students in the driver’s seat – using innovative real-time feedback mechanisms Georgios Dafoulas, Associate Professor, Computer Science; Martin Loomes, PVC, Executive Dean Faculty of Science and Technology; Cristiano Maia, Graduate Academic Assistant, Computer Science
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (Quad)
(12:00-12:50) Workshops taking place during the lunch break (lunch provided in the room)	(CG03) ‘Contract Cheating’: an overview of perspectives (academic, student) exploring ways to detect and alleviate contract cheating, considering the roles of registry and technology Adam Edwards, Library Liaison Manager; Sue Bailey, Deputy Academic Registrar; Venetia Brown, Director of Programmes - Post Qualifying Nursing, Child Health; Jordan Lewis, Middlesex University Students' Union
	(CG06) ‘If you were me and I were you`   Dr Doirean Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management
Keynote (CG77)	13:00 - 13:50 What is employability? Johnny Rich, Higher Education Specialist
14:00 – 15:30 Parallel sessions
Conference strand: Diversity as a resource for student success
Session 10 Symposium (C110)	Surviving life in the NHS: study well, build resilience, stay healthy, make a difference Jo Killingley, Senior Lecturer Midwifery; David Westley, Director of Programmes Psychology Registered nurses with dyslexia: strategies for success in lifelong learning Rachael Major, Honorary Lecturer, Institute of Health and Social Care Studies, Guernsey
Session 11 Symposium (CG09)	Developing student teachers’ skill and understandings of dialogue in primary Religious Education Linda Whitworth, Senior Lecturer in Primary Teacher Education Citizenship & Religious Education The accented curriculum: how to move beyond the anglophone-biased and Received Pronunciation (RP) curriculum design Dr Katerina Loukopoulou, Senior Academic Developer
Conference strand: Employability in the hourglass: preparing students for lifelong employability
Session 12 Workshop (CG10)	Employability for professional practice through research Maeve O’Loughlin, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Safety & Health
Session 13 Workshop (CG13)	‘Skilled worker does not mean stupid’: why we need to articulate skills as essential in HE for employability Professor Martin Loomes, PVC, Executive Dean Faculty of Science and Technology; Dr Celia Bell, Head of Department Natural Sciences; Professor Mehmet Karamanoglu, Head of Department Design, Engineering and Mathematics
Session 14 Workshop (C109)	Communities of learning: supporting individuality and belonging Liz Beasley, Senior Lecturer in Education (Practice); Shirley Allen, Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies; Phil Barter, Associate Professor (Practice) in Learning and Teaching
Conference strand: Navigating uncertainty with data
Session 15 Workshop (CG51)	Capturing uncertainty: learning, research, teaching Professor William Wong, Professor Computing Science; Professor Ifan Shepherd, Professor GeoBusiness; Dr Sylvia Gottschalk, Finance, Director of Finance Programmes Professor Mandeep Dhami, Professor in  Decision Psychology; Lisa Marzano, Associate Professor in Psychology; John Watt, Associate Professor in Risk Management; Dr Chris Rooney, Researcher Visual Analytics; Dr Neesha Kodagoda, Operations Manager & Senior Researcher Visual Analytics
Session 16 Workshop (C111)	'Unpaid Britain': an interdisciplinary and empirical study on the labour market, critical employability and the student experience Nick Clark, Research Assistant, Business School; Sophie Knowles, Programme Leader Journalism; Valeria Graziano, Research Fellow, Art and Design Institute; Dr Sophie Hope, Lecturer in Arts Management, Birkbeck University of London
Conference strand: Technologies for teaching/technologies for learning
Session 17 Workshop (CG15)	Thinking outside the blocks: employing the principles of Lego Serious Play as a learning technology to facilitate team building tasks Alan Wheeler, Liaison Librarian
Session 18 Symposium (CG11)	‘Tell me what you want, what you really, really want.’ The use of Socrative technology to gather feedback on the student learning experience Sukhbinder Barn, Senior Lecturer in Marketing Prezi as an inclusive learning tool Dr Maja Simunjak, Lecturer in Journalism
15:40 – 16:15 Plenary and closing remarks (CG77)