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Festival of Learning 2024 Programme
The programme for the Festival of Learning 2024, which took place on Tuesday 11 June at Oxstalls Campus, can be viewed below.
Recordings of most sessions are also included within the relevant sections of the programme.
You can view content from past festivals on the archive pages.
If you have any questions about the Festival of Learning, please email [email protected].
Photo credit: Sinead Fernandes, Photography: Editorial and Advertising BA (Hons)
Jump to: Welcome and Introduction | External keynote | Parallel sessions 1 | Parallel sessions 2 | Parallel sessions 3 | Celebrations and awards
9.15 – 9.30am: Registration
9.30 – 9.40am: Welcome and introduction
With Clare Marchant, Vice-Chancellor
Recording
Audio only.
9.40 – 10.40am: External Keynote
Interdisciplinary ways to view the world in an age of AI
Professor Carl Gombrich, Dean and Lead Academic, The London Interdisciplinary School. Find out more
Recording
11am – 12.30pm: Parallel sessions 1
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Four presentations of 15 minutes, each followed by 5 minutes of open audience questions.
1. The novice and the expert: Reflections of reciprocity within the supervisory process
Sam Hughes (School of Education and Science) and Jazmine Parrott (MSc-R student)2. Learning from experience – The involvement of experts by experience in the delivery of learning
Emma Rose (School of Health and Social Care) with Siobhra Brennan and Becca Huxtable (Level 5 Occupational Therapy students)3. What are the ethical issues when including children and young people with lived experiences of caring into teaching and learning activities?
David Hambling (School of Health and Social Care)4. Expressions of solidarity: Student responses during experiential encounters
Alan Marvell (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences)This session will be chaired by Ruffin Relja (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
Recording
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Four presentations of 15 minutes, each followed by 5 minutes of open audience questions.
1. Employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship: Embedding critical thinking and reflection into the curriculum
Emily Beaumont (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences) and Gemma Tandy* (Your Future Plan)2. Tweaking the mix: Experimenting with employer engagement models
Tom Soper (School of Creative Arts)3. The working university: Preparing students for the realities of a freelance world
Andrew Moxon and Paul Roberts (School of Creative Arts)4. Making the most of partnership working – Embedding real life social research into course experiences
Jon Harris (School of Creative Arts) and Kenny Lynch* (School of Education and Science)This session will be chaired by Jordan Wintle (School of Education and Science Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
*Co-contributor, not presenting on the day.
Recording
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Omar El Masri (panel convenor), Samuel Copland, Sabina Fiebig-Lord, Tim Groves, Nat Jester and Rowan Sweeney (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences), Kimberly Hall and Yvette Putra (School of Creative Arts), Rachael Bullingham, Alex Masardo and Maria Meredith (School of Education and Science) and Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal (Brunel University London)
This session will be introduced by Ellie Sonmezer (School of Health and Social Care Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
12.30 – 1.30pm: Lunch
1.30 – 2.15pm: Parallel sessions 2
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Verbal presentation of 5-6 minutes, with 2-3 minutes per presenter for questions.
1. Pedagogical value of the academic integrity procedure for poor academic practice: A case study
Hayley Legg (School of Education and Science)2. Beyond the basics: Enhancing the apprenticeship programme experience
Clare Taylor, Steph Reynolds and Matt Scott (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences)3. A ‘pod-ucation’ learning journey: The pedagogical application of social audio through interdisciplinary shared empirical practice
Robert Whitehouse (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences) and Alex Ward (School of Creative Arts) with students from both Schools4. Advancing quality provision: The role of Advance HE Fellowships in transnational higher education
Ruffin Relja (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences), Phuong Quynh Tran* and Duong Tran Quang Hoang* (International Institute, Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance) and Jenny Hill* (Academic Development Unit)This session will be chaired by Ellie Sonmezer (School of Health and Social Care Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
*Co-contributor, not presenting on the day.
Recording
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Opening the discussion: Generative AI and postgraduate student learner journeys
Duncan Duriez (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences)This session will be introduced by Matthew Lovett (School of Creative Arts Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
2.15 – 3.45pm: Parallel sessions 3
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Four presentations of 15 minutes, each followed by 5 minutes of open audience questions.
1. Student colours: Recognising the make-up of a learner
Simon Packard (School of Creative Arts)2. What can Jacques Rancière teach us about widening participation?
Stephen Cowden (School of Health and Social Care)3. Decolonising the criminological core: Implementing a processual approach to curricular decolonisation with antiracist praxis
Omar El Masri (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences) and Anamika Twyman-Ghoshal (Brunel University London)4. Developing engagement and a community of learning: Interventions with law students
Lottie Park-Morton and Catherine Crampton (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences)This session will be chaired by Matthew Lovett (School of Creative Arts Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
Recording
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Four presentations of 15 minutes, each followed by 5 minutes of open audience questions.
1. Using a dialogic feed-forward assessment, integrating a critical reflection on AI
Rachael Bullingham (School of Education and Science)2. Mastering research design through interactive gameplay: The development and evaluation of a serious game to improve knowledge and experience of research design and implementation
Anne Daykin (School of Health and Social Care)3. The impact of ‘Make an Impact Week’ 2023
Sara Hooke and Sarah Dibble* (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences) and Miriam Webb (Sustainability Engagement Manager)4. Sustainable music practice
Gary-Martin Rolinson (School of Creative Arts)This session will be chaired by Ruffin Relja (School of Business, Computing and Social Sciences Representative on the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
*Co-contributor, not presenting on the day.
Recording
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Studio life: The studio as a non-hierarchical learning space
Kimberly Hall, Charnjeev Kang and Yvette Putra (School of Creative Arts)This session will be introduced by Nic Earle (Strategic Academic Project Manager and Chair of the Festival of Learning Planning Team).
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4 – 4.20pm: Celebrations and awards
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University of Gloucestershire (UoG) is proud to support a range of schemes that recognise groups and individuals who foster excellence in teaching, learning and assessment within and beyond the institution. This session will introduce the schemes and showcase UoG staff who have gained recognition over the last academic year.
You are cordially invited to attend this celebratory event to congratulate colleagues from the institution who have recently received these prestigious awards and to learn how you can develop yourself professionally in teaching and scholarship.
Recording
4.20 – 4.30pm: Closing remarks
With Dr Pauline Williams, Director of Academic Quality, Enhancement and Innovation