SAT L&T Online Events 2021/2022
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The Power of Play in Higher Education Roundtable: Where do we go next? Free CHEF Webinar, 3-5pm Monday 30th November
For more information and to sign up click here. Registration deadline: Please no later than November 25th, 2020, at 23.59 Central European Time (CET) Time: November 30th, 2020, at 15.00-17.00 Central European Time (CET) Max. participants: 120 Chair: Rikke Toft Nørgård, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark The Power of Play Roundtable marks…
Webinar: The challenges of research and publishing in learning and teaching in higher education
Wednesday 15 July 2020 at 10:30am The following webinar will be given by Professor David Boud,Work and Learning Research Centre at Middlesex, and renowned international researcher: Being scholarly about ones teaching is normal business for us all. The increasing expectation of academics is not only that they are on…
Philosophy and Theory of HE Conference: UNIVERSITIES UNDER SIEGE? 19-20 October 2020
4th annual Philosophy and Theory of Higher Education Conference 19–20 October, 2020, Uppsala University, Sweden “the crisis of the university” is a familiar topos in contemporary discussions about higher education. It is said that the University is facing untold threats from, inter alia, the anti-intellec- tualism of populist politicians…
New Book: Higher Education and Hope Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Possibilities Editors: Gibbs, Paul, Peterson, Andrew (Eds.)
Around the world, the landscape of Higher Education is increasingly shaped by discourses of employability, rankings, and student satisfaction. Under these conditions, the role of universities in preparing students for all facets of life, and to contribute to the public good, is reshaped in significant ways: ways which…
New Book: The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of HE
Edited by Professor Paul Gibbs This first volume focusing on compassion in higher education examines how the university can reclaim its moral leadership. It develops a pedagogy of compassion in two critical areas: curriculum and assessment. This book offers a moral rather than instrumental notion of university education…
New Book: Universities in the Flux of Time
Edited by Paul Gibbs, Oili-Helena Ylijoki, Carolina Guzmán-Valenzuela, Ronald Barnett Higher education and the institution of the university exist in time, their essential nature now continually subject to change: change in students, in knowledge, in structure and in their own communities and those they service. These changes are accompanied by a quickening…
New Book: Transdisciplinary Higher Education
Edited by Paul Gibbs This book is not just about thinking or acting in transdisciplinary ways, but about being transdisciplinary. To achieve this requires a deconstruction of our current way of acting within the definition of being that others impose upon us. Transdisciplinarity is a phenomenological perspective of…
New Book: Thinking about Higher Education
Edited by Paul Gibbs and Ronald Barnett With higher education around the world in a period of extreme flux, this volume explores its underlying philosophy, a core element of the ongoing debate. Offering a diverse range of perspectives from an international selection of renowned scholars of higher education,…
New Book: Using Data to Improve Higher Education
Edited by Maria Menon, Dawn Terkla and Paul Gibbs In recent decades, higher education systems and institutions have been called to respond to an unprecedented number of challenges. Major challenges emerged with the phenomenal increase in the demand for higher education and the associated massive expansion of higher education systems. In response…
Event: International diversity management – Issues, experiences and implications
Date & time: 9th January, 2018; 12.30pm-5pm Location: Boardroom, Middlesex University, London This seminar will offer opportunities to discuss how organisations from a range of sectors manage their international diversity strategies; the issues and concerns they confront; their experiences; and the impact they achieve. The seminar goal is…
Event: Conversation on HE Pedagogy
On Saturday 18th March Middlesex University hosted a conversation on pedagogy in Higher Education, led by Professor Paul Gibbs
Event: Consumer behaviour in HE – a seminar with Professor Jane Hemsley-Brown
Date & time: 22nd November, 1-2pm Location: Middlesex University – Vine VG06 Jane Hemsley-Brown, Professor & Associate Dean (International), University of Surrey. BA Hons (London), MA, PhD (S’ton), Adv.Dip Mgt, CertEd, FHEA, AMRS The first seminar in this years Higher Education SIGN seminar series Biography: Jane held a…
Symposium: Creative methods in teaching and learning in HE
On 9th September CERS held a symposium around the use of creative methods in teaching and learning in higher education.
Event: Students flourishing in universities – an HE seminar with Vice Chancellor Tim Blackman
DATE & TIME: 9th JUNE, 2016, 5.30PM-7.00PM LOCATION: ROOM C218, COLLEGE BUILDING, MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Students flourishing in universities. A presentation from Professor Tim Blackman, Vice Chancellor at Middlesex University This event is open to all. For any questions about the event please contact HESLO@mdx.ac.uk
Event: Trust, Happiness and Well-Being in HE
Date & time: 31st August – 1st September 2016 Location: New College, Oxford University ~~Attendance by invite only~~ This symposium will consider the concepts of trust, happiness and well-being in higher education. The goal of the symposium is to push forward the idea of higher education from an…