Structured Personal Tutoring to Engage Undergraduate Students on Professional Programmes

The Higher Education Academy and Swansea University would like to invite you to the above research seminar, which is part of Research Seminar Series 2009: Access and Success for All.  Details of the Series are available at: www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/national_research_seminar
 
Details of the above seminar including abstract, speakers and bookings are available at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/RSS_Swansea_080709
 
Drawing on the experiences of academics involved in personal tutoring and using cases from undergraduate professional health care programmes as exemplars, the seminar will examine the following key issues:
 

• The challenges of personal tutoring in the era of mass higher education;
• Supporting and operationalising cultural change in personal tutoring in a research led institution;
• The aims and benefits of a structured approach to personal tutoring in professional healthcare programmes;
• The 'emotional labour' of personal tutoring.
  

Speakers

Tessa Watts, Senior Lecturer
Angela Williams, Lecturer
David Gallimore, Tutor
Mike McIvor, Lecturer
Andrew Evered, Tutor
 

Bookings

30 free places are available on a first-come, first-served basis. To book a place, please email Jean Phillips mailto:j.c.phillips@swansea.ac.uk  directly.