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CALL FOR
PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
ADM-HEA ANNOUNCEMENTS
Reminder of project funding
opportunity
ADM-HEA
is pleased to invite funding proposals for projects of 12 months duration, which
will run from March 2010 to March 2011. There are three key themes for
applications this year, which align with ADM-HEA’s current
strategy:
Education for sustainable development
This strand aims to
assist the development of curricula and pedagogy that will provide students with
the necessary skills and knowledge to live and work sustainably.
Student
engagement
Relates to ways in which the sector involves learners in all
aspects of their higher education experience at course, department and
institutional level. These activities range from student involvement in
curriculum design and assessment, through to contributions to departmental and
institutional policy through membership of faculty boards, engagement in
institutional quality processes and involvement in university and college
governing bodies.
Quality enhancement and student assessment
In our
disciplinary area, this strand may relate, in particular, to issues emerging
from and responses to, the National Student Survey (NSS) data. Equally, it could
examine ways that courses, departments and institutions collect information on
the student learning experience and use this to effect change and enhance
quality. We are also keen to encourage work that explores student assessment in
art, design and media and the feedback available to students to enhance their
learning experiences.
Applications must be submitted by Monday, 30
November, 2009
For more information: http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/adm-hea-funding-opportunities
ADM-OER Project
Currently
underway the ADM-OER (Art, Design, Media-Open Educational Resources) Project is
encouraging the subject community to engage in the process by sharing their
perceptions, thoughts and opinions on UK higher education’s aim to make
available open-access teaching and learning materials for use and repurpose
through on-line repositories.
Click on the links below to find out more
and to visit the project blog:
ADM-OER Project Information http://www.adm.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/sector-projects/art-design-media-open-educational-resources-adm-oer-project
ADM-OER
Project Blog http://admopened.wordpress.com/
Project Manager-
Stephen Mallinder: s.w.mallinder@brighton.ac.uk
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SECTOR ANNOUNCEMENTS
JISC-TechDis - Informing Policy, Improving Practice:
making the student experience more inclusive through
technology
The
increasing diversity of the higher education student body means that staff
involved in teaching and supporting learning are having to develop a growing
repertoire of techniques to ensure their practice is as inclusive as possible.
JISC TechDis provides advice and guidance for teaching practitioners, library
staff, staff developers and more, to raise the level of inclusivity in
mainstream practice, as well as working with senior managers and policy makers
to ensure that national and institutional systems support inclusive approaches.
A leaflet, that introduces some of the resources currently provided by
JISC TechDis in pursuit of these aims is available online at:
http://www.techdis.ac.uk/index.php?p=2_1
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SECTOR EVENTS
The 2012 Imperative Teach-in
Lecture theatre of the Victoria and Albert
Museum
12 October 2009
The event aims to raise the profile of
ecological literacy within design education and create a catalyst for action by
engaging students in a trans-disciplinary event focusing on ecology and design.
Presentations by scientists, researchers and
designers with ecologically informed practice will focus on climate change,
resource depletion and other environmental challenges relevant to design
education. We will explore the scope for systemic
change within the design industry, design education and within universities.
The teach-in itself will be broadcast live on the
Internet to groups of students at institutions around the world. The following day each participating institution is invited
to turn its attention to the issue based on a plan published on the Teach-in
website. Faculty, students and staff can use this
space to focus on how design education can address systemic environmental
issues.
More information about the
Teach-in can be found on the website: http://www.teach-in.co.uk . They invite you to sign
up on the site for collaboration: http://teach-in.ning.com .
If you would like to attend the Teach-in at the V&A you can now buy
your tickets here http://teachin.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn or sign up
participate in a live screening of the Teach-in at the University of Brighton.
The Teach-in is produced by Brighton PhD candidate
Jody Boehnert’s EcoLabs http://www.eco-labs.org/ , and part-funded by the
CETLD. The 2012 Imperative will be an on-going
project aiming to embed ecological and sustainability literacy in design
education by 2012.
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Association of Fashion and Textiles Courses Conference: Futurescan: Mapping the TerritoryForesight
Centre, University of Liverpool
17-18 November 2009
This conference
addresses the future challenges and opportunities for the development of fashion
and textiles education in light of a rapidly changing external landscape, both
locally and globally.
The FTC Association has assembled a number of
experienced industry speakers with a range of perspectives on future trends and
customer behaviour, sourcing, manufacturing and retail, to provide insights and
prompt debate on a number of issues.
Keynote Speaker: Professor David
Shah, Publisher of Textile View, View 2, Viewpoint, View Colour Planner, View
China
- Are
our current perspectives of the ‘employable graduate’ still relevant in this
‘flat world’ and what are the implications for the student
experience?
- What really is ‘internationalisation’ and how do we
ensure currency and resources to develop higher-level skills? The
‘ever-changing’ creative industries require new and exciting ways to create
products, communities, opportunities and profits. Prevailing discourse around
‘interdisciplinary’ emphasises the ‘creative imagination’ as the most important
attribute in breaking down traditional discipline silos. The question, ‘what are
the implications for fashion and textiles within the context of art and design
education and other disciplines? has prompted the FTC research study: Mapping
the Territory.
In
addition the conference will include over 25 research presentations from the
sector.
For more information: http://www.fashion-textiles.org.uk/
Or email Sally Wade sally.wade@ntu.ac.uk
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CALL FOR PAPERS/PARTICIPATION
Request for information for Widening Participation
Review
Following
the research and subsequent report into widening participation in Higher
Education Art and Design carried out by Dr Caroline Hudson on behalf of CHEAD,
(Council for Higher Education in Art & Design), ACE ( Arts Council England)
and ourselves (ADM-HEA), and the follow on seminar 'Transforming
research
findings' in 2007 run by ADM-HEA, a further publication was commissioned by the
above agencies.
The review is being undertaken by Dr Dipti Bhagat and Dr
Peter O'Neill from London Metropolitan University. The primary aim is an
anthology of all research and other relevant work that might effectively be
used to inform the development of practice, policy and research on widening
participation in the broad subject areas of Art Design and Media across the four
nations.
For the purpose of this volume WP is understood as a
socio-economic issue and should allow for diversity of research and
authors.
If you are able to recommend additional texts and or research
you think relevant please contact Dr Dipti Bhagat and Dr Peter O’Neill
at:
d.bhagat@londonmet.ac.uk
peter.oneill@londnmet.ac.uk
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Call for new Student Learning and Teaching Network Committee Members
The deadline for applications is Monday 28 September 2009.
Please pass this message on to any students who you
feel would be interested in becoming a committee member for the Student Learning
and Teaching Network. As a cross-institutional learning and teaching student
network they rely heavily on staff to identify students engaged in Learning and
Teaching projects and point them in their direction.
“ Call for new
Student Learning and Teaching Network Committee Members
We invite any
undergraduate or postgraduate students to volunteer for three available
positions on the Student Learning and Teaching Network Committee. The positions
will run from September 2009 to September 2010.
The committee is made up
of student and recent graduate volunteers who work together to promote students
as active participants in learning communities. The committee’s main
responsibilities include organising events for students and staff, liaising with
external organisations such as the HE Academy, NUS and QAA, maintaining the
interactive networking site http://studentlandtnetwork.ning.com/ and increasing
the network’s visibility through presentations, publications and meetings.
Becoming a committee member for the Student Network will enhance your
CV and allow you to gain knowledge and understanding of a variety of issues in
the Teaching and Learning community. Committee members will also have the
opportunity to network and share best practice with a wide range of students,
academics, educational developers and others involved in the HE
sector.
Committee member responsibilities:
- Attend regular meetings (roughly every 2 months in different locations across the country)
- Voice your opinion within meetings and volunteer for tasks
- Contribute to the development, organisation and facilitation of network workshops and events
- Contribute to the interactive networking site
- Contribute to conference presentations and publications
- Meet occasionally with senior staff from external
organisations
Committee
members should also be willing to:
- Positively promote the network within your own institution
- Forge new relationships for the
network
Criteria:
- An interest and role within learning and teaching or student development
- All
applicants must be current students for the year
2009/10
We are particularly interested in new
committee members from outside the CETL community or from institutions who have
not been previously represented on the committee.
If you are interested
in becoming a committee member please email louise.goldring@manchester.ac.uk including your
name, institution, degree course and year and a short written statement (250
words max) outlining your interest in the position and any experience of active
involvement in learning and teaching you may have.
The deadline for
applications is Monday 28 September 2009.”
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Virtual
online conference
4 – 12 December 2009
Sponsored by the University of
Bridgeport
Paper submission Deadline: 12 October 2009
CISSE 2009 provides a virtual forum for presentation and
discussion of the state-of the-art research on computers, information and
systems sciences and engineering. CISSE 2009 is the fifth conference of the
CISSE series of e-conferences. CISSE is the World's first Engineering/Computing
and Systems
Research E-Conference.
The virtual conference will be
conducted through the Internet using web-conferencing tools, made available by
the conference. Authors will be presenting their PowerPoint, audio or video
presentations using web-conferencing tools without the need for travel.
Conference sessions will be broadcast to all the conference participants, where
session participants can interact with the presenter during the presentation
and/or during the Q&A slot that follows the presentation. This international
conference will be held entirely on-line.
The accepted and presented
papers will be made available and sent to the authors after the conference both
on a DVD (including all papers, PowerPoint presentations and audio
presentations) and as a book publication. Springer, the official publisher for
CISSE, published the 2005 proceedings in 2 books and the CISSE 2006, CISSE 2007
and CISSE 2008 proceedings in four books each.
CISSE 2009 is composed of
the following four conferences:
International Conference on
Engineering Education, Instructional Technology, Assessment, and E-learning
(EIAE 09)
Topics: Instructional Design, Accreditation, Curriculum
Design, Educational Tools, 2-2-2 Platforms, Teaching Capstone Design, Teaching
Design at the Lower Levels, Design and Development of e-Learning tools,
Assessment Methods in Engineering, Development and Implementation of E-learning
tools, Ethics in Education, Economical and Social Impacts of
E-learning.
International Conference on Systems, Computing
Sciences and Software Engineering (SCSS 09)
International
Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe
09)
International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology
& Automation (IETA 09)
Paper Submission
Prospective
authors are invited to submit full papers electronically in Microsoft Word or
Adobe PDF format through the website of the conference at
http://www.cisse2009online.org Accepted papers must be
presented in the virtual conference by one of the authors.
For more
information go to the website:
http://www.cisse2009online.org
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MeCCSA 2010 Conference (reminder)London School of Economics and Political
Science
Wednesday 6 - Friday 8 January 2010
Deadline for submissions:
18 September 2009
MeCCSA is the UK subject association for those teaching
and researching in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. The organisation
holds its next conference from 6th -8th January 2010, hosted by the Department
of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science
and held at LSE.
Call for Abstracts
They invite papers, panels,
presentations of practice and posters across the range of interests represented
by the Association and its networks (www.MeCCSA.org.uk). Some sessions will
weave together ‘practice’ and ‘research’ and there will be separate screenings,
in full, of this material.
Poster Competition
The MeCCSA
Executive Committee is offering a poster competition prize of £100. The
academic poster is highly valued by MeCCSA as an indicator of current research
and there will be a good space set aside at the 2010 conference for this
activity.
Competition for Best Paper on Art, Design and Media for Higher
Education
The Art Design Media - Higher Education Academy Subject Centre
(ADM-HEA) is offering a £500 prize and publication for the best paper analysing
key issues impacting on media, communications and cultural studies in higher
education.
Competition for Best Paper on Media and Communications
Policy LSE's Department of Media and Communications is offering a £300 prize and
publication in its Media@LSE Electronic Working Paper Series (subject to final
revisions by the conference organisers), for the best paper addressing critical
perspectives on key issues of policy relevance in a convergent media and
communications industry.
Submission Procedures
Please submit online
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/MeCCSA/
by 18 September 2009. Proposers will be notified of acceptance no later than 23
October 2009.
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A
practice-based research symposium
University of Bedfordshire,
UK
Wednesday December 2 2009
Deadline for proposals: 21 October
2009
The University of Bedfordshire, University of Derby & the
Practice Section of MeCCSA present a one day practice-based research symposium
for media practitioners and academics.
The contribution of practice-based
research within arts and humanities has become increasingly recognized and
indeed inter-disciplinary collaborations are creating recognition outside of the
field. A key criteria of practice-based research is the role of critical writing
and reflection. The process relies on forming explicit relations between
practice and outcome and reflexively exploring the role of the researcher in
producing the creative output. Theoretical paradigms for the latter are many and
varied. Indeed it is possible to ‘justify’ any form of practice as research
through sufficient theoretical cause. The creative process however is often
organic, multi-valent and can be driven by unknown causes, disparate events or
what appears as irrelevant information. Some creative practitioners would claim
this drive is ‘something’ beyond them. Others may argue this is simply the
nature of the creative process.
In the context of writing, reflecting
and presenting practice-based research what role do notions of determinism play?
Are the requirements of practice-based research over-determined? Is there space
to consider the concept of pre determination within creative practice?
They welcome presentations of all forms of creative work, including
films, creative writing, performance, sound and new media that address the
following themes:
- Is the core origin of creativity within the individual, society, or something else?
- Is the conscious processing of creating work just one part of the creative story?
- What is the role of collaboration in questioning the self-determination of the artist, or the work of art?
- If media practice is predetermined, what does this say about the product, the practice, and the practitioner? How does this relate to originality, creativity, and progress?
- If proposals ‘determine’ how useful are they in a process of creative discovery? What alternative models exist?
- What role does commissioning and pre-production play in determining a creative practice?
- To
what extent do the institutional and commercial bodies that enable and fund
practice-based research encourage the production of paratexts which predetermine
the nature and scope of the practice and the context within which that practice
can be 'read'?
Creative
presentations of 10 minutes followed by 10 minutes of theoretical interpretation
/ reflection are encouraged.
The event is free and includes lunch and
refreshments.
Please e-mail proposals of 300 words to both organisers
by 21 October 2009 -
Joanna Callaghan: joanna.calllaghan@beds.ac.uk
Dr Jason Lee: J.Lee@derby.ac.uk
Further
information:
http://pbrsymposium.wikidot.com/
This event
is funded by the University of Bedfordshire, University of Derby and MeCCSA, the
Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association. It follows on from the
symposium Circularity, Narrative and Aesthetic Translation held in April 2009 at
the University of Bedfordshire.
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