Event listings

A Just Transition? Scotland's Housing Policy and Energy Future

16 Sep

Date: Tuesday 16 September 2025
Time: 09:30 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Adam Smith Business School, Room 587

Join the Centre for Public Policy and Glasgow Centre for Sustainable Energy on 16 September as we bring together experts and practitioners to explore how housing and energy policy can deliver a fairer path to net zero, with insights on retrofitting, energy poverty, and the Housing (Scotland) Bill.

• book your place

Glasgow Film Screening: Teresita’s Dream: Cuba’s Battle Against Alzheimer’s

16 Sep

Date: Tuesday 16 September 2025
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: 237BC - Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW United Kingdom
Speaker: Professor Helen Yaffe, University of Glasgow; Roberto Rodriguez, Deputy Director of Cuba’s Neuroscience Centre, and Daniel Montero, from the Belly of

Join us ahead of World Alzheimer’s Day for the Scottish ‘early look’ film screening of a compelling new documentary that follows Cuban scientist Teresita Rodriguez, who, inspired by her mother’s long battle with the disease, commits to developing medication to further the global fight against Alzheimer’s. The drug, NeuroEPO, is currently in clinical trials and showing very promising results. The film screening will be followed by a conversation, via live video link, with Cuban medical scientist Roberto Rodriguez, Deputy Director of Cuba’s Neuroscience Centre, and Daniel Montero, from the Belly of the Beast production team.

• find out more

ARC Conversations: The practice and potential of transdisciplinary research

17 Sep

Date: Wednesday 17 September 2025
Time: 16:00 - 17:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Shanti Sumartojo, Associate Professor of Design Research and a Co-Director of WonderLab (Monash University)

From social robots to built environment - Shanti Sumartojo, Co-director of WonderLab (Monash University) asks what changes are needed for transdisciplinary research to take flight

• register now

Data Management

18 Sep

Date: Thursday 18 September 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Matt Mahon and Mary Donaldson

As part of guaranteeing the integrity of your research, you are required to deposit the data underpinning your research in a data repository, where it can be held securely for at least ten years after the conclusion of the project. But how do you work out which parts of your data will be needed for someone to understand your work? Do you need to deposit everything, or just key parts that will allow others to reproduce your findings? And how do you work out which parts of your data are suitable for sharing?

• register now

Explorathon at Doors Open Day

20 Sep

Date: Saturday 20 September 2025 - Sunday 21 September 2025
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: University of Glasgow, Advanced Research Centre, 11 Chapel Lane

From cutting-edge engineering to arts and humanities, dip into the fantastic research happening on your doorstep, with family-friendly activities and exhibits as part of the Scotland-wide “Explorathon” festival, in partnership with Glasgow Doors Open Days. Free, drop-in.

• find out more

Race, Gender and Misogynoir Stereotypes within the Constructions of Digital Women Footballers​​

23 Sep

Date: Tuesday 23 September 2025
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Anika Leslie-Walker (Nottingham Trent University), Paul Ian Campbell (University of Leicester), and Marcus Maloney (Coventry University)

In this talk, Anika Leslie-Walker, Paul Ian Campbell and Marcus Maloney will discuss their recent Identities article, ‘The intersections of race and gendered stereotypes within the constructions of digital women footballers in video games’. They will explore the ways in which the numerical values which constitute FIFA22’s ‘Top 100’ Black and White digital women footballers reflect or challenge the wider social and sporting discourses that shape the experiences of Black and White female sporting athletes in the offline world.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

24 Sep

Date: Wednesday 24 September 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin our SoTL journey this year with reflection. This is a ‘bigger picture’ reflection in which we each take time to look back at our previous learning and teaching and SoTL activities and consider how we would like to engage in SoTL during the upcoming semester and academic year. The session will begin with a consideration of what SoTL is, in order to remind ourselves, and will be followed by a discussion about some of the possible types of SoTL projects that practitioners might undertake, either individually or in collaboration with others. 

• register now

Bowman Lecture 2025: How much should we worry about inequality?

29 Sep

Date: Monday 29 September 2025
Time: 18:30 - 20:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Paul Johnson

Issues of inequality sit at the forefront of much public and policy debate. As the Director of the UK’s leading independent economics research institute, the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Paul Johnson is uniquely placed to speak to these issues. He will draw on the IFS Deaton review of inequalities to help understand why public concern about inequality is higher than ever, and will also look at the sorts of areas - beyond tax and welfare - that policymakers ought to be exploring.

• find out more

Getting started with SoTL

02 Oct

Date: Thursday 02 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the first in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

• register now

Use of Debate as an Authentic, Active Learning Assessment to Enhance Student Engagement and Development

09 Oct

Date: Thursday 09 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Carolyn Loveridge, Dr Susan Lindsay and Dr Lesley Graham

Debate is an authentic, active learning activity that promotes student engagement, encourages deep learning and enhances development of desirable graduate attributes, including critical thinking and communication skills. We introduced debate as a summative assessment method in a new MSc course and from our personal reflections and routine course evaluation, we noted that students engaged enthusiastically with, had positive perceptions of and performed well in this type of assessment. This interactive workshop will provide participants with an overview of our work, including a toolkit for how to run a successful debate assessment and the opportunity to engage in a mock debate.

• register now

Open Access

09 Oct

Date: Thursday 09 October 2025
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Matt Mahon and Mary Donaldson

The University of Glasgow encourages authors to make their publications open access and has a range of support available to facilitate this. This session will introduce the University of Glasgow’s approach to open access, including funder and REF requirements, and explain what authors need to do to make sure that their outputs are open access. We will also discuss the Research Publications and Copyright Policy and options for open access for monographs and other long-form publications.

• register now

Applying for the Learning and Teaching Conference

14 Oct

Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch and Dr Nathalie Tasler

In this session we will look at what makes a good L&T conference submission. Taking the call to the 2026 conference as our starting point, we will consider how we might start to frame an abstract: from choosing a topic, aligning it to the conference themes, and writing an appealing title. We will also take some of the successful submissions from previous years in order to see what makes a successful presentation.

• register now

Approaches to Active Learning: Object Based Learning

22 Oct

Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Robyne Calvert

Object-based learning (OBL) is a dynamic and engaging pedagogical approach that enriches teaching by anchoring abstract concepts in tangible (and sometimes intangible) things. It is an established practice in many arts disciplines, but has more recently been growing in use in wider fields. Through teaching with physical or digital objects like artworks, artefacts, scientific instruments, historical documents, or everyday items; OBL encourages active engagement to develop analytical, observational, and interpretive skills.

• register now

Methods and Ethics for SoTL

23 Oct

Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the second in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

• register now

Festival of Data Science and AI

27 Oct

Date: Monday 27 October 2025 - Wednesday 29 October 2025
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Festival of Data Science & AI.

• find out more

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Identify

29 Oct

Date: Wednesday 29 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is identification. How do we decide which themes and topics we would like to explore through our SoTL enquiry? Maybe the student feedback for the course has identified some issues that we would like to explore, perhaps our reflections on last year’s teaching have highlighted an area for a possible SoTL project, or alternatively we might like to consider how to redesign one of our course assessments. In this session we will consider various possibilities for identifying SoTL projects, whether individually or collaboratively.

• register now

Dissemination and Next Steps ...

30 Oct

Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

Are you looking to get started in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning? Are you interested in designing enquiries into your teaching, exploring student learning and enhancing your practice as an educator? This is the third in a series of 3 CPD sessions which will help you get started, regardless of where and when you are in your career.

• register now

Engaging International Students in Active Learning

04 Nov

Date: Tuesday 04 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

Internationalisation brings inspiring encounters but also potential misalignments of teacher and student expectations. These misalignments apply especially to expectations around how learning should take place and the role teachers and students play in the (co-)construction of knowledge. In order to create more alignment with our students, this session will offer an overview of the specific transition challenges international students may face and introduce approaches to scaffold active learning and create an inclusive classroom community. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach diverse international student cohorts.

• register now

The Craft of Clarity: Designing Learning Outcomes with Impact

05 Nov

Date: Wednesday 05 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis and Dr Errol Rivera

Creating intended learning outcomes (ILOs) is one of the most difficult parts of the curriculum design process. This workshop will enable participants to craft clear, inclusive, and purposeful intended learning outcomes that serve as the foundation for effective course design and assessment. This session will not only provide the anatomy of a strong ILO, but will give participants the opportunity to create their own strong ILOs for a course that they teach.

• register now

Decolonising the Curriculum in your Discipline

11 Nov

Date: Tuesday 11 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the topic of Decolonising the Curriculum and outlines an approach to plan, assess and review curriculum changes. We will consider our teaching materials and practices through the lens of decoloniality and identify typical barriers. Participants will be invited to discuss – and, if time allows, workshop – decolonising strategies that are compatible with the objectives of upcoming courses. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

• register now

Rubrics to the Rescue? How the Use of Rubrics Can Enhance Assessment of Student Learning and Provision of Feedback

12 Nov

Date: Wednesday 12 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will look at how the use of rubrics can help enhance the student learning experience. It will provide an overview of how to create sustainable rubrics and how rubrics can be used to help create meaningful, criterion based assessment, and provide more focused feedback to students. You will also get the chance to see examples of rubrics from colleagues on campus, and ask them about their experience.

• register now

Measuring the International Relevance and Cultural Inclusivity of your Course

18 Nov

Date: Tuesday 18 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlmann

This workshop introduces the Internationally Relevant Curriculum Scales (IRCS), a tool that enables us to systematically evaluate our course materials, teaching and classroom interactions for international relevance and cultural inclusivity. By using a simplified version of the tool interactively in the workshop, it will demonstrate how the data can be analysed and translated into actionable changes to our curriculum and practice. The workshop is open to all and will be particularly useful for academic and professional staff who teach international and/or diverse student cohorts.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Plan

26 Nov

Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month the focus of our SoTL journey is planning. Once we have identified what we would like our SoTL to focus on, how are we going to put this into practice? Maybe we would like to make changes to our own teaching practices, perhaps we have questions that we would like to answer by exploring the relevant literature, maybe we are contemplating an evaluation of past or current teaching and learning in our discipline. In this session we discuss strategies for developing a successful SoTL plan.

• register now

Approaches to Active Learning: Peer Learning

03 Dec

Date: Wednesday 03 December 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Aleix Tura Vecino

This session introduces staff to peer learning as a dynamic and inclusive form of active learning. Designed for educators seeking to enhance student engagement and collaboration, the session explores key principles, benefits, and practical applications of peer learning across disciplines.

• register now

Applying for the SSPS Funding Scheme

21 Jan

Date: Wednesday 21 January 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The Learning and Teaching Development Fund (LTDF) supports developments in the practice of learning and teaching that will make significant contributions to the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University and to the delivery of the objectives of the Learning and Teaching Strategy. This call for bids is specifically targeted at partnership work between students and members of academic staff.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Design

28 Jan

Date: Wednesday 28 January 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We begin the new year by looking at how best to design a SoTL project. Whether we are contemplating embarking on a literature review, designing a learning and teaching intervention or undertaking an evaluation of a previous intervention, it is vital to spend time planning at the outset. In this session we will consider the main methodologies that we might use for a SoTL project, and the methods associated with each.

• register now

Applying for the SoTL Funding Scheme

17 Feb

Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Sarah Honeychurch and Dr Nathalie Tasler

This session is aimed at colleagues who would like to know more about the SoTL Funding Scheme and are interested in applying. We will look through the call for bids for 2025-26 and consider which types of project might be eligible. Members of the network who have been successful in their bids will be available to talk about their projects and offer advice.

• register now

From Design to Dialogue: Building Feedback Literacy for Staff and Students

18 Feb

Date: Wednesday 18 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

This session will equip participants with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to enhance their own feedback literacy and to foster feedback literacy in their students. It emphasizes feedback as a dialogic, developmental process embedded in assessment design and everyday teaching practice.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Investigate

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of our SoTL journey this month is investigation. Once we have identified a possible SoTL project and decided on a project design, how do we begin our investigation? In this session we ask questions about how to establish which resources we might need, how much time we have to dedicate to our project and who else might be available to support us.

• register now

From Silos to Synergy: Supporting Student Learning Through a Programme Focused Approach to Assessment and Feedback

12 Mar

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Davis

Programmatic assessment implies that assessment is organised across a programme, rather than for individual courses. This programme structure allows for iterative assessment practices to flourish, and for students to engage with the assessment process more meaningfully. This session will help participants think about how to map their courses programmatically and make meaningful links between courses on a programme.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Write

25 Mar

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

The focus of this month’s stage of the SoTL journey is writing. Of course, this is an activity that occurs throughout the whole process, from reflection all the way through to implementation. In this session we look at how to identify ways in which to build in writing into your regular practices, whether those be daily, weekly, or less often. As well as looking at strategies for developing regular writing practices, we will also consider which tools you might use to help you to take and make notes.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Disseminate

29 Apr

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

This month we consider how to develop a dissemination strategy for SoTL practitioners. We will begin with a series of questions which are designed to help us to build our personal plan for dissemination before looking at some of the pathways for publication which are available for UofG colleagues internally and externally. Examples of successful SoTL publications will be provided in order to help us to plan for our own publications.

• register now

SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

27 May

Date: Wednesday 27 May 2026
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Tasler, Dr Linnea Soler and Dr Sarah Honeychurch

We end our SoTL journey this year as we began, with reflection. In this session we each take time to look back at our previous learning, teaching and SoTL activities and celebrate any successes we have had, however large or small these might be. We also reflect on any challenges we have faced and consider how we might overcome any such barriers in the future. Then we look forward and consider how we would like to engage in SoTL over the summer months – and even begin planning for the next academic year.

• register now