All University Events

All University Events


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RET 1: Peer Observation of Teaching

Date: Wednesday 16 January 2019
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

Receiving feedback on teaching is a key CPD process, and applications to the RET experience-based route in the Associate Fellow, Fellow and Senior Fellow categories require that you demonstrate commitment to Peer Observation of Teaching. We will present the recommended Peer Observation process and we will discuss the strengths and challenges of being observed as well as the types of feedback likely to be most useful. There will be an opportunity to consider how best to demonstrate reflection in response to an observation.

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Chapel Organ Recitals 2019

Date: Wednesday 16 January 2019 - Friday 08 November 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: Glaqsgow University Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Dr Kevin Bowyer and Guests

Chapel Organ Recitals. Admission free without ticket. Generously supported by the Ferguson Bequest.
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Demographic gaps in physics retention and attainment: Myth and reality

Date: Wednesday 16 January 2019
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: Kelvin Building, Lecture Theatre 257
Speaker: Professor Sally Jordan (Open University)

The talk will focus on research at the Open University into variation between demographic groups (in particular gender) in engagement with different types of assessed tasks and features within the tasks as well as describing some recent findings into variation in decision-making behaviours.
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Introduction to RET

Date: Thursday 17 January 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

This workshop will introduce participants to RET and how it relates to the UKPSF. Participants will be asked to assess current practice against the descriptors of the UKPSF and, through discussion, consider which category of recognition is most appropriate. The stages of preparing and submitting a RET application will be described and participants will identify the next step in the process.

Music in the University Lunchtime Series: Joyce Terrett (sarangi), Hardeep Deerhe (tabla)

Date: Thursday 17 January 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: University Concert Hall, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

A concert of Indian Raag improvising over two movements, vilambat (slow) and drut (fast).
Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Optics seminar series: Skyrmion structure in vector beams

Date: Thursday 17 January 2019
Time: 16:00 - 16:30
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: Lecture theatre 312, Kelvin Building
Speaker: Scarlett Gao

Vector beams have both a spatially varying amplitude and polarization, for light, or spin direction for electrons. Associated with these we find a topological feature, the skyrmion number, that it is robust against any deformation during propagation. The simplest way to map out this feature is to use the associated skyrmion field. This is a transverse or divergenceless field and so has neither sources nor sinks. Mapping out the skyrmion field for these beams reveals constraints on the manner in which vector beams can be manipulated.
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The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven

Date: Friday 18 January 2019
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre,
Venue: Memorial Chapel, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Jo Clifford

Award-winning playwright, poet, translator and performer Jo Clifford returns to Glasgow with her unique perspective on the story of Jesus.
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Methods: conducting interviews

Date: Monday 21 January 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate and Dr Janis Davidson

In publishing scholarship of teaching and learning, interviews allow you to get deeper responses than surveys, and also to follow up based on initial answers. This workshop is aimed at anyone undertaking research interviews for the first time. We'll examine aspects such as preparing good interview questions, choosing effective interview environments, having relevant documentation, and approaches to recording interviews.

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Novelist Sarah Moss

Date: Monday 21 January 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Sarah Moss

Sarah Moss is an academic, award-winning novelist, and essayist. Her novel, The Tidal Zone, was published by Granta in July 2016 and was shortlisted for The Wellcome Book Prize 2017, and her new novel, Ghost Wall, was published by Granta in October 2018.
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Fantasy Public Lecture series by Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Fantasy, Brian Attebery (Idaho State University)

Date: Monday 21 January 2019 - Monday 04 March 2019
Time: 17:30
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: Fore Hall
Speaker: Professor Brian Attebery

Professor Attebery will deliver five public lectures on fantasy, on topics ranging from the epic of Gilgamesh to the Harry Potter books, and from the Anthropocene to utopias and collaborative imagination.

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Inaugural Lecture by Professor Beatrice Heuser

Date: Monday 21 January 2019
Time: 17:30 - 18:30
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow (venue confirmed on booking)
Speaker: Professor Beatrice Heuser

Professor Beatrice Heuser, Professor of International Relations (Politics) within the School of Social & Political Sciences, is delighted to invite you to her Inaugural Lecture: 'Brexit in Historical Context: Sovereignty vs European Union'
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Routes to Dissemination Fair

Date: Tuesday 22 January 2019
Time: 10:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: Senate Room
Speaker: Various invited academic publishers

This event will allow attendees the chance to meet with various academic publishers, allowing you the chance to ask questions about: ◾what type of educational scholarship they specialise in publishing ◾submission requirements and selection criteria ◾typical timelines ◾common mistakes and pitfalls for prospective authors

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Enterprise funding and competitions - info session (Converge, RSE, ICURe)

Date: Tuesday 22 January 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: No. 11 the Square
Speaker: Converge Challenge, RSE, ICURe

Information session

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19th Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Date: Tuesday 22 January 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:15
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Peter Davies

For the 19th Holocaust Memorial Lecture we are delighted to welcome Professor Peter Davies, to the University of Glasgow to present his lecture entitled 'Whose words, whose voices? What thinking about translation can tell us about the Holocaust'.
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RET 2: Writing about teaching

Date: Thursday 24 January 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

The session will look at identifying case studies by mapping, and then discuss reflective writing about teaching in relation to those case studies. It will use examples of good, and poor, reflective writing and participants will have the opportunity to begin writing some of their own reflections.

Music in the University Lunchtime Series: Scottish singer Robyn Stapleton celebrates Robert Burns

Date: Thursday 24 January 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: University Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Scottish singer Robyn Stapleton celebrates Robert Burns with songs accompanied by Patsy Reid (fiddle, viola) and Alistair Paterson (piano, harmonium).
Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Supporting students with maths, stats and numeracy

Date: Friday 25 January 2019
Time: 11:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Shazia Ahmed and Michael McEwan

Regardless of subject area, a solid familiarity with maths and basic summary statistics will boost the skillset of your students when they graduate and start seeking work. This session is a chance to identify the mathematical needs of your students, to reflect on how students can improve their confidence and ability in maths, stats and numeracy, and it's also an opportunity to share good practice between subject areas.
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Dub Poet D'bi Young Anitafrika

Date: Monday 28 January 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: D'bi Young Anitafrika

D'bi Young Anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian dub poet, monodramatist, and educator, as well as a 3 time Dora Award-winning actor and playwright. Raised Debbie Young in Jamaica, she moved to Canada in 1993.
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Writing aims and ILOs

Date: Tuesday 29 January 2019
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes

This session will introduce the concept of Constructive Alignment and will then use a workshop format to explore well (and poorly) written Aims and ILOs. Finally, participants will review and enhance Aims and ILOs from their own discipline and/or Aims/ILOs they are currently drafting. 
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RET 3: Professional values

Date: Wednesday 30 January 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

This session will introduce participants to the professional values in the UK Professional Standards Framework, and encourage them to think about how their academic practice aligns with each of the four values.

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Adapting your teaching for Glasgow's new active learning spaces

Date: Wednesday 30 January 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: Hugh Fraser Room, Wolfson Medical School Building
Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale, Dr Susan Deeley and Dr Joseph Maguire

Glasgow has equipped an increasing number of rooms as Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) spaces. These teaching spaces will become an integral part of the campus redevelopment, and so this session draws on the experience of teaching staff who have already successfully used them. The session introduces the concept of active teaching and learning in these environments to promote student collaboration and problem-solving, and gives you a chance to hear about successful teaching approaches (and perhaps also warnings!). As this takes place in a TEAL space, you’ll have the opportunity to engage with it from the student perspective.

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On parity of esteem for teaching and research: prestige, recognition, values and inequality

Date: Thursday 31 January 2019
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Professor Gwen van der Velden, University of Warwick

Having worked on tackling the parity question for over twenty years, Professor Gwen van der Velden (Warwick) discusses some of the underpinning values of academic status and esteem. In a one hour seminar Gwen will relate esteem to the academic prestige economy, hidden inequality and seeks to redefine implicit and often historic values that support the divide between research and teaching. After the formal seminar a two hour roundtable will be offered to explore some of the issue in more depth and discuss realistic ways to change existing patterns.

Music in the University Lunchtime series: Christopher Guild, piano

Date: Thursday 31 January 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: University Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Scottish pianist, Christopher Guild, plays a programme of piano music by Ronald Center and Ronald Stevenson. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Night at the Museum of Anatomy 2 - Past, Present and Future

Date: Thursday 31 January 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Exhibitions, Public lectures, Academic events, Open days and visits,
Venue: Museum of Anatomy, Anatomy Facility, Thomson Building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Multiple

Back by popular demand, the event Night at the Museum of Anatomy 2 - Past, Present and Future will enable a further opportunity to experience this very special event! The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the University of Glasgow's Anatomy Facility, the Hunterian Museum and the School of Simulation and Visualisation are collaborating for this very special event in such a unique historical venue!
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Filmmaker Mark Cousins

Date: Monday 04 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins is a filmmaker, critic, programmer, producer and writer best known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey.
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Using digital storytelling for teaching, learning and assessment

Date: Tuesday 05 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: 253 Gilbert Scott Conference Suite (Main Building)
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate

(Note change from original venue in Southpark House) Digital storytelling is a way of using your digital literacy to develop interesting and engaging ways of teaching, both face-to-face or online, by creating videos that we can use as a basis for sharing knowledge. It is therefore suitable for all subjects and disciplines. This session introduces the concept and looks at what makes a good digital story. You'll get an insight into the processes involved (and tips for addressing these), and the tools available to support you to develop digital storytelling for your teaching.
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Knowledge Exchange & Engagement Conference

Date: Tuesday 05 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 18:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
Speaker: Malcolm Skingle, GlaxoSmithKline and Will Hutton, Hertford College, Oxford

The half-day conference will explore why collaboration beyond academia is important, showcase best practice and provide information on the support and infrastructure that is available to help build partnerships.
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RET 4: Evaluating your teaching

Date: Tuesday 05 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

This workshop will explore ways to evaluate your teaching and support of learning to encourage reflective practice. It will help RET participants to develop their applications for RET Fellowship in any category.

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University of Glasgow Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations VII

Date: Tuesday 05 February 2019
Time: 18:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: University Memorial Chapel, The Square, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org
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Approaches: Grounded Theory

Date: Wednesday 06 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

In contrast to research that starts with a hypothesis, “Grounded Theory is a form of qualitative research developed [...] for the purpose of constructing theory” from the observations upwards (Corbin, 2017). This session is a brief introduction to the principles of Grounded Theory, and its applicability to educational scholarship.

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Methods: engaging in self-reflection (reflective logs, autoethnography)

Date: Thursday 07 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar and Nathalie Sheridan

This explores some of the ways a member of teaching staff could research and evaluate their own teaching practice. It covers a variety of self-reflective approaches e.g. reflective journals, self-narrative research, and introduces the reflexive method of analytic autoethnography.

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Music in the University Lunchtime series: Ruth Morley (flute), Scott Mitchell (piano)

Date: Thursday 07 February 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music,
Venue: University Concert Hall, University of Glasgow, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Programme of flute and piano pieces by Fidelio Finke, Joseph Jongen, Paul Juon and Vaughan Williams. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity.
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Chicago Burns Supper

Date: Saturday 09 February 2019
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events,
Venue: The University Club of Chicago

To celebrate the life, works, and spirit of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, the University of Glasgow International Office are hosting a Burns Supper at The University Club of Chicago on Saturday 9 February.
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Introduction to Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET)

Date: Monday 11 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

This workshop will introduce participants to RET and how it relates to the UKPSF. Participants will be asked to assess current practice against the descriptors of the UKPSF and, through discussion, consider which category of recognition is most appropriate. The stages of preparing and submitting a RET application will be described and participants will identify the next step in the process.

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Novelist Jacob Ross

Date: Monday 11 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Jacob Ross

Jacob Ross’s first novel, Pynter Bender, was published in 2008. It won, and was also short-listed, for several awards including the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize (2009), Society of Authors ‘Best first Novel’, Caribbean Review of Books ‘Book of the Year’ and Metro’s Book of The Week. In 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received Grenada’s highest literary award for his contribution to literature in 2011.
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Assessment design

Date: Tuesday 12 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes

This session will introduce the concept of Constructive Alignment and will then use a workshop format to build on current (or anticipated) Aims and ILOs and address how the ILOs can be assessed. The workshop will look at a variety of assessment types and their pros and cons. Participants will be invited to consider the design of their own courses/programmes. 
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Decolonising the curriculum: why and how?

Date: Friday 15 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Carol Collins

This session will look at the growing imperative in HE Institutions to challenge assumptions about racial and civilisational hierarchies and their impact on academic study. The session will consider, through discussion and practical activities, why it might be important to challenge the historical contexts of knowledge and how, through considering course content, including biographies, you might make small changes to courses that can represent a more diverse student population and engage all students in challenging assumptions about knowledge.

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Los Angeles Burns Supper

Date: Saturday 16 February 2019
Time: 18:30 - 23:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events,
Venue: The Kimpton Everly Hotel
Speaker: Dr Clark McGinn

To celebrate the life, works, and spirit of the great Scottish poet, Robert Burns, the University of Glasgow International Office are hosting a Burns Supper in The Kimpton Everly Hotel on Saturday 16 February.
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Lecture 1: The Archaeological Clock

Date: Monday 18 February 2019
Time: 18:30 - 20:30
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre

In this talk, I will discuss the temporal structure of the archaeological record and the question of scale. Issues such as temporal resolution, time averaging and the long-term all intersect and raise questions about the appropriate time scale of archaeological analysis.
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The dos and don'ts of Creating Online Video

Date: Wednesday 20 February 2019
Time: 10:00 - 12:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nigel Hutchins, Andrew Sim and David Collins

The Media & Digital Development experts in LEADS will take you through the basics of practical videography and explore the best use of software and equipment available for creating your own content. They'll also give you an introduction on how to prepare and work with our team on developing professional videos.

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RET 5 - SF only: influencing others and demonstrating effectiveness

Date: Thursday 21 February 2019
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

For RET Senior Fellowship applicants must address Descriptor 3, criterion vii: Successful co-ordination, support, supervision, management and/or mentoring of others (whether individuals and/or teams) in relation to teaching and learning. This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on and make explicit their approach to coordinating, supporting, supervising, managing and/or mentoring colleagues, whether in formal or informal relationships. The workshop will help you begin to consider how this aspect of your practice can be demonstrated in your Senior Fellowship application, whether in a written submission or in professional dialogue. Specific guidance on preparation for the professional dialogue will be included.

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Methods: facilitating focus groups

Date: Thursday 21 February 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate

Focus groups let you examine your participants' experience of a teaching situation in more depth than a survey, and with more data sources than a one-on-one interview. This introduction to how and why to use focus groups for data collection covers how to prepare for facilitating them, and includes some of the key issues to consider in focus group design, such as sampling and planning issues, as well as anticipating problems.

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Poet Sophie Collins

Date: Monday 25 February 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Sophie Collins

Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and is a lecturer in Creative Writing at Glasgow University. Her debut collection Who Is Mary Sue? was published by Faber & Faber in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Saltire Literary Awards Poetry Book of the Year.
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Spielberg in the Classroom: Incorporating Rich Media in Active Learning

Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nigel Hutchins, Andrew Sim and David Collins

This session is aimed at anyone planning for blended or online learning, and who want to create videos as part of these resources. There will be a showcase of a variety of resources from Glasgow's MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and courses sponsodered by BOLD funding (Blended and OnLine Delivery - an internal funding initiative spread over the past several years).

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Engaging students in their learning: voice, partnership and co-creation

Date: Wednesday 27 February 2019
Time: 14:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Camille B. Kandiko Howson, King’s College London

This keynote will explore the different dimensions of student engagement, the different levels of how students engage with learning and different ways of measuring and acknowledging how students engage with their learning. The discussion will be grounded by two main areas of research: research on students’ expectations and perceptions of higher education, their understanding of student engagement and evolving evidence from 13 pilot projects on learning gain funded by the Office for Students. Challenges and benefits of student engagement in policy and practice are explored. The discussion will focus on the use of student engagement in policy development across the sector, within institutions and departments, and implications for the practices of individual academics, course teams and students.
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PGR Experience: Supporting researchers to explore careers outside of academia 9.15-12noon, 28 February 2019

Date: Thursday 28 February 2019
Time: 09:15 - 12:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events, Student events, Courses,
Venue: The Senate Room
Speaker: Various - this event will involve panel and small group discussions

Intended audience: PGRs, PGR convenors, Deans of Graduate Studies, Supervisors, leads for Doctoral Training Centres, PGRs and professional services staff with a PGR support or recruitment focus. This may also be useful for colleagues engaged with writing Athena Swan submissions or REF environment statements. Purpose: To share ideas, learning experiences from across the University, to inform future policy and practice. Event themes How do we support researchers to explore the variety of career opportunities that are open to them?

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Problem-based learning: a model for active learning used at Glasgow

Date: Thursday 28 February 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Genevieve Stapleton and Dr Sharon Sneddon

In this workshop we'll explore the use of PBL as a small-group teaching method which promotes self-directed independent learning. This is an interactive and practice-based workshop, providing examples, ideas and tools to support staff who are thinking about developing this type of teaching. Traditionally used in medicine, we'll consider how this approach can be of benefit to students from a wide variety of disciplines.

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Establishing a mindful classroom (supporting mental health)

Date: Monday 04 March 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth and Dr Phil Quinn

University can have unexpected impacts on a student's mental health. This session considers how we can teach in a way that is mindful of this.

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Writer Angus Peter Campbell / Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul

Date: Monday 04 March 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Angus Peter Campbell / Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul

Angus Peter Campbell (Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul) is a Scottish award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, broadcaster and actor. His English-language novel, Memory and Straw, was published by Luath Press in 2017, and a bi-lingual poetry collection, Stèisean, in 2018.
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Supervising doctoral students’ writing

Date: Tuesday 05 March 2019
Time: 11:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Professor Rowena Murray, University of the West of Scotland

This seminar will explore the idea of using a range of approaches to help postgraduate students develop academic writing skills and strategies, so that they can complete their theses on time and, where appropriate, publish during the doctorate. We can discuss the pros and cons of different strategies and their potential at different stages.
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RET 6: Identifying evidence and engaging with scholarship

Date: Friday 08 March 2019
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

Central to all RET applications is reflective analysis of what applicants do in terms of teaching and/or supporting learning. Without concrete examples of impact, writing about teaching can become a series of assertions. Using written examples we will discuss some key features of convincing evidence of good teaching. In addition, we will consider how teaching can be enhanced by engaging with existing scholarship of learning and teaching.

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Poet Nadine Aisha Jassat

Date: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Nadine Aisha Jassat

Nadine Aisha Jassat (Nadine Aisha) is a writer, creative practitioner and educator in the field of challenging Gender -Based Violence, known for combining the creative arts with social justice. Her debut collection, Let Me Tell You This, is forthcoming from 404 Ink in March 2019.

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RET 7: PF only – Demonstrating strategic leadership of teaching/supporting learning in HE

Date: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House

To be recognised as a RET Principal Fellow applicants must demonstrate a “sustained record of effective strategic leadership in academic practice and academic development as a key contribution to high quality student learning” This workshop will provide opportunities to discuss Descriptor D4 of the UKPSF and identify the types of evidence appropriate for demonstrating that your practice aligns with D4. Advice will be provided to help you write the Documentary Submission and the process of the follow up interview will be explained.

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Designing authentic assessment to promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism

Date: Monday 11 March 2019
Time: 14:30 - 16:30
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Matthew Williamson and Dr Amanda Sykes

We'll discuss ideas of authentic assessment and provide examples of what we mean by this. We'll then address authentic assessment in the context of your own teaching, and help you to consider how you might make the assessments you use throughout a course and/or programme authentic and relevant.

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7th Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Degeneration Meeting

Date: Monday 11 March 2019 - Thursday 14 March 2019
Time: 16:00 - 13:00
Categories: Conferences,
Venue: Lodge on Loch Lomond
Speaker: Multiple

The 7th Molecular Mechanisms of Axonal Degeneration meeting is the latest in a biannual series focusing specifically on axon degeneration disorders and the underlying mechanisms. It attracts an excellent list of speakers, offers a friendly atmosphere for discussion and hosts around 100 delegates and speakers from all over the world.
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Using Mahara for online portfolios

Date: Tuesday 12 March 2019
Time: 13:00 - 15:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Craig Brown

Portofolio assessment is useful in letting students show (and reflect on) their progression through a course, and it provides multiple small opportunities for them to stay engaged as the course goes by. This session introduces the e-portfolio tool Mahara. We'll look at what the tool offers, why you might want to use it, and examples of how it is being used with students in the School of law.

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GUT's 140th Anniversary Celebration Weekend

Date: Saturday 16 March 2019 - Sunday 17 March 2019
Time: 09:00 - 21:00
Categories: Student events, Alumni events, Sports events,
Venue: University of Glasgow and Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor (Byers Road)
Speaker: N/A

Glasgow University Tennis Club are celebrating 140 years since the club was founded. This will be celebrated with a ball in the Hilton Glasgow Grosvenor and there will also be a tennis tournament, matches and a BBQ during the weekend.

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Writer Andrew O'Hagan

Date: Monday 18 March 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures,
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Andrew O'Hagan

Andrew O'Hagan is a Scottish novelist and non-fiction author. He is also an Editor at Large of Esquire, London Review of Books and critic at large for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. O'Hagan is currently a creative writing fellow at King's College London.
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Using Moodle for designing flipped learning

Date: Tuesday 19 March 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: Room 1022, Library
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Vicki Dale and Dr Amanda Pate

Flipping the Classroom means asking students to engage with content (such as videos, articles, activities) before class, meaning that classroom time can be used to explore concepts more collaboratively and dialogically. This session is delivered via flipped learning using Moodle, and encourages you to engage with the material online and then attend a three-hour workshop when you can come along and we will support you in developing flipped classroom resources that you can implement in your own practice.

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Peer review tools for your students (Moodle, Aropä, Peerwise)

Date: Wednesday 20 March 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes, Dr Vicki Dale and Dr Mary McVey

This session will address the topic of peer assessment and will attempt to answer the following questions: What is peer assessment? What can it be used for? Can it be used summatively or just formatively? In terms of enabling technologies, the session will introduce participants to Aropä, PeerWise and Moodle Workshop for peer assessment, and we will encourage staff to consider how they might use these tools in pedagogically effective ways to promote students’ active learning and collaboration.Although the session will mainly draw on examples from Life Sciences, examples of peer assessment in other disciplines will be highlighted. Therefore, the workshop will be applicable to staff from any college looking to introduce peer assessment in their courses.

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12th Annual University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference

Date: Tuesday 02 April 2019 - Wednesday 03 April 2019
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: Main Building, Gilmorehill Campus
Speaker: Keynotes to be confirmed

The theme of the 12th Annual Conference is 'Blended and Active Learning: Where Are We Now, and Where Do We Want to Be?' Abstract submission is now closed and a call for lightning talks will follow later in the year. Registration will open in the New Year.

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Introduction to Recognising Excellence in Teaching (RET)

Date: Tuesday 16 April 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Staff

This workshop will introduce participants to RET and how it relates to the UKPSF. Participants will be asked to assess current practice against the descriptors of the UKPSF and, through discussion, consider which category of recognition is most appropriate. The stages of preparing and submitting a RET application will be described and participants will identify the next step in the process.

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Supervision (title TBC)

Date: Wednesday 12 June 2019
Time: 13:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events,
Venue: LEADS teaching room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Martyn Kingsbury, Imperial College London

Martyn is Director of the Educational Development Unit at Imperial College London; a group of academics and support staff from a variety of different disciplinary backgrounds, the former of whom have experience of teaching and supervision at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with expertise in educational theory and practice.
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International Institute of Public Finance Congress (IIPF)

Date: Wednesday 21 August 2019 - Friday 23 August 2019
Time: 09:00 - 17:30
Categories: Conferences,
Venue: The University of Glasgow's main campus
Speaker: Rachel Griffith, Nathaniel Hendren, Jonathan Portes, Stefanie Stantcheva

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 75th Annual Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF 2019), held at the University of Glasgow from the 21 August - 23 August 2019. The International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) is the world organisation of public finance economists, comprising approximately 750 members from over 50 countries. In an increasingly specialised academic field, the IIPF seeks to generate intellectual interchanges among public finance experts.