Giving feedback to students - stop wasting your time?

Date: Wednesday 13 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Forehall, main building
Speaker: Dr Maria Jackson, Dr Leah Marks

In this workshop we will identify barriers to both giving and receiving effective feedback, and consider ways of addressing these. We will discuss feedback proforma design and varied approaches to delivering feedback and facilitating student engagement with that feedback.

Public Lecture by former advisor to Czech President Václav Havel

Date: Wednesday 13 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Room 915, Adam Smith Building
Speaker: Professor Jiří Pehe

A lecture by Professor Jiří Pehe, former top advisor to Czech President Václav Havel and the Vice-Chancellor of the Prague branch of New York University.

Joutes oratoires and screening of To the Four Winds (Libre)

Date: Wednesday 13 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Student events
Venue: Alliance française, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow G3 6AX

On Wednesday 13th of November the documentary To The Four Winds (Libre) will be screened at the Alliance française, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow G3 6AX as part of the 2019 French Film Festival. The screening will be preceded by a competitive debate in French between students of Glasgow and Strathclyde on the theme of justice.

Call and Response: The University of Glasgow and Slavery

Date: Monday 26 August 2019 - Friday 31 January 2020
Time: 09:00 - 17.00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: University Memorial Chapel

Inspired by African and Scottish storytelling, this exhibition invites reactions and responses to the histories of enslaved people and their role in the university’s story. The archives, books and objects collected by previous generations illustrate how staff and students changed the world. What we decided to keep reflects where we have come from. How can we reinterpret our collections to tell a more inclusive story? Visit the exhibition and your response to be part of this difficult but necessary conversation.

Barkcloth: Revealing Pacific Craft

Date: Thursday 29 August 2019 - Friday 29 November 2019
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Museum

This exhibition highlights The Hunterian’s world-class collection of Pacific barkcloth (tapa) and showcases the findings of the Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project 'Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place'.

Chinese Language Classes

Date: Tuesday 01 October 2019 - Saturday 23 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Categories: Courses
Venue: University of Glasgow
Speaker: Confucius Institute

Learn Chinese Mandarin at the Confucius Institute. Classes begin on October 1st, 2019 for eight weeks. For more information, please visit our website.

Chinese Art Class

Date: Thursday 03 October 2019 - Thursday 21 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Courses
Venue: University of Glasgow
Speaker: Confucius Institute

The Confucius Institute at the University of Glasgow presents a brand new art course: Introduction to Chinese Painting. Thursday 3rd October 2019 for eight weeks, 6-8 pm.

GUGA: Slighe gu Gàidhlig / Exploring Gaelic Identities

Date: Friday 11 October 2019 - Sunday 02 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new exhibition considers what Gaelic identity means in 21st century Scotland and presents objects, books and manuscripts associated with Gaelic language and culture.

A Gift to Glasgow from New York: The Phillip A. Bruno Collection

Date: Friday 18 October 2019 - Sunday 12 January 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

This new display is the result of a generous gift of over 70 paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints from the collection of distinguished American art collector and gallery director Phillip A. Bruno, formed in New York over a period of 70 years.

Margaret Tait 100: Closing Events

Date: Monday 11 November 2019 - Saturday 16 November 2019
Time: 20:45 - 20:00
Categories: Films and theatre, Public lectures, Social events
Venue: Varied (Edinburgh/London/Orkney)

Join us for the final week of events as part of 'Margaret Tait 100', a nationwide celebration of filmmaker and poet Margaret Tait.

Postgraduate Open Day

Date: Thursday 14 November 2019
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Categories: Open days and visits
Venue: Glasgow University Union

Postgraduate Open day is a great opportunity to find out all you need to know about our postgraduate taught and research opportunities. On the day you will be able to • talk to expert academic staff about your chosen programme of study • speak with advisors to learn more about the available scholarships and funding • meet PG students and discuss the transition from UG and PG study • get help and advice about the application process from our admissions staff

Music in the University Lunchtime Concert: Kentigern String Quartet

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

John McEwen: Quartet no 8, Biscay
Lewis Murphy: Voyager Quartet
Scandinavian Folk Tunes: Woodworks

Funded by the University Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity of Hall.

Getting into TV with the Edinburgh International TV Festival

Date: Thursday 14 November 2019
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Campbell Glennie, Director of Education & Talent Development, Edinburgh International TV Festival

Join Campbell Glennie, Director of Education & Talent Development at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, to learn more about routes into working in television, the opportunities available, and what you can be doing now during your studies to improve your chances in a competitive field.

Alex Impey -Gnostic Cautery

Date: Friday 15 November 2019 - Sunday 23 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Art Gallery

Alex Impey is a Glasgow-based artist whose practice ranges from drawing to sculpture and writing. For this solo exhibition at The Hunterian, Impey has made new work in sculpture and video. These works extend an interest in themes of biology and technology that is a consistent feature of his practice.

Dunedin Consort 'Music of Loss and Consolation' - Director, Nicholas Mulroy

Date: Friday 15 November 2019
Time: 19:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

A choral programme on the theme of Loss and Consolation - a mix of music from Victoria to MacMillan. Ticket sales from Eventbrite: dunedinconsort.eventbrite.com

Thomas A Clark: Poet, Artist, Curator

Date: Monday 18 November 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Thomas A Clark

Influential poet, artist, and curator Thomas A Clark visits Creative Conversations today. Clark has always treated the book as an imaginative space and his poetry and artistic practice explores this. Come and explore with us. Free and all welcome.

Postgraduate Research Social Sciences Information Event

Date: Monday 18 November 2019
Time: 16:00 - 18:30
Categories: Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building

If you are considering Postgraduate Research study at the University of Glasgow, College of Social Sciences, our Postgraduate Research Information event is the perfect opportunity for you to get more information on funding and scholarships, meet with potential supervisors, an insight into postgraduate research life, development and support availability and how to apply.

Routes to Dissemination Fair - 'Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Started'

Date: Tuesday 19 November 2019
Time: 09:30 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
Speaker: Various - see programme

This is an opportunity for staff with an interest in the scholarship of teaching & learning to meet each other and share ideas, find collaborators, learn from each other’s experiences, and find out more about the process of disseminating the results of scholarship projects.

University Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations V

Date: Tuesday 19 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

Programme details at www.chapelchoir.org

Coding qualitative Data

Date: Wednesday 20 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

When we analyse qualitative data, such as responses from human participants via interviews or open-ended survey questions, we may choose to coding as our method. Coding of qualitative data is versatile as well as varied, and the focus of this session is on coding that aims for categorisation and theme development. The session introduces a variety of coding techniques, and we’ll investigate why coding can be useful, what the benefits are, and what pitfalls to be aware of.

The Big Brave with David Wilson

Date: Wednesday 20 November 2019
Time: 12:30 - 13:30
Categories: Student events
Venue: Kelvin Gallery, Main Building
Speaker: David Wilson

The Big Brave offers you the opportunity to hear career stories from some of the most ambitious and accomplished people who have achieved success due to their bravery, passion and determination to make an impact. It’s the must-attend, career inspiration event series for University of Glasgow students.

Music in the University Lunchtime Concert: Scottish Voices

Date: Thursday 21 November 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Concert Hall, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

A programme of songs for voices and marimba to include new works by Katy Lavinia Cooper, John Gormley and arrangements of Latin American carols by Graham Hair. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest, admission free without ticket.

University of Glasgow Choral Society & Chapel Choir: Conductor - Katy Lavinia Cooper

Date: Saturday 23 November 2019
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

Kodaly Missa Brevis and works by female Hungarian composers. Tickets: £10 (Student concession of £5 on door on night with ID). Advance ticket sales from Eventbrite: www.guchoralsociety-23nov19.eventbrite.co.uk

Approaches: Comparative research (i.e. experiments) and surveys

Date: Monday 25 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

This session explores the more positivistic side of educational research, such as interventions, pseudo-experiments comparative studies, as well as touching on larger-scale surveys. With a nod to sequential and concurrent designs, we'll discuss the power and limitations of more quantitative scholarship designs, ensuring that you leave with an understanding beyond what might be your own 'typical' methodology.

Nick-e Melville: Poet and Artist

Date: Monday 25 November 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Nick-e Melville

Nick-e Melville is our guest for Creative Conversations this week. Experimenting with and interrogating the imperatives of language, his work bridges visual and concrete poetics. Since 2010 he has had ten publications released, including a poster poem and a badge; his most recent book is ABBODIES (sad press 2017) and he was anthologised in the international collection of visual poetry The New Concrete (Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2015). Free and all welcome.

Methods: designing questionnaires

Date: Tuesday 26 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale

Questionnaires can notoriously be interpreted in different ways by different respondents, making your analysis of the responses difficult. Good question design can help to eliminate ambiguity and help respondents to provide you with meaningful answers. This workshop will combine theory and practice and will be delivered in three parts: 1) the theory of designing evidence-based questionnaires, 2) practice at developing a questionnaire, 3) feedback and discussion on proposed questionnaire designs, and issues arising. This workshop will appeal to staff in all four colleges who are interested in undertaking scholarship, particularly around learner experience research.

Leadership in HE

Date: Wednesday 27 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Professor Fiona Denney, Brunel University London

A full description will follow shortly.

The Big Brave with Francesca Osowska

Date: Thursday 28 November 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Thomson Building, 236
Speaker: Francesca Osowska

The Big Brave offers you the opportunity to hear career stories from some of the most ambitious and accomplished people who have achieved success due to their bravery, passion and determination to make an impact. It’s the must-attend, career inspiration event series for University of Glasgow students.

Music in the University Lunchtime Concert: Catriona McKay, clarsach & Chris Stout, Shetland fiddle

Date: Thursday 28 November 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

Chris and Catriona return to the lunchtime series to perform an intoxicating blend of their newest music as well as familiar tunes - another unforgettable concert for your diary! Funded by the Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket.

Night at the Museum of Anatomy: Spotlight on Glasgow

Date: Thursday 28 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Anatomy Facility, Museum of Anatomy, Thomson Building
Speaker: Multiple

Well, it's back yet again by popular demand! Night at the Museum of Anatomy - Spotlight on Glasgow will truly showcase the amazing work that has gone on, and is currently happening, in Glasgow, in relation to anatomy. We have teamed up again with our friends and partners from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the School of Simulation and Visualisation, The Glasgow School of Art as well as many anatomy colleagues to bring you this much anticipated event.

Daphne, or Hellfire

Date: Friday 29 November 2019 - Saturday 30 November 2019
Time: 20:00 - 21:10
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Assembly Roxy (Edinburgh)

Inspired by Ovid’s myth ‘Daphne and Apollo’, this ecofeminist drama recasts Daphne as an impassioned environmentalist, battling big business, a boastful boyfriend and a pressurising father.

Madrigirls Advent Service by Candlelight

Date: Sunday 01 December 2019
Time: 19:30
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, G12 8QQ

Madrigirls present their annual service of carols and readings for Advent. Admission free.

MOOCs in the college of Arts

Date: Monday 02 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Maguire

The College of Arts have delivered 4 varied and very successful MOOCs to date, all with very different rationales for development. This session will look at the college’s work with MOOCs, looking at different the pedagogical approaches taken in design and delivery, examining what we are learning and where we are going next.

LGBT+ Staff Network Open Mic for World AIDS Day

Date: Monday 02 December 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Social events
Venue: The Gilchrist Postgraduate Club

Mark World AIDS Day with poetry, prose and music at our open mic night

Approaches: Ethnography and Case Studies

Date: Tuesday 03 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Sheridan

Ethnography is a method of investigation that looks at the situation (in this case, the teaching scenario) from the point of view of the culture and behaviour of the subjects being studied. This session will explore what ethnography is, how it works as a research approach in an educational context, what methods are related to ethnography, and some of the principles of ethnographic research. The session also introduces case studies as a methodology and explores their purpose within research and scholarship in higher education.

Supervising Arts & SocSci Dissertation Students (UG & PGT)

Date: Wednesday 04 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Andrew Struan, Dr Janis Davidson

The purpose of this session is to give staff a clearer understanding of the challenges and obstacles encountered by dissertation students. We'll consider common issues met by students as they transition through their dissertation, as well as the student perception of support offered by supervisors. By considering the research process from the point of view of the inexperienced student, we can better support their academic performance.

Methods: carrying out observations

Date: Thursday 05 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Nathalie Sheridan

This session offers an overview of the principles of observation as a research method. We'll discuss issues around observation bias, interference with the observed, 'going native', and the significance of data derived through observation.

Christmas Dinner

Date: Saturday 07 December 2019
Time: 18:30 - 22:30
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Bute Hall

The Christmas Dinner is an annual event for alumni and friends of the University of Glasgow. The dinner is held in the spectacular setting of Bute Hall with a drinks reception in the Hunterian Museum.

Celebrating 20 Years in Dumfries - Christmas Concert

Date: Saturday 07 December 2019
Time: 19:30 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: Crichton Memorial Church, The Crichton, Dumfries, DG1 4ZZ

The renowned University of Glasgow Chapel Choir will, once again, be joined by members of the Dumfries Town Band to perform our annual Christmas Concert in the beautiful candle-lit surroundings of the Crichton Memorial Church.

Karen Campbell: Novelist

Date: Monday 09 December 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Karen Campbell

Our final Creative Conversations event of the year brings Karen Campbell to the Memorial Chapel to talk about her police novels and how her research feeds into her writing; she was awarded a Creative Scotland Artist’s Bursary for research into her most recent novel, The Sound of the Hours. Set in Italy in World War 2, it tells the story of a US Buffalo soldier, and a Scots-Italian family living in Barga. Free and all welcome.

Team-Based Learning: Optimising Active and Collaborative Learning

Date: Tuesday 10 December 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Simon Tweddell, University of Bradford

This short workshop aims to introduce participants to Team-Based Learning (TBL) by experiencing it as a student would. TBL is a student-centred ‘flipped’ learning and teaching strategy designed to engage students through a process of preparation, assessment and application of knowledge. It shifts the focus of classroom time from conveying course concepts by the teacher to the application of course concepts by student learning teams.

Decadence and Translation

Date: Friday 13 December 2019
Time: 09:30 - 18:00
Categories: Conferences, Academic events, Student events
Venue: School of Critical Studies

A day of talks, readings and workshops to explore the relationship between Decadence and Translation from the late nineteenth century to today.

Exploration: From Deep Time to Outer Space

Date: Friday 13 December 2019 - Sunday 15 March 2020
Time: 10:00 - 17:00
Categories: Exhibitions
Venue: Hunterian Museum

Many of the most interesting and scientifically valuable natural sciences collections are the legacy of amazing expeditions. This exhibition reveals fascinating tales of expedition triumph and tragedy.

EAP in the North - 'Speaking & Oracy in the Academy'

Date: Friday 13 December 2019
Time: 14:15 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences, Social events
Venue: Adam Smith Building, Room 718 Bute Gardens, G12 8RS

This free event hosted by English for Academic Study (UofG) creates a space for those involved in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) to discuss experiences and issues around speaking in academic settings. Instructors, students and all interested parties welcome.

London Burns Supper

Date: Friday 10 January 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Alumni events, Social events
Venue: The Caledonian Club
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

Our London Burns Supper will take place in the Caledonian Club on Friday 10 January. The evening will be hosted by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Making Your Lectures More Accessible to Students Using English as a Second Language

Date: Monday 13 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

This session will consider the challenges students using English as a second language face when listening to extended speech. We will cover the listening skills students are likely to have on arrival, the specific challenges they face, strategies they use to cope, and techniques you can use to make your lecture and seminar content more accessible.

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

Date: Tuesday 14 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder, Prof Scott Roy

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.

Writing across Cultures: Supporting PG Students whose First Language is not English to Develop Their Discipline-Specific Academic Literacy

Date: Friday 17 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Karen Ottewell, University of Cambridge

Kaplan noted in 1966 that just because you can write an essay in your L1 does not necessarily mean you can write one in an L2 and with it he founded the theory of contrastive rhetoric, which 50 years on, despite significant research in this area, still lacks a pedagogical framework. In this session I will present an overview of the theoretical principles which underpin this approach, followed by a discussion of practical strategies to support students to develop their written academic literacy.

Planning for MOOCS (the course design process)

Date: Monday 20 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Kerr, Vicki Dale

In this session, participants will gain a deeper understanding into the important role that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) play at Glasgow. We'll explore the current direction of MOOCs, degrees on FutureLearn, and open courses on Coursera. We'll focus on the processes of announcing, designing and running a MOOC, and investigate the impact they've had on our face-to-face learners along with how they support our distance programmes. Drawing on examples from all four colleges, this workshop will appeal to teachers and teaching support staff from any discipline.

Exploring the role of academic practice in student wellbeing

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

This session introduces recent research into the important role of academic practice in student wellbeing, the role of self-efficacy, and the strong correlation between mental wellbeing and student academic performance. We will be investigating our own localised and institution-wide situation through technology-aided nominal group technique, aiming for concrete actions.

20th Holocaust Memorial Lecture

Date: Tuesday 21 January 2020
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Bute Hall
Speaker: Professor Herbert Ulrich

For the 20th Holocaust Memorial Lecture we are delighted to welcome Professor Herbert Ulrich to the University of Glasgow to present his lecture entitled Final Solution. New answers to old questions.

Practical strategies for including all learners: in and beyond disabilities

Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Margaret Sutherland

There are many barriers that can affect students’ learning. Some relate to disabilities or lifelong illness; others are a result of poverty, gender and ethnicity; others still are related to the learning environment. This session focuses on issues of disability and hidden disability in order to make learning better for all.

Getting Students Talking: Lessons from Second Language Acquisition Literature

Date: Wednesday 22 January 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

Interaction is a key driver of second language acquisition. This workshop will look at the techniques that language specialists in Academic English use to maximise incentives and opportunities for students to engage in discussions. We will give you practical suggestions for how you can apply these techniques to your HE teaching context to create a richer, more engaging learning experience for all.

Methods: conducting interviews

Date: Tuesday 28 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Pate, 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.

Linguistic and cultural diversity, and inclusive assessment

Date: Wednesday 29 January 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Angela Gayton

How can staff awareness be raised of the fundamental role that language plays in ensuring inclusive assessment practice? In responding to this question, this session identifies common communicative issues and obstacles in assessment practices in HE, within the wider context of increasing linguistic and cultural diversity among student cohorts.

Boston Burns Supper 2020

Date: Friday 31 January 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: Hilton Boston Back Bay
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

Book here: http://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/2020-Boston-Burns-Supper This evening will be hosted by senior University staff and Dr. Clark McGinn, graduate and Burns Scholar (MA 1983, PhD), who will deliver his enthralling Address to the Haggis and Toast to the Immortal Memory. Tickets are £80 per person for alumni and guests. We have a special discount for alumni from the last 10 years (graduating in 2009 and onwards) where tickets are £40 per head. Tickets include a drinks reception, a four-course meal and ceilidh.

Washington D.C. Burns Supper 2020

Date: Saturday 01 February 2020
Time: 18:30 - 23:30
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: University Club of Washington D.C.
Speaker: Dr. Clark McGinn

The evening will be hosted by senior University staff and Dr. Clark McGinn, graduate and Burns Scholar (MA 1983, PhD), who will deliver his enthralling Address to the Haggis and Toast to the Immortal Memory. Tickets are £80 per person for alumni and guests. We have a special discount for alumni from the last 10 years (graduating in 2009 and onwards) where tickets are £40 per head. Tickets include a drinks reception, a four-course meal and ceilidh. Book here: http://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/2020-washington-d.c-burns-supper-

Reading Academic Texts: Addressing Challenges Second Language Readers Face

Date: Wednesday 05 February 2020
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Anneli Williams, Carole Macdiarmid

This session will consider approaches to helping students using English as a second language deal with reading complex academic texts. We will outline the challenges academic reading pose, strategies that can facilitate more effective reading, and provide practical examples of approaches we have embedded on PGT courses in English for Academic Study.

Assessing your Assessment: Creating Inclusive Assessment Tasks

Date: Thursday 06 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Kimberly Wilder

This session will allow participants to evaluate their assessment tasks and think about enhancements that could make these assessments more inclusive. This session will include some quick tips and easy enhancements, as well as a focus on what it means to create manageable and sustainable assessment and feedback practices that are inclusive, responsive, and are supported by academic policies and processes.

2020 St Petersburg Florida Alumni Gathering

Date: Saturday 08 February 2020
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: St. Petersburg Yacht Club,11 Central Ave, Saint Petersburg, Florida 33701

Join #TeamUofG at St Petersburg Yacht Club for a relaxed Alumni gathering.

Embedding LGBT Equality in the Classroom

Date: Tuesday 18 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Amanda Sykes, Nicole Kipar

We know that students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) feel more able to learn if their classrooms are welcoming and inclusive. We also know that lots of people want to make their classrooms inclusive, but don’t know how to do so, or what to say. This workshop provides an opportunity to start to understand why making your classroom inclusive is important, and suggests simple changes you can make that could make a big difference. Please know that you are not expected to know anything about LGBT ‘issues’ or the ‘right’ language before you come.

Safe & Supported: Creating Inclusive Learning Environments for Mental Health & Neurodivergence

Date: Wednesday 19 February 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr El Spaeth, Dr Margaret Sutherland

We all have a role to play in providing a safe environment where people feel supported, but how do you do this in practice? This session will introduce you to some elements of mental health and neurodivergence and how these might manifest in the classroom. We’ll help you to examine current practice in your classes and how you might adapt your learning and teaching practice to support these students. You will leave the session with practical examples of how to create spaces that should leave students feeling safe and supported.

The dos and don'ts of Creating Online Video

Date: Monday 24 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team

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.

Methods: facilitating focus groups

Date: Tuesday 25 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: 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.

Flipped, Blended and Mashed - Integrating Moodle and Mahara into Learning and Teaching

Date: Thursday 27 February 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Gordon MacLeod

An overview of how the Vet School VLE has gone from a lecture dump to an integrated blended learning experience.

Improving the Look and Appeal of your Moodle Courses

Date: Monday 02 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Elina Koristashevskaya, Stuart Purcell

In this short demonstration, you’ll learn about a few of the more advanced ways to improve the visual appearance of your Moodle courses using the HTML editor. A basic knowledge of HTML would be useful, but is not crucial.

Spielberg in the Classroom: Incorporating Rich Media in Active Learning

Date: Monday 02 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: LEADS Media & Digital Development team

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).

Approaches: Introduction to (Constructivist) Grounded Theory

Date: Tuesday 03 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Nicole Kipar

This session outlines what Grounded Theory - a type of research methodology for questions that don't begin from a hypothesis - is and isn’t, and gives a short overview of classic Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss) and its developments (Strauss & Corbin). It introduces the principles of Constructivist Grounded Theory (Charmaz). We will discuss CGT in relation to educational scholarship, and how Grounded Theory methods may be applied to Scholarship of Learning & Teaching.

Designing Conference Posters: Going Beyond the Standard Template

Date: Wednesday 04 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay

If you're thinking of presenting your scholarship at a conference poster session but don't have much experience of actually creating a poster, this session will give you a chance to see some good examples and consider what makes them effective. You'll also get an insight into the design thought processes of a member of staff who produces University communications, and learn how to make the best use of some of the design tools available to you on standard University software.

Splitting Infinitives - Going Boldly with Mahara

Date: Thursday 05 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Gordon MacLeod

An overview of how the Vet School has developed Mahara Portfolio as a resource bank to extend and enhance Moodle, and an introduction to SmartEvidence frameworks to map portfolio evidence to learning outcomes and competencies.

Inspiring Your Undergraduates to Work and Research with Integrity

Date: Tuesday 10 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley

This session will explore expectations of students’ academic integrity and whether we can encourage them by situating their work in the wider context of research integrity. We will cover student and staff responsibilities relating to academic integrity (e.g. regarding plagiarism, handling data, ethics, supervision etc.). Then we will explore further how to encourage critical thinking and critical literacy with relation to research findings and public trust. Useful resources & ideas for teaching will be shared.

Inclusivity vs Accessibility: What is the Difference, and Why Should We Care?

Date: Wednesday 11 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan, Dr Linnea Soler

The University of Glasgow is committed to ensuring that all students can equally participate in every aspect of the learning and teaching process by mainstreaming adjustments in teaching practice. We aim for our learning environment to be as inclusive as possible, so that individual interventions are the exception and not the rule. This session will explore accessibility versus inclusivity to provoke enhancements to your teaching practice at the point of design.

The psychology of receiving feedback, and why (and how) we should equip students to do it better

Date: Friday 13 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr R. A. Nash, Aston University

Why do our students, despite the considerable time and effort we invest in preparing feedback for them, often nevertheless fail to engage with this feedback? I will begin this workshop with an introduction to some interesting psychological literature on why people react badly to feedback.

Motivating your Students to Read More

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Sam Oakley

Is your reading list fulfilling its purpose? Are your students enthusiastic readers? We will use some studies on students' reading habits at UK universities to reflect on the challenges of getting students to read even the essential readings. We will suggest some strategies to encourage them to go beyond their lecture notes and become more independent learners.

Designing meaningful assessment to promote academic integrity and prevent plagiarism

Date: Wednesday 18 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Matthew Williamson, Dr Amanda Sykes

We'll discuss ideas of meaningful assessment and provide examples of what we mean by this. We'll then address meaningful 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, meaningful and relevant.

How to Create an Online Reading List – Reading Lists @ Glasgow

Date: Tuesday 24 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Harry Panagiotakopoulos

This hands-on session will provide an opportunity to create an online reading list using the University system Talis Aspire. To aid student learning, you will learn how to create list structures, add resources (books, articles, webpages, audio and visual resources) and use the system to advise students on reading requirements and the importance level of course materials.

Mahara for Work Placement

Date: Monday 20 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Maguire

Meaningful dialogue between students and staff is central to enhancing learning. In the College of Arts the use of the Mahara e-portfolio system is allowing staff to regularly assess the progress of students on work placement, and provide a means to encourage student to staff as well as student to student exchange, allowing the formative feedback to enhance the learning.

PowerPoint vs Camtasia: Tools for recording lectures and flipping the classroom

Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: John Maguire

Subjects in the College of Arts are using recording tools for online delivery and exploring a flipped classroom approach. This session will look at differences in, and how to get creative with, each piece of software as well as discussing our first steps towards a flipped class approach.

Linking Up Assessments to Make Feedback Meaningful: An Introduction to Assessment Blueprinting

Date: Wednesday 22 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Amanda Sykes and a Senior Dental School member

Students spend a lot of time creating work to be assessed, and academics spend a lot of time marking that work and creating feedback to help each student learn. This workshop will introduce you to assessment blueprinting, which enables you to link assessments across a Programme and make the feedback you provide meaningful for the next relevant assessment. Through this linkage, you show your students how the assessments support learning and that the feedback is relevant and useful.

Designing more accessible slides / electronic handouts

Date: Thursday 23 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 12:45
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: Scott Ramsay, Greg Walters

This short demonstration will showcase some of the tools in Microsoft Office software that will help you improve the accessibility of your materials. We will cover accessibility from a legibility and comprehension perspective, which make things easier for *any* student, as well as specific features of Microsoft Office that are designed to work with screen reader technology.

Editing techniques for creating short videos with Camtasia

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2020
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Learn Lab, University Library
Speaker: John Maguire

Staff in the College of Arts undertook some basic training in video editing which has allowed them to create their own short informative videos, on location, at important sites students can’t access easily. This session will look how training in the basic principles of video editing software can enable individuals to produce their own quality videos. Come see some examples of the work and try it out for yourself.