Introduction to Active Learning

Date: Monday 21 October 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale

With the campus redevelopment under way, an increasing number of rooms are being built or adapted to give you greater flexibility in your modes of teaching. This session introduces active learning and examines Glasgow's learning spaces, both physical and online. It introduces the resources generated through the MALT (Moodle Active Learning and Teaching) LTDF project, which demonstrate how active learning can be used creatively to facilitate face-to-face, blended, and online learning. These resources include material to support co-operative and collaborative approaches to teaching, learning, and also assessment - all underpinned by the values of active learning.

Abir Mukherjee: Crime Novelist

Date: Monday 21 October 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Abir Mukherjee

Come and join us for some Creative Conversations with award-winning crime writer Abir Mukherjee. Set in 1920s India, his four novels follow Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant ‘Surrender-not’ Banerjee through Calcutta's crime scenes. Free and all welcome.

Chapel Organ Recitals 2019

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

Chapel Organ Recitals. Admission free without ticket. Generously supported by the Ferguson Bequest.

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.

International students and plagiarism: cultural differences and setting expectations

Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Julia Bohlman and Dr Michael McEwan

This session focuses on what plagiarism actually means in an international context, and will demonstrate that (in some instances, at least) plagiarism is the result of cultural differences and not a crime! This session is based on a recent review of plagiarism-focused literature, and gives guidance on how to make your teaching, your expectations, and your materials more accessible and more explicit.

Lunchtime talk - Textiles, Cloth, Dialogue and Storying

Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355
Speaker: Naa Densua Tordzro

Naa Densua Tordzro will be talking about African textiles and their meaning to the wearer and his/her surroundings, based on the type of material used and the patterns and symbols on that material.

LGBT+ Staff Network Welcome Back with Robert Gale

Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Time: 17:30 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Hunterian Museum
Speaker: Robert Gale, Artistic Director Birds of Paradise Theatre Company

The LGBT+ Staff Network welcome Robert Gale to speak, graduate of UofG and Artistic Director and CEO of Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, Scotland's first touring theatre company employing disabled and non-disabled actors.

Celebrating 20 Years in Dumfries - The Solway and Trans-Atlantic Slavery

Date: Tuesday 22 October 2019
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Academic events
Venue: Dumfries and Galloway Multicultural Association, 68 Friars Vennel, Dumfries DG1 2RL
Speaker: Dr Lizanne Henderson

A FREE and fascinating look at the links between the Solway and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Motivating your Students to Read More

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
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. We welcome your own experiences / observations from your subject area.You might also be interested in the complementary session 'How to Create an Online Reading List – Reading Lists @ Glasgow', which will walk you through using the university's online reading list system.

Engineering & Technology Fair 2019

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019
Time: 12:00 - 15:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: Glasgow University Union
Speaker: n/a

Do you want to work in the Engineering & Technology sector? Meet the friendly recruitment teams of 60 employers. Hear first-hand about graduate jobs and internships, learn about possible career paths and find out what a typical working day is like.

Lunchtime talk - External Africa

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355
Speaker: Pieter van der Houwen

UNESCO RILA Affiliate Artist Pieter van der Houwen will explore different aspects of the African Diaspora on the basis of African communities in New York, Guangzhou and Johannesburg in his talk entitled "External Africa".

Wednesday Organ Recital Series - Witold Zaborny (Poland)

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019
Time: 13:10 - 14:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Memorial Chapel, off University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ

Admission free - all welcome. Funded by the Ferguson Bequest.

Adapting your teaching for Glasgow's new active learning spaces

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Hugh Fraser seminar room 2, Wolfson Medical Building
Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale, Professor Susan Deeley, 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.

Glasgow Gifford Lectures Autumn 2019 - Professor Mark Pagel

Date: Wednesday 23 October 2019 - Tuesday 29 October 2019
Time: 18:15 - 19:45
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Sir Charles Wilson Building
Speaker: Professor Mark Pagel

Mark Pagel is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Reading University in the UK. He is best known for his work on building statistical models to examine the evolutionary processes imprinted in animal and human behaviour, from genomics to the emergence of complex systems, including language and culture. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution and co-author of The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. His book Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind was one of the Guardian newspaper’s ‘best science books of 2012'.

Lunchtime talk - Eritrea Past and Present

Date: Thursday 24 October 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Gilbert Scott / Main building room 355
Speaker: Elsa Gebrehiwet

Elsa Gebrehiwet will explore differences and similarities between South Africa and Eritrea over the past 50 years. Apartheid might have been invented in South Africa, but it is by far the only country that suffered from it. The lesser known history of Eritrea will be brought to live, by linking it to key figures in the Black History movement, such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.

Music in the University Lunchtime Concert: Duo B!z'art – ‘An American in Paris’ (2 pianos)

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

Belgian duo, André Roe and Geoffrey Baptiste, make a welcome return to play a programme for two pianos. Funded by the University Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket.

The James Wood Lecture 2019: “Democracy as a European (Convention) Value”

Date: Thursday 24 October 2019
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Senate Room, Main Building
Speaker: Tim Eicke QC, Judge of the European Court of Human Rights

Tim Eicke, a graduate of the Universities of Passau and Dundee, practiced as a barrister in London before being appointed as the UK’s judge at the European Court of Human Rights in 2016, having been appointed a QC in 2011. He is the co-author of Human Rights Damages (2001).

visNET Collaboration Event

Date: Thursday 24 October 2019 - Friday 25 October 2019
Time: 9:30
Categories: Academic events, Conferences, Social events
Venue: Glasgow Womens' Library

Our event is a unique opportunity to build new collaborations for yourself with future leaders of Science and Engineering or to connect them to your networks.

Glasgow Gifford Seminar with Professor Mark Pagel

Date: Friday 25 October 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Sir James Black Building, Room 313
Speaker: Professor Mark Pagel

Professor Mark Pagel, University of Reading, will hold a seminar for PhD students and early-career researchers on the topic of his Gifford lecture series entitled ‘Wired for culture: origins of the human social mind, or why humans occupied the world’.

Sir William Weipers Memorial Lecture

Date: Friday 25 October 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Alumni events
Venue: McCall Lecture Theatre, Garscube Campus
Speaker: Professor Alan Wilson

This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Alan Wilson BSc BVMS (1987) PhD. Alan graduated from Glasgow University in 1987 having studied Veterinary Medicine and an intercalated BSc in Physiology. He subsequently undertook a PhD in the Anatomy Department at Bristol University where he studied the mechanical basis of tendon injury. He went on to work as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate and then as a lecturer. Alan moved to the Royal Veterinary College in 1996 where he now holds the post of Professor of Locomotor Biomechanics and head of the Structure and Motion Laboratory.

Hong Kong Alumni Event

Date: Friday 25 October 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Alumni events
Venue: Ce La Vie

The University of Glasgow is again returning to Hong Kong for one of the must attend events of the alumni calendar. This is a great opportunity to socialise, network and celebrate the success of UofG and our Hong Kong community.

Songs For Our Children - a fundraising concert in support of St Andrew's Clinics for Children

Date: Friday 25 October 2019
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University Chapel

The St Andrew’s Clinics for Children (STACC) is a charity which was developed by staff at the University of Glasgow over 25 years ago and since then has provided free healthcare to over 1.5 million children in Africa. This year our main fund-raising event in Scotland will be a concert to be held in the Chapel of the University of Glasgow on Friday 25th October at 7pm.

RSCM Scottish Voices Choral Evensong

Date: Saturday 26 October 2019
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: n/a

Anglican Choral Evensong arranged by the RSCM Scottish Voices.

2019 Vet Reunion Dinner

Date: Saturday 26 October 2019
Time: 19:00 - 01:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: Hunterian Museum (Drinks Reception), Bute Hall (Dinner)

This black tie event is a a great chance to catch-up with classmates and to dance the night away in the Bute Hall. Join us for a drinks reception in the Hunterian Museum at 19:00, followed by a lovely three course dinner in the Bute Hall. Then dance the night away with a ceilidh. We are especially looking forward to welcoming back our Glasgow graduates from those year groups ending in a ‘4’ and a ‘9’ this year.

Operation Legacy

Date: Sunday 27 October 2019
Time: 16:00 - 18:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre

In 2009 a group of Kenyan war veterans sued the British government to reveal the truth about what really happened during the Mau Mau Emergency. This documentary tells the incredible story of those veterans demanding truth and reparations for British crimes, and exposes the depth of the establishment's attempted erasure of colonial histories of violence under Operation Legacy. The film is a co-production between the Museum of British Colonialism and History Hit TV.

UofG Designing Our Future

Date: Monday 28 October 2019 - Thursday 31 October 2019
Time: 09:30
Categories: Conferences, Academic events, Student events
Venue: Gilmorehill and Garscube campuses
Speaker: Hosted by WCGT and colleagues from across the University

Learn more about the WCG Transformation programme, participate in innovative workshops and help co-create and design the improvements to systems and processes in our projects.

Interpreting Turnitin Reports with your Students to Develop their Academic Writing

Date: Monday 28 October 2019
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Scott Ramsay, Dr Julia Bohlmann

Turnitin produces a similarity score for each assignment, which makes it tempting to judge the quality of a piece of work on whether that number is over or under a threshold. In this session we'll look at what scores mean in terms of a student's academic writing and evaluate the merits of using such a cut-off. We'll then look at how you can discuss Turnitin similarity scores (and the mark up applied to the text of each submission) with your class to help students develop good academic practice and improve their writing skills.

University Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations III

Date: Tuesday 29 October 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

An Opera of the World

Date: Tuesday 29 October 2019
Time: 19:00 - 21:30
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre
Speaker: Professor Manthia Diawara

Manthia Diawara’s film, An Opera of the World (2017), is based on the African opera Bintou Were, a Sahel Opera, which recounts an eternal migration drama. The Bintou Were opera, filmed on location in Bamako in 2007, serves as a mirror for Diawara to build an aesthetic and reflexive story, through song and dance, about the current and yet timeless drama of migration between North and South, and the ongoing refugee crises. The film ponders on the realities of cultural encounters through the concepts of métissage and hybridity. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Professor Diawara, and a wine reception.

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

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019
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.

GLEAM Festival 2019

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019
Time: 20:00 - 22:00
Categories: Concerts and music
Venue: Concert Hall, University of Glasgow

GLEAM festival is back for 2019 with a one-off concert of live and improvised electronic and audiovisual performances, featuring works by John Ferguson, Louise Harris and Iain Findlay-Walsh.

MVLS Industry & Innovation Day

Date: Wednesday 30 October 2019
Time: 9:15 - 17:00
Categories: Conferences
Venue: Queen Elizabeth Teaching & Learning Centre

The College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences is delighted to announce it's forthcoming Industry & Innovation Day on Wednesday 30th October 2019 at the Queen Elizabeth Teaching & Learning Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. This college wide event brings together academics and industry to provide a forum for discussing collaboration opportunities and highlighting developments across the College. The confirmed programme includes presentations from the College, MRC, Innovate UK and industry. Afternoon workshops aimed at promoting translation and collaboration with industry, will be followed by a gin-omics reception allowing additional time for networking.

Music in the University Lunchtime Series: Greg Lawson (fiddle), Phil Alexander (accordion) - PLEASE NOTE SLIGHT CHANGE OF CONCERT!

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

Programme - to be confirmed. This is a slight change of lineup to the original Firelight Trio.

Decolonising The Hunterian

Date: Thursday 31 October 2019
Time: 18:00 - 19:30
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: The Hunterian Museum
Speaker: Director of The Hunterian, Steph Scholten, Curator for Archaeology & World Cultures, Andy Mills and Dr. Lola Sanchez-Jáuregui,

As part of Black History Month The Hunterian will offer an evening of discussions around decolonising our collections.

Making Pattern, Making Meaning | Workshop

Date: Saturday 02 November 2019
Time: 14:00 - 16:30
Categories: Films and theatre, Social events
Venue: Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA)
Speaker: Sequoia Barnes

Fashion scholar Sequoia Barnes leads a participatory workshop in which pattern-making is explored as a form of storytelling and meaning-making, an expression of heritage and even resistance. Presented in collaboration with Africa in Motion Film Festival and GoMA.

Wax Print: 1 Fabric, 4 Continents, 200 Years of History | Screening

Date: Saturday 02 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 21:00
Categories: Films and theatre
Venue: Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (GoMA)

British-born filmmaker and fashion designer, Aiwan Obinyan, sets out on a journey across four continents to trace the two-hundred year history of this iconic textile. Special screening as part of Africa in Motion Film Festival 2019.

GUSA/GUAC 1881 Alumni Dinner

Date: Saturday 02 November 2019
Time: 19:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events, Sports events
Venue: Glasgow University Union, University of Glasgow

GUSA/GUAC 1881 Alumni Dinner to be held on Saturday 2 November in Glasgow University Union.

Preparing to do scholarship, and writing an ethics application

Date: Monday 04 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Vicki Dale, Dr Michael McEwan

Depending on the details of a given scholarship projects, specific ethical approval might need to be applied for, reviewed and approved before the work can begin. This session will explore ethical considerations for scholarship of learning and teaching, with an emphasis on research into the experience of the learners. We'll also examine the process of designing an ethically sound methodology.

Adura Onashile: Artist and Playwright

Date: Monday 04 November 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Adura Onashile

Today we welcome Adura Onashile to Creative Conversations. Named number 10 in The List magazine 2018 HOT 100, Onashile is an award-winning artist, playwright ('HeLa' and 'Expensive S**t') and National Theatre Step Change participant, framing a discussion series for “Empowering Change: Discussions on Art, Race and Privilege”. Free and all welcome.

Immaterial network: Design practice, Immersive experiences, and Making future places

Date: Tuesday 05 November 2019
Time: 17:00 - 20:00
Categories: Public lectures, Social events, Academic events, Student events, Alumni events
Venue: The Atrium, Alison House, University of Edinburgh; 12 Nicolson St; Edinburgh EH8 9DF
Speaker: Richard Coyne, Pooja Katara and Rachel Cruise

This event explores how VR, AR, and other immersives are affecting, or could in the future affect, design practices in architecture and planning, and in how we approach designing experiences of built environments. We will explore these themes through a series of lightning presentations, a panel discussion, and opportunities to engage with demos.

Luminous Images, Hidden in the Senses: Cultivating Cosmic Perception

Date: Wednesday 06 November 2019
Time: 17:30 - 19:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Speaker: Dr Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University)

Laura U. Marks (Simon Fraser University) aims to redress the balance between body and spirit in contemporary thought. Through the interplay of media art and philosophy, this public lecture explores how the human sensory experience can be a portal to the cosmos.

In conversation with Ed Balls

Date: Thursday 07 November 2019
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Categories: Student events
Venue: The Senate Room
Speaker: Ed Balls

Join former Shadow Chancellor and Strictly star Ed Balls for a careers Q&A chaired by John Smith Centre Director Kezia Dugdale.

Music in the University Lunchtime Concert: Atholl Duo (flute, percussion)

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

Lee Holland – flute and Glynn Forrest – percussion/marimba, play a programme of pieces including Damase Pantomimes, Piazzolla Histoire du Tango and Bartok’s Suite Paysanne Hongroise. Funded by the University Ferguson Bequest - admission free without ticket and subject to seating capacity of Hall.

Designing data collection and analysis

Date: Monday 11 November 2019
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teaching Room, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Michael McEwan

This session moves from formulating scholarship questions towards deciding how you'll answer them. What counts as data? What kind of data do you require in order to actually address the issue at hand, and how can you plan your data collection, management and analysis to make sure that's achievable – especially when the data might be of an unfamiliar form?

Nina Allan: Speculative Fiction Writer

Date: Monday 11 November 2019
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Categories: Public lectures
Venue: University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel
Speaker: Nina Allan

Nina Allan joins us for Creative Conversations this week. Working in the field of speculative fiction, she has been awarded the Grand Prix de L'imaginaire, the British Science Fiction Award, and the Kitschies Red Tentacle. Free and all welcome. (Photo Credit: Diana Patient)

Embedding LGBT Equality in the Classroom

Date: Tuesday 12 November 2019
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.

University Chapel Choir - Choral Contemplations IV

Date: Tuesday 12 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

NYC Alumni Glenfiddich Whisky Tasting

Date: Tuesday 12 November 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Categories: Social events, Alumni events
Venue: Loews Regency Hotel
Speaker: Rachel Sandison

Book here: http://www.alumni.gla.ac.uk/events-and-reunions/2019-nyc-alumni-glenfiddich-whisky-tasting In partnership with Glenfiddich, you're invited to join me, Rachel Sandison, Vice Principal External Relations, and fellow #teamuofg alumni for a whisky tasting event in New York City. Come along and enjoy tasting a variety of Glenfiddich's finest spirits with alumni and friends. We'll also provide a short insider update on the latest news from Gilmorehill.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 - 14:00
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.

Motivating your Students to Read More

Date: Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
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.