University of Sanctuary

Living Lab Webinar: Access the Spatial Ecosystem - Enhancing Innovation

20 Aug

Date: Wednesday 20 August 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Via Zoom
Speaker: Professor Nigel Jamieson

Join us for this insightful session exploring how the Living Laboratory connects academics, industry, and healthcare partners to The University of Glasgow's growing spatial ecosystem. Rather than focusing on the science behind spatial transcriptomics, we’ll highlight real-world applications, collaborative opportunities, and how this technology is accelerating innovation across sectors.

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Festival of Politics - Gen Z and Politics

21 Aug

Date: Thursday 21 August 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: The Scottish Parliament
Speaker: Prof Danny Dorling, Dr Elisabeth Loose, Ellie Craig MSYP

What and how do young people really think and engage with politics? Are they engaged, disillusioned, or redefining what political participation looks like? And how important is trust in the conventional political system compared to what community activism offers instead? Join the discussion on the priorities for the future, and what needs to change to restore trust in democracy and address Gen Z’s vocal financial anxieties when it comes to housing, debt and opportunities. And what does it all mean for the future of the political system?

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Unfinished Business - 25 Years of Devolution

27 Aug

Date: Wednesday 27 August 2025
Time: 18:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Glasgow University Union
Speaker: Henry McLeish, Prof James Mitchell, Johann Lamont, Annemarie Ward

In their new book Unfinished Business, Henry McLeish and Professor James Mitchell dissect the record of the first 25 years of devolution and, ahead of the Scottish elections in 2026, set out their ideas on how to improve Scottish democracy over the coming decade. It examines successes as well as failures but concludes that while Scotland has talked a great game on its “progressive values”, real change has proven to be elusive.

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Explorathon at Doors Open Day

20 Sep

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

24 Sep

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

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

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Getting started with SoTL

02 Oct

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

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

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

09 Oct

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

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

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Applying for the Learning and Teaching Conference

14 Oct

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

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

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Methods and Ethics for SoTL

23 Oct

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

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

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Festival of Data Science and AI

27 Oct

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

Festival of Data Science & AI.

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Identify

29 Oct

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

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

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Dissemination and Next Steps ...

30 Oct

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

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

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Engaging International Students in Active Learning

04 Nov

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

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

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Decolonising the Curriculum in your Discipline

11 Nov

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

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

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Measuring the International Relevance and Cultural Inclusivity of your Course

18 Nov

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Plan

26 Nov

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Design

28 Jan

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Investigate

25 Feb

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Write

25 Mar

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Disseminate

29 Apr

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

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

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SoTL Network The Stations of SoTL: Reflect

27 May

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

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

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