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JUST Tour Seminar Series: Tourism Justice through Community Led-Tourism

12 Feb

Date: Thursday 12 February 2026
Time: 10:00 - 11:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online

This seminar will explore the conceptual, practical, and governance foundations of Community Led Tourism in Scotland. JUST TOUR Seminar Series: Tourism (in)justice through community-led tourism.

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Applying for the SoTL Funding Scheme

17 Feb

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

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

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AI+Us Festival 2026 - Glasgow Chapter

18 Feb

Date: Wednesday 18 February 2026
Time: 10:30 - 13:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: School of Computing Science

Welcome to AI+Us Alliance 2026! Come join us at the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, for a few hours filled with all things Artificial Intelligence! If you're curious about AI and you're around the Main campus on Wednesday 18th February, this event is perfect for you. The event will be an opportunity to explore the big questions we all have about how AI works and what impact it will have in our lives.

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

18 Feb

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

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

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Queer Histories in the Archives – Student Perspectives at UofG

24 Feb

Date: Tuesday 24 February 2026
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Room 223, Mazumdar Shaw Advanced Research Centre
Speaker: Dr Sam Rutherford, Robyn Stewart, Alex Kabaj

Join us for an interactive LGBT History Month event exploring how queer histories are preserved, uncovered, and interpreted within the University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections. This session combines hands-on activities, archival insights, and reflections on researching LGBT histories. No prior experience with archival research is required.

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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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Sustainability Salon: Environmental Sensing

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 14:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Sir Alwyn Williams Building, room 423

Share your views on what's needed - and what is possible - in measuring the environmental impact of our actions to achieve Scotland's climate goals.

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Penality and Antagonistic Struggles: The Case of Maximum-Security Prison Reform in Turkey

25 Feb

Date: Wednesday 25 February 2026
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Online
Speaker: Arda Ibikoglu

This presentation challenges the widely shared assumption that the modern state has sovereign control over penality and illustrates its arguments illustrates through a detailed account of the struggles over maximum-security prison reform in Turkey in late 1990s.

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

12 Mar

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

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

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Fernando: Revolutionary Spirit in Popular Music

12 Mar

Date: Thursday 12 March 2026
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: The Alchemy Experiment
Speaker: Kay Dickinson

Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of Fernando, a book from Kay Dickinson exploring the tensions between revolution and global commodification in popular music, through ABBA’s hit song.

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People & Excellence 2026: Celebrating Achievements in Knowledge Exchange & Innovation

23 Mar

Date: Monday 23 March 2026
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre

Celebration of staff and students delivering meaningful engagement, innovation and impact. Awards presentations.

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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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From private concerns to public narratives: tracing the rise of personal stories about crime

25 Mar

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 15:30
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Room 381, Adam Smith Business School, Adam Smith Building
Speaker: Jennifer Fleetwood, St George’s University of London

Jennifer Fleetwood traces changes in criminal justice, technology and media that accord novel forms of space, respectability and meaning to public storytelling about crime.

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The Lecture Capture Paradox: Disentangling the Benefits and Drawbacks of In-Person Lecture Recordings

25 Mar

Date: Wednesday 25 March 2026
Time: 16:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Teams
Speaker: Kirk Hillsley (he/him)

Lecture capture (LC) offers students flexible opportunities to review lecture content, yet their impact on learning and study behaviour remains contested. This seminar synthesizes two projects examining LC use and exam performance across undergraduate biology courses enabling both between- and within-student analyses.

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CREATe Spring School 2026 - Remaking Creativity

29 Apr

Date: Wednesday 29 April 2026 - Saturday 02 May 2026
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre and Adam Smith Business School
Speaker: tbc

The third edition of the CREATe Spring School will take place between 29 April to 2 May 2026. The School will address the topic of Remaking Creativity, enquiring about the interplay between human creation and technology, and brining together perspectives of copyright, competition and tech regulation scholars. The School is addressed to doctoral and advanced master students, early career researchers, industry representatives and policy makers with the interest in cultural and creative industries.

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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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Music Research in Scotland Network Meeting

28 Aug

Date: Friday 28 August 2026
Time: 10:00 - 16:00
Categories: Academic events
Venue: Advanced Research Centre, Studio 2

An inaugural meeting that will establish a network of music research in Scotland.

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