Academic and Digital Development
CPD Series 2022-23
Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
These CPD webinars are aligned the University’s strategic priorities and the Learning and Teaching Strategy. The themes for 2022-23 are:
- Active learning
- Professional identity
- SoTL
All sessions will take place on Zoom (unless otherwise mentioned). Where possible and appropriate, recordings will be made available on the ADD YouTube channel afterwards.
SoTL sessions are open to all University of Glasgow staff, including GTAs. Subject to suitability, all other events are open to all participants, including those external to the University.
If you have any questions, or suggestions for topics you'd like to see covered either this coming year or in the future, please email us or find us on Twitter: @UofGADD
Eligibility
This series is open to staff of the University of Glasgow, and most sessions are also open to external participants.
Graduate Teaching Assistants are welcome to register for the purpose of developing their own teaching practice, but please note that these sessions are not suitable for any students seeking training for their own PhD research projects. Contact your School for information on the research methods training available to you as a student.
CPD Series 2022-23
Direct link to all upcoming CPD Events
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Dr Jamie Gallagher Getting Social |
Tues | 1-2 | 11/10/22 | Professional Identity |
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Getting your work on social media may be easy - but making it popular is more challenging. This workshop takes you through the main social media channels and looks at how to create share-worthy content messages. Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible. Form tweets to live streams this session is packed with ideas of how to maximise your use of social media. Objectives Following the session, you should be able to:
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Dr Liana Beattie, Edge Hill University Symbiotic Autoethnography |
Thur | 10-11:30 | 20/10/22 | SoTL |
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This session will introduce you to this innovative approach to an autoethnographic inquiry and offer the best ways of applying it to a research project as well as suggesting a number of potential solutions to some of its polemical aspects. The session will be of interest to both experienced and novice scholars and researchers from a wide range of professional backgrounds. Biography Liana is Assistant Head of Department (Faculty of Education) at Edge Hill University. Her research interests are mainly in the area of autoethnography, leadership in education, postmodernism as well as narrative research and creative methodologies. Her recent book is called Symbiotic Autoethnography: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/symbiotic-autoethnography-9781350201385/ Slides |
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Writing for the Learning and Teaching Conference Dr Sarah Honeychurch, Academic and Digital Development |
Wed | 12-1 | 26/10/22 | SoTL |
| In this session we will look at what makes a good L&T conference submission. Taking the call to the 2023 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 take some of the successful submissions from previous years and, by using the review rubric for the 2023 conference, evaluate them together.
By the end of this session attendees should be in a position to write their own abstract for the 2023 session. Slides |
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Inclusive Practice in Active Learning Active Learning Network |
Tue | 10-12 | 8/11/22 | Active Learning |
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The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The first sessions will focus on Inclusive Practice. Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic. Whether you can make it to all three or just one or two, it would be great to see you there. |
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| Building Active Learning Communities
Active Learning Network |
Tue | 10-11:30 | 15/11/22 | Active Learning |
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The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The second session will focus on Building Communities. Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic. Whether you can make it to all three or just one or two, it would be great to see you there. |
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Empowering Learners with Active Learning Active Learning Network |
Tue | 10-11:30 | 22/11/22 | Active Learning |
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The Active Learning Network inaugural CPD programme is open to all staff at UofG. Each meeting will be delivered by members of the Active Learning community who contributed chapters to the 100+ ideas for active learning book. The third session will focus on Empowering Learners. Be prepared to engage in some active learning yourself of course and to take away a tool kit of ideas to try out in your own practice. There will be opportunities for discussion and debate as well as a chance to network with others interested in this topic. Whether you can make it to all three or just one or two, it would be great to see you there. |
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Writing an SSP application SoTL Network |
Wed | 12-1 | 25/01/23 | SoTL |
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The Learning and Teaching Development Fund (LTDF) supports developments in the practice of learning and teaching that will make significant contributions to the enhancement of learning and teaching across the University and to the delivery of the objectives of the Learning and Teaching Strategy. This call for bids is specifically targeted at partnership work between students and members of academic staff. In this session we will look at what makes a good SSPS application by looking at the 2023 call for bids in detail. Staff involved in the 2022-23 SSPS will join the session to answer questions and contribute to a ‘warts and all’ discussion of the processes involved in applying for, and successfully running, a project. By the end of this session attendees should be in a position to write their own application for the 2023 round of funding. This session is open to staff of the University of Glasgow. There is no need to register, just join via the Zoom link. |
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Parasitic Aggregation Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic and Digital Development Dr Linnea Soler, School of Chemistry |
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Jonathan Bailey, states that “If you use or link to other content, you are probably an aggregator, at least in some capacity” (Bailey, 2010) and then follows with ‘we are all aggregators’ (Bailey, 2015). But there are different approaches to aggregation and, depending on how transparent the attribution is, these can be classified either as parasitic or symbiotic. We believe that transparency (Silverman, 2014) and how attribution is carried out underpin these critical differences. In this session we explore mechanisms for ethical aggregation and using sharing to create impact for the original creators and yourself. |
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Blackout Poetry as a Tool for Teaching and Learning in HE Dr Nathalie Tasler, Academic and Digital Development Aimee Merridew, Keele University |
Wed | 10-12 | 15/02/2023 | Teaching & Learning |
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This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to blackout poetry as a teaching and learning tool in higher education. The workshop will introduce you to the facilitators' uses of blackout poetry as an arts-based method that supports academic practices across disciplines, before enabling you to create your own blackout poems from a selection of academic sources. Materials will be provided, but you are welcome to bring your own source materials if you wish to tailor the activities to your own academic setting and reading interests (e.g. journal articles, extracts from fiction and non-fiction texts, or anything you would typically read for academic purposes individually and/or with students). The practical activity will be followed by group discussion, where you will be encouraged to reflect on the opportunities and challenges that may emerge from this creative way to develop academic practices, as well as to consider how this creative method can be used to support academic reading in your own teaching and learning contexts. |
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SoTL Network Meetings
The SoTL Network holds regular meetings and writing sessions that are open to all staff at UofG. All sessions are held online.
- Weekly Write and Shine Sessions: Friday 8:30-12 UK time
These sessions are open to anyone to join. Some members use these sessions in order to work on SoTL projects, others bring along their marking, use the time to develop their teaching materials or work on P&DR forms. Any and all types of writing are 'allowed' - the aim of the sessions is to create a supportive and productive environment.
- Monthly SoTL Network Meetings: Wednesday 12-1pm UK time
The monthly SoTL Network meeting takes place over Zoom on the last Wednesday of the month. These meetings take different topic from the SoTL process each month. The November meeting will focus on general "how to" and "habits for SoTL writing and will be facilitated by Dr Alison McCandlish. There is no need to register, just turn up on the day.
- Regular Peer Review Sessions
These sessions are co-ordinated by Dr Jo Ferrie. Members are encouraged to share a draft version of a paper they have written and ask for feedback from members of the SoTL Network.
- Member-led Reading Groups
Members form small interest groups in order to collaboratively read articles and books. Any member can suggest a possible topic and volunteer to facilitate a group.
Join the SoTL Network Teams to find out how to get involved.
RET Fellowship
RET (Recognising Excellence in Teaching) is the University of Glasgow’s CPD framework, which aims to provide development opportunities as well as professional recognition of expertise in teaching and supporting learning.
A series of workshops is available after registration with RET to support you in your application for recognition:
| Introduction to the RET framework |
| Peer observation of teaching |
| Writing about teaching |
| Professional values |
| Evaluating your teaching |
| Identifying evidence and engaging with scholarship |
| Influencing others and demonstrating effectiveness |
| Demonstrating strategic leadership of teaching/supporting learning in Higher Education |
| RET writing workshops (information available from RET coordinator) |
The first step is to attend an introductory workshop. Full information is available on the RET webpages.
Annual Learning & Teaching Conference
Further to our series of CPD sessions, one of our major CPD events is the Annual University of Glasgow Learning & Teaching Conference, held each year in the Spring.
The latest information is always available on the Conference web pages.