News in brief, 9 March 2020
Published: 9 March 2020
A round-up of news across the University
Submissions for posters and lightning talks at the 13th Annual UofG L&T Conference
Submissions for posters and lightning talks at the 13th Annual UofG L&T Conference will remain open until Monday 16 March.
These elements will form part of the programme for our next date, Wednesday 1st April, which will be our full day in the usual format with multiple tracks.
- Lightning talk slots will be 5 minutes long, and limited to no more than 2 slides.
- Standard university event poster boards will be available on the day. These comfortably hold A1 posters when mounted vertically. Printing costs should be covered by the poster author(s).
As a reminder, the theme of this year’s conference is ‘Transforming Learning & Teaching’. The submission form will ask which of the conference sub-themes you wish to submit your abstract to. For a full description of each sub-theme, and to make your submission(s), please see the conference website at www.gla.ac.uk/ltconference.
Registration and a programme of full-length presentations & workshops is also available at the same page, as are recordings from the first conference date’s sessions.
We look forward to receiving your submissions and to seeing you there!
Start of STAR (Student Action for Refugees) Action Week
Monday, 9 March, marks the beginning of the STAR (Student Action for Refugees) Action Week, which calls on raising awareness for and standing in solidarity with refugees and asylum seekers nationally.
We are particularly focusing on the 'Lift the Ban' coalition, a campaign pushing for the right to work for people seeking asylum in the UK. As it stands, people with asylum seeker status do not have the right to work, and are forced to live on £37.75 a person per week. Not only does this severely limit quality of life and wellbeing, it creates yet another obstacle for individuals to access higher education. With this in mind, we have been working closely with the University of Glasgow staff from the Widening Participation team and External Relations to improve awareness of the programs and routes already in place to enable access to University.
As such, tonight (Monday, 9 March) we are hosting a higher education information evening for refugees and asylum seekers at Glasgow Autonomous Space with guest speakers from the university and SWAP, hoping to reach out to and inform people across Glasgow about the opportunities available. This follows the university recently pledging to commit to becoming a University of Sanctuary, and increasing the number of asylum seekers and refugees in higher education to 15% by 2030."
https://www.facebook.com/events/2588048014774078/
Peer Wellbeing Supporters
Seventy-five students graduated last week as Peer Wellbeing Supporters.
These incredible students have given up 30 hours of their time to participate in a 10-week training programme that develops advanced listening and communication skills which they use to support other students.
At drop-in sessions, trained student supporters offer a confidential, easily accessible and relatively informal space to support their peers and to talk through issues that may be concerning them.
The Peer Wellbeing Programme has a well-established research evidence base with programmes currently in place at Universities of Oxford, York, Lancaster, Leicester, Brunel, Wiltshire, Hertfordshire, across the UK and internationally.
College of Arts lecturer wins presigious essay prize
A College of Arts lecturer has won an essay competition in a prestigious philosophy journal.
Dr J Adam Carter, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, has won The Philosophical Quarterly’s 2019 Essay Prize on the theme ‘Virtue Epistemology’.
The Philosophical Quarterly is a top international philosophy journal published by Oxford University Press.
First published: 9 March 2020