PALATINE Briefing January 2008

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Links between research and teaching: a questionnaire, a symposium, and a double in Glasgow


Creative Graduates: integrating learning and research in the creative and cultural industries

This project (undertaken jointly by PALATINE and ADM-HEA) forms part of the Scottish QAA Enhancement theme Research-Teaching Linkages:  Enhancing Graduate Attributes, which is examining connections between teaching and the other activities of HEIs, across all the disciplines represented in Scottish Universities, with the aim of improving the students' experience.

Those activities have been gathered together under the general heading 'research', but in our disciplines include a very wide range of activities.

We are particularly interested in understanding how Scottish institutions enhance the students' learning experience through the use of:


Survey - please participate!

As part of our work for this project, we have developed a short online questionnaire, which we are encouraging colleagues to complete before the end of January.

The survey is available at: www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=o9daTlXv3bwANeDX8TMW1Q_3d_3d

Symposium

Creative Graduates: Learning and Research in the creative arts
18 March 2008

The 'Creative Graduates' symposium is an important contribution to the work of the project. It aims to provide a valuable opportunity to discuss and showcase the various ways in which 'a spirit of enquiry’ informs and becomes integral to the learning process in creative and practice-based disciplines. It also aims to explore and articulate the interconnectedness of research, learning and teaching in those disciplines.

The symposium will take place on Tuesday 18 March 2008 at the Conference Centre, The Alexander Gibson Opera School, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow.  

Booking is direct via Barbara Hargreaves palatine@lancaster.ac.uk tel: 01524 592614


MAKE IT A DOUBLE!

19 March 2008, 10.00-3.00

On the following day at the University of Glasgow there will be two further seminars exploring research-teaching linkages:

1. More than inquiring minds? Research-teaching linkages and graduate attributes in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Vicky Gunn, Steve Draper and Mel McKendrick, the team for the Research-Teaching Linkages project for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, are organising a seminar at Glasgow University to share their findings, and disseminate case studies drawn from a variety of subjects within the Arts and Social Sciences.

Their project webpage can be found at: www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/qee/vg/pmwiki.php/Rtl/Rtl

2. The research-teaching nexus: the voice from academics in research-intensive universities.

To close this series of meetings Professor Jan Elan (K.U.Leuven) will present a seminar on his study into research-teaching linkages. His results suggest that the nexus is experienced as both important and suitable for the development among students of a mature epistemological disposition including ‘critical thinking’.

To register for the sessions on 19 March please email Lucinda Dempsie (Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow) at: l.dempsie@admin.gla.ac.uk

(Venue at the University of Glasgow to be confirmed)


Why not make a "mid-week break" of it and attend both events?
Glasgow will be lovely in the spring!

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For and Against Excellence: Latest Exchange Magazine

Excellence is the theme of the latest issue of the Higher Education Academy’s Exchange Magazine (Issue 7, Winter 2007), with a number of short papers, provocations and polemics exploring the meaning and nature of excellence in higher education. Amongst the contributors is Paul Kleiman, Deputy Director of PALATINE, who argues from a performing arts perspective that excellence has become ‘de-referentialised’ and that we need to “look beyond our obsession with trying to define, achieve, assess and reward excellence”.

Exchange Magazine is available (free) in printed form and is also available along with previous issues as a PDF (2MB) download from the Academy’s website: www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/publications/exchange

If you wish to obtain the free, glossy printed version please contact us. We also have copies of Issues 2 – 6 to give away.

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FREE assessment workshops from NetSkills in January

Two workshops entitled Assessment for Learning: Harnessing Technologies have just been confirmed.

These FREE workshops will explore assessment technologies and investigate their pedagogic value. They are aimed at lecturers, learning technologists and educational developers interested in the use of technology to support assessment.

The first workshop takes place in Newcastle (16 January) and the second in Oxford (24 January).

The workshops have been sponsored by The Higher Education Academy and JISC as part of their partnership activities.

Places are going fast, so be sure to book immediately!

Find out more: www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/workshops/range/heajisc.html

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Future PALATINE Events

There is no charge for attendance at these events for colleagues working in UK Higher Education. We normally charge a non-refundable booking fee for colleagues working outside UK Higher Education.

To book for any of these events contact Barbara Hargreaves: palatine@lancaster.ac.uk tel: 01524 592614

9 February 2008
Somatic and Creative Practices: Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
I.M.Marsh Campus
Liverpool John Moores University


13 February 2008
Asian and African Theatre in Higher Education
Bob Kayleigh Studio Theatre, Bulmershe Court
University of Reading

16 February 2008
Starting Out: workshop for new and early career lecturers
Central School of Speech and Drama, London

(Note: this intensive one-day event, which runs from the Saturday morning through to the early evening, is undertaken in partnership with CSSD. A limited number of places will be available to non-CSSD staff working in similar institutions/contexts. For more information please contact Paul Kleiman at palatine@lancaster.ac.uk)


18 March 2008
Creative Graduates: Learning and Research in the creative arts
The Alexander Gibson Opera School
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Glasgow

We welcome suggestions and proposals for future events. Please contact Ralph Brown ralph.brown@lancaster.ac.uk to discuss your ideas.

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Call for Papers/Sessions
Higher Education Academy Annual Conference
1-3 July 2008, Harrogate

www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/conference

PALATINE (and the other Higher Education Academy Subject Centres) has been asked by the Higher Education Academy to encourage colleagues from our disciplines of dance, drama and music to respond to the recent call for papers and presentations for the Academy's Annual Conference, to be held in Harrogate 1-3 July 2008.

Of the 90 or so sessions at the conference, around half have been allocated to colleagues sponsored or supported by the Subject Centres. The reason for this is to obtain a far greater representation and input from the disciplines and subject areas within the Academy's remit.

We know that in our subject areas there are a lot of innovative ideas and successful practices in most, maybe all the conference's thematic areas. We'd like to encourage those of you who would like to share and promote those ideas and practices to propose papers and sessions for the conference.

The theme of the conference is 'Transforming the Student Experience' and the conference is framed around six thematic areas: Policy and Leadership; Student Feedback and Engagement; Learning and Teaching; Employment, Entrepreneurship and Recruitment; Internationalisation; Assessment.

Full details of the conference and the conference themes can be found at: www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/conference

The deadline for outline proposals - via the form on the conference website above - is 17 January.

If you intend to submit proposals to the Academy, and would like PALATINE's support or help with the proposal, please e-mail us at palatine@lancaster.ac.uk (subject heading: 'HEA Annual Conference') to let us know.

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Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research

The Reinvention Centre is a CETL based at Warwick and Oxford Brookes Universities.  In September 2007 it launched a new undergraduate journal called Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research. 

Following the launch issue, which is now online, the journal will have two issues per year in April and October. The journal is a peer reviewed publication which accepts submissions from all subjects and is open to submissions from all undergraduate students.

The Reinvention team's aim is to provide a supportive environment in which students can learn more about writing for publication, and so they ensure contributors receive substantial and constructive feedback from peer reviewers and they have a network of subject editors who assist each student with their paper from submission through to final publication (or rejection).

To learn more about the journal, visit: www.warwick.ac.uk/go/reinventionjournal

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The Reading Room

Here are a few publications produced during 2007 that colleagues and students may find of interest and utility:


Arts Council England’s Arts Debate – discussion and conclusions publication

Word File [doc 307Kb]    PDF File [pdf 405Kb]

Summary & conclusions

The arts debate ran from October 2006 to September 2007. Findings from all stages of the research as well as those gathered through the open consultation have been incorporated into an overall summary entitled Public value and the arts in England: Discussion and conclusions of the arts debate. The summary report provides an account of how people think and feel about the arts in England and their priorities for public funding. It explains how the debate has provided a new framework for understanding the public value of the arts. Detailed results from every stage of the inquiry are available on the research & consultation page.


NESTA: Beginning at the beginning: The creativity gap

http://www.nesta.org.uk/beginning-at-the-beginning-the-creativity-gap/

“For the last 60 years the worlds and languages of culture and business have been uneasily counterpointed against each other: the arts constantly urged to be more 'businesslike'; industry and commerce told that their future lay in becoming more creative. Ever since Adorno first used the term 'culture industry' during World War II (polemically, in comparing mass industrial production with the new phenomenon of mass culture), these two worlds have been locked in an uneasy, constantly shifting embrace..."

This paper is part of NESTA’s series of ‘Provocations’.  The full list of 'Provocations' is available at www.nesta.org.uk/provocations/


DCMS: Guide to Arts Funding in England

www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_library/Publications/archive_2007/guideartsfunding_june07.htm

"The arts in England are funded through a wide variety of sources, which include earned income, Government subsidy, private donations and business sponsorship. Through this mixed economy, England occupies the middle ground between heavy dependence on the State - as in European countries such as France and Germany - and almost entire reliance on private investment, as in the USA. Funding the arts in this way can prove highly beneficial to artists and arts organisations as it reduces the risks that can arise from reliance on a single funding source, and ensures that they have greater artistic freedom and financial flexibility.

The purpose of this DCMS guide is to help artists and arts organisations navigate their way around the arts funding system and identify specific funding opportunities. It is particularly relevant to organisations that are using the arts to address areas of social policy such as disability, criminal justice, cultural diversity and health."


HEFCE Briefings and Updates

The various Council Briefings and updates that HEFCE produces frequently contain interesting and relevant information not only about what is happening currently in higher education but also indicating future trends.

They can be accessed at: www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/cbrief/2007/

The full list of all HEFCE’s 2007 publications is available at: www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2007/

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PALATINE Development Award publications and resources (2007)

The outcomes of our Development Awards take various forms including publications, DVDs, CD-ROMs etc.

Some of these are available online, others are available free of charge to colleagues in HE institutions (though we normally have a restriction of one free resource per institution).

The list of the downloadable text-based outcomes from PALATINE Development Awards is available at: www.palatine.ac.uk/palatine-projects/da-reports

The list of audio-visual outcomes is available at: www.palatine.ac.uk/development-awards/publications

For detailed information about all Development Award outcomes and current projects, visit the full the list of Development Awards.

For information about the PALATINE Development Award scheme visit our website at www.palatine.ac.uk/palatine-projects/introduction and/or contact David Pearson davidpearson@lancaster.ac.uk

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