Future Students

The demography and demands are likely to change in the coming year and this track aims to look at some of the challenges this will bring to teaching and learning. Topics include student engagement, employability, enterprise, work-based learning, internships, and partnerships with business and employers.

Tuesday 22 June

12:30-13:00

• The scourge of student instrumentalism: an examination of the relationship between pedagogy, personal epistemology and the employability of Business School graduates from new universities - Norman Brady, University of Greenwich
• Transnational programmes as preparation for cross-border top-up courses - Dave Burnapp and Wei Zhao, University of Northampton
• Using screen-capture movies to help international students’ transition to UK higher education - Andrew Cree, Teesside University

14:15-15:15

• Inspirational teaching and learning: developing and encouraging autonomous student learning through enquiry and using digital media - Michael Bramhall, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Centre for Materials Education, Justin Lewis and Keith Radley, Sheffield Hallam University
• Furthering student engagement in decisionmaking processes in higher education - Lauren Webb and Helen May, The Higher Education Academy, Ant Bagshaw, NUS and Elena Rodriguez-Falcon, University of Sheffield
• The National Student Survey: students’ thoughts in the humanities - Clare Saunders and Danielle Lamb, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies
• If you build it, they won’t necessarily come: engaging student representatives beyond the course level - Abbi Flint and Mark O'Hara, Sheffield Hallam University

15:45-16:15

• Students as agents of change in learning and teaching - Elisabeth Dunne, University of Exeter
• The secret of their success: utilising experienced students’ self-reflection to support new learners - Richard Sober, Teesside University
• The establishment of a multi-disciplinary, research-based undergraduate internship scheme at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) - Mandy Dillon and Stuart Hampton-Reeves, University of Central Lancashire

16:30-17:15

• Develop Me! Support me! Retain me! How can using social networks help retain students? - Becka Currant, University of Bradford
• A revealing engagement: student lives, student voices - Paul Kleiman, PALATINE Subject Centre for Dance Drama and Music, Adam Mannis, UK Centre for Materials Education and Lyn Hughes, Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
• Learning, teaching and assessment strategies to support students with Asperger syndrome - Joanne Bowman, Anglia Ruskin University
• Outduction: the transition to students’ futures - Peter Hughes and Ruth Whitfield, University of Bradford

Wednesday 23 June

08:45-09:15

• Frontrunners: the campus-based student placement scheme - Elizabeth Guyar-Brown and Richard Yates, University of Essex
• Communities of practice and learning? Making connections through social media (Twitter) - Jonathan Hewett, City University London
• New horizons on the literacy landscape: developing student writing in higher education - Rachel Stubley, University of Wales, Newport

11:15-11:45

• Collaborative learning or mass-market, conveyor-belt education: a discussion of the use of group work assessments and their relationship to learning in HE - Jan Bamford, London Metropolitan Business School and Helen Pokorny, University of Westminster

12:00-12:30

• Creative graduates, creative futures - Linda Ball, University of the Arts, London and Emma Pollard, Institute for Employment Studies
• TAG – The Alternative Guide (to UCLan): developing realistic expectations of university - Lucy Warman, Louisa Dignan and John O'Donoghue, University of Central Lancashire

13:30-14:30

• Engaging our future leaders - Simon Smith, Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies, Heather Luna and Stephen Sterling, Consultants for the Higher Education Academy ESD Project
• Promoting success for all through inclusive learning and teaching - Helen May and Liz Thomas, The Higher Education Academy
• Engaging students in curriculum design: putting theory into practice - Lauren Webb, The Higher Education Academy and Ant Bagshaw, NUS
• Student-led teaching awards - Alastair Robertson and Robert Jenkin, The Higher Education Academy and Liam Burns, NUS Scotland