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International Research Conference, Lancaster UK, 24-26th July 2006
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Conference Programme was as follows

Sunday 23 July (optional events)

10.00 am - Minibus trip from Lancaster University to Lake District to walk one of the beautiful fells. Meet outside the Chaplaincy Centre at 10

6.00 pm - Reception – drinks and light buffet: InfoLab

 

Monday 24 July

10.00 am - Walk around historic Lancaster Meet outside the Chaplaincy Centre at 10

1.00-2.00 pm - Lunch

2.00-3.15 pm - Welcome and announcements. Keynote 1 - Paul Ashwin

3.20-4.00 pm - Parallel sessions

Theme A
1 Blaj Problematic places within disciplinary spaces: Parameters for training Humanities doctoral students to undertake inter-
disciplinary research.
Theme B
2 Davison Methodological Instability and the Disruption of Masculinities in Postmodern Times
Theme C
3 Chitashvilli Institutional-
isation of new graduate programs and resistance old soviet style universities.
Theme D
4 Watson Concept development in an introductory legal course
Theme D
5 Case and Marshall Being a successful student: identifying students’ Discourse models.


4.00-4.20 pm - Refreshments

4.20-5.00 pm - Parallel sessions

Theme A
6 Comrie and Farley How do lecturers think about teaching generic skills?
Theme B
7 Diezmann Using Narrative Inquiry to Facilitate Reflection on Supervisory Practice
Theme C
8 Keane The Experiences and Views of Academic Staff in the Context of Increasing Student Diversity: A Post-positivist Grounded Theory Approach
Theme D
9 Morberg and Steiner Instructional strategies and student learning outcomes
Theme D
10 Chapman, Parmar and Trotter Enhancing the higher education experience of mature students.

 

7.00 pm - Dinner: Great Hall

8.30 pm Barn dance – Great Hall or Courtyard outside Great Hall

 

Tuesday 25 July

Details to be added shortly.

9.30-10.30 am - Keynote 2 - Chrissie Boughie

10.35-11.15am - Parallel sessions

Theme A
11 Fanghanel
Enhancing Educational development practices through a socio-cultural understanding of university teaching
Theme B
12 Mills
Science = vocation? :
Rethinking the academic 'career' in the social sciences
Theme C
13 Diezmann and Watters
Structuring reflection as a tool in qualitative evaluation.
Theme D
14 Tight
The Life and Death of a course.
Theme D
15 Hillier and Rawnsley
Education, Education, Education or Employers, Education and Equity managinf Employer and employee expectations of foundation degrees.

11.15-11.30am - Refreshments

11.30-12.20 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A
16 Bentley
Discussion, Assessment and Constructive Alighnment

Theme A

Theme B
17 Haggis
Problems and Paradoxes in 'fine grained qualitative research': an exploration of 'context' from the perspective of complexity and dynamic systems theory.
Theme C
18 Ingram
Higher National Certificate/
Diplomas in Scotland and Foundation degrees in England: A qualitative study of two post-compulsary education systems.
Theme D
19Lindberg-Sand and Olsson
Sustainable Assessment in Engineering Education-Critical features if the examination process.

12.25-1.05 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A
20 McMullen
Taking a close look at the award winning university teachers: A narrative study of the development of teaching expertise in times of change.

Theme A

Theme B
21 Mclean
A Methodology for critical theory: Habermas and the everyday lives of students and teachers.
Theme C
22 Meister-Scheytt and Scheytt
Boards at work: Enacting Governance in the 'New' Austrian Unviersity.
Theme D
23 Matos
PhD: What is it? An analysis of how different stakeholders perceive the doctoral degree. Match or Mismatch?

1.05-2.15pm - Lunch

2.15-2.55pm - Parallel Sessions

Theme A
24 Stocks
What the Doctor ordered?: The role of the Faculty in developing graduate teachers.

Theme A

Theme B
25 Savin-Baden
Qualitative meta analysis? The theory and practice of interpretive meta ethnography.
Theme C
26 Machell, Lent and Saunders
The Scottish Quality HE Enhancement System - a close up evaluation.
Theme D

3.00-3.40 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A
27 Tait
The formation of professionals who teach: a loca enquiry in a national conntext.

Theme A

Theme B
28 Shay
Researching assessment as social practice: Implications for research methodology.
Theme C
29 Amare
Ethiopian Higher Education: ethical and moral dilemmas in the change process.
Theme D
30 McDowell and Montgomery
Socail networks and the international student experience; a community of practice to support learning?

3.45-4.00pm - Refreshments

4.00-4.40 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A
31 Tummons
"I seem to remeber going with quite a thick pile of paper home, and I had no idea what I was doing": Assessment and the literacy practices of trainee PCET teachers.

ThemeA

Theme B
32 Boland
Conducting insider case study research within a relatively small higher education system: Some methodological issues.
Theme C
33 Venter and Taylor
Phases of institutional research development: Two South African research management cases.
Theme D
34 Weedon and Riddell
Making 'reasonable' adjustments for disabled students in Higher Education: tensions between individual learning provision and mass education.

4.40-5.30pm - A reflective moment: An opportunity to discuss the papers so far.

7.30 - Conference Dinner - Great Hall

 

Wednesday 26 July

Details will be added shortly.

9.30-10.30am - Keynote 3 - Mike Prosser

1035-11.15 - Parallel Sessions

Theme C
35 Fisher
The metamorphosis of Higher Education in the UK - is there an identity crisis?

Theme C
36 Nabwera, Purnell and Bates
Principles and practice underlying develpment and delivery of high quality educational courses in Africa.
Theme D
37 Knight
Assessment close up: exquisite descriptions of acheivement.
Theme D
38 Reimann
Perspectives on assessment: student (non-) engagement with seen examination questions.

11.15-11.30 - Refreshments

11.30-12.20pm - Parallel Session

Theme C
39 Grealy
Tribes and territories in Library and information studies education: a research perspective.

Theme C
40 Sisay
The hangover of traditional assessment on implementation of the new assessment policy in higher education.
Theme D
41 Bohrer
The role of the student in quality assurance processes.
Theme D
42 Wedlund, Axelsson and Melin
Project oriented education-Managing three simultaneous processes.

12.25 - 1.05pm - Parallel Sessions

Theme C

Theme C

Theme D
43 Slack and Vigurs
Problematising participatory research with 'potential learners':tales from the field.
Theme D
44 Coate
Unknowability: the limits of qualitative research on the international student experience.

1.05-2.15pm - Lunch

 

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