Calendar of CED Workshops
Curriculum and Education Development Academy - Events - Lancaster University (libcal.com)
Learning Design Workshops
Details of the Learning Design workshops are available below:
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Designing assessments that respect diversity, promote equity, and enable student potential.
Workshop Overview:
This session invites educators to reflect on traditional assessment models by exploring inclusive practices that accommodate diverse learners. We'll challenge assumptions about fairness, rigor, and academic success—moving toward designs that empower all students.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider:
- The principles of inclusive assessment in higher education
- Disciplinary and institutional barriers within assessment practices
- Alternatives to standard formats (e.g., exams and essays) that prioritize flexibility and choice
- Ways of co-creating assessments with students and other stakeholders to enhance transparency and agency
Who is it for:
- Academic staff revisiting course assessment strategies
- Curriculum designers and learning developers
- Inclusion advocates and student support professionals
Why attend:
- Discover inclusive approaches to adapt your own assessment design
- Leave with ideas for flexible assessment to promote values of equity, accessibility, and fairness.
Facilitator:
Ann-Marie Houghton
In Person dates:
10th December 2025, 2 - 4 pm
18th February 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online dates:
11th December 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
12th February 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2
Harness small-group structures to create meaningful academic communities.
Workshop Overview:
This introductory session explores how learning sets—small, peer-led groups—can enhance connection, motivation, and reflective practice in university learning environments.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider:
- The purpose and principles behind learning sets
- Practical ways to introduce and facilitate them in courses
- Techniques for promoting trust, dialogue, and shared responsibility
- Strategies to sustain engagement and peer support over time
Who is it for:
- University staff interested in fostering inclusive academic communities
- Academic tutors, module convenors, and student experience teams
- Anyone supporting reflective or peer-based learning initiatives
Why attend:
- Strengthen student belonging and motivation through structured connection
- Learn a flexible approach that enhances wellbeing, engagement, and retention
Facilitator:
Sandra Varey
In Person date:
3rd December 2025, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
16th January 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2, V5
K1, K2
Demystify competence standards and understand their role in inclusive, valid assessment.
Workshop Overview:
This session introduces the concept of competence standards in higher education—clarifying their purpose, regulatory significance, and implications for teaching, learning, and inclusive practice.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider:
- What competence standards are and how they differ from learning outcomes
- How they intersect with disability legislation and reasonable adjustments
- When competence standards can (and can't) be modified
- Strategies for reviewing and writing fair, transparent standards in HE
Who is it for:
- Academic staff setting or reviewing assessment requirements
- Programme and Module leaders, curriculum developers, and accessibility teams
- Anyone involved in ensuring academic rigour and legal compliance
Why attend:
- Avoid common pitfalls in assessment design related to competence standards
- Support inclusion while maintaining standards that reflect essential skills and knowledge
- Leave with clear guidance and examples to apply in course development
Facilitators:
Caroline Briggs and Dawn Proctor
In Person date:
29th April 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
28th April 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2
Challenge inherited narratives and co-create inclusive learning experiences.
Workshop Overview:
This session empowers educators to examine their teaching practices through a decolonial lens—moving beyond representation to reshape how knowledge is framed, shared, and valued within learning activities.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Apply core concepts behind decolonial pedagogy in HE
- Identify dominant paradigms and questioning whose knowledge counts
- Apply practical strategies for rethinking case studies, reading lists, and classroom dialogue
- Co-create learning with students and community perspectives
Who is it for:
- University lecturers and tutors across disciplines
- Curriculum developers and academic leads committed to equity
- Anyone seeking to make learning more inclusive, relational, and reflective of diverse epistemologies
Why attend:
- Move past tokenism toward transformative change in everyday teaching
- Equip yourself with tools to design activities that honour diverse histories and ways of knowing
- Spark curiosity, critical thinking, and deeper student engagement through inclusive design
Facilitator:
Sunita Abraham
In Person date:
17th November 2025, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
18th November 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
V1, V2, V3, V4
K1, K2, K3
The following workshops, in date order, are offered by the Digital Adoption Learning Team, further details are available on Libcal and by clicking the date link:
Panopto - Introduction to Lecture Capture
This session will give an overview of the Panopto system, and explain how it's set up in rooms on campus and how you can be recorded automatically, make basic edits to your recordings and publish them to students.
Presenter: Richard Floyd
In Person date: 10th September 2025, 11 am – 12 pm
Top 5 Tips for Digital Accessibility
Join our short lunch and learn sessions for top tips with digital accessibility.
Presenter: Ellen Wildman
Online dates (please select one date only):
17th September 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
26th September 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
2nd October 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
Moodle: Introduction for Staff
A 30-minute introductory session looking at Moodle, which is Lancaster University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). This session covers what Moodle is, what it does, and how staff can access and interact with it.
Presenter: Rachel Dodd
Online date: 18th September 2025, 10 – 10.30 am
Moodle: Features for Course Administrators
This session looks at the management of Moodle spaces and will detail Moodle’s links with LUSI, the student records system, as well as how to manage materials and participants (staff and students). This session is online and suitable for staff, either new or returning, who have an administrative role in Moodle.
Presenter: Rachel Dodd
Online date: 23rd September 2025, 2 – 3 pm
Moodle: Designing a Good Moodle Course
In this 60-minute session, we'll look at the essential items students believe should be part of all Moodle courses, how to develop a well-structured course, and how to use the features of Moodle to create a visually appealing and engaging page. This session is online and issuitable for all staff teaching a course with an associated Moodle space, both academic and administrative.
Presenter: Phil Tubman
Online date: 24th September 2025, 10 – 11 am
Accessible Presentations
Learn how to make your PowerPoint presentations digitally accessible, including checking colour contrast, checking slide reading order and different accessibility considerations for presenting face to face vs online.
Presenter: Ellen Wildman
Online date: 24th September 2025, 2 – 3 pm
Effective Alt Text
Join our short lunch and learn session for an overview of effective use of alternative text (alt text). We will discuss the considerations of how and why to add alt text and how to leverage generative AI appropriately to assist with alt text generation. With missing alt text among the top issues in digital accessibility, improving quality uptake is a priority for inclusive digital design.
Presenter: Ellen Wildman
Online dates (please select one date only):
30th September 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
10th October 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
PDF Accessibility
Learn how to create accessible PDF documents, including tagging PDF elements, adding alternative text to images, and checking the reading order of documents. It is suitable for staff who regularly use and share PDFs.
Note that you will need to have access to Adobe Creative Cloud for this session, please request Adobe Creative Cloud in advance.
Presenter: Ellen Wildman
In Person date: 8th October 2025, 10.30 am – 12 pm
Accessible Tables
Join our short lunch and learn session to hear about the essentials of what makes a table digitally accessible in different tools. We will incorporate examples of inaccessible tables (and ways to fix them) to demonstrate practical approaches to improving access to the content in tables.
Presenter: Andy Davy
Online date (please select one date only):
20th October 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
12th November 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
Assessment: Online Marking in Moodle
Moodle is our virtual learning environment (VLE) used for most coursework submissions at Lancaster, particularly for text-based assessments. This 60-minute hands-on session will demonstrate the different methods of online marking, including document annotation, rubrics and audio/video feedback, with a chance to try each method and determine which is best for you.
Presenter: Stephen Owens
In Person date: 21st October 2025, 10 – 11 am
Assistive tools and technology
Join our short lunch and learn session to hear about some of the assistive technology that's available to staff at Lancaster Uni. The purpose of the tools vary, but they can help people who need some assistance with reading and writing, focusing on tasks and adjusting the content they are accessing to suit their preferences.
Presenter: Ellen Wildman
Online date (please select one date only):
22nd October 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
17th November 2025, 12.30 – 1 pm
Assessment - Setting Up Coursework Submission in Moodle
Moodle is our virtual learning environment (VLE) used for most coursework submissions at Lancaster, particularly for text-based assessments. This 60-minute session will explore the submission and marking process, including how Moodle integrates into LUSI. We'll look at the different configuration options in the assignment and explore how they can be used to achieve the scenarios from Part 1 of this series. Further, we'll look at key administrative tasks such as granting extensions, allocating markers and submitting on behalf of students.
Presenter: Stephen Owens
In Person date: 23rd October 2025, 10 – 11.30 am
Quizzes - Writing and Managing Questions
Whilst it requires an up-front investment in time, automated testing is a great method to speed up assessment in your module, check student understanding and offer formative practice tests to students. Moodle contains a comprehensive set of question types and can operate in many scenarios, from formative testing all the way up to high-stakes exams. This initial session will give an overview of the questions available in Moodle and offer a chance to author your first questions.
This is an in-depth session and will cover the creation of basic quiz questions and touch on the possibilities available for more advanced code-based and mathematical questions. As such, it's recommended for academic staff looking to incorporate automated assessment into their courses.
Presenter: Stephen Owens
In Person date: 28th October 2025, 2 – 3 pm
Quizzes - Building and Running Quizzes
Moodle quizzes can be set up for many different scenarios, from formative practice tests to summative end-of-module tests, all the way through to exams. This session will detail the process of building quizzes from your questions and the different ways a quiz can operate. This session will also touch on the methods you can use to reduce collusion and cheating, including the use of "Safe Exam Browser". This is an in-person session and will give you an opportunity to build your first quiz from the questions you created in Part 1.
This is an in-depth session and follows on from Quizzes Part 1 - Questions and Question Bank. As such, this session is relevant to academic staff who have already completed Part 1, or administrative staff who will have responsibility for setting up and running quiz-based assessments.
Presenter: Stephen Owens
In Person date: 29th October 2025, 10 – 11 am
Quizzes - Grading and Reports
Once a quiz has been completed by students, there are some final quiz management tasks that you can perform. This includes reviewing the student attempts to identify areas of strengths and weaknesses for the class as a whole, grading any essay questions that can't be automatically marked, and, should it be a summative quiz, transferring the grades into the student information system.
The session is suitable for those who have completed Part 1 and Part 2 of the quiz training course, or any administrative staff that will have responsibility for uploading quiz marks into LUSI.
Presenter: Stephen Owens
In Person date: 30th October 2025, 2 – 3 pm
Empower students through active, pre-class learning and purposeful in-class engagement.
Workshop Overview
This session introduces HE educators to the flipped classroom model, offering practical guidance on redesigning lessons for deeper learning and interaction.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Plan pre-class materials that spark curiosity and readiness
- Design in-class activities that drive analysis, discussion, and application
- Manage student expectations and foster engagement
- Evaluate flipped learning outcomes effectively
Who is it for:
- University lecturers and teaching teams exploring active learning strategies
- Educators looking to reenergise lecture-based delivery
- Course designers seeking flexible, student-led formats
Why attend:
- Discover what a flipped classroom looks like in practice
- Increase learner autonomy and critical thinking
- Leave with adaptable templates and examples to pilot your own flipped session
Facilitator:
Sandra Varey
In Person date:
3rd November 2025, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
10th February 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2, K3
Learning from each other – sharing strategies for effective groupwork.
Workshop Overview:
This workshop is an opportunity to learn from each other about what effective groupwork looks like. During the workshop we shall explore the benefits and challenges of groupwork. Come prepared to share best practice and collaboratively find solutions to recognised problems that groupwork can encounter.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Structure group tasks to align with learning outcomes
- Manage group dynamics and fostering equitable participation
- Identify assessment strategies that reward teamwork and individual effort
Who it is for:
- University lecturers, tutors, and curriculum developers
- Anyone looking to begin or improve group-based learning design in HE contexts
Why attend:
Participants are encouraged to share their experiences of groupwork openly. This workshop is therefore an opportunity to learn about what works well in a Lancaster University context with the aim of transferring this to your own context. Alternatively those with experience of groupwork will have an opportunity to consider how to enhance this so activities are fully effective.
Facilitator:
Sarah Chesney
In Person date:
4th February 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
6th February 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
V1, V2, V5
K1, K2
Deliver clear, compelling content—without losing the room.
Workshop Overview:
This session supports university educators in planning and delivering effective lectures that keep large groups focused, active, and connected to core ideas.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Structure lectures for clarity, retention, and engagement
- Use storytelling, visuals, and pacing to enhance delivery
- Embed moments for interaction and reflection - even with 100+ students
- Apply tech-enhanced strategies for feedback and participation in large cohorts
Who is it for:
- University lecturers and teaching assistants delivering large-group sessions
- Educators refining presentation skills or rethinking lecture formats
Why Attend:
- Transform passive lectures into energising learning experiences
- Reduce drop-off and distraction in large-group settings
- Leave with adaptable planning tips and techniques for immediate use
Facilitator:
Joanna Gray
In Person date:
20th January 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
23rd January 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2, V5
K1, K2
What we can all learn from a grassroots teaching movement that centres sustainability, environment, place and hope
Workshop Overview
This session explores the philosophy and practice behind the Morecambe Bay Curriculum—a locally rooted, globally relevant movement that centres sustainability, community, and learner agency. Discover how grassroots innovation can transform curriculum design in higher education.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Understand key principles of the Morecambe Bay Curriculum: place-based learning, ecological awareness, and hope
- Recognise grassroots initiatives to drive curriculum innovation
- Embed sustainability and place into subject teaching
- Build partnerships across sectors for real-world impact
- Reflect on values-driven education that focuses on ‘Head, Heart and Hands’ and its implications for HE
Who is it for:
- University educators and curriculum leads seeking deeper relevance and creativity in their teaching
- Academic developers, sustainability advocates, and civic engagement staff
- Anyone curious about co-creating learning that connects to sustainability and place
Why attend:
- Be inspired by a bold, community-grown approach to teaching and learning
- Discover how curriculum can foster environmental stewardship, care for our local area and social purpose
- Take away practical ideas for place-based, values-led curriculum design in any discipline
Facilitator:
Carys Nelkon and Bethan Garrett
In Person date:
29th October 2025, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
30th October 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4
V1, V2, V4, V5
K1, K2
Break the mould. Embrace diverse minds in education.
Workshop Overview
This session explores the principles of neurodiversity in university teaching—championing inclusive pedagogy that goes beyond accommodation and actively celebrates cognitive difference.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Understand neurodiversity: autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more
- Challenge deficit models with strength-based approaches
- Redesign content delivery and assessments for flexibility
- Create psychologically safe classrooms that reduce stigma and stress
- Apply practical changes to communication, environment, and expectations
Who is it for:
- University staff and lecturers seeking inclusive practice
- Disability support teams and learning designers
- Anyone curious about radically student-centred teaching
Why attend:
- Discover how neurodiverse learners thrive in responsive systems
- Build tools to design learning for minds wired outside the "norm"
- Leave with real strategies for adaptation, co-creation, and empowerment
Facilitator:
Caroline Briggs
In Person date:
28th January 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
27th January 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2
Design assessments that engage curiosity, showcase individuality, and deepen learning.
Workshop Overview:
This session helps educators explore creative assessment formats that move beyond the traditional exam or essay—without sacrificing academic rigor.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider:
- The principles and benefits of creative assessment in higher education
- Exploring a range of innovative assessment formats that promote student engagement and authentic learning
- How creative assessment can support inclusivity, accessibility, and academic integrity
Who is it for:
- University lecturers and curriculum designers seeking alternatives to conventional assessment
- Course teams revisiting student engagement and equity in evaluation
- Anyone curious about bringing creativity into academic practice
Why attend:
- Discover authentic assessment formats that deepen learning
- Build flexibility into assessments while ensuring clarity and fairness
- Collaborate with peers to share ideas
- Leave with practical ideas to include creative assessments in your teaching
Facilitator:
Ruth Mewis
In Person date:
15th April 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
17th April 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A4, A5
V1, V2, V4
K1, K2, K4
A hands-on workshop for lecturers to design purposeful, real-world learning outcomes that empower students and enhance teaching.
Join us for a practical and engaging session where you'll:
- Discover how clear learning outcomes can transform your teaching
- Learn to write outcomes that are assessable, meaningful, and motivating
- Collaborate with colleagues to refine your own module learning outcomes
Who’s it for?
Staff involved in curriculum design and module development.
Why attend?
Because well-written outcomes don’t just tick boxes—they guide students, shape learning, and make your teaching more impactful.
Facilitator:
Ruth Mewis
In Person date:
6th October 2025, 2 - 4 pm
11th March 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
10th October 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
10th March 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A5
V1, V2
Leverage reasonable adjustments to create learning environments that support every student.
Workshop Overview:
This practical session explores how small, intentional changes in teaching can drive big improvements in access, engagement, and success for diverse learners in HE settings.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Understand the legal and pedagogical foundations of reasonable adjustments
- Identify common barriers and effective accommodations
- Embed inclusive practices into module and session design
- Use proactive strategies to reduce reactive interventions
Who is it for:
- University lecturers, personal tutors, and course leaders
- Academic developers, disability support staff, and inclusivity advocates
- Anyone striving to build equitable learning experiences for all students
Why attend:
- Equip yourself to meet diverse student needs with confidence
- Reduce stress around "last-minute" adjustments
- Walk away with a framework for designing inclusively from the start
Facilitator:
Caroline Briggs
In Person dates:
19th November 2025, 2 - 4 pm
20th April 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online dates:
20th November 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
21st April 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A3, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2
Create seminar environments where students think critically, collaborate meaningfully, and contribute confidently.
Workshop Overview:
This session equips university educators with strategies to plan and facilitate seminars and small group teaching that promote active learning, deeper dialogue, and student ownership.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Structure seminars to build trust and intellectual curiosity
- Create prompts and formats that spark rich discussion
- Balance guidance with autonomy in small group settings
- Encourage inclusive participation across diverse learners
- Use reflective and metacognitive techniques to deepen engagement
Who is it for:
- Lecturers, tutors, and seminar leaders seeking more intentional group learning
- Academic developers and curriculum designers refining teaching formats
- Anyone wanting to make seminars dynamic, inclusive, and student-led
Why attend:
- Move beyond "talk-at-them" teaching into "talk-with-them" learning
- Get adaptable tools to plan and facilitate groups of any size
- Boost participation, confidence, and critical thinking in your classroom
Facilitator:
Joanna Gray
In Person date:
15th December 2025, 2 - 4 pm
Online date:
16th December 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2, V5
K1, K2
A creative way to think about module design
Workshop Overview:
This hands-on session helps university educators storyboard their modules to improve flow, alignment, and learner experience.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider how to:
- Map learning outcomes to content and activities
- Sequence topics for pedagogical impact
- Identify gaps and overlaps with visual tools
- Create learner-centred module pathways
Who it is for:
- University lecturers, Programme leads, and module convenors
- Anyone revising or designing modules for better coherence and engagement
Why attend:
- See your module from a student's perspective
- Enhance transparency, structure, and learning flow
- Walk away with a storyboard that's ready to build from
Facilitator:
Amanda Chapman
In Person dates:
14th October 2025, 2 - 4 pm
7th January 2026, 2 - 4 pm
Online dates:
16th October 2025, 10 am - 12 pm
9th January 2026, 10 am - 12 pm
PSF 2023 Dimensions:
A1, A2, A4, A5
V1, V2
K1, K2, K4
Curriculum and Education Development (CED) Workshops
The following are standalone Curriculum and Education Development workshops for 2025/26.
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The Introduction to Teaching for Lancaster (ITL) workshop can either be taken as a stand-alone workshop or as the first mandatory workshop for the Associate Teacher Programme (ATP). This induction course is designed to help postgraduates, researchers and others involved in modest amounts of demonstrating or seminar teaching to address some of the basic skills and understanding they will need for their work. It assumes that participants have little or no previous teaching experience and that you will be engaged in some teaching in the academic year 2025/26.
Please read our information on access statement and cancellation chargesfor these workshops.
The Professional Development Course for External Examiners is for teaching staff and External Examiners on Lancaster University programmes who are interested in developing their practice as an external examiner.
The course has been developed as part of the national Degree Standards project, which is led by Advance HE and managed by the Office for Students on behalf of England and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales.
You will take part in a short course, involving individual online preparatory work (typically about 3 hours) and participation in two half day workshops. The online preparatory work is made available in advance and needs to be completed during the two weeks prior to the workshop(s). The design of the course reflects an active learning approach, with an emphasis on valuing participants' experiences and prior knowledge. As such, it is equally relevant for aspiring, new or experienced examiners. Course participants will:
- gain an understanding of the role of the external examiner as articulated in the UK Quality Code for Higher Education
- consolidate their understanding of the nature of academic standards and professional judgement, and explore the implications for external examining
- develop their ability in using evidence-informed approaches to contribute to impartial, transparent judgements on academic standards and enhancing student learning.
Full completion of the course leads to a formal Certificate of Completion (awarded by Advance HE), and provides evidence of an ongoing commitment to professional development against the Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education (PSF 2023).
Learning outcomes
- Explain and discuss the nature and purpose of the external examiner role, its function for quality assessment in higher education, including the importance within it of their contribution to safeguarding academic standards
- Explain the nature of standards in the higher education context
- Draw on practical and scholarly knowledge of assessment as appropriate to the role, including: professional judgement; assessment reliability; assessment validity; purposes of assessment; principles of assessment; programme coherence in assessment.
- Recognise the varied provenance and uniqueness of individuals’ standards and the challenge this brings to examiners representing the standards of their subject, discipline and/or professional community.
- Explain the importance and use of key reference points for academic standards in the relevant subject, discipline and/or professional area.
- Explain the purpose and value of ongoing calibration activities in supporting the use of common ‘discipline community’ standards.
- Recognise the importance of their continuing professional development in assessment and external examining.
The Professional Standards Framework
The Professional Standards Framework (PSF) is a comprehensive set of professional standards and guidelines for everyone involved in teaching and supporting learning in higher education. Participants for this course are likely to be involved in external examining or maybe leading external examining policies across a faculty, programme or team. If you are considering preparing an application for the Advance HE fellowship, you should look at how your external examining experience relates to the dimensions of the PSF. There are follow-up activities in the Participant Handbook for the course, as well as guidance on aligning your external examining experience to the PSF 2023.
If you would like to receive details of the next course please email CEDA Administration Team.
Please read our information on access statement and cancellation chargesfor these workshops.
The associated Moodle site with resources, is aimed principally at academic staff who have not had previous experience of teaching in UK Higher Education before coming to Lancaster University. So, for example, this could apply to new international staff or those coming from a non-HE background such as industry or another profession. The objective is to help you understand the expectations regarding teaching and learning in the UK (especially useful for international colleagues) and in particular here at Lancaster.
The workshop will cover such topics as:
- Expectations of teachers/teaching, students/learning, and of institutions;
- Different cultures of teaching and learning;
- Lancaster’s approach to teaching and learning;
- A quiz about how much you know about Lancaster University;
- Lancaster’s strategic international partners;
- The academic year;
- Programme and module credit system;
- Assessment, the grading system, and assessment moderation;
- Other sources of support, and the Moodle site associated with this session.
Please note Principal Fellowship (PF) is for experienced colleagues who are considering seeking professional recognition for their strategic educational leadership against Descriptor 4 of the PSF2023.
For further information about the requirements and expectations for Principal Fellowship, please email us at ceda@lancaster.ac.uk
This workshop explores how to build, maintain, and proactively manage effective student-supervisor relationships using the UKCGE framework.
In this workshop, you will begin to consider:
- The core principles of the UKCGE framework and how they apply to supervisory relationships
- Expectations and responsibilities of both students and supervisors
- Techniques for building trust and maintaining effective communication
- Strategies for navigating common challenges and resolving conflicts
- A practical toolkit for proactively managing your role in the supervisory dynamic
- Lancaster's rules and regulations relating to PhD Supervision
- Opportunities to reflect on your current practices and share insights with peers
Who is it for:
This workshop is designed for postgraduate research supervisors at all career stages-whether you're newly appointed or looking to refresh and refine your approach. It's ideal for those who want to deepen their understanding of supervisory dynamics and foster more productive, supportive relationships with their students.
Why attend:
Supervisory relationships are at the heart of successful research journeys. By attending, you'll gain actionable strategies to enhance your practice, address concerns in a safe and supportive environment, and connect with fellow supervisors to exchange ideas and build useful connections. You'll leave with renewed confidence, a toolkit of resources, and a clearer sense of how to navigate the complexities of supervision with empathy and effectiveness.
Facilitator: Steve Hutchinson
This In Person workshop is offered twice in 2025-26 (please select one date only):
Thursday 20th November 2025, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Tuesday 24th March 2026, 9.30 am - 4.30 pm
Please read our information on access statement and cancellation chargesfor these workshops.
Short Online courses
The below are self-directed courses which can be completed online at your own pace.
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The Your context and your development short course will help you understand how your unique context affects your practice and development.
The Collecting student feedback short course supports you to explore ways to collect feedback from students in order to support your evaluation of the effectiveness of your educational practices.
The Developing practice through reflection short course aims to help you explore what reflective practice is.
The Observation of professional practice short course will help you to explore what observation of teaching is and plan how to undertake it.
The Exploring the Professional Standards Framework (PSF) 2023 short course aims to help you to explore the PSF 2023, the Dimensions and Descriptors.
The Mentoring for Curriculum Education Development Academy (CEDA) provision short course is for teaching mentors supporting participants undertaking Curriculum Education Development Academy (CEDA) programmes (ATP, PGCEP, ATLAS). and will explore the role and expectations of the mentor.
An interactive, self-directed Engaging Student Online (asynchronous) short course (approximately 2 hours). Completion of this course will show on your individual People XD training record.
An interactive, self-directed Engaging Students online (live session) short course (approximately 1 hour). Completion of this course will show on your individual CoreHR training record.
Video resource providing a narrative rationale for the design of the How to Teach Online: a course design summary course, by the course designer, Dr Kyungmee Lee.
Please read the information on access statement and cancellation charges which applies to all our workshops.