Learning and Teaching Conferences are a great way to share your work with others and expose yourself to new and innovative ideas in your teaching. DCAD is running (or involved with running) 4 conferences in the summer of 2019. These include:
In Durham
The Festival of Learning and Teaching 2019, comprises two conferences taking place on 9-10th September 2019.
Internal Learning and Teaching Conference – 9th September. As in previous years, the conference showcases the wide range of innovative approaches to learning and teaching going on across the university. This year’s event will specifically focus on re-imagining the curriculum to support the on-going curriculum reform at Durham. We therefore specifically encourage contributions relevant to inclusive learning and teaching, learning gain and teaching quality, assessment, and digital pedagogy which are the key themes of the curriculum review.
All staff regardless of role, are invited to attend and submit papers as well as shorter contributions (‘oral bites’) about innovations and projects in learning and teaching and pedagogic research and scholarship. Co-presentations with students are particularly encouraged. There will be plenty of opportunity for sharing, discussing and networking as well as celebration of staff achievements – please join us for the event!
3 Rivers Learning and Teaching Conference – 10th September. This conference open to all those who work on teaching or supporting teaching in the five regional Universities (Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teeside) is hosted by Durham in 2019. The theme of the conference is Embedding Student and Staff Well-Being in the curriculum and alongside a range of excellcent contributed talks from staff from the 5 Universities, we also have two keynote talks. Fabienne Vailes from the University of Bristol will present on the work published in her recent book, the Flourishing Student, and Professor Nic Whitton, DCAD Director, will talk about how Playful approaches to learning can enhance well-being.
Outside Durham
Playful Learning – Playful Learning is pitched at the intersection of learning and play for adults. Playful in approach and outlook, yet underpinned by robust research and working practices, we provide a space where teachers, researchers and students can play, learn and think together. A space to meet other playful people and be inspired by talks, workshops, activities and events. In its new home at the heart of England in Leicestershire, we are now opening the programme up to outdoor spaces, where evening activities will continue the playful learning and conversations after the formal programme ends. This conference is co-chaired, by DCAD Director, Professor Nic Whitton and takes place on 10-12th July 2019.
Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship (ESLTIS19) – To raise the profile of teaching only academics in the research intensive climate, it is vital to shine a spotlight on the innovative learning and teaching they undertake. The best way to achieve this is through the promotion of the innovative scholarship of learning and teaching being driven by this subset of the academic community. This fifth meeting of a national network for staff with a strong commitment to developing teaching and scholarship excellence is therefore a forum to share innovative scholarship across disciplinary boundaries and to develop a national voice for teaching focussed academics. This conference is co-chaired, by DCAD Director, Dr Sam Nolan and takes place on 18-19th July 2019 in Edinburgh Napier University.