HEIR2019: Higher Education Institutional Research Conference 2019 City Campus, University of Wolverhampton Wolverhampton, UK, September 11-13, 2019 |
Conference website | http://www.wlv.ac.uk/heirconference |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heir2019 |
Submission deadline | May 31, 2019 |
The Higher Education Institutional Research (HEIR) 2019 Conference is being hosted by University of Wolverhampton on the topic:
Measuring Excellence in Higher Education: approaches and their Impact
“Measuring excellence”, and related approaches, is a topic of global interest for Higher Education (HE) and its surrounding context. Digital advances have enabled multiple forms of data to be captured on the key activities of students and staff within, and beyond, university life. As such, many institutions across the world are now seeking routes to gather ‘evidence’ and insights, through data, to address common issues, improve student experiences and meet future challenges.
HEIR2019 will appeal to students, teachers, researchers, managers, data practitioners and institutional experts, quality professionals, educational developers, policy makers, digital service specialists, consultants, and all who share an interest in the future of education. As such, HEIR2019 will bring together a wide and inclusive community. Whatever your role, you are invited to submit an Abstract for a paper, poster or workshop on current viewpoints, approaches (theoretical, qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods), research, or data that impact your area of focus, with a view towards informing and supporting HE institutional decision-making.
Submission Guidelines
All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome:
- Presentation: a 400 word Abstract for a 20 minute presentation
- Think piece: a 400 word Abstract for a 20 minute think piece
- Work-in-progress: a 400 word Abstract for a 20 minute talk on work in progress
- Posters: a 400 word Abstract for a Poster
- Workshop: a 400 word Abstract for a one hour workshop
List of Topics
Theme 1: Defining and Measuring Excellence
This theme investigates the ways in which higher education activity, performance and impact is measured in different universities and national systems, and at what point that performance and impact might be called ‘excellent’. This theme will also address the way in which institutions are responding to external measures of excellence, such as the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF), Research Excellence Framework (REF) and Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF), or their equivalents outside the UK. Examples might include:
- Approaches to and techniques for measuring activity, performance and impact
- Examples of data analysis and evaluation projects relating to institutional performance and impact
- Investigating the role of measurement in improving performance and informing strategy
- The role of benchmarking and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Innovative qualitative and quantitative approaches for measuring excellence
- Measuring societal and global impact
- The current role (and future) of data analysis, institutional research and evaluation in HE
- Integrating contextual factors when measuring excellence
Theme 2: Critical Learning and Teaching Environments
This theme broadly considers how we develop critical learning and teaching ‘environments’ (whether material, virtual, creative or imaginary), and evaluate their impact. We live in a world where digital technology is increasingly an integral part of 'natural' human and social life, and changing the nature of learning and the workplace. We look forward to hearing diverse and critical approaches to such challenges, measures and impacts. Examples might include:
- Learning environments in the broadest sense (including online learning communities, mobile learning, work-based learning and apprenticeships)
- Learning analytics and predictive analytics
- Student engagement and academic experience
- Attendance, progression and retention
- Blended forms of teaching and learning
- Teacher education research
- Creativity and innovation
- Curriculum design and employability (including responses to automation)
- Approaches towards quality assurance and enhancement
- Marketisation of Higher Education
- Research-informed teaching
- Teaching-informed research
Theme 3: Accountability, Inclusivity and Sustainability
This theme considers the way in which higher education sectors relate to their broader social, economic and political environments. It seeks to investigate the challenges and rewards of ‘bridging the gap’ (in either direction) between academia and the wider community surrounding universities, and measuring and understanding the impact of such activities. This theme invites submissions across any topics that focus on the many ways in which higher education institutions actively and positively engage with their key stakeholders, of students, staff, collaborative partners, business and wider society both within institutions and beyond. Examples might include:
- Widening student access, participation and lifelong learning
- Student ‘attainment gaps’, and differential outcomes
- Student-staff partnerships for change
- Narratives of Higher Education featured in the media (e.g. value for money, quality, employability)
- The Third Mission: relationships between universities, schools, local communities, business, industry, libraries, museums or the arts
- 4th Industrial Revolution: HE responses to threats from automation
- The changing nature of institutional leadership, governance and management
- Policy and strategy development and the challenge of initiative fatigue
- Globalisation and internationalisation of Higher Education (e.g. TNE, mobility, Brexit, sustainable development)
- Student and staff belonging and inclusion in learning, teaching and research
- Gender equality, identity/ies and social inclusion
- Health and wellbeing, e.g. ‘therapeutic’ education, academic identity or anxiety, creativity and mindfulness in education
Keynote Speakers
- Alis Oancea
- Dennis Hayes
- Petar Jandrić
Publication
Those participants who are invited to write up their presentation for consideration by the editors of Postdigital Science and Education can choose between writing either:
- a short original commentary
OR
- a full original article
Venue
The conference will be held at the City Campus, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: HEIR2019@wlv.ac.uk