LTR 2019: UWS Annual Learning, Teaching & Research Conference Lanarkshire Campus Hamilton, UK, June 26-27, 2019 |
Conference website | http://ltr.uws.ac.uk |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ltr2019 |
Submission deadline | February 11, 2019 |
Submission Guidelines
Bridging Boundaries: connecting learning, teaching and research
All submissions should meet the following criteria:
- Clear links to conference title and one or more theme
- Relationship between Research and Enterprise, and Learning and Teaching are made clear
- Likely to engage the conference audience
- Opportunities for audience participation (workshops only)
Your proposal should be written in plain language appropriate for a mixed discipline audience. As noted, we are particularly keen to receive submissions from students or from staff-student collaborations.
List of Topics
Assessment and feedback
In keeping with this year’s institutional Focus on: Assessment and Feedback work, this theme looks at the impact of assessment and feedback practices on student learning. Relevant topics include:
- Innovative assessment
- Effective and efficient feedback practices
- Assessing work-based learning
Digital learning
Focussing on digital futures for education, this theme explores how we prepare for and embrace digital learning and the impact digital technology is likely to continue to have on learning, teaching, and graduate futures. Relevant topics include:
- Preparing for and embracing the future of digital learning
- Impact of digital technology on learning
- Digital technology and teaching
- Graduate futures and digital technology
- Virtual Collaboration
Research-informed teaching
This theme explores how research and teaching meet in our programmes and modules and how we engage students in enquiry-driven learning processes. Relevant topics include:
- Enquiry-based learning opportunities for students
- How the outcomes of research shape teaching
- Teaching research methods
Meeting societal challenges: Health, Society and Sustainability
The interdisciplinary nature of research at UWS promotes collaborative working on a global scale with presentations from major research project teams. Proposals should focus on one (or more) challenges in the following areas:
- Health - including healthcare, digital health, key health challenges, supporting our ageing population, dementia research, aged veterans;
- Society - including education, equality and diversity, crime prevention, creative industries, immersive technologies, entrepreneurship, game based learning, economic development, offender rehabilitation, Brexit research and the UWS Oxfam Partnership exploring excess mortality at work;
- Sustainability - including energy, advanced materials, conservation, digital revolution, built environment, agritech.
Presentation Formats
Presentation (20 mins plus 5 mins questions)
Presentations provide opportunities for presenters to share examples of novel or innovative practice relevant to the conference themes. For example, this may include a project, collaboration, piece of research or a case study. Accepted presentation proposals will be allocated 20 minutes during a parallel session. Most sessions will run for 50 minutes and feature two presentations with a total of 10 minutes for discussion, either five minutes directly after each presentation or 10 minutes at the end of the session.
Workshop (40 mins plus 10 mins questions)
Workshops provide opportunities for presenters to showcase their innovative practice or projects to participants. These workshops allow presenters to create an interactive session and engage participants, more so than in a presentation or microtalk. Each workshop session should be activity-led, collaborative and allow delegates to learn new knowledge, skills and approaches relative to the theme so they may integrate this into their own practice. Workshop sessions will be fifty minutes in length, allowing for a workshop of 40 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
Microtalks (5 mins plus 5 mins questions)
Microtalks give presenters the chance to express quickly, clearly and succinctly key information on their chosen topic in a dynamic, creative style with the aim of holding the attention and interest of delegates. These sessions allow presenters to share with participants an example of innovative practice, a piece of research or outline a case study or project which may still be in progress or complete. Microtalks will be allocated five minutes for each presentation with another five minutes for questions, providing 10 minutes for each presenter.
Posters
Posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference (9am on June 26th to 4pm on June 27th). Presenters should be available at their poster to answer questions from delegates during the dedicated poster times within the programme; they may also wish to be present during lunch breaks and tea and coffee intervals as these are often peak times for viewing the posters.
Posters should be size A0 (portrait) and include the following:
- Name(s) of author(s), title and School
- Research partners or sponsors
- Title of poster
- University logo
- Poster content could also include the following information:
- Abstract
- Diagrams, graphs, flowcharts or images
- Methodology
- Findings / Analysis
- Concise text summaries
- References
Venue
The conference will be held at UWS Lanarkshire Campus, Hamilton International Technology Park, Hamilton G72 0LH
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conference address: ltr@uws.ac.uk