The activities moved from drawing 'research' to discussing how universities act as sites of knowledge-construction. Also covered: student as producer, student as change agent and student as partner. The first year students were asked if they had a model for active students they would like to explore in an HEA Bid - and if they wanted to organise the University's next student-facing conference (Feb 2014). Excellent poster presentations given.

1. What is a Conference?
W7
Becoming...

2. Warm Up
• Draw the Research Process
• Make notes upon your drawing – for this
session
• Upload your drawings to your Blogs

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Knowledge-construction
Social constructivist model
Dialogue (Freire, Bakhtin)
Staff and Students
Dissemination: teaching; papers; conferences

4. Students
• Lincoln University:
http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/
• Conference
http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk/events/stu
• See http://saspconf13.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/

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Exeter – student as change agent
Students as Change Agents - Academic Services - University of Exeter
as.exeter.ac.uk › ... › Current Projects
Students as Change Agents is an ambitious scheme that lets you take an active
part in making your time at the University of Exeter even better. You can
identify ...
Students as Change Agents - Current Students - University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk › Studying › Current students
Students as Change Agents. So you want to make a change? We know you love
studying here, but there's always room for improvement, and we think you're
the ...
Students as Change Agents - University of Exeter
projects.exeter.ac.uk/integrate/saca.html
Themes > Students as Change Agents. "In a world where the students'
expectations of their university experience will only increase, the need to gauge
student ...
The Design Studio / Students as Change Agents

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[PDF]Student Academic Partners - Birmingham City University
www2.bcu.ac.uk/docs/media/celt/SAP_Brochure_Spreads.pdf
Academic Partners scheme – which teams staff and students in an
equal ... ::::::Creating the Learning Community through Student Academic
Partners.
Student Academic Partners - Birmingham City Students Union
www.bcusu.com › Learning › Academic Partnerships
Hello and welcome to your Students' Union, here at Birmingham City University!
As aBirmingham City University student you are automatically a member of ...
[PDF]Student Academic Partners Birmingham City University - Higher ...
www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/events/.../rebecca_freeman2.pdf
Student Academic Partners. Birmingham City University. Birmingham City
University (BCU) sees effective learning partnerships between students and staff
as ...
[PPT]Academic Partners Programme Birmingham City University
www.qaa.ac.uk/.../QAA%20conference%202011%20-%20Amy%20Jess...
Academic Partners Programme Birmingham City University. Student Academic
Partners. Student Academic Partners: The Scheme; The Pioneers; The Projects.

7. What model here?
• Think this through...
• Think Get Ahead
• Think HEA Bid ...

8. What IS a Conference?
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Our small one:
3rd December
One day
50 people
One strand

9. • Look – Draw – Make: Using the Visual to transform
pedagogic practices
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London Metropolitan University to explore how Visual
learning practices are becoming mainstream in the digital
age. Drawing upon experiences of ‘Draw to Learn’ (from
the LearnHigher CETL); MOOC participation; and recent
classroom practice – we explore the embedding of a series
of Visual tasks in classrooms across the disciplines. This day
will inform, challenge and offer you practical ways to
transform practice.

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Outline of the Day
9.30-10.00 arrival, coffee, registration
10.00 Welcome from Associate Professor Digby Warren
10.15 Welcome from Pauline, Sandra, Debbie, Tom - and Chris O’Reilly
10.30 - 11.30 ‘Draw to learn’
11.30-12.30 Science and Social Sciences: using the visual for qualitative research methods
and to (re)conceptualising science (Philip Howlett and Debbie Holley)
12.30-1.30 lunch and networking
1.30-2.30 ‘It’s more than just drawing!’ Using collages and Cabinets of Curiosities; Memory
envelopes and installations; Digital artefacts and Animations - for TLA. (Sandra Sinfield, Tom
Burns & Chris O’Reillly)
2.30/ 2.45 shuffle & comfort break - reconvene in main hall
2.45- 3.45 MOOC madness: digital tools, activities, exemplars – and table tasks.
3.45- 4.00 summary, thanks, depart

11. Other conferences
• DPR: http://www.dprconference.com/
• ALDinHE:
http://www.aldinhe.ac.uk/news/8/aldinhe_confer
• Get Ahead: www.londonmet.ac.uk/studyhub

12. Take away thoughts
• HEA Bid
• You may be interested in the following HEA Change
programme:
• Students as partners in the curriculum
• Applications are being invited for the latest HEA
Change programme, Students as partners in the
curriculum. This programme will help HE providers
develop their capacity to work with students to
enhance the curriculum and engage students with
learning and teaching processes and will build on the
successes of last year’s inaugural Students as partners
change programme.

13. Is this us?
• At least half the members of participating teams will be students,
with the rest made up of academic staff, professional support staff
and senior managers. Last year’s programme included teams from
Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Oxford and
University of Ulster with projects such as reducing distress and
improving achievement amongst students, students at the heart of
curriculum design, and students as partners in a transformed
university. Further details about last year’s programme, and the
mini case studies, are available here on the HEA website.
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information, including how to apply, is available on the HEA
website.

14. What do your notes look like now?
• Notes = a dialogue
• Active and interactive...
• With things to do
• Anyone interested in developing an HEA Bid
with us?
• You work up some thoughts.
• You can see the deadline...