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Academic Practice Network
Convenors:
Professor Joëlle Fanghanel
Email: joelle.fanghanel@tvu.ac.uk
Professor Paul Blackmore
Email: p.blackmore@kcl.ac.uk
While the phrase 'academic practice' is increasingly used within higher education, a shared intellectual meaning should not be assumed. Therefore, this network is important in developing an understanding both of the changing nature of academic practice and its effects on students and wider society. There are a range of research interests and perspectives reflected by the network. These include colleagues with an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning, socio-cultural aspects of academic work, and the complex nature of academic identity. The shifting nature of 'academic practice' means that the network also includes a number of colleagues in learning support roles. Regular events are a feature of the network in providing opportunities for discussion, dissemination and networking.
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The challenges of collaborative work in the Academy |
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This seminar will consist of two presentations addressing the challenges of collaborative work, and offering strategies to make this a reality of academic life.
Addressing division within the academy: A model of collaborative working for higher education
Lorraine Walsh, University of Dundee and Peter Kahn, University of Liverpool
Lorraine Walsh is an Assistant Director in the Library & Learning Centre at the University of Dundee, with responsibility for educational development. Her main research interests are in disciplinary identities and collaborative practice. Her most recent book, with Peter Kahn, is Collaborative Working in Higher Education (Routledge, 2009).
Peter Kahn is an Educational Developer in the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Liverpool, where he co-directs the MA in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. As well as collaborative working, his research interests include relationships between structure and agency in higher education.
We present a model, detailed at length in Walsh and Kahn (2009), which was developed through a theoretical synthesis of perspectives from a body of literature and experience on collaborative working. It draws on critical realist perspectives, including Bhaskar’s (1998) notions of stratification in social reality. Our presentation will focus on professional dialogue and social structures with a view to stimulating discussion around the role of collaborative working as an informed and meaningful approach in addressing the current challenges to cohesion of academic practice.
"Living on the ceiling": how and why interdisciplinarity turns everything upside down
Jason Davies, University College London
Jason Davies is Senior Teaching Fellow in University College London's Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching , where he is the Programme Leader for their MA Education. His interests are interdisciplinarity and the negotiation and praxis of knowledge systems.
This talk will give a sketch of the dynamics specific to interdisciplinary work and evoke the way that disciplinary norms are (completely) inverted, leading to enormous difficulties in collaboration. It will outline ways that `the disciplined' can work together to survive in -- or even thrive in -- interdisciplinary settings. |
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Venue - SRHE 44 Bedford Row |
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Date - Thursday, 29/04/2010, 1pm - 4pm |
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Network - Academic Practice |
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Attend - To attend this event please download details and book as appropriate |
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