Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CELT)

There are a small number of places remaining for the Curriculum Design and Development course commencing in week 5 of this term. This course is open to all experienced teaching staff who have some responsibility for designing and managing a module or programme at Lancaster.

The Curriculum Design and Development (CDD) course is concerned with exploring the pedagogical and the practical issues relating to the design, management and critical evaluation of modules and programmes which enhance student learning in the HE context.

The course comprises a series of full day sessions and shorter seminars during 2007/8. The assessment involves a critical review of a module undertaken in the individual teacher’s department. The course can be undertaken as a discrete professional development activity. Successful completion of the assessment can also contribute to a Postgraduate qualification in Academic Practice for those interested in professional accreditation.

Further details (FAQ) and application forms have been sent to Departmental Officers, or can be downloaded from the website <http://luvle.lancs.ac.uk/celt/profprog.nsf>

Applications should be sent as soon as possible to the Teaching Development Administrator, Helen Griffiths, in CELT (C67 Furness) mailto:professionalprogrammes@lancaster.ac.uk

Enquiries can be directed to the course director Ali Cooper mailto:a.m.cooper@lancaster.ac.uk

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Effective Postgraduate Supervision

June 1 One-day workshop

Dr Moira Peelo (CELT), Prof Chris Park (Director of the Graduate School) and Dr Louise Innes (CELT)

This workshop is designed for academic staff who are relatively new to the role of PhD supervision. In addition the session may be of interest to more experienced colleagues who have some responsibility for new supervisors, and those who wish to refresh their thinking on supervision with colleagues from other departments and course tutors.

For further information please click on the following link <http://domino.lancs.ac.uk/celt/celtweb.nsf/list/
7056B6905E99DFEE80256E9800420C9E>

To reserve a place please contact the Teaching Development Administrator, Helen Griffiths, <mailto:professionalprogrammes@lancaster.ac.uk>

Certificate in Professional and Personal Development

2007 Programme Schedule

The School of Lifelong Learning and Widening Participation is offering a suite of Professional and Personal development courses. You can opt to enrol on one or more courses in line with your personal development needs or work towards the Certificate in Professional and Personal Development*.

We are offering a special staff discount of 10% for all courses starting before the 1st August 2007.

Certificate in Professional and Personal Development

To achieve the certificate you have to:

a) Successfully complete the assessment for each course you attend;
b) Achieve a credit total of 40 credits over a three-year period;
c) Study at least one course from each of the two strands

Strand A: Developing yourself
Strand B: Developing others, working with others,
managing others

LUDUS DANCE and the LANCASTER INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS

WATER LOG

Three day Movement and Dance workshop across Morecambe Bay and the River Lune Estuary with Jennifer Monson (Birdbrain Dance/iLAND, USA)

1, 2, 3 May 2007

WORKSHOP at Ludus Dance Centre and out on location across Morecambe Bay and the River Lune Estuary.

4 May 2007

SYMPOSIUM at Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), Lancaster University

The award-winning environmental movement artist Jennifer Monson will lead a three-day workshop in collaboration with Nigel Stewart (LICA/Sap Dance, UK) and with the help of cross-bay guide Alan Sledmore. The workshop is aimed for dance artists and other professional artists, but should be accessible to other interested persons.

The workshop is part of the research and development phrase of Water Log, a transatlantic project exploring the mirror relation between particular places in Morecambe Bay, UK, and the Hudson River Estuary, USA, that are situated ambiguously in-between water and dry land, the human and other-than-human.

Exploring an industrial estate and marsh land along the Lancaster Coastal Path, and Public Rights of Way across Morecambe Bay sands, Water Log asks: how can the dynamic eco-systems of zones in-between land and sea suggest specific strategies for dance improvisation; how can those improvisations enable participants to experience even the most ephemeral eco-phenomena (e.g., patterns of washed-up debris, evaporating footprints); and how can that experience re-enchant our relationship with nature and contest the notion of landscape as merely a unit of human occupation?

Water Log is part of LICA’s Re-enchantment & Reclamation project, funded by the workshops and networks scheme of the Landscape and Environment Programme of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

www.cle.lancs.ac.uk

Cost for participants outside of Lancaster University (heavily subsidised by the AHRC): £25

Places: strictly limited to 15. Priority will be given to regional dance artists and other professional artists.

N.B. Participants are responsible for their own accommodation.

Contact: Nigel Stewart at: n.stewart@lancaster.ac.uk to reserve your place.

Lancaster University has successfully won funding from ESRC as part of the Researcher Training Initiative (RTI) for ‘Training Researchers on Ethics and Ethical Practice in Social Science Research.’ Lead by a team of researchers in the Faculty of Social Sciences, the initiative will take place over a period of thirty-six months with workshops being held at three-month intervals as follows:

3) June 2007: Ethics as Practice in Non-UK research Settings I
4) September 2007: Ethics and Research with Vulnerable Groups I
5) December 2007: Ethics in Participatory Research I
6) March 2008: Research Ethics and the Media I
7) June 2008: Research Ethics as Process II
8) September 2008: Ethics as Practice in UK research Settings II
9) December 2008: Ethics as Practice in Non-UK research
Settings II
10) March 2009: Ethics and Research with Vulnerable Groups II
11) June 2009: Ethics in Participatory Research II
12) September 2009: Research Ethics and the Media II

For further details please contact, Dr. Christine Milligan, Institute for Health Research, (Principle Investigator) (c.milligan@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. David Archard, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy (d.archard@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. Hazel Biggs, School of Law (h.biggs@lancaster.ac.uk), Prof. Carole Truman, Department of Health and Social Studies, University of Bolton (C.Truman@bolton.ac.uk) and Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee, Department of Sociology (n.mookherjee@lancaster.ac.uk).