News
Keynote speakers confirmed!
We are very excited to announce the keynote speakers for our annual conference on Wednesday 10 July. With the theme of Voice and Choice – Student Agency, Empowerment and Co-creation we are delighted to welcome our own Pro Vice Chancellor for Education, Professor Tansy Jessop for the morning session, and Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Jason Arday, for the afternoon session. More about these inspirational educators coming soon!
Registration for the conference opens this month, however if you wish to add your name to the priority booking list please email the word CONFERENCE24 to bilt-info@bristol.ac.uk and not only will we register your place but we will also enter you into our prize draw for a BILT goody-bag!
PGR participants wanted for study
Interdisciplinary and environmentally-focused PGRs are invited to share insights on how they experience peer support and how this affects their research journey.
We are looking for PGR participants who are willing to take part in interviews or complete a survey – interviews will take place between mid March and mid April and will last between 30 mins to an hour. The survey takes 5 minutes to fill out and can be accessed via this link. If you are interested in participating or would like to learn more, please email vitalie.duporge@bristol.ac.uk
Thank you for your BTA nominations!
Thank you to everyone for your nominations for this year’s Bristol Teaching Awards – a total of 1069 were made, beating our record of 1066 in 2023! We introduced a new form this year and were pleased that it encouraged lots of detail without putting anyone off from nominating. It was heart-warming to hear from students about the joy, passion and deep knowledge that staff had for their subjects, the care taken to make sure that course content was understood, and the effort made to make sure students felt valued and included.
We were really pleased to see high engagement from international students with many referencing how they felt welcomed and supported with the challenges they have faced. Technical and lab teams were also highly valued for helping to explain more complex topics through practical and applied learning.
You can find details of individual nominations on the Awards section of the University’s Thanks and Recognition wall. Congratulations to all our nominees!
Look out for the shortlist on Monday 13th May!
Show Tell and Talk – Decolonisation
Next week’s Show Tell and Talk will include presentations on the University’s Race Inclusion Advocates and the forthcoming book, Can HE be decolonised?: A case study of an elite British University.
There will also be an interactive session with the chance to discuss current decolonisation work taking place and how to take this forward in the future.
Wednesday 10 April, 1-2:30 pm; Room 1.20, 35 Berkeley Square
New blogs and resources
Catriona Johnson’s review of our recent Show, Tell and Talk on ‘Designing for all – AI and Assessment’ includes a summary of strategies for managing and integrating AI in assessments.
The third in our Day in the life of BILT series from Dr Hannah Grist, Head of CREATE, is full of interesting details about the CREATE scheme, PGR Supervision and the Infected Blood scandal – as well as some lovely personal touches!
In the insightful blogpost Bristol Skills Profile: How can it help our students? Julian Kendell investigates how our teaching might help students to learn about themselves as well as their subject.
Find an extremely useful overview of Advance HE’s new sustainability framework in the New framework and guides for sustainability blogpost from Aisling Tierney.
Student Fellow Carla Forster talks to Chris Rossdale about how the use of an unusual assessment format in their module ‘The Politics of Rebellion’ encourages critical thinking. Read more in Pause and reflect: An alternative approach to assessment in SPAIS.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Show, Tell and Talk
We have just two workshops left in our Show, Tell and Talk series for 2023/24:
- Decolonisation on Wednesday 10 April 2024
- Designing for all – Group assessment on Wednesday 22 May 2024
All sessions run from 1-2:30 pm in Room 1.20, 35 Berkeley Square.
Sharing Sustainability teaching tools
Join this 1 hour online session where we will share information on resources for incorporating sustainability related content in your unit and tools available for teaching sustainability related topics.
Tuesday 23 April 2024 @ 1:30 pm. Visit the event page for more details and link to the event.
Case studies
Are you doing something innovative or exciting with your large group teaching this year? Or even something relatively ‘normal’ but is receiving a good reception? We are looking to share good practice of large group teaching – get in touch with us if there’s something you can share with us!
We’re also always looking for case studies on:
- Decolonising the curriculum
- Assessment, particularly group assessment, inclusive assessment and engaging with the AI revolution
- International students’ experience
Contact us at bilt-info@bristol.ac.uk.
