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BILT Conference – call for contributions open for another fortnight
Our annual conference will take place on Wednesday 25 June, this year and we are now accepting expressions of interest from potential presenters. You can also register as a delegate. The title of this year’s event is Education for a changing world.
We are delighted to welcome contributions from staff and students from across the University of Bristol. As well as presentations, workshops and posters, this year we have added conference stalls to the list of options. Applications will close at midnight on Sunday 2 March 2025.
To read more about the themes of the conference, criteria for applying and links to register, please visit the conference homepage.
Survey on teaching research ethics at PGT
University-wide guidance for teaching research ethics at PGT (also see this blog post for further background) was developed by Jo Rose (PGT Faculty Education Director, Social Sciences and Law), and Anne-Laure Donskoy (Research Associate) last year. As part of a Research England Enhancing Research Culture fund project “Lessons from embedding and applying guidance on teaching research ethics to taught postgraduate students (PGTs)”, they are asking academic staff who teach research ethics at PGT to feed back on their approaches to teaching research ethics and their engagement with the guidance. The study is asking staff to reply to a short online survey at a few different time points over this academic year, starting in January 2025. The link for the survey is https://bit.ly/3WgHdnb, and should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. This round of the survey will close on Friday 14 February. Please could you ask colleagues who teach at PGT level in your School to complete the survey.
Further information
As further background, the project aims to understand in some depth the challenges and innovations in practices applied by a range of colleagues across different Schools when integrating the fundamental principles in the guidance on teaching research ethics at PGT. Specifically, we would like to understand to explore what works well and what the challenges may be when engaging with and teaching foundational research principles as introduced in the guidance. At the end of the study, we aim to understand better understand how change happens in the context of teaching research ethics at PGT level. If you have any questions or would like further information, please contact Jo Rose on jo.rose@bristol.ac.uk or Anne-Laure Donskoy on al.donskoy@bristol.ac.uk .
Blogs and resources
- M is for Modern Learning
Our Student Fellow Esther Ng has written this thoughtful piece to continue our ‘A – Z of BILT’ series, looking at the changes to higher education teaching and student expectations.
- Picture This: new scenario and answers to the last
Joe Gould has shared the responses to our first scenario posted in this series, as well as sharing the next scenario. Do you have any advice you can give to Anna, Myles and Darren? Please get in touch or leave a comment on the post!
- Are we reinforcing gendered thinking styles in higher education?
This thought-provoking blog, contributed by Juan Carlos Mondragon Quintana, looks at work undertaken in the Bristol Business School with postgraduate taught students on the Executive MBA and the skills they develop (or don’t develop) throughout the programme.
Events
Principal Fellow programme
| To support prospective applicants, the Universities of Bristol, Bath Spa, Bath, and UWE Bristol have come together to offer prospective Principal Fellows a programme of workshops, writing retreats and opportunities for peer mentoring and buddying support. |
Visit the Principal Fellow Programme webpage for more information and registration links.
Show, Tell and Talk: Pedagogic Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Our next Show, Tell and Talk event takes place on 18th February. For full details and registration links, please visit our Events page.
View all of our upcoming ‘Show, Tell and Talk’ events.
Annual SWEETS 1-day Workshop
Date: Tuesday 13th May 2025, 10.45am-4pm, University of Bristol
Registration Details: Registration form available here.
The annual SWEETS (Southwest Workshops in Economics Education, Teaching and Scholarship) workshop is a 1-day workshop held at a Southwest institution to provide a space to discuss new teaching ideas and find new collaborators for scholarship projects. The theme for the 2025 Workshop is The Future of the Economics Degree: Who? What? How? It will consider how we expect economics degrees to change in the coming years and how we will adapt our teaching to match. It will cover topics such as the role of data science in the curriculum, improving diversity and inclusion, andthe changing physical or virtual taught environments.
Summer School on Experimental Methods for Scholarship Research
Dates: 9th-11th June 2025, University of Southampton
Registration Details: Registration form available here.
This SWEETS workshop, in collaboration with C-BEAR and NCRM, is for anyone who wants to enhance their scholarship research portfolio by improving their understanding of experimental research methods. Participants will learn about how they can test and evidence impact of interventions in the classroom and translate this into scholarship publications. Experts sharing their knowledge include Fabio Aricio (UEA), Caroline Elliot (Warwick), Doug McKee (Cornell), Paolo Spada (Southampton) andJadrian Wooten (Virginia Tech).
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