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Academic transition hackathon – thank you to all who took part!
Our latest hackathon took place on Thursday 20th February and saw 36 brilliant first-year undergraduates join us for a super interesting and insightful day of discussions around the first few months of their university experience, looking at transition activities, assessment, academia, community and communication.
We’ve not completed our full analysis of the day yet but we’ve shared a short summary of the day and a few of our key takeaways, which you can read here.
We’re catching up with the students who took part in a few months as part of the longitudinal aspect of the research so watch this space for what we find out next!
Bristol Teaching Awards – nominations open soon!
The annual Bristol Teaching Awards take place every year in June, celebrating academic and professional services staff through a range of awards.
All staff and students are welcome – and encouraged! – to place nominations for members of staff who have made a positive impact on the university experience. Please take a look at our website for this year’s awards and nomination principles.
Visit the Bristol Teaching Awards website.
Generative AI in teaching survey
We are inviting you to contribute to a BILT-funded Associate Research Project exploring the role of GenAI in teaching and assessment design. Please note that this survey is anonymous. You will have the option at the end of the survey to share your contact details if you wish to participate in a case study.
This project seeks to explore how AI can support teaching material development, its potential role in marking, assessment and feedback and best practices for classroom integration. It is hoped that this project will inform BILT’s future research themes and the University’s AI-related policies.
The deadline for the completion of the survey is 31st March 2025. Please click here to complete the survey.
If you have any questions, please contact: Claire.hudson@bristol.ac.uk or sarah.zaghloul@bristol.ac.uk
BILT Conference – last chance to apply to present!
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.
Blogs and resources
- N is for Neurodiversity
BILT Senior Education Developer Fiona Hartley and Ffion Jones, Lecturer in Dental Sciences, have written the next contribution to our ‘A – Z of BILT’ series, looking at the changes to higher education teaching and student expectations.
- Managing Expectations with Community Partners
Monica Kyaw, a Community-Engaged Learning Project Assistant, has shared this useful blog for anyone who is undertaking, or thinking of undertaking, a community engaged learning project, providing some top tips on working with partners.
- A Guide to Running Effective Student Consultations: a Case of Introducing Capstone Project on Executive Master Programme
Colleagues in the Business School have shared their experience of changing their dissertation over to a capstone project, how they worked with students in a consultative basis and the findings of this projects in this really useful and clear article.
Events
Show, Tell and Talk: Sustainability curriculum design workshop
Our next Show, Tell and Talk event takes place next week on 6 March. For full details and registration links, please visit our event page.
View all of our upcoming ‘Show, Tell and Talk’ events.
Teaching and learning in the international classroom (multiple dates)
This event is a curriculum design workshop (120 minutes) – led by colleagues in CALD, this workshop will:
- explore the challenges and opportunities in our learning, teaching and assessment encounters in with international students .
- consider lecturer and student experiences in international classrooms and how they are affected its diversity of language and culture
- share practical strategies, resources and reflect on why certain activities are of value
- provide space for you to reflect and develop your learning and teaching practices and consider how to implementation best practice in your work.
View the dates available for this workshop here.
Annual SWEETS 1-day Workshop
Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025, 10.45 am – 4 pm, 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: 9 – 11 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) and Jadrian Wooten (Virginia Tech).
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