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Happy New Year!
We hope everyone had a restful time over the winter break. We’re back with a few big changes – this Briefing is now going out on a Tuesday and we’ve shed our (blog) skin and launched this new – and hopefully more modern – look!
We’re always really keen to hear what you think so please let us know any feedback you have.
We’ve also got exciting plans in terms of content this year – we’re looking to relaunch our popular ‘Humans of Bristol University’ blog series this term, we have a ‘AI and Decolonisation’ series to look forward to and we’ve just launched a new series, ‘I do, you do, we do’ with contributors to analyse videos of training/teaching in alternative setting and seeing what we can take away for our HE context. You can catch the first instalment, featuring a pottery-throwing tutorial, here.
We’re also looking to publish more student-authored content around teaching and learning – we’ll be sharing a list of blog titles we’d be interesting in receiving pieces written on in the new few weeks.
4 weeks to go until the Student Research Conference!
We’re super excited for our next Student Research Conference and are really pleased to share that we’ve had lots of exciting proposals for presentations sent in!
The event is taking place on 18th February in Bill Brown Suite from 2-6pm. The event will end with a drinks reception following the award-giving.
We’ve extended the deadline to apply for the editorial boards by a week. The new deadline is now 19 January, 2026.
For more information about the festival (including how students can register to attend), and the associated Student Research Journal, please visit our website.
The BILT Christmas Quiz – winner announced
Congratulations to David Morgan in the Digital Education Office who has won this year’s BILT Christmas Quiz! We’ll be sending you a Source voucher and your BILT merch next week!
Blogs and resources
- Academic Engagement: I do, you do, we do
Joe Gould shares the first part of this new series, analysing tutorial or training videos recorded in alternative context and looks, with a contributor, to see what we can glean from their practice. The first reviews a video on how to ‘throw’ a pottery candlestick, with Student Fellow Elliot Green contributing.
Events
Visit the BILT events calendar for a full list of all our forthcoming events
15 January, 2.15 – 5.30 pm, Wills Memorial Building, Great Hall
BILT warmly invites all PGR supervisors to our annual PGR Supervisor Symposium, focusing on effective supervision practices, innovation, and collaboration.
For more information and links to apply, please visit the event page.
Designing assessment and feedback in a world of generative AI
21 January, 2.00 – 4.00 pm, Room 1.01, Howard House
This workshop is aimed at colleagues from the Business School. GenAI presents both risks and opportunities for how students engage with assessment and feedback, and this has implications for assessment design and feedback practices. Through case studies and discussions, participants will examine how to design authentic assessments in which students make responsible and effective use of GenAI.
For more information and links to apply, please visit the event page.
Show Tell and Talk: ‘Generative AI’
28 January 1.30 – 3 pm, Room 2.26, 35 Berkeley Square
Our next Show Tell and Talk workshop takes place in January and places are filling up fast. This sharing innovations workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from a range of colleagues about how Generative AI is being embedded at UoB, why it is important and what Generative AI projects, supported by BILT, are being undertaken at the University. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and engage in discussion with colleagues.
For more information and links to register, please visit our event page.
28 January, 1.30pm – 4.30pm, 35 BSQ HWB 3.18
Inspired by The Climate Fresk, The Biodiversity Collage is a playful and cooperative workshop that teaches participants to understand the challenges and pressures around biodiversity. During this workshop, you will discover the functioning of ecosystems, the part that Biodiversity plays for the Humanity well being, its interactions with human activities and the threats causing its erosion. The content is based on the IPBES scientific reports.
Tea, coffee and cakes (including vegan and GF options) will be provided to attendees.
Places are extremely limited, please only book if you can definitely attend. Open to all staff and students.
Becoming Response-able: The Inner approach to ESD
3rd February, 12 – 2pm, Verdon Smith Seminar Room, RFH
Through examples and discussion, this workshop will ask what it means to be ‘Response Able’. We will compare and contrast the conventional, colonial, top-down notion of responsibility with one based on first-hand, inner, lived-experience and explore how developments in Consciousness Education might improve the effectiveness of our ESD.
This 90 minute workshop will be hosted by Dr Keith Beasley, School Safety Officer in Earth Science and Geography and founder of the University of Bristol’s Exploring the Inner Staff Club. It is based on his PhD and ongoing international research into the experience and value of ‘consciousness beyond the rational’ and deep decolonisation.
Interdisciplinary Research Supervision workshop [in-person]
February 10 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, 35 Berkeley Square, room 4.02
The Bristol Institute for Learning and Teaching are delighted to host a training workshop for Interdisciplinary Research Supervisors. This 2-hour workshop aims to guide and support research supervisors in negotiating the complexity of interdisciplinary research supervision with tips and tools for best practice.
Full details can be found on this page.
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February 11 @ 1:30 pm – 3 pm, Room G27 Victoria Rooms
Join experienced performer/facilitators from Bristol Improv Theatre for an interactive Plenary workshop. We’ll introduce core concepts from improvisation through interactive activities designed to build connection and rapport in an active learning environment. This includes the improvisation concept of ‘happy fail’ and ‘leap and discover’ as tools for building bravery and resilience for teachers and learners.
Full details can be found on this page.
The BILT Briefing is published and distributed fortnightly by The Bristol Institute of Learning and Teaching (BILT). If you no longer wish to receive a copy of The Briefing, please send an email to bilt-info@bristol.ac.uk from the address you are registered with, containing the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the title line.
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