Events

Are you interested in collaborative reading and rethinking of feedback for learning? If so, join us online for this synchronous reading circle with a twist.

This online workshop will showcase examples of how the flipped classroom has been successfully embedded at the University, it will also include practical guidance from the Digital Education Office for those looking to embed flipping in their own teaching.

This online workshop will showcase examples of successful teaching and assessing of large groups and will include contributions from a range of staff at the University.

This workshop is open to new, experienced and aspiring research supervisors and will provide an opportunity to explore key themes in research supervision at Bristol. As a workshop participant you will:  Explore what good supervisors need to know at Bristol, Identify your personal approach appropriate to your context, Reflect upon examples of best practice in research supervision.

This workshop will introduce a practical theoretical framework (Halliday, 1994) that enables deeper understanding of what is going on in our students’ writing assignments (such as reports, essays, case studies, etc.). The introduction of the framework will be followed by its application to students’ writing, as well as our feedback practices.

In this online workshop Dr Rebecca Pike and Dr Rose Murray from the School of Biological Sciences will explore how improvements in assessment literacy (for both staff and students) were realised through a series of co-creation initiatives involving student partners.

This reading circle invites colleagues across the University to discuss those (and other) questions around assessment for inclusion.

To support inclusion, this reading circle takes the ‘slow’ approach by spreading it over four days. Each day will begin with a prompt to guide your reading/discussion activities for the day. All you need to do is access MS Teams and commit to approx. 20 to 45 minutes daily for this, at any time of the day, over the four days.

The aim of this online seminar is to set out our initial understanding of decolonisation as praxis. We will return to reconsider this understanding in the conclusion. The seminar will run from 1 – 2:30pm (last 30 mins is for discussion).

This workshop is open to new, experienced and aspiring research supervisors and will provide an opportunity to explore key themes in research supervision at Bristol.

This online workshop will showcase examples of approaches to dialogic feedback and will include contributions from staff from across the University.

This online workshop will explore students experiences of online assessment and includes contributions from both staff and students from across different areas of the University.

The conference will explore how in difficult times we can take hopeful and compassionate approaches to teaching and assessment for transformational learning, both in person and on-line.

Building on the theoretical insights developed in the previous seminars in this series, this seminar considers the specific role of decolonising the curriculum within the broader aims of decolonisation and epistemic justice. It will focus on what it means in practical terms to decolonise the curriculum and the implications for assessment and pedagogy. 

in this workshop an interactive tool for Employability and Academic Skills (EAS) will be demonstrated by Senior Lecturer Dr Hadi Abulrub (Mechanical Engineering). The EAS tool was developed for Engineering with Management postgraduate programme at the Faculty of Engineering which aims to translate the University’s skills framework (along with programme attributes outcomes) into a programme-specific skills matrix.

An online talk by Dr Adam Rutherford. Contemporary concepts of race have shallow historical roots, invented as they were during the European Age of Enlightenment, exploration and plunder. From the 17th century, philosophers, scientists and writers concocted taxonomies of our species, sometimes based on crude traits like pigmentation and bone morphology, and often just made up.
Science, and notably the new science of genetics did a good job of dismantling these racial categories in the 20th century, and showing that while race is very real because we perceive it, the folk taxonomies that everyone understands and uses have little basis in biology. However, in recent years, new techniques in genetics, sometimes poorly deployed, misunderstood or misrepresented, have given succour to those who wish to reinforce traditional racial categories, alongside common attempts to understand common observations such as in sporting success and cognitive abilities.

This Course aims to support academic staff as they take on the role of senior tutor in their school and provide a space to share experiences of personal tutoring.

This workshop is available to all academic and professional services staff new to personal tutoring and those wishing to refresh their skills.