2018 Conference

11th PSA/BISA Teaching and Learning Conference, University of Leeds

Conference Programme

All panels and presentations will be held in room 14.33 of the social studies building

Thursday September 6th

10.00 – 10.30 Registration – room 12.38 social studies building

10.30 – 10.45

  • Welcome from convenors Stuart McAnulla and Victoria Honeyman

10.45 – 11.45

  • Keynote presentation 1

Bela Arora (South Wales) ‘Journeying with Students’

11.45 – 12.00 Coffee

12.00 – 13.15

  • Panel 1 Teaching and Innovation (Chair: Nick Robinson)

Helen Williams (Nottingham) – ‘Feedback literacy in the digital age’

John Craig (Leeds Beckett) - ‘The Paradox of the Lecture in Politics’

Oana Burcu (Durham) – ‘Group work and assessment: co-operative and collaborative learning’

Pete Woodcock (Huddersfield) - ‘In defence of political theory’

13.15 – 14.00 Buffet Lunch

14.00 – 15.15

  • Panel 2: The Curriculum and Activism (Chair: Stuart McAnulla)

Claire Sutherland (Durham) – ‘The Student Journey from a Politics and IR programme perspective’

Ben Little (East Anglia) – ‘Taking the bumpers off: Live campaigning, trusting students and writing laws’

15.15 – 15.30 Coffee

15.30 – 16.45

  • Panel 3: Teaching Political theory: Purposes and Controversies (Chair: Vicky Honeyman)

Spiros Makris (Macedonia) - ‘Teaching and Learning Political Theory in the 21st century: The case of republican critical thinking and active citizenship’

Simon Choat (Kingston) – ‘Decolonialising the political theory curriculum’

16.45 – 17.00 Coffee

17.00 – 18.00

  • Keynote: Jacqui Briggs Memorial Lecture

Heather Savigny, (DeMontford) ‘Writing Textbooks: Careers, Coffees and (Jimmy) Choos’,

18.30 Dinner at The Restaurant Bar and Grill, City Square (voluntary)

Friday September 7th

10.00 – 11.15

  • Panel 1: Interdisciplinarity and Online Learning (Chair: Vicky Honeyman))

Simon Rofe (SOAS), ‘Size Isn’t Everything: it's the only thing. Creating an ‘active learning’ experience at scale.’

Cathy Coombs (Leeds), Keeping Everybody Happy? Delivering Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning on a Blended Learning Module

11.15 – 11.30 Coffee

11.30 – 12.45

  • Panel 2: Creating and Supporting Student placements (Chair: Nick Robinson)

Lata Narayanaswamy (Leeds) – ‘Exploring research partnerships with development NGOs to enhance student skill-building and future employability’

Stuart Gordon (LSE) – ‘Work experience in HE – whose journey?’

12.45 – 13.30 Buffet Lunch

13.30 – 14.45

  • Panel 3: Student Opportunity and Support (Chair: Stuart McAnulla)

Simon Lightfoot (Leeds) - ‘Integrating research-led employability in foreign policy courses: A case study?’

Hannah Duggan (London Met), - ‘Politics and International Relations Academic Mentoring: Reflections on Curriculum Integration and Impact’

Mark Shanahan (Reading) - ‘The quiet, the raucous, the different – mental health, the discipline and the academic tutor’

14.45 – 15.00 Coffee

15.00 -16.00

  • Roundtable on research supervision and pedagogy, led by Tony Armstrong (Birmingham City)

16.00 Conference close