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The Winds of Change: New Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching Politics and IR
9th Annual BISA/PSA Learning and Teaching Conference
Newcastle University, 13-14th September 2016
PROGRAMME
Venue: Room G21/22, Devonshire Building
Tuesday 13th September
11.00 - 11.30 Registration, tea and coffee
11.30 - 11.45 Welcome Remarks by Valentina Feklyunina (Newcastle University)
11.45 – 13.15 Panel 1: Engaging the Community: The University and the Wider World
Chair: Andrew Walton (Newcastle University)
Jane Booth (University of Bradford) ‘The 3 “C’s”: Community, Co-production and Curriculum Enhancement'
Emily Clough, Judy Murray and Derek Bell (Newcastle University) ‘Community Research Project’
Aida Abzhaparova and Ruth Barrington (University of the West of England) ‘The purpose of Politics and IR Degree: student experience in non-traditional work-integrated learning’
13.15 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 OUP Roundtable: To think or not to think? Exploring strategies to help students acquire critical thinking in their transfer from A-level to university education
Organiser: Nick Robinson (University of Leeds)
Participants: Nick Robinson (Leeds), Sarah Iles (OUP), Judy Murray (Newcastle), Louise Luxton (Newcastle) and members of Politics Departments from local Sixth Forms and A-Level Exam Board members, names TBC
15.30 - 15.45 OUP Tea/Coffee break
15.45 - 17.15 Panel 2: Popular Culture, IR and Pedagogy
Chair: Una McGahern (Newcastle University)
Simon Philpott (Newcastle University) ‘Documentary Film and World Politics: Exploring the Fact/Fiction Continuum’
Jack Holland (University of Leeds) ‘Fictional Television and Pedagogy’
David Shim (University of Groningen) ‘Teaching Visual Global Politics’
Robert A. Saunders (Farmingdale State College – SUNY) ‘Bridging Teaching and Research within PCWP Continuum: Bron /Broen as Assignment and Artefact’
17.15 - 18.00 Politics Keynote: Nicholas Allen (Royal Holloway) ‘Teaching-led research: personal reflections on publishing work with groups of undergraduate students’
Politics Wine Reception, followed by Dinner at Blackfriars Restaurant
Wednesday 14th September
10.00 - 11.30 Panel 3: Tradition and Innovation in Teaching Politics and IR
Chair: James Bilsland (Newcastle University)
Una McGahern (Newcastle University) ‘The demands and challenges of delivering research-informed teaching at undergraduate stages 1 & 2: a pilot study of Newcastle Politics’
Claire Sutherland (Durham University) ‘Student voices, staff choices: Integrating Module and Programme-Level Assessment in SGIA’
Stuart McAnulla (University of Leeds) ‘‘Not necessarily so’ - How to teach epistemology/ontology to students’
11.30 - 11.45 UACES Tea/coffee break
11.45 - 12.30 UACES Keynote: Owen Parker (Sheffield) 'Teaching (Dissident) Theory in Crisis European Union'
12.30 - 13.15 Lunch
13.15 - 14.45 Panel 4: The Dos and Don’ts of Making Politics Fun
Chair: Maarja Luhiste (Newcastle University)
Pete Woodcock (University of Huddersfield) ‘ McMansions in Sarasota: power and how (not) to use House of Cards to teach Machiavelli’
Emma Mayhew (University of Reading) ‘TEL and TEF: How emerging technology enables new modes of student engagement which could impact on TEF performance’
Mark Shanahan (University of Reading) ‘Creating a buzz - without the static: Using Student Radio to embed political learning’
Felix Rösch (Coventry University) ‘The Power of Dance’
Carla Figueira, (Goldsmiths, University of London) ‘Teaching International Cultural Relations through a Cultural Policy Lens’
14.45 - 15.00 Closing Remarks
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