Graduate School Update Day 2014
Date and time
Location
Holdenby Lecture Theatre 3
Park Campus University of Northampton NN2 7AL United KingdomDescription
Graduate School Update Day 2014
Graduate School Update Day is a communication day, for both our Supervisors and Research Students, in which we offer you the chance to influence the way the Graduate School operates on various levels.
Plus, of course, free breakfast and lunch!
Convened by Prof. Ian Livingstone and Simone Apel
9:15 Refreshments & Danish pastries
9:30-11:00 Workshop Session 1 for students and supervisors:
Between Theory and Practice: Reflecting on models of teaching and learning in doctoral supervision.
Dr David Preece
This session will explore the ways in which we (students and supervisors) have learnt in the past, and how our past experiences now influence our expectations of the supervisory process. Building on last year’s thought-provoking workshop on the pedagogy of supervision, we will consider case-studies from students and supervisors and then explore whether we should fulfil, modify or challenge expectations.
Break
11:30 -13:00 Workshop Session 2 for students and supervisors:
Developing Guidelines for Good Practice
Professor Ian Livingstone, David Watson and Simone Apel
This session will consider the guidelines that we as a university provide for the conduct of our research degree programmes. We will examine those guidelines against national benchmarks, and use the workshop to discuss how we might improve the university’s research degrees code of practice for both students and supervisors.
13:00 Lunch and networking
Organised by
The Graduate School plays a central role providing a University-wide framework for skills development, career preparation and administration to support all postgraduate research degree students, their supervisors and early career researchers.