LTR 2020: UWS Learning, Teaching and Research Conference 2020 University of the West of Scotland Paisley, UK, June 24-25, 2020 |
Conference website | http://ltr.uws.ac.uk |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ltr2020 |
Submission deadline | February 17, 2020 |
Submission Guidelines
Learning, Teaching and Research: Making A Difference
All submissions should meet the following criteria:
- Your abstract should have clear links to both conference title and one theme
- The relationship between Research and Enterprise and Learning and Teaching should be outlined in your submission
- The topic should be likely to engage the conference audience, which is drawn from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds
For workshops, there is one additional criterion:
- Your proposal should outline the activities you plan to use to encourage interaction and participation between delegates
General points:
Your proposal should be no more than 350 words long (500 words for workshops, to include the plan of activities). It should be written in plain language appropriate for a mixed discipline audience.
We are particularly keen to receive submissions from students or from staff-student collaborations.
You are welcome to include references in your proposal but owing to the word limit, a separate reference list is not necessary.
When you submit your proposal, please pick only ONE theme from the four options. If your proposal could apply to more than one, choose the theme which most closely fits your topic.
In addition, you can only pick ONE presentation format. If you are not successful in your preferred format, we may contact you to see if you would like your proposal to be considered in an alternative format.
List of Themes
Assessment for the future
As the UWS Focus on: Assessment and Feedback topic concludes, this theme looks at how assessment and feedback practices are changing, with consequent impact on learning and teaching. Relevant topics may include:
- Innovative assessment
- Effective and efficient feedback practices
- Students' views on assessment and feedback
- Assessing work-based learning
- Co-creation of assessment
- Peer assessment
- The use of technology in assessment and feedback
Making a difference: health, society and sustainability
The interdisciplinary nature of research at UWS promotes collaborative working on a global scale, producing research which can then underpin learning and teaching. This theme explores challenges in three key areas and explores how research is making a difference to teaching and learning:
- Health - including healthcare, digital health, key health challenges, supporting our ageing population, dementia research
- Society - including education, equality and diversity, crime prevention, creative industries, immersive technologies, entrepreneurship, game based learning, economic development, offender rehabilitation, Brexit research and the UWS Oxfam Partnership exploring excess mortality at work
- Sustainability - including energy, advanced materials, conservation, digital revolution, built environment, agritech
Student engagement with learning and teaching through partnership
This theme builds on the Student Engagement Through Partnership Framework (Advance HE, 2019) by investigating different approaches for the involvement of students in learning and teaching. Relevant topics may include:
- Student partnership in learning, teaching and assessment
- Engaging students through research and inquiry
- Student-led change projects
- Engaging students in curriculum design
- Peer support/peer learning
Using evidence to enhance student learning
The three-year QAA Enhancement Theme, Evidence for Enhancement: Improving the Student Experience, has been at the heart of Scottish higher education since 2017. This theme offers the opportunity to reflect on the ways that evidence is used to enhance teaching and learning; topics may include:
- Using evaluation in learning and teaching
- Engaging in learning and teaching enquiry/scholarship of teaching and learning
- Learning analytics
- Qualitative evidence of enhancement
Presentation Formats
Presentation (20 mins plus time for questions)
Presentations provide opportunities for presenters to share examples of novel or innovative practice relevant to the conference themes. For example, this may include a project, collaboration, piece of research or a case study. Accepted presentation proposals will be allocated 20 minutes during a parallel session. Most sessions will run for 50 minutes and feature two presentations with a total of 10 minutes for questions and discussion at the end of the session.
Workshop (45 mins plus 10 mins questions)
Workshops provide opportunities for presenters to showcase their innovative practice or projects to participants. These workshops allow presenters to create an interactive session and engage participants, more so than in a presentation or lightning talk. Each workshop session should be activity-led, collaborative and allow delegates to learn new knowledge, skills and approaches relative to the theme so they may integrate this into their own practice. Workshop sessions will be 55 minutes in length, allowing for a workshop of 45 minutes with 10 minutes for questions.
Lightning talks (5 mins plus 5 mins questions)
Lightning talks give presenters the chance to express quickly, clearly and succinctly key information on their chosen topic in a dynamic, creative style with the aim of holding the attention and interest of delegates. These sessions allow presenters to share with participants an example of innovative practice, a piece of research or outline a case study or project which may still be in progress or complete. Lightning talks will be allocated five minutes for each presentation with another five minutes for questions, providing 10 minutes for each presenter.
Posters
Posters will be displayed for the duration of the conference (9am on June 24th to 4pm on June 25th). Presenters should be available at their poster to answer questions from delegates during the dedicated poster times within the programme. They may also wish to be present during other breaks as these can be peak times for discussing their work with delegates.
Posters should be size A0 (portrait) - a PowerPoint template is available on request (ltr@uws.ac.uk) - and should include:
- Name(s) or author(s), title(s) and School
- Research partners or sponsors (if any)
- Title of poster
- University logo
Poster content could also include the following information:
- Abstract
- Diagrams, graphs, flowcharts or images
- Methodology
- Findings/Analysis
- Concise text summaries
- References
Please note that posters should be appropriate for a mixed discipline audience. The normal poster style for a conference in your discipline may not be suitable for an audience comprising colleagues from all Schools, external visitors and exhibitors; please bear this in mind when designing your poster.
Information for UWS Postgraduate Research Students
If you are a postgraduate research student at UWS, please see the Learning, Teaching and Research Conference microsite for information about PGR-specific opportunities to take part in the 2020 Learning, Teaching and Research Conference.
If you wish to participate in the peer reviewed conference as well as the postgraduate sessions, you are very welcome to submit a proposal through this Call for Papers but please be aware that you will not be eligible for postgraduate prizes for any presentations, workshops or posters selected for the peer reviewed conference. Only submissions via the postgraduate page on the conference microsite will be eligible for postgraduate prizes.
You cannot use the same submission for both the peer reviewed and postgraduate elements of the conference.
Venue
The conference will be held at UWS Paisley Campus, High Street, Paisley, PA1 2BE.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the conference address: ltr@uws.ac.uk