Contextualising workshops to suit the subject area of the participants isn't easy, but fortunately one of today's Research and Scholarly Activity workshops was with engineers, and the other was in an area I've worked very closely with in the past: Art/Design/Media.
This in some ways made up for today's sessions clashing with my friends and ex-colleagues' christmas dinner in Loughborough, but has now been more offset by only having to drive home from Sheffield in a very surprising amount of snow.
Can't remember the last time so much fell in such a short space of time, or when it fell this side of the New Year, but at least that's my travelling done for three weeks so it'll be "working from home" and golf until early January.
Thursday 17 December 2009
Thursday 10 December 2009
Strategic Priorities and Managing Risk Conference
The big day!
After 3 months of planning and publicising, 85 (who according to their feedback sheets were very happy) delegates attended what will now be an annual HE/FE conference organised in association with EIAT Consultancy.
Keynotes were delivered by John Widdowson: Principal and Chief Executive, New Durham College & Chair of the MEG Group, David Jenkins: Director of Educational Partnerships, Staffordshire University, Executive for Associate for Collaborative Provision, and Charlie Woodcock: Executive Director Business & Community Development, Chester University, and I ran two workshops on "Scholarly Activity and Applying for Third-Party Funding to Support it" with Madeleine King.
Not only will the conference pay for two weeks somewhere equatorial in the new year, but 4 colleges offered me staff development work in February/March and one of the delegates asked if I could help her put together a Scholarly Activity conference next Summer.
Full programme details can be found at http://www.eiat.org/hefeconference.php
After 3 months of planning and publicising, 85 (who according to their feedback sheets were very happy) delegates attended what will now be an annual HE/FE conference organised in association with EIAT Consultancy.
Keynotes were delivered by John Widdowson: Principal and Chief Executive, New Durham College & Chair of the MEG Group, David Jenkins: Director of Educational Partnerships, Staffordshire University, Executive for Associate for Collaborative Provision, and Charlie Woodcock: Executive Director Business & Community Development, Chester University, and I ran two workshops on "Scholarly Activity and Applying for Third-Party Funding to Support it" with Madeleine King.
Not only will the conference pay for two weeks somewhere equatorial in the new year, but 4 colleges offered me staff development work in February/March and one of the delegates asked if I could help her put together a Scholarly Activity conference next Summer.
Full programme details can be found at http://www.eiat.org/hefeconference.php
Wednesday 9 December 2009
Strategic Priorities Conference Dinner
Queens Hotel, Leeds
Spent a very enjoyable evening at our pre-conference dinner discussing amongst other things (leaving the "work talk" until tomorrow) such random topics as phantom whippets and pigeons with the Association of Colleges HE Policy Manager Madeleine King, why there's no real ale south of Sheffield with the Mixed Economy Group's Chair John Widdowson, and how LUFC will be back in the big time possibly at Stoke City's expense with David Jenkins from Staffordshire University/SURF/ACP.
Although the company has been stimulating and the food/wine excellent, unfortunately it's bedtime as there's serious work to be done in the morning...
Spent a very enjoyable evening at our pre-conference dinner discussing amongst other things (leaving the "work talk" until tomorrow) such random topics as phantom whippets and pigeons with the Association of Colleges HE Policy Manager Madeleine King, why there's no real ale south of Sheffield with the Mixed Economy Group's Chair John Widdowson, and how LUFC will be back in the big time possibly at Stoke City's expense with David Jenkins from Staffordshire University/SURF/ACP.
Although the company has been stimulating and the food/wine excellent, unfortunately it's bedtime as there's serious work to be done in the morning...
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