The Local, National and Global in Higher Education
Friday 13 February 2015, Kenwood Hall Hotel, Sheffield
Conference Programme
08.4509.00
Registration & Refreshments
Kenwood House Breakout Room
Karen Kitchen and Lindsey Farnsworth
09.0009.15
Welcome
Drawing Room
Professor Cathy Nutbrown
09.1510.00
Keynote Address
Drawing Room
Professor Paul Ashwin (Lancaster University)
Why would going to university change anyone?
10.0010.15
10.1511.15
Refreshments
Kenwood House Breakout Room
Parallel Paper Session One
Drawing Room (Chair: Professor Gareth Parry )
Samantha Drobinski
Policy success and failure in English higher education: some dilemmas
Rhiannon Birch
Types of policy inquiry process in UK higher education: situating the Dearing inquiry
Terrace Room (Chair: Professor Kathryn Ecclestone)
Elizabeth Parkin
Maltesers, toffees and chocolate oranges: the creative sweet spot in course design
Deanna Meth
‘Shoot me down for saying this’: problems and paradoxes in HE learning and teaching
Montgomery Room (Chair: Dr Vassiliki Papatsiba)
Sandrine Soubes
Meanders toward research independence for postdoctoral researchers in science
Vivien Sheard
The challenge of Alvesson & Skoldberg’s reflexive methodology for the novice researcher
11.2012.50
Parallel Paper Session Two
Drawing Room (Chair: Dr Vassiliki Papatsiba)
Sylvie Lomer
International students as global diplomats: increasing the UK’s soft power
Cordula Peters
How students studying on the Arabian Peninsula rate their graphic design education
Salim Al-Abry
Transnational higher education: academic programmes in Omani private colleges
Terrace Room (Chair: Dr Caroline Hart)
Brian Gormley
Commuting versus resident students: differences in student engagement and living
Aidan Tolland
Institutional diversity in the English further education system
Bill Esmond
Systems, institutions and markets: theory and practice in ‘higher vocational education’
Montgomery Room (Chair: Dr Tony Strike)
David Hyatt
A critical framework for higher education policy discourse analysis
Laura Dean
Employability: the good, the bad or the ugly?
Sharon Feeney
Comparing two approaches of institutional quality review in higher education
12.5013.50
13.5014.35
Lunch
Restaurant
Keynote Address
Drawing Room
Professor Simon Marginson (UCL Institute of Education)
Global, national, local?
14.4015.40
Parallel Paper Session Three
Drawing Room (Chair: Professor Gareth Parry)
Patricia Bowe-Deegan
Once we finish the degree we can worry about how we learn and study
Anne-Louise Temple Clothier
Question, questions and qualification: redefining the internal career
Terrace Room (Chair: Dr Tony Strike)
Vassiliki Papatsiba
Knowledge, collegiality and strategies in international research collaborations
Philip Chan
Funding of undergraduate medical education in the NHS: principles and effects
Montgomery Room (Chair: Dr Caroline Hart)
Julian Crockford and Kimberley Simms
Student finance and widening participation through the lens of institutional stakeholders
Rita Hordosy
Student experiences with finance in the transition to university
Library Room (Chair: Professor Kathryn Ecclestone)
Pauline Madigan
Caught in a liminal space: trying to put meaning & perspective into the research process
Corinne Power O’Mahony
Observing the development of a ‘true collaborative learning’ process
15.45 –
16.25
Keynote Address
Drawing Room
Dr Jane Mulderrig (University of Sheffield)
Soft power and neoliberal change in policy discourse
16.25 –
16.30
Closing Remarks and Depart
Drawing Room
Professor Gareth Parry