Sally Brown

Today I am doing a keynote on enhancing the postgraduate experience at Kingston University as part of the dissemination of Michelle Morgan’s excellent project in the area. Thanks to Michelle and Lesley Jane Eales-Reynolds for making me so welcome.  The slides I am using are here. Enhancing Postgraduate Experience (7). Colleagues interested in masters level assessment might also like to use the new work pack for PG programme leaders designed to help you productively interrogate your assessment practice at M-level which can be found here Masters Level Assessment work pack (5).

This week, after a lovely sunny Bank Holiday, I am working at Portsmouth University on Wednesday, running sessions on Masters Level assessment and leading change in higher education: the slides are here: Masters level assessment (13), Leadership (16).

On Thursday I will start a series of workshops at Anglia Ruskin University where I will be helping staff work towards Senior Fellowship and Principal Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, and encouraging staff to think about applying for National Teaching Fellowships.

Phil and I are looking forward immensely to catching up with colleagues at the ‘SEDA@20′ conference and symposium in Leeds on 17th and 18th May, and also the glitzy ‘SEDA@20′ celebration dinner on the Saturday night.

Following an excellent Association of National Teaching Fellows symposium in York earlier this week I am now working once again at Cork Institute of Technology  supporting their student retention initiatives with workshops and senior staff meetings. The slides I am using are here (without the pictures). Thanks to Marese Bermingham for welcoming me here once more.  First six weeks (30), masters level (31), assessing large groups (35).

Phil and I are this week in Valladolid and Segovia in Spain working with colleagues from the Spanish formative assessment network. These slides in English and Spanish are the ones I’m using in both cities. We are also helping colleagues in Segovia preparing articles for publication  in English language journals. Valladolid (75)
You can also go to Phil’s site for more detail about his work on self- and peer-assessment, and for some slides in Spanish of a presentation about the seven factors underpinning successful learning from an event in Cartagena two years ago. http://phil-race.co.uk/19/04/2013/valladolid-and-segovia-18-19th-april/

Today I am working at the London College of Fashion, part of the  University of the Arts, with Teaching Technicians on enhancing teaching and learning support. Always difficult to know what to wear at fashion schools! Here are the slides I am using (without the images): London College of Fashion (50). Here are the slides on ‘learning outcomes’ too Learning outcomes (72).

Today Phil and I have returned to work again in Aalborg University, Denmark where Phil has been working with staff on ‘Making learning happen’ and I today ran a workshop on Leadership in Higher Education, for which the slides can be found here. Aalborg Leadership (63). Thanks to Lone Krogh and colleagues for making us so welcome. They like us have had a long cold winter but today the sun is shining warmly so all is well in the state of Denmark!

Today I offered a keynote at the programme leadership conference then attended two useful workshops before leading an interactive plenary. The participants working in four teams (students, senior managers, quality assurers and programme team members) role played contributors to the work of the Evil  Emperor (me) offering advice on how to make the programme leaders’ lives as difficult as possible before ‘spies’ for the forces of good offered advice ( the reverse of the earlier advice) to each constituency on how to help programme leaders. It was a lot of fun but raised lots of serious issues too! Here are the main slides from my keynote Edinburgh Programme Leaders Keynote (80).

I’ve travelled from snowy Newcastle to snowy Edinburgh today to do a workshop for staff on getting published for Edinburgh Napier University. Getting Published (67).

Tomorrow I will be contributing to the programme leaders conference here before setting off home ( snow permitting ) for the Easter weekend.

It’s lovely to be back again in Letterkenny, working strategically with senor management and doing workshops. This time I’m here with my husband Phil, who has been running workshops in parallel.
We’ve been made warmly welcome despite the rather grey and chilly weather. Here are presentations for both my workshops Letterkenny Engaging Adult Learners (164), Letterkenny Key Skills (244).
You can also see Phil’s workshops at his website: www.phil-race.co.uk