Sally Brown

Many colleagues have used our ‘HEA Fellowships-on-one-page’ handout, which is best printed out A3 in colour when working on your applications for Associate Fellowship, Fellowship, Senior Fellowship and Principal Fellowship.

Phil and I have now revised the grid to incorporate updates from the HEA, and would recommend that you use this version rather than the earlier versions. UKPSF summary: update 2015 (873 downloads) Note that the ‘2015’ column is current information from the HEA website, which supersedes the job descriptions still present in the 2011 UKPSF document.

We are also pleased to provide the main slides UKPSF slides 2015 (900 downloads) we currently use at workshops assisting people to draft their applications, with slides with black headings drawing from resources from the HEA, and those with purple headings consisting of our own thoughts and some we’ve gathered from other sources.

We are happy for both these downloads to be used as Open Educational Resources (Phil Race and Sally Brown)

After an extended Christmas break with no travel away from home and minimal computer screen use due to my cataract operation on 17 December (long live the NHS and fight for its survival!) I am back to work today. Once more I am working with senior staff at Nottingham Trent University on their PFHEA applications. The materials Phil and I use for our workshops are here  UKPSF slides (862 downloads) and the grid is here grid (744 downloads) .

In the lead up to Christmas I will be working at London South Bank University on Wednesday 10 December as the external on their UKPSF panel, and on Friday 12th at Napier University, Edinburgh, running a session helping colleagues start drafting their principal fellowship applications after which I will pretend to be on holiday for Christmas. The slides for Napier are here: UKPSF slides (862 downloads) and the grid is here grid (744 downloads) .

Next week I am having a cataract operation so will be out of email contact for a couple of days and won’t be working on text heavy activities for the Christmas holidays.

Phil Race and I are supporting education for girls in Afghanistan this year instead of sending Christmas cards to colleagues, so we wish you all a delightful and peaceful Festive Season!

The Transforming Assessment project continues today at Anglia Ruskin University where Margaret Price and I will be working with the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences on their away day. My slides for my presentation are here.  ARU slides (682 downloads)

As a continuation of my work on the Transforming Assessment project at Anglia Ruskin University with Margaret Price, I am working there again on Thursday 4 and Friday 5 December, and here are the slides I plan to use, together with a descriptor of an activity I use to help people think about self and peer assessment. Feel free to use any of these you think would be helpful and fun!  Group work slides (719 downloads) , Self and peer assessment slides (640 downloads) , Egg game handout (950 downloads)

Today I am contributing to the steering group of Michelle Morgan’s £2m HEFCE- funded groundbreaking Postgraduate Experience. project led by Kingston University.  We are at one of the treasures of British higher education: a delightful outpost of Kingston University : the stunning Dorwich House. http://www.dorichhousemuseum.org.uk/index.php 

And also today we celebrate the graduation of Dr Sarah Nixon of Liverpool John Moores University who has graduated with her doctorate by published works at Liverpool Cathedral today. Congratulations Sarah on your well deserved success from all of us in the PhD by publications group at Newcastle.

Today is the first of the Faculty days Margaret Price and I are doing using material from the HEA project ‘A marked improvement’, part of the  extended Transforming Assessment Project at ARU. I am looking forward to working with colleagues from the Lord Ashcroft International Business School and the slides I will use are here. ARU slides (704 downloads)

After a cracking day at the Inclusive Assessment conference run by PeDRIO with Plymouth University on Monday, I am working today with Nursing and Social Work colleagues on ‘Enhancing  the student experience’ and ;Streamlining assessment’.   The slides are available here. Streamlining Assessment slides (971 downloads) , Enhancing student experience: slides (751 downloads) .Who would have thought we could be eating the buffet lunch on a sunny balcony without coats in mid-November as we did yesterday!

Brilliant sunshine today at Plymouth University’s ‘Inclusive Assessment  in Practice’ conference, where I am running a session on ‘Inclusive International assessment’. The slides and handout I’m using are here. International Assessment slides (654 downloads) , International Assessment handout (651 downloads) .  It’s always a pleasure to come and participate at events at the University that gave me and Phil Honorary Doctorates on a similarly sunny but much warmer day last year.

On 20 and 21 November I will be running workshops a at the Chelmsford and Cambridge campuses of Anglia Ruskin University as part of the ongoing ‘Transforming Assessment project, concentrating today specifically on feedback. Here are the slides I am using. ARU slides (783 downloads)