Podcasts
Assessment and learning: Fields Apart?
Educational assessments define what it means to have learned and therefore have a huge impact upon teaching and learning.
22 October 2015
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Impact and Knowledge Exchange in an Evolving Research Environment
The aim of the panel session was to reflect on research impact and knowledge exchange from different angles, from user perspectives and wide public debates, through institutional contexts and the interfaces with different funding bodies, and to international experiences.
21 September 2015
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Approaches to facilitating research impact
Whilst research has always had impact, research impact is still a relatively new concept in REF terms.
21 September 2015
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Competing for excellence: Perverse and constructive effects of evaluation machines in academia
21 September 2015
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What was I thinking?! – being an academic in the age of impact
The context for this talk is offered by one of the defining debates in cultural policy studies, namely the one around the tension between a desire to be useful to those who administer the arts and culture and the aspiration to preserve the cultural policy scholar’s critical distance from the object of analysis, intellectual autonomy and the freedom to critique.
21 September 2015
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Understanding research impact: analysis of the REF impact case studies
21 September 2015
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In metrics we trust? Impact, indicators & the prospects for social science over the next five years
Citations, journal impact factors, H-indices, even tweets and Facebook likes – there are no end of quantitative measures that can now be used to assess the quality and wider impacts of research.
21 September 2015
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Design and practice: a study of the design, build and occupation of new schools
22 June 2015
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Questioning the UK government’s vision of higher education and social mobility
Over recent years UK governments have expanded higher education and with it the supply of graduates.
9 June 2015
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What Kind of Learning do we want? 21st Century Learning, the Standards Agenda and Expert Learners
Emeritis Professor of Education, Professor Gordon Stobart, lectures on the international policy rhetoric surrounding the need for 21st century learning.
8 June 2015
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Predictability in High-Stakes Assessment: Students’ Approach to Learning
The data combined survey responses of students’ views of the examination, learning strategies, and learning support with examination results.
22 May 2015
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Does being in care provide protection or increase risk? Understanding the outcomes of children in care
Professor Janet Boddy will talk about the European Perspectives on Outcomes and Everyday Lives for Young People in Care project.
13 April 2015
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