Student-Staff Partnerships in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Seminar

Dates

Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 14:00 to 16:00

Location

Online

We are delighted to announce our next PRAXIS Seminar:
Student-Staff Partnerships in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Presented by Dr Catherine Bovill
You can register for this event on Microsoft Forms.

Interest in student-staff partnerships continues to grow, partly due to the compelling benefits which are increasingly reported from partnership work. Student staff partnerships focus on many different areas of higher education research and practice and involve very different groups of students. In this session we will concentrate on partnerships in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). In 2013, Felten proposed a set of principles of good practice in SoTL, which included the principle that SoTL is “conducted in partnership with students”. In this session we will explore student-staff partnerships in SoTL through examining principles, examples of different kinds of partnership, benefits, challenges, and also potential solutions. I will argue for the importance of bringing students into dialogue about learning and teaching and about SoTL. There will be opportunity to share your own and hear others’ experiences and ideas for student-staff partnerships in SoTL.

About the speaker

Dr Catherine Bovill

Dr Catherine Bovill is Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), University of Edinburgh, Visiting Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, Visiting Fellow at the University of Winchester, UK, and previously a Fulbright Scholar. She is Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Staff and Educational Development Association. Cathy leads a range of strategic work at the University of Edinburgh including the Student Partnership Agreement and funding scheme, she convenes the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme, is co-chair of the Curriculum Transformation Programme Student Engagement Strategy Group, and leads the IAD Programme Design and Teaching Enhancement Team. Cathy is considered an international leader in the field of student-staff co-created curriculum, having published over 50 articles and books in this area and having been invited to present her work in 13 countries. She also publishes work on internationalisation of higher education, peer observation of teaching and academic development. She is on the editorial board for Teaching in Higher Education.

We hope you can join us!