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Higher Education Academy: routes to funding and support

Higher Education Academy: routes to funding and support. Richard Atfield, Discipline Lead – Business and Management. HRD workshop, University of Portsmouth. 26 October 2012. New UK HEA structure. From August 2011

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Higher Education Academy: routes to funding and support

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  1. Higher Education Academy: routes to funding and support • Richard Atfield, Discipline Lead – Business and Management • HRD workshop, University of Portsmouth • 26 October 2012

  2. New UK HEA structure • From August 2011 • All staff directly employed, located in the York, Edinburgh and Cardiff offices or home-based • 3 service areas: Academic Practice, Teacher Excellence, Institutional strategy • 4 academic practice clusters: Arts and humanitiesHealth & social careSocial sciencesSTEM http://www.heacademy.ac.uk

  3. Discipline Support through HEA 24 Subject Centres, range of constituency sizes ‘Franchised’ to HEIs Most SC offered individual and/or departmental grants Most SC organised workshops and/or offered funding Open to any UK HEI staff Open to any institution 28 Discipline Leads, balanced across HESA student numbers, directly employed by HEA £1.5m grant funds for individual, department and collaborative bids, involving HEA Fellows in some cases 5-10 workshops per discipline plus some themes Doctoral programmes and International scholarships Open to any subscribing institution

  4. Main HEA Themes 2012-13 New for 2012-13 * • Online learning * • Retention and success • Reward and recognition of teaching • Students as partners * These relate to the key expectations of the four countries through requirements identified by their funding councils Assessment and feedback Education for sustainable development Employability Flexible learning Internationalisation

  5. Social Sciences Grouping • Discipline Leadsfor: • Politics • Sociology • Oversight of: • Anthropology • Islamic Studies • Journals • Business and management • Economics • Education • Finance and accounting • Hospitality • Law • Marketing

  6. Funding Opportunities(for subscribing institutions) • http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding • Workshops and Seminars(up to £750) • Grants: • Individual up to £5k (call Jan-12) • Departmental up to £15k (closed Oct-11) • Collaborative up to £60k (call Feb-12) • UK Travel Fund (staff and students) open call • Doctoral Programme • Travel Scholarships up to 20k

  7. Other opportunities National teaching fellowships, (£10k, HEFCE/HEFCW) OER - Open educational resources (HEA/JISC) Social Sciences Cluster teaching research methods project NSS reports HEA commissioned research

  8. HEA commissioned research http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/Current_research-projects HEA - Literature review of the impact of teaching and development programmes(HOST policy research) HEA &NUS - Exploring behavioural approaches to understanding student choice (CFE, with Sheffield) HEA & Leadership Foundation - Leading the student experience: academics and professional services in partnership HEA - Review postgraduate taught experience survey HEA - Measuring the impact of the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning (UKPSF) (current call)

  9. Dissemination opportunities National HEA conference, 3-4 July, Warwick Social Sciences Cluster conference, 23-24 May, Liverpool HEA/ABS teaching and learning conference, 23-24 April, Nottingham ELiSS journal, enhancing learning in the social sciences Social Sciences blog including workshop and project outputs Workshops and seminars, updates, think pieces and reports

  10. International Scholar 2012 Glenn HardakerProfessor of Innovation Management, Huddersfield Educational initiatives in e-learning and Islamic pedagogy. Long interest in Islamic world, recently lived in Morocco and Malaysia seeking excellence in Islamic pedagogy, observed a lack of focus on understanding excellence in T&L methods Collaborating with internationally recognised Islamic universities and institutions in Malaysia, which is seen to be leading the world in Islamic finance and Halal management and with aspirations for leading international excellence in Islamic Studies

  11. National Teaching Fellow Beverly LeedsPrincipal Lecturer, UCLan At the forefront of e-learning developments at UCLan, pioneered Adobe Connect web-conferencing for live and recorded lectures, also remote seminars and assessment feedback Developed 100+ reusable OERs through various projects, led the way in use of blogs and e-portfolios for reflective and enquiry-based learning Uses ‘flipped-classroom’ approach – lectures online anytime, maximising seminar time for discussion and practical activities

  12. Departmental grant, Coventry • Activity-led Learning (ALL) in postgraduate engineering programmes, School of Engineering Management, Coventry • Approx. PG 400 students, 75% non-UK, 50% P/T • ALL involves students in solving real problems, against real deadlines using practical skills and teamwork • Using trained student advocates for external fact-finding, plus internal survey of staff, students and local businesses • Impact?higher retention; lower failure/early withdrawal; earlier more effective engagement between students; retention and application of learning , development of interpersonal skills.

  13. Departmental grant, Birmingham City • Developing essential knowledge and skills in health care via mobile technology, School of Health & Social Care, Birmingham City • team of staff, student partners, employers and learning technologists, plus technology and engineering students • develop toolkit including an app and laminated cards with QR codes leading to useful information • connects teachers and learners in college and work-based settings in a creative and dynamic way • Impact? teaching bioscience to support students in all learning environments in a way that increases confidence, knowledge, skills and employability

  14. More information: Business Education • Richard Atfield, Discipline Lead – Business and Management, richard.atfield@heacademy.ac.ukTwitter@HEA_BusinessEdu , • Lyn Bibbings, Discipline Lead – Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Tourism and Events, Lyn.Bibbings@heacademy.ac.uk • Lyn Vos, Discipline Lead – Marketing, Interim DL for Finance and Accounting, lynn.vos@heacademy.ac.uk HEA website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/home Disciplinepages: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines Events: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events Funding: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding

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