Undergraduate Research in Australia
Summit Program
DAY 1: THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
Program | |
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8.30 |
Registration and coffee |
9.00 |
WelcomeProfessor Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Macquarie University. |
9.20 |
Integrating research, teaching and learning: Summit aims, rationale and outcomesProfessor Angela Brew, ALTC National Teaching Fellow, Macquarie University. |
9.40 |
Keynote address: Establishing the value of undergraduate research: engaging students in real scienceEmeritus Professor Elaine Seymour, Ethnography & Evaluation Research, the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. |
10.40 |
Morning Tea |
11.10 |
Keynote address: National Science Foundation models for funding undergraduate researchDr Linda Slakey, Executive Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, USA. |
12.10 |
Questions and issues for AustraliaProfessor Kerri-Lee Krause, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality and Student Outcomes) and Director, Griffith Institute for Higher Education, Griffith University. |
12.40 |
Lunch |
1.30 |
Roundtable discussion of questions to put to the panelTo include sharing of what institutions are doing/good practice and issues etc. |
2.10 |
Plenary panelChaired by Professor Mick McManus, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) University of Queensland. |
Professor, Iain Hay, ALTC Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Flinders University. |
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Professor John Rice, Executive Director, Australian Council of Deans of Science |
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Dr Jeanette Baird, Audit Director, Australian Universities Quality Agency |
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Mr David Barrow, President, National Union of Students |
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Professor Andrew Wells, Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts, Australian Research Council |
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4.00 |
Afternoon Tea |
4.30 |
Keynote address: Institutional strategies to integrate research, teaching and learning: The Sheffield University experienceProfessor Phillipa Levy, Director, Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK |
5.30 |
Break |
6.30 |
Drinks |
7.00 |
DinnerView more photos from dinner below: Dinner 04 | Dinner 05 | Dinner 06 | Dinner 07 | Dinner 08 | Dinner 09 | Dinner 10 | Dinner 11 | Dinner 12 | Dinner 13 | Dinner 14 | Dinner 15 | Dinner 16 | Dinner 17 | Dinner 18 |
DAY 2: FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER
Program | |
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9.00 |
Welcomeby Professor Richard Johnstone, Executive Director ALTC |
9.15 |
Keynote address: Developing undergraduate research across the USA: The work of the Council for Undergraduate ResearchDr Nancy Hensel, Executive Director, Council for Undergraduate Research, USA. |
10.15 |
Roundtable Discussionson issues arising and draft Communiqué |
10.45 |
Morning Tea |
11.15 |
Parallel Session: The teaching research nexus and the first year student experience: What are the possibilities?Professor Sally Kift, ALTC Senior Fellow, Director of First Year Experience, Queensland University of Technology. |
11.15 |
Parallel Session: Discipline, diversity and the development of all students' research skillsDrs John Willison, University of Adelaide and Susan Mayson, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. |
12.00 |
Parallel Session: Motivating the first-year learner through research informed media practiceDr Denise Wood, University of South Australia. |
12.00 |
Parallel Session: Students' engagement with the discipline: The impact of the undergraduate research journal NexusProfessor Brian Yates, Head, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania. |
12.45 |
Lunch |
1.45 |
Interactive keynote address: Institutional practices and strategies to develop undergraduate research and inquiryProfessor Mick Healey, Director, Centre for Active Learning, University of Gloucestershire, UK. |
3.00 |
Final Plenary Discussiontaking these issues forward on a national level. Led by Professor Angela Brew, ALTC National Teaching Fellow, Macquarie University. |
3.30 |
Afternoon Tea and close |