The University of Sheffield
Information School

Professor Philippa Levy - p2

Departmental responsibilities

Head of School.
Chair of School Strategy Group.
Chair of Teaching Committee.

Previous departmental responsibilities include:

Research students

University activities (selected)

Team leader, institutional `SeeChange´ Project: "Building an Integrated Culture of Research, Learning and Teaching at the University of Sheffield" (current).

Advisory Group member, HEA-funded project: "Enhancing the student experience of workplace-based e-learning" (ScHARR, current).

Current and recent University committee memberships include:

Academic Lead for University´s successful bid to HEFCE for £4.5M Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2004).

External activities (selected)

Previous roles

Selected presentations

2008

Inquiry-based learning pedagogies in the arts and social sciences: purposes, conceptions and approaches, Improving Student Learning, University of Durham, September 2008 (with J. Wood).

Keynote: Integrating research, learning and teaching in higher education: why does it matter and how can it be done? 9th Annual Conference of the ICS Subject Centre, Liverpool Hope University, August 2008.

Keynote: New learning spaces for student inquiry and research, BBSLG Conference 2008, Leeds, July 2008.

Inquiry in the Web 2.0 environment: students as designers for learning, LTEA Conference 2008, University of Sheffield, June 2008.

Keynote: Inquiring students/inquiring tutors: integrating research, learning and teaching, Teaching and Learning Symposium, Faculty of Sport, Health and Social Care, University of Gloucestershire, March 2008.

2007

Towards transformation? First year students, inquiry-based learning and the research/teaching nexus, Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education, Brighton, December, 2007 (with R. Petrulis).

Web 2.0 and the Information Commons: a learning and teaching perspective, Online Information, London, December 2007.

Design for learning for the social network generation: themes from a LAMS evaluation project, ALT-C, University of Nottingham, September 2007 (with S. Little and O. Aiyegbayo).

Digital inquiry and social networking, ALT-C, University of Nottingham, September 2007 (with S. Little).

Student inquiry and the research/teaching nexus i-Ped 2007, Coventry University, September 2007 (with R. Petrulis).

Creating and sharing digital designs for learning: experiences of first generation innovation, HEA Annual Conference, Harrogate, July 2007 (with O. Aiyegbayo and S. Little).

Experiencing inquiry: lessons from the first-year experience, Learning Together, University of London IoE, July 2007 (with R. Petrulis).

Scholarly evaluation practice: exploring the Theory of Change approach, HEA Annual Conference, Harrogate, July 2007 (with R. Petrulis and S. Little).

Using Theory of Change evaluation in learning and teaching development CILIP Umbrella, University of Hertfordshire, June 2007.

Inquiry-based learning at the University of Sheffield: strengthening the teaching-research relationship, Higher Education Colloquium, Research-Teaching Linkages, University of Edinburgh, June 2007.

e-Pedagogy and the information specialist: reflections from a CETL perspective, UC&R Conference, de Montfort University, March 2007.

2006

A technology-rich collaboratory for inquiry-based learning, Planning for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces, Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education (JISC/HEA), November 2006.

Bringing learning and research together through inquiry-based learning, CURL Meeting, University of Glasgow, April 2006.

Towards a community of inquiry for inquiry-based learning: a CETL perspective, London SoTL 6th Annual International Conference, City University, May 2006.

A strategic approach to information literacy: a CETL perspective, LILAC Annual Conference, University of Leeds, March 2006 (with P. Bing).

2005

e-Learning Strategy through Partnerships SCONUL Autumn Conference, London, November 2005.

Recent publications (selected)

2008

Levy, P., Aiyegbayo, O., Little, S. and Powell, A. (2008). Designing and Sharing Inquiry-based Learning Activities. Final report to JISC of the DeSILA Project (Design for Learning Programme).

Cox, A.M., Levy, P., Stordy, P. and Webber, S. (2008). Inquiry-based learning in the first-year information management curriculum. ITALICS, Journal of the Information and Computer Sciences Higher Education Academy Subject Centre, 7 (1) May. http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/

Lameras, P., Levy, P. and Paraskakis, I. (2008). Conceptions of teaching and learning using virtual learning environments: preliminary findings from a phenomenographic inquiry. Proceedings of Networked Learning 2008, Halkidiki, 5th - 6th May, Greece. http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/Info/confpapers.htm

Levy, P., Aiyegbayo, O. and Little, S. (2008). Before you know where you are, you have a sequence - designing for inquiry-based learning with the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS). Proceedings of Networked Learning 2008, Halkidiki, 5th - 6th May, Greece, http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/Info/confpapers.htm

2007

Levy, P. (2007). Exploring and developing excellence: towards a community of praxis. In: Skelton, A. (ed). International Perspectives on Teaching Excellence in Higher Education. London: Routledge, pp.241-256.

Levy, P. (2007). Towards a community of inquiry for inquiry-based learning: a CETL perspective. In: Fanghanel, J. et al (eds). Practising the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Proceedings of the SoTL 6th Annual International Conference, City University, London, 18th-19th May 2006. pp.299-308. http://www.city.ac.uk/ceap/dps/SotlProceedingsbook2005-6.pdf

Levy, P. and Petrulis, R. (2007). Towards transformation? First year students, inquiry-based learning and the research/teaching nexus. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), Brighton, 11th-13th December 2007. http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2007/

Levy, P., Reilly, N., Oliver, M., Hart, D. (2007). CILASS: Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, Interim Evaluation Report to HEFCE, July 2007. http://www.shef.ac.uk/cilass

2006

Ingraham, B., Levy, P., McKenna, C. and Roberts, G. (2006). Academic literacy in the 21st century In: Conole, G. and Oliver, M. (eds) Contemporary Perspectives on e-Learning Research: Themes, Methods and Impact on Practice. London: Routledge.

Levy, P. (2006). Learning a different form of communication: experiences of networked learning and reflections on practice. Studies in Continuing Education, 28 (3) 259-277.

Levy, P. (2006). Learning to learn in networked environments: a focus on "orientation". In: H.S. Ching, P.W.T. Poon and C. McNaught (eds) eLearning and Digital Publishing, pp.89-110. Dordrecht: Springer.

Levy, P. (2006). Living theory: a pedagogical framework for process support in networked learning. ALT-J, Research in Learning Technology, 14 (3) 225-240.

2005

Levy, P. and Roberts, S. (eds.) Developing the new Learning Environment: the Changing Role of the Academic Librarian. London: Facet.

2004

Levy, P. (2004). A methodological framework for practice-based research in networked learning. In: Goodyear, P., Banks, S., Hodgson, V. and McConnell, D. (eds.) Advances in Research in Networked Learning. London: Kluwer, 43-65.