Pedagogy and Policy events

Resisting the academy – a workshop

Saturday 10 June 2023 10am to 3pm

Workroom 1, The Diamond

Are you interested in the topic of resistance within the HE academy?

How do you define resistance? What does resistance look like to you?

What are the justifications for resistance? -what are you resisting against or for?

Is resistance futile?

If you are working or studying within the academy, we want to hear from you.

We sought short abstracts (approximately 150 words) setting out your research interests, or other experience, of resistance based on the above provocations.

Our aim was to hold an interactive workshop, where participants could share their research, thoughts and experience, and engage in a dialogue around the notion of resistance.

For any questions, contact Gareth Bramley.

Convened by the University of Sheffield School of Education’s Pedagogy and Policy and Knowledge Systems and Practices research clusters.

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Rewarding, recognising, and valuing student partnerships: a RAISE Partnership SIG event

Wednesday 3 May 2023, 12.30 to 5pm

It seems obvious that value is generated through student partnership activities.

In order for this value to be created, there is labour on the part of the academics, rewarded partly through financial measures and partly through prestige; and labour on the part of the student partners.

How is the student labour recognised and rewarded? Is it also through finance and prestige; or through academic credit, the promise of skills development (more or less formalised), or exhortations to moral value?

In a busy ecosystem of competing demands on student time, and particularly in the context of a cost of living crisis, what are the mechanisms by which we can recognise their contributions to joint projects where the primary beneficiaries may be staff and other students?

We may not have any magic bullets to solve these dilemmas, but we’re interested in how you’ve experienced and formulated these questions, and the solutions you’ve produced. We therefore welcomed your contributions, in the forms of short presentations, workshops, and any offers of keynote presentations.

Particularly welcome were sessions co-created between staff and students, or with students as leaders; and we hoped to recognise and reward student contributions to the event through RAISE.

Keynote presentations were recorded and materials from the day are available to the wider community through the RAISE shared practice database.

For any questions, contact Tim Herrick.