Workshops

We run a series of lunchtime workshops each term on a variety of themes, and we encourage you to come along to contribute to the discussion and find out more about the pedagogy and practice of other university departments. Please see the Forum workshops webpage for details.

The workshops are designed and run by colleagues and delivered in a variety of ways. Formats include a speaker providing background on a learning and teaching topic and sharing their experience, and interactive sessions providing opportunities to explore using new technology and resources. There is innovative learning and teaching practice taking place every day at the University and Forum workshops are an opportunity for you to find out about them and experiment.

Forum are mindful of university developments and changes around learning and teaching and we want to assist colleagues as much as we can. If you have ideas for workshop sessions to assist in the development of these strands please do get in touch.

2021-22

Workshop 1: Equipping and empowering students with digital skills for the workplace
Eleanor Drew and Arielle Redman
22nd November 2021

Workshop 2: Designing and implementing an interdisciplinary Data Science Degree Apprenticeship
Dr Pierre-Philippe Dechant, Mathematical Sciences, York St John University
9th March 2022

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2020-21

7 Oct 2020Using Google Sites to create digital teaching and learning materials
Phil Martin, International Pathways College
22 Oct 2020An Introduction to Inclusive Design
Lou Stringer, Learning Enhancement Team, ASO
2 Nov 2020York Management School Undergraduate Buddy Scheme – Process and Reflections
Caroline Chaffer Jo Hawksworth Jane Neal-Smith, The York Management School
17 Nov 2020Supporting the transition to academic writing in HE
Alex Benjamin and Alex Reid, Department of Psychology
27 Nov 2020Individual Arrangements and Inclusive Practice for Practical Learning & Teaching: Teaching Labs, Placements, Outreach and Field Trips 
Julia Sarju, Department of Chemistry
28 Jan 2021Year in Industry peer support project
Jenny Pollard and Tamsyn Kiss Department of Environment and Geography
19 Feb 2021Diversifying and Decolonising the Curriculum
Jess Penn, Inclusive Learning and Teaching
1 Mar 2021Peer Assisted Learning
Michael Thornton, Department of Economics and Related Studies
22 Apr 2021Decolonising the Curriculum – Interactive workshop
Zaynab Seedat, PhD Student and Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English and Related Literature and Kate Walker (Music, Sheffield)
12 May 2021Developing Independent Learners
Sandra Jeffrey and Louise Rudd, International Pathways College
19 May 2021Lecturing Dialogically: Reinventing the Lecture using a Creative Practice Model
Ben Poore and Rebecca Benzie, Department of Theatre, Film, Television and Interactive Media
24 May 2021Structure, communication and transition; a whole cohort approach for years 1 and 2 in the pivot to online learning
Sally Quinn, Department of Psychology
3 June 2021Teaching Critical Writing
James Lamont, Module Leader, Academic Support for Education, IPC.
David Anderson, Tutor – Language and Study Skills, IPC.
14 June 2021Working with students to develop Covid teaching plans – the student engagement experience in Biology
Richard Waites, Department of Biology

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2019-20

Supporting students giving competent oral presentations
Dr Silke Göbel, Department of Psychology

Interdisciplinary Teaching at York
Speaker: Dr Glenn Hurst (Chemistry), Professor Roddy Vann (Physics), Dr Simon Sweeney (Management) and Dr Barry Lee (Philosophy)

Digital Creativity
Siobhan Dunlop and Tom Smith, Information Services

Teaching with Letterpress
Professor Helen Smith and Dr JT Welsch, Department of English and Related Literature

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2018-19

Autumn 2018:

  • Enabling Equal Access to Opportunity in a Research-led Teaching and Learning Environment
    Speaker: Matthew Ingram, Office of Philanthropic Partnerships and Alumni, University of York
    Summary: Research-led teaching and learning clearly has the potential to offer students the chance to achieve incredible things as part of their studies – it might enable students to place themselves at the forefront of research discourses, to develop as independent and entrepreneurial thinkers, and to challenge the very latest thinking.
  • How can we use games and play to encourage students to become active participants in creative learning?
    Speakers: Pen Holland and Katie Smith, Department of Biology, University of York
  • The Crime Walk Project
    Speakers: Maggie O’Neill and Ruth Penfold Mounce, Department of Sociology (Criminology), University of York
  • Padlet Workshop
    Speakers: Lilian Soon, Educational Adviser, Programme Design and Learning Team and Carmen Álvarez-Mayo, Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York
    Summary: Aims of the workshop will include, increasing the number of University staff using Padlet and implementing the use of Padlet in the Forum Blog.

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2017-18

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2016-17

Spring Term workshops

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