Postgraduate Events 2008 - 2009

Third Postgraduate Summer School 15th and 16th of June 2009

The event had two related aims:

To provide postgraduates with information, skills and self-management strategies which will help them work towards successfully completing their degree and planning their future careers;
To encourage a sense of collegiality by encouraging postgraduate students to discuss their postgraduate experiences and to network with their peers, as well as with academic and administrative staff.

This year’s event focused on developing generic skills in four, broad thematic areas through workshops and general sessions:
(1) research management and personal effectiveness;
(2) communication and presentation;
(3) publishing and disseminating research;
(4) career management.

A lunchtime exhibition was held on 16th June during which service providers who support the postgraduate experience at Trinity (e.g, Information Services, the Library, Careers Advisory Service) were available to meet and talk with those students participating in the event.

Michaelmas Term 2008

Dates	Information
Dates: 14th and 24th November Time: 10:00 - 13:00 Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Designing Small Group Sessions - Cross Faculty This half-day workshop will help you to develop skills for the effective planning and delivery of small group teaching. You will learn how to write effective learning outcomes; how to ask questions which promote your students’ critical thinking as well as their class participation, and how to plan course materials and activities taking account of course content and student diversity.
Dates: 18th November and 1st December Time: 10:00 - 13:00 Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Teaching Small Groups - Cross Faculty This half-day workshop explores the characteristics, challenges and benefits of small group teaching sessions. The workshop will discuss learning in small groups and introduce you to practical teaching techniques appropriate to this context. You will also be introduced to strategies to cope with challenging behaviours.
Dates: Friday 21st November Time: 10:00 - 13:00 Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Assessment and Feedback - Cross Faculty This half-day workshop is for postgraduates who have experience of teaching small group sessions and who will be involved in marking essays and assignments. The workshop covers the purposes of assessment at third level, links between assessment, feedback and learning, and also provides insight into how to give effective feedback.
Dates: 7th - 15th Oct Time: 9:00 - 15:30 or 10:00 - 16:00 Registration Closed	Introduction to Teaching and Supporting Learning **For postgraduates new to teaching This day-long workshop provides a foundation for postgraduates who are new to teaching and aims to build confidence amongst a network of peers. We will cover four main topics: the role of the teacher, the theory of teaching and learning, working with diverse learners, and developing your practice as a teaching assistant. All sessions will be highly interactive with a focus on working in small groups. Attendance at this workshop, while not a prerequisite for enrolment in other CAPSL sessions for postgraduates who teach, will be of great benefit to those interested in further developing their teaching skills. School of Social Sciences and Philosophy Tuesday 7th Oct from 9:00 - 15:30 Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science Wednesday 8th October from 10:00 - 16:00 Faculty of Health Sciences Friday 10th October from 10:00 - 16:00 Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Monday 13th October from 10:00 - 16:00 Cross-Faculty** Wednesday 15th October from 9:00 - 15:30
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 Date: 5th December 2008 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Teaching Students with Disabilities Seminar Facilitated by: Ms. Alison Doyle, Disability Service This workshop will introduce the role of the Disability Service, an overview of difficulties that are experienced in the learning environment, and how teaching can be made more inclusive. This will include an overview of the Accessible Information Policy adopted by College in 2008. There will be an opportunity for a short question and answer session.

Dates

Information

Dates: 14th and 24th November

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Designing Small Group Sessions - Cross Faculty

This half-day workshop will help you to develop skills for the effective planning and delivery of small group teaching. You will learn how to write effective learning outcomes; how to ask questions which promote your students’ critical thinking as well as their class participation, and how to plan course materials and activities taking account of course content and student diversity.

Dates: 18th November and 1st December

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Teaching Small Groups - Cross Faculty

This half-day workshop explores the characteristics, challenges and benefits of small group teaching sessions. The workshop will discuss learning in small groups and introduce you to practical teaching techniques appropriate to this context. You will also be introduced to strategies to cope with challenging behaviours.

Dates: Friday 21st November

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Location: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Assessment and Feedback - Cross Faculty

This half-day workshop is for postgraduates who have experience of teaching small group sessions and who will be involved in marking essays and assignments. The workshop covers the purposes of assessment at third level, links between assessment, feedback and learning, and also provides insight into how to give effective feedback.

Dates: 7th - 15th Oct

Time: 9:00 - 15:30 or 10:00 - 16:00

Registration Closed

Introduction to Teaching and Supporting Learning

****For postgraduates new to teaching****

This day-long workshop provides a foundation for postgraduates who are new to teaching and aims to build confidence amongst a network of peers.

We will cover four main topics: the role of the teacher, the theory of teaching and learning, working with diverse learners, and developing your practice as a teaching assistant.

All sessions will be highly interactive with a focus on working in small groups. Attendance at this workshop, while not a prerequisite for enrolment in other CAPSL sessions for postgraduates who teach, will be of great benefit to those interested in further developing their teaching skills.

School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
Tuesday 7th Oct from 9:00 - 15:30

Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics and Science
Wednesday 8th October from 10:00 - 16:00

Faculty of Health Sciences
Friday 10th October from 10:00 - 16:00

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Monday 13th October from 10:00 - 16:00

Cross-Faculty
Wednesday 15th October from 9:00 - 15:30

Time: 12:00 - 13:00

Date: 5th December 2008

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Teaching Students with Disabilities Seminar

Facilitated by: Ms. Alison Doyle, Disability Service

This workshop will introduce the role of the Disability Service, an overview of difficulties that are experienced in the learning environment, and how teaching can be made more inclusive. This will include an overview of the Accessible Information Policy adopted by College in 2008. There will be an opportunity for a short question and answer session.

Hilary & Trinity Term 2009

Dates	Information
27th January 2009 Time: 9:30 - 12:30 Venue: Lecture Hall, Nursing Building, D'Olier Street Registration Closed	Making Learning Happen Facilitator: Prof. Phil Race Teaching is about causing learning to happen. In this workshop, we will move forward from the outdated views about learning styles and how learning happens, so usefully explored by Coffield et al (2004), and explore how we can go about making learning happen by addressing five straightforward factors which underpin successful learning. We will examine how we can go about making learning happen in large-group contexts - and how not to lecture in lectures! We will then move on to how we can make small-group teaching work, by getting learners to work actively. We will then share our own experience of the best and worst teachers we remember, and identify which actions work best for us in our efforts to make learning happen with our own students. We will finally look at how we can help our learners to become more conscious of what works for them in their learning.
27th January 2009 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Venue: Lecture Hall, Nursing Building, D'Olier Street Registration Closed	Aligning Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Assessment Facilitator: Prof. Phil Race Learning outcomes, teaching processes and assessment formats should all fit together coherently. Assessment should measure students' evidence of achievement of the published intended learning outcomes. Aligning learning outcomes, teaching processes and assessment criteria is beneficial for students, and the extent to which we achieve this alignment is sought as an indicator of the quality of our educational provision. Sadly, too often learning outcomes are expressed in 'academese' - a language not understood by our students. This lecture will begin by exploring how we can translate existing learning outcomes from 'academese' to English, so that students themselves can use them to map the curriculum and continue to make good use of them as targets in their own learning. We will then explore the choices open to us in designing assessment processes and instruments, so that we can select the most appropriate ones to use in measuring students' evidence of achievement of the learning outcomes. In particular, we will look at how we can diversify assessment, to minimise the risk of students being repeatedly disadvantaged by our over-use of particular assessment processes. Finally, we will explore ways in which we can get feedback from students on how they actually put learning outcomes to work in their learning, and explore ways of making students more conscious of the value they can derive from using intended learning outcomes and assessment criteria to structure their learning.
Time: 13:00 - 14:00 Date: 6th March 2009 Venue:Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Teaching Students with Disabilities Seminar Facilitated by: Ms. Alison Doyle, Disability Service This workshop will introduce the role of the Disability Service, an overview of difficulties that are experienced in the learning environment, and how teaching can be made more inclusive. This will include an overview of the Accessible Information Policy adopted by College in 2008. There will be an opportunity for a short question and answer session.
Time: 10:00 - 11:30 Date: 9th March 2009 Venue: Emmet Theatre Registration Closed	Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change Facilitator: Ms. Josie Dixon (MS Word) Debates about the future of scholarly publishing are not a new phenomenon, and the research monograph in the humanities and social sciences has long been a focus of particular concern. Yet the sense of crisis has sharpened in recent years, and changes in the market and in technology have resulted in some fundamental shifts in academic publishers’ business. Digital media offer new opportunities, but have arguably introduced at least as many problems as they have solved. The most fundamental issues for the sustainability of scholarly publishing relate to the larger workings of the academic economy - involving not just publishers but funding bodies, research assessors and tenure committees, libraries, and all the wholesale and retail links in the international distribution chain between publisher and reader. As part of that broader picture, we need to understand the varying pressures of supply and demand, together with recent changes in the economy of print publishing and developments in electronic publishing. In this wide-ranging lecture, based on 15 years’ publishing experience in both university-press and commercial-academic sectors, Josie Dixon reviews the state of the market and the strategies scholarly publishers have developed to ensure the survival of their business. She outlines some of the new challenges brought by digital technology, including some fundamental questions relating to copyright, access, and intellectual property. While these issues are being played out most dramatically in the sciences, it is clear that they are already encroaching on humanities and social science publishing, and likely to have a major impact in the coming years.
9th March 2009 Time: 14:00 - 17:30 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Publishing Your Research: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Facilitator: Ms. Josie Dixon The present climate is notoriously difficult for scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences, and making a first approach to academic presses with the fruits of your doctoral research can be a daunting and uncertain business. This half-day workshop is designed to demystify the task, shedding light on the decision-making process and helping postgraduates who are considering publishing their research to present their work to publishers in the best way. It encourages participants to view their research as others will see it, along the line that stretches from commissioning editors and publishers’ referees all the way down the supply chain to booksellers, librarians, review editors, and the prospective readership. This involves thinking about the market, choosing and approaching a publisher, and working out how to represent your work to best advantage. In addition the workshop deals with how to negotiate the particular problems surrounding interdisciplinary work and essay collections. Discussion and exercises ensure that the material remains practically based throughout. Handouts and recommended reading are supplied. The workshop is held in conjunction with an initial lecture (with questions and discussion afterwards to be held between 10.00 and 11.30am on the same day) on the current state of the academic publishing industry, designed to give an understanding of the market and conditions in which publishers operate, and how this affects the reception of publishing proposals.
Time: 9:30 - 15:30 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Introduction to Teaching and Supporting Learning Cross Faculty **For postgraduates new to teaching** This day-long workshop provides a foundation for postgraduates who are new to teaching and aims to build confidence amongst a network of peers. We will cover four main topics: the role of the teacher, the theory of teaching and learning, working with diverse learners, and developing your practice as a teaching assistant. All sessions will be highly interactive with a focus on working in small groups. Attendance at this workshop, while not a prerequisite for enrolment in other CAPSL sessions for postgraduates who teach, will be of great benefit to those interested in further developing their teaching skills.
Time: 10:00 - 13:00 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Designing Small Group Sessions Cross Faculty This half-day workshop will help you to develop skills for the effective planning and delivery of small group teaching. You will learn how to write effective learning outcomes; how to ask questions which promote your students’ critical thinking as well as their class participation, and how to plan course materials and activities taking account of course content and student diversity.
Time:10:00 - 13:00 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Teaching Small Groups Cross Faculty This half-day workshop explores the characteristics, challenges and benefits of small group teaching sessions. The workshop will discuss learning in small groups and introduce you to practical teaching techniques appropriate to this context. You will also be introduced to strategies to cope with challenging behaviours.
Time:14:00 - 17:00 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Assessment and Feedback Cross Faculty This half-day workshop is for postgraduates who have experience of teaching small group sessions and who will be involved in marking essays and assignments. The workshop covers the purposes of assessment at third level, links between assessment, feedback and learning, and also provides insight into how to give effective feedback.
Time:10:00 - 15:00 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Developing a Teaching Portfolio Cross Faculty When applying for academic posts there is increasing demand for evidence not only of research but also of teaching capability such as a teaching portfolio or a statement of teaching philosophy. In this two session course you will be critically reflecting on your own teaching practice. As part of this you will learn about the benefits of developing your own portfolio of teaching and how to write relevant entries for a portfolio. You will also learn how to write an effective statement of teaching philosophy.
Time:10:00 - 13:00 Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place Registration Closed	Preparing a Lecture Cross Faculty In this workshop you will be learning how to structure and deliver a lecture effectively. This will include looking at the purpose of the lecture format, how to structure a lecture on the basis of relevant learning outcomes, how to engage students and deal with problems, and how to manage your own nerves and start to develop a presentation style. As part of this session you will have the opportunity to give a two minute presentation on an academic subject of your choice. You are welcome to prepare this in advance.

Dates

Information

27th January 2009

Time: 9:30 - 12:30

Venue: Lecture Hall, Nursing Building, D'Olier Street

Registration Closed

Making Learning Happen

Facilitator: Prof. Phil Race

Teaching is about causing learning to happen. In this workshop, we will move forward from the outdated views about learning styles and how learning happens, so usefully explored by Coffield et al (2004), and explore how we can go about making learning happen by addressing five straightforward factors which underpin successful learning. We will examine how we can go about making learning happen in large-group contexts - and how not to lecture in lectures! We will then move on to how we can make small-group teaching work, by getting learners to work actively. We will then share our own experience of the best and worst teachers we remember, and identify which actions work best for us in our efforts to make learning happen with our own students. We will finally look at how we can help our learners to become more conscious of what works for them in their learning.

27th January 2009

Time: 14:00 - 15:30

Venue: Lecture Hall, Nursing Building, D'Olier Street

Registration Closed

Aligning Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Assessment

Facilitator: Prof. Phil Race

Learning outcomes, teaching processes and assessment formats should all fit together coherently. Assessment should measure students' evidence of achievement of the published intended learning outcomes. Aligning learning outcomes, teaching processes and assessment criteria is beneficial for students, and the extent to which we achieve this alignment is sought as an indicator of the quality of our educational provision. Sadly, too often learning outcomes are expressed in 'academese' - a language not understood by our students.

This lecture will begin by exploring how we can translate existing learning outcomes from 'academese' to English, so that students themselves can use them to map the curriculum and continue to make good use of them as targets in their own learning.

We will then explore the choices open to us in designing assessment processes and instruments, so that we can select the most appropriate ones to use in measuring students' evidence of achievement of the learning outcomes. In particular, we will look at how we can diversify assessment, to minimise the risk of students being repeatedly disadvantaged by our over-use of particular assessment processes.

Finally, we will explore ways in which we can get feedback from students on how they actually put learning outcomes to work in their learning, and explore ways of making students more conscious of the value they can derive from using intended learning outcomes and assessment criteria to structure their learning.

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

Date: 6th March 2009

Venue:Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Teaching Students with Disabilities Seminar

Facilitated by: Ms. Alison Doyle, Disability Service

Time: 10:00 - 11:30

Date: 9th March 2009

Venue: Emmet Theatre

Registration Closed

Academic Publishing in the 21st Century: Markets and Technology, Survival and Change

Facilitator: Ms. Josie Dixon (MS Word)

Debates about the future of scholarly publishing are not a new phenomenon, and the research monograph in the humanities and social sciences has long been a focus of particular concern. Yet the sense of crisis has sharpened in recent years, and changes in the market and in technology have resulted in some fundamental shifts in academic publishers’ business. Digital media offer new opportunities, but have arguably introduced at least as many problems as they have solved. The most fundamental issues for the sustainability of scholarly publishing relate to the larger workings of the academic economy - involving not just publishers but funding bodies, research assessors and tenure committees, libraries, and all the wholesale and retail links in the international distribution chain between publisher and reader. As part of that broader picture, we need to understand the varying pressures of supply and demand, together with recent changes in the economy of print publishing and developments in electronic publishing.

In this wide-ranging lecture, based on 15 years’ publishing experience in both university-press and commercial-academic sectors, Josie Dixon reviews the state of the market and the strategies scholarly publishers have developed to ensure the survival of their business. She outlines some of the new challenges brought by digital technology, including some fundamental questions relating to copyright, access, and intellectual property. While these issues are being played out most dramatically in the sciences, it is clear that they are already encroaching on humanities and social science publishing, and likely to have a major impact in the coming years.

9th March 2009

Time: 14:00 - 17:30

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Publishing Your Research: Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Facilitator: Ms. Josie Dixon

The present climate is notoriously difficult for scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences, and making a first approach to academic presses with the fruits of your doctoral research can be a daunting and uncertain business. This half-day workshop is designed to demystify the task, shedding light on the decision-making process and helping postgraduates who are considering publishing their research to present their work to publishers in the best way.

It encourages participants to view their research as others will see it, along the line that stretches from commissioning editors and publishers’ referees all the way down the supply chain to booksellers, librarians, review editors, and the prospective readership. This involves thinking about the market, choosing and approaching a publisher, and working out how to represent your work to best advantage. In addition the workshop deals with how to negotiate the particular problems surrounding interdisciplinary work and essay collections.

Discussion and exercises ensure that the material remains practically based throughout. Handouts and recommended reading are supplied.

The workshop is held in conjunction with an initial lecture (with questions and discussion afterwards to be held between 10.00 and 11.30am on the same day) on the current state of the academic publishing industry, designed to give an understanding of the market and conditions in which publishers operate, and how this affects the reception of publishing proposals.

Time: 9:30 - 15:30

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Introduction to Teaching and Supporting Learning Cross Faculty

****For postgraduates new to teaching****

This day-long workshop provides a foundation for postgraduates who are new to teaching and aims to build confidence amongst a network of peers.

We will cover four main topics: the role of the teacher, the theory of teaching and learning, working with diverse learners, and developing your practice as a teaching assistant.

All sessions will be highly interactive with a focus on working in small groups. Attendance at this workshop, while not a prerequisite for enrolment in other CAPSL sessions for postgraduates who teach, will be of great benefit to those interested in further developing their teaching skills.

Time: 10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Designing Small Group Sessions Cross Faculty

Time:10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Teaching Small Groups Cross Faculty

Time:14:00 - 17:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Assessment and Feedback Cross Faculty

Time:10:00 - 15:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Developing a Teaching Portfolio Cross Faculty

When applying for academic posts there is increasing demand for evidence not only of research but also of teaching capability such as a teaching portfolio or a statement of teaching philosophy. In this two session course you will be critically reflecting on your own teaching practice. As part of this you will learn about the benefits of developing your own portfolio of teaching and how to write relevant entries for a portfolio. You will also learn how to write an effective statement of teaching philosophy.

Time:10:00 - 13:00

Venue: Room 1.03, 3-4 Foster Place

Registration Closed

Preparing a Lecture Cross Faculty

In this workshop you will be learning how to structure and deliver a lecture effectively. This will include looking at the purpose of the lecture format, how to structure a lecture on the basis of relevant learning outcomes, how to engage students and deal with problems, and how to manage your own nerves and start to develop a presentation style. As part of this session you will have the opportunity to give a two minute presentation on an academic subject of your choice. You are welcome to prepare this in advance.

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