Postgraduate Ethics: Issues, Dilemmas, Solutions

POSTGRADUATE ETHICS: ISSUES, DILEMMAS, SOLUTIONS

Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)

Date - Wednesday, 15 July 2015: 13.00 - 16.15

Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier St, London N1 9BE

Network - Postgraduate Issues

Ethical integrity is an important term that concerns not only the research process but many practical situations. As one of the speakers highlights, the scope of this notion encompasses amongst many ethical scenarios,  ‘… the relationship between policy and governance, practice, and institutional support and administration.’ The aim of today is to provide an environment where postgraduate ethical issues can be discussed and debated. The speakers will highlight different ethical issues and allow participants to respond underling their own ethical dilemmas. As Brooks et al (2014:3) argue, ‘Ethical thinking is intimately connected to practical research sills, which need to be developed and reflected upon.’ ‘The more you think about postgraduate research ethics …’, another speaker will suggest, ‘ … the more important ethics becomes.’ What we hope participants will gain from the Seminar is increased understandings of their own ethical situations and potential ethical solutions.

Programme

12.00: Registration and Lunch.

1.00-2.00: Doctoral Supervisor Training - Supporting Supervisors and Students in Understanding Research Integrity - Fiona Denney

2.00-3.00: Current issues in research integrity - Andrew Rawnsley

3.00-3.15: Tea and Coffee break

3.15-3.45: Postgraduate ethical Issues in Education Research - Richard Race

3.45-4.15: General Discussion and close.

Biographies

Fiona Denney

Fiona Denney is currently the Director of the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at Brunel University, London, which is aimed at enhancing support for both staff and students in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning at all levels throughout the University. Fiona has worked in UK universities for 18 years – both as an academic and as a senior professional member of staff. Prior to working at Brunel, Fiona was the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London, where she developed training for researchers, senior staff and doctoral supervisors, provided strategic direction for the development of academics and researchers and hosed the London Hub for the national research development organisation, VITAE. E mail: Fiona.Deeney@Brunel.ac.uk

Andrew Rawnsley

Andrew’s expertise lies principally in research ethics and integrity, with a focus on the relationship between policy and governance, practice, and institutional support and administration. He has designed and delivered training across the sector and undertakes frequent consultancy projects on research integrity for a range of universities, as well international speaking engagements. He is a co-author of Epigeum’s “Research Integrity” international online training programme, along with four US-based authors; and Associate Editor for the Biomed Central journal "Research Integrity and Peer Review." E Mail: A.Rawnsley@tees.ac.uk

Richard Race

Richard Race is Senior Lecturer in Education at Roehampton University. Richard has sat on ethics committees at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has been Programme Convener on MA Education for the last five years, as well as Programme Convener for MA (Education Sciences) in ASPETE, Athens, Greece. The second edition of his monograph, Multiculturalism and Education (Bloomsbury, London) was recently published. He is working on his second monograph, Integration and Education Policy-Making (Palgrave Macmillan, London).  He has also published a co-edited collection with Vini Lander in 2014: Advancing Race and Ethnicity in Education (Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills) E Mail: r.race@roehampton.ac.uk

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Higher Education Policy

HIGHER EDUCATION POLICY AND THE TEACHING-RESEARCH NEXUS

Society for Research into Higher Education

Date - 18 June 2014, 13.00-16:00

Venue - London Metropolitan University, 166-220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB

Network - Higher Education Policy

This seminar will consider the often contested relationship between teaching and research in higher education. It is particularly timely given the recent call by David Willetts, Minister for Universities, for a cultural change towards a greater emphasis on teaching. The context is one in which research reputation is critical in the global prestige economy of higher education, but where designations of academics and universities as ‘teaching-only’ are not uncommon in an increasingly diversified and stratified HE sector. 

‘‘Can we speak of ‘teaching’ and ‘research’ any more, and what does this mean for academic work?”

William Locke, (Institute of Education University of London)

The separation of teaching and research is the result of policy and operational decisions made over some forty years or so to distinguish the way these activities are funded, managed, assessed and rewarded.  This separation has gone so far that institutions and individuals that wish to, must make deliberate efforts to optimise the beneficial relationships between the two core activities.  It could also be argued that the descriptive terms ‘research’ and ‘teaching’ no longer adequately capture the vast array of activities that institutions providing higher education now undertake.  Yet the processes of extension, fragmentation and disintegration, paradoxically, may be creating new spaces and opportunities for reintegrating and reinventing the core activities of higher education.

For this potential to be fully realised, however, may require a very different division of labour and, in particular, a significant reconfiguring of academic work.  This contribution will build on an international study of the academic profession, current evidence of changes in the academy during the recession and studies undertaken for the HEA.

“Re-Rethinking links between research, teaching and educational agendas: Should we?”

Dr. Vicky Gunn, (University of Glasgow)

This presentation will note the discursive re-valuing of teaching agendas within research-intensive institutions as part of an apparent shift in emphasis within UK (in different ways depending on the devolved funding regime) and European contexts.  In such a renewed policy focus, pragmatic questions about what this might mean in actuality have yet to be answered.

As this discursive shift is also happening at a time of change in the way academic career pathways are developing, the links between the researcher roles and teaching responsibilities are being embodied through reward and recognition criteria which do not necessarily align with the more centrally driven agendas outlined in the policy statements.  Indeed, reward and recognition criteria tend to focus on individual activity and are not necessarily underpinned with a problematised understanding of the orientations towards aspects of research as well as education that seem present in the academic community.

This paper will outline two sets of orientations: those related to being a researcher as identified by Hakali & Ylijoki (2001) and Åkerlind (2008) and those related to the educational outcomes academics ascribe to what a university education is about (Gunn & Fisk, 2013).  It will suggest that from these, within research-intensive contexts in particular, we might need a new frame of reference for research-teaching linkages, one that encompasses the discussions and practices of the last decade, but reorients curricular activity towards the spaces of researcher development as it is now constructed. 

The discussion will draw on the presenter’s work relating to the development of graduate attributes through research-teaching linkages (QAA Scotland) and her recent HEA commissioned review, Considering Teaching Excellence in HE since 2007.

Lunch will be available at 1pm and the event will start at 1.40. After each paper there will be time for questions and discussion, followed by an opportunity to discuss issues raised in both papers over tea or coffee.

For further details about the Higher Education Policy Network, please contact the network convenor, Prof. Carole Leathwood, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk

To reserve a place: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/

Note: Unless otherwise stated SRHE events are free to members, there is a charge of £60 for non-members.

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Why do Internships and Placements?

WHY DO INTERNSHIPS AND PLACEMENTS MATTER?

Society for Research into Higher Education

Why do Internships and Placement Matter? Further Sharing of Current Research

Date - Friday 2 May 2014, 11:00-15:45

Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier Street, London, N1 9BE

Network - Network for Employability, Enterprise and Work based Learning

This session is run jointly with the Association of Sandwich Education and Training (ASET)

We had so much interest in our first special interest group session on placements and internships that we are hosting another session on the topic.  Feedback from our sessions has shown that participants would like more opportunity to hear about current research and to discuss it.  We have, therefore, asked some more of our members to talk about their research.  At this session the themes will be short placements, third sector internships, internships for postgraduate students and placements in art and design.  The session will begin with a challenge from our keynote speaker, Andy Phippen, from Plymouth Business School, who will talk on Placements and Internships: Opportunities beyond the Student Experience.
 

Programme

11:00 Introductions

11:15 Keynote 1:  Andy Phippen, Associate Head (External Relations)
Plymouth Business School
Placements and Internships – Opportunities Beyond the Student Experience?

12:00 Showcasing of current placement research 1

Among the topics: Short placements
  Third sector internships
  Internships for PG students
  Placements in Art and Design

12:45 Discussion:  Emerging issues for research

13:15 Lunch and networking

14:00 Showcasing of current placement research 2

15:00 Discussion panel of research contributors

15:30 Final remarks and conclusions

15:45 Close

If you are currently working on research into any kind of employability, enterprise and workbased learning and would like to share your work at later events, please contact us on h.e.higson@aston.ac.uk

Convenors:

Professor Helen E Higson OBE, Professor of Higher Education Learning and Management, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Aston University

Dr Richard Blackwell, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Southampton Solent University

To reserve a place at this seminar: http://www.srhe.ac.uk/events/

Note: Unless otherwise stated SRHE events are free to members, there is a charge of £45 for non-members

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Global Conference on Contemporary Issues in Education (GLOBEDU-2014)

GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN EDUCATION (GLOBEDU-2014)

Call for Abstract Submission!

Global Conference on Contemporary Issues in Education (GLOBEDU-2014)
12-14 July 2014
Stratosphere Hotel & Tower Convention Center,
Las Vegas, USA

www.globe-edu.org

Dear Colleagues

We would like to invite you to become together with more than one thousand academicians from 56 different countries, and also give opportunity to make your abstracts published by International Publishers (in the process of agreement) or by Awer-Center Proceedings Journals indexed by AWER INDEX and they will also be submitted to SCOPUS, EBSCO, THOMSON REUTERSCONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS CITATION INDEX (ISI WEB OF SCIENCE) for evaluation for inclusion in the list.

We would like to provide contribution to bring forth you academic qualities.

Due Dated Abstract Submissions: 12 April 2014

Abstracts must be written in English, and can be sent as an email attach to 

globe.info@globalcenter.info

STEP ONE (CLICK HERE) OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS

Hope to meet you in Las Vegas, USA

Prof. Dr. Gul Celkan
President of the Conference

CONFERENCE SCOPES

GLOBEDU-2014 includes all theoretical and practical knowledge about learning, teaching and education. For more information www.globe-edu.org

KEYNOTES

Dr. Stephen W. Harmon, President, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, Professor and Chair, Learning Technologies Division, College of Education Georgia State University

Dr. Colla Jean MacDonald, Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Ottawa, Canada

Dr. Ampere A. Tseng, Professor, Arizona State University, USA

IN COLLOBORATION WITH

Cleveland State University
Middle Georgia State College
Near East University
Bahcesehir University
Johns Hopkins University
Queensland University of Technology
University of Alcala
University of Nevada Las Vegas

FULL PAPER PUBLICATION*

Accepted full papers will be published by International Publishers (in the process of agreement) or by Awer-Center Proceedings Journals indexed by AWER INDEX and they will also be submitted to SCOPUS, EBSCO, THOMSON REUTERSCONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS CITATION INDEX (ISI WEB OF SCIENCE) for evaluation for inclusion in the list.

SUPPORTING JOURNALS

Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling (Indexed in SSCI)

British Journal of Educational Technology (Indexed in SSCI)

Asia Pacific Education Review (Indexed in SSCI)

Educational Technology Research and Development (Indexed in SSCI)

South African Journal of Psychology, (Indexed in SSCI)

Perspectives in Education (Indexed in SSCI)

Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences

World Journal on Educational Technology

Contemporary Educational Researches Journal

International Journal on Learning and Teaching

Global journal on Counseling and Guidance

LANGUAGE OF THE CONFERENCE

· The languages of the conference are English.

· Abstracts and full papers must be in English.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

· The abstracts can be one-page long (250-300 words). 

· The abstract include Problem Statement, Purpose of Study, Methods, Findings and Results, and Conclusions and Recommendations.

· If your paper is not completed, it might be included only your study proposal.

· The abstracts must be included the authors’ names, surnames, affiliations, departments, email addresses and phone numbers.

· Abstracts can be submitted through http://www.globalcenter.info/globe-edu/

· or attached to globe.info@globalcenter.info

 STEP ONE (CLICK HERE) OF THE SUBMISSION PROCESS

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

· You can participate to the conference with paper or poster presentation, pannel and workshop.

· Participants who cannot particiate physically should prefer virtual presentation. These participants must uploaded skype on their computers. For more info: www.globe-edu.org

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submissions: April 12, 2014*

Full Paper Submission: May 12, 2014**

Early Hotel Reservation: May 12, 2014

Early Registration: May 12, 2014

Conference Dates: July 12-14, 2014

Camera Ready Submission: July 25, 2014                                    

* After the submission date, the authors of abstracts will be notified in 4 day
** After the submission date, the authors of full paper will be notified in 20 day                                

VENUE and ACCOMODATION

Stratosphere Hotel & Tower Convention Center, Las Vegas, USA. We were special agreement with the Hotels for GLOBEDU-2014 participants only. The rate start from 35 USD for Double room.

For more information: www.globe-edu.org

Contact:
E-mail: globe.info@globalcenter.info
Web:  www.globe-edu.org  

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Policy Futures in Education: Volume 11 Number 6 (2013)

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION: VOLUME 11 NUMBER 6 (2013)

The Future of Higher Education and Academic Freedom

Now available at: www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/content/pdfs/11/issue11_6.asp

POLICY FUTURES IN EDUCATION
Volume 11 Number 6, 2013, ISSN 1478-2103

CONTENTS:

SPECIAL ISSUE The Future of Higher Education
Guest Editors: PHILIP WOODS & EDDIE BLASS

Philip Woods & Eddie Blass. Editorial. Higher Education Futures OPEN ACCESS

Anne Jasman, Eddie Blass & Steve Shelley. Becoming an Academic for the Twenty-first Century: what will count as teaching quality in higher education

Alan Montague. Review of Australian Higher Education: an Australian policy perspective

Steven Selden. Sponsored Neo-conservative Challenges to Diversity and Intercultural Competence in the US Undergraduate Curriculum

SYMPOSIUM  Academic Freedom
Sandra J. Grey. Activist Academics: what future?

John O’Neill. Creative Research Ethics in the Enterprise University: what price academic freedom?

Martin Thrupp. Researching amid the Heat and Noise of Political Debate

GENERAL ARTICLES
Gert Biesta. Responsive or Responsible? Democratic Education for the Global Networked Society

Jamie Magnusson. Biosurveillance as a Terrain of Innovation in an Era of Monopoly Finance Capital

R. Adam Manley. The Policy Delphi: a method for identifying intended and unintended consequences of educational policy

Trish McMenamin. Justice for All? Special Education 2000 and the Politics of Difference

Michael A. Peters & Tina Besley. Marx and Foucault: subjectivity, employability and the crisis of youth unemployment in the great global recession

THE INTERNATIONALIST
Samuel Day Fassbinder. Interview with Peter McLaren, on his Work, on his Visit to Turkey and on Ongoing Popular Struggles

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PLEASE NOTE: to accommodate the increasing flow of quality papers this journal expanded to 8 numbers per volume/year as from Volume 12, 2014.

PERSONAL SUBSCRIPTION (single user access) Subscription to the January-December 2014 issues (including full access to ALL back numbers, including those of 2013), is available to individuals at a cost of US$60.00. If you wish to subscribe you may do so immediately at www.wwwords.co.uk/subscribePFIE.asp

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For all editorial matters, including articles offered for publication, please contact the Editor, Professor Michael A. Peters: mpeters@waikato.ac.nz

In the event of problems concerning a subscription, or difficulty in gaining access to the articles, please contact the publishers: support@symposium-journals.co.uk

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Rikowski, Ruth (2003) Value – the Life Blood of Capitalism: knowledge is the current key, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.1 No.1, pp.160-178: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=1&year=2003&article=9_Rikowski_PFIE_1_1&id=195.93.21.68

Rikowski, Glenn (2004) Marx and the Education of the Future, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.2 Nos. 3 & 4, pp.565-577, online at: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=2&issue=3&year=2004&article=10_Rikowski_PFEO_2_3-4_web&id=195.93.21.71

Rikowski, Ruth (2006) A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.4 No.4: http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/viewpdf.asp?j=pfie&vol=4&issue=4&year=2006&article=7_Rikowski_PFIE_4_4_web&id=205.188.117.66

Rikowski, Ruth (2008) Review Essay: ‘On Marx: An introduction to the revolutionary intellect of Karl Marx’, by Paula Allman, Policy Futures in Education, Vol.6 No.5, pp.653-661:  http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/validate.asp?j=pfie&vol=6&issue=5&year=2008&article=11_Rikowski_PFIE_6_5_web

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Athens Institute for Education and Research Annual International Conference 2014

ATHENS INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2014

16th Annual International Conference on Education

19-22 May 2014, Athens, Greece

Call for Papers and Participation

The Education Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) organizes its 16th Annual International Conference on Education, 19-22 May 2014, Athens, Greece. For the programs of previous conferences, book publications based on the conference papers and other information, please visit the conference website www.atiner.gr/education.htm.

The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of education and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair a session or observer. Papers (in English) from all areas of education are welcome.  Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the Conference Proceedings or Edited Books as part of ATINER's education book series. For Books and Proceedings of previous conferences you may visit http://www.atiner.gr/docs/EDUCATION_PUBLICATIONS.htm for table of contents and order forms.

The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise to the Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/SOC-EDU.htm

Please submit a 300-word abstract by email before 20 January 2014, atiner@atiner.gr to: Dr. Alexander Makedon, Head, Education Research Unit, ATINER & Professor of Philosophy of Education, Arellano University, Philippines or by regular mail to: ATINER,  8 Valaoritou Street, Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel. + 30 210 363 4210 Fax: + 30 210 3634-209. Please include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Current Position, Institutional Affiliation, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Please use the abstract submitting form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-EDU.doc. Announcement of the decision is made within 4 weeks after submission, which includes information on registration deadlines and paper submission requirements.  If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos (gtp@atiner.gr), President, ATINER.

The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens and exchange ideas on their research and discuss the future developments of their discipline. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 200 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published about 150 books.  Academically, the Institute consists of five research divisions and twenty-two research units. Each research unit organizes at least an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member please download the form (membership form).

For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.

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Laddism and Higher Education

Laddism

LADDISM AND HIGHER EDUCATION

A Society for Research in Higher Education event

Date - 7 February 2014 ; 10.30 - 16.30

Venue - SRHE, 73 Collier Street, London N1 9BE

Network - Student Experience Network (SEN)

A one-day SEN symposium discussing masculine behaviours and student culture.

The Student Experience Network of the SRHE is holding a one day symposium on laddism and Higher Education. Its focus is on the intersection of such masculine behaviours with student culture, minorities, lived experience, and the night-time economy, all areas which also inform and shape pedagogical identities. The day has been organised following the NUS' 2013 report on lad culture in higher education, That's What She Said and is thus orientated towards asking how the HE sector should respond to research findings and what further research is necessary.

Emerging Themes from That's What She Said with a discussion on further research and actions
Isabel Young (co-author of report), seconded by Kelly Temple (NUS)

This presentation reports on a research project, funded by the National Union of Students, which sought to explore women students’ experiences of ‘lad culture’ in educational, social and personal spheres. The project consisted of two parts: (1) a thematic literature review covering areas such as gender and education, cultural studies and policy sociology; and (2) in-depth qualitative research using focus groups and semi-structured interviews with a sample of 40 women students, focusing on their experiences of teaching and learning, extra-curricular activities, social life, and sex and relationships. The findings of this research show that although ‘laddism’ is only one of a variety of potential masculinities, there exists at least a significant minority of women students who find ‘lad cultures’ problematic, citing issues such as misogynist ‘banter’, objectification of women and sexual pressure and harassment. This presentation explores some of the key themes to have emerged from the report, including the evolution of ‘laddism’ and its existence as a behavior; the connection between night economies and the propagation of ‘lad culture’; intersections between gender, race, (dis)ability, sexuality and ‘lad culture’, and more. It will conclude by looking ahead to further research possibilities and actions around the impact of ‘lad culture’ in higher education and more broadly.

Isabel Young has a BA in Sociology and an MA in Gender Studies from the University of Sussex. Her research has explored BAME women's experiences of anti-Muslim racism, constructions of sexual violence on Facebook 'banter' sites, and most recently, the impact of ‘lad culture’ on women students in higher education. She has worked with Survivor’s Network, Woman’s Hour and UK Uncut on the issues of VAWG and the cuts. Isabel currently runs a community programme for migrant mothers as part of the Arbour’s Migrant Women’s Mentoring and Social Inclusion project based in East London.
isabelkayoung@gmail.com

Kelley Temple is the NUS National Women's Officer. She blogs at: http://www.nusconnect.org.uk/blogs/blog/kelleytemple/
kelley.temple@nus.org.uk

Degrees of Laddishness: Laddism in Higher Education
Professor Carolyn Jackson and Dr. Stephen Dempster
This paper provides insights into how laddism is understood, perpetuated, legitimated and challenged among undergraduates in two British universities. We explore the perceived benefits of subscribing to laddish masculinities, and also the costs of laddishness for male and female students in both student social life and teaching/learning environments. We discuss the ways that laddishness can be problematic for men as well as women, but argue that viewing laddishness as existing in a continuum of potential masculine subject positionings not only enables a more sophisticated understanding of laddishness, but also may suggest strategies through which more extreme laddism might be challenged.
Carolyn Jackson is a Professor in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University, and Co-Director of the Centre for Social Justice and Wellbeing in Education. She has published widely on gender issues in education. Her books include Lads and Ladettes in School: Gender and a Fear of Failure (2006), and Girls and Education 3-16: Continuing Concerns, New Agendas (2010, co-edited with Carrie Paechter and Emma Renold). She is currently engaged in two projects exploring laddism in higher education.
c.jackson2@lancaster.ac.uk
Dr. Steven Dempster is a Research and Teaching Associate in the Department of Educational Research at Lancaster University and the Dean of one of Lancaster’s undergraduate colleges.  Steve has published a number of papers on laddism in higher education and is currently working on a further project on laddism in HE, an evaluation of enhancement of teaching and learning in Scottish HEIs, and a study of the impact of the Harry Potter franchise on boys’ literacies.
s.dempster@lancaster.ac.uk

Chanting Students
Dr. Matthew Cheeseman

I began researching and collecting examples of student chanting in 2005 and have found them a stimulating way of thinking about students and their experience of higher education. Far from simple, chants are both verbal forms and performances, full of contradictory meanings and creadings. In this paper I look at how they are received by others and how they operate as expressions of student identity and enactments of 'lad culture'. Using data collected following an ethnographic methodology, I attempt to situate chanting within larger and no less contradictory performances (such as being a student) and explain its relationship to a language that has become a totemic within the United Kingdom: banter.

Dr. Matthew Cheeseman is a Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Sheffield. He works between English Literature, Folklore, Creative Writing, Music and Education. Alongside Dr. Camille Kandiko, he convenes the Student Experience Network for the SRHE, arranging approximately three symposiums a year. He blogs at http://www.einekleine.com.

Round table on Students' Union responses, programmes and strategies alongside thoughts on further research.
Abigail Burman, Sophie van der Ham and Kelly Temple

Abigail Burman is an American undergraduate at the University of Oxford. During her time at university she's served as her college's Equal Opportunities Officer, focusing on issues of violence and harassment and helped form the first University-wide campaign against sexual violence.

Sophie van der Ham completed a BA in English literature and linguistics at the University of Amsterdam & Edinburgh. She came to the University of Sussex to study an MA in Gender Studies and co-chaired the Women's Group on campus. She was elected welfare officer at the University of Sussex Students' Union and is carrying on the zero tolerance to sexual harassment and discrimination campaign that was started by the previous welfare officer. The campaign has been mentioned by The Guardian and aims to work constructively with the University in introducing a sexual violence policy.

The day will conclude with a general discussion, with the option to splinter into smaller groups in order to discuss research strands.

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Basic Research Journal of Education Research and Review - November 2012 Issue

BASIC RESEARCH JOURNAL OF EDUCATION RESEARCH AND REVIEW – NOVEMBER 2012 ISSUE

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‘The Lamb’ by William Blake – set to music by Victor Rikowski: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw3VloKBvZc

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Glenn Rikowski’s paper, Critical Pedagogy and the Constitution of Capitalist Society has been published at Heathwood Press as a Monthly Guest Article for September 2012, online at:

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