Education Day 2015: 'ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners'

Over 150 Imperial staff, ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ and external guest speakers came together to discuss the possibilities and practicalities of engaging 'ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners'.

Wednesday 11 March 2015
Sir Alexander Fleming Building
South Kensington campus

Innovative developments at Imperial and beyond inspired the theme for Imperial’s Education Day 2015: ‘ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners’. The event addressed the following questions:

  • What do we mean by ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners?
  • Why engage ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners at Imperial?
  • What benefits and challenges of these partnerships arise for staff and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½?

In the spirit of this theme the event was planned and delivered by staff and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ in partnership. The afternoon event commenced at 13:00 with a joint welcome from the President of Imperial College, Professor Alice Gast, and Imperial College Union President, Tom Wheeler. Imperial staff and ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ shared examples of partnerships on programme design, assessment and feedback, and research. Our external presenters were leading expert , author of the recent HEA publication (at ) and (at ), a leader on the TESTA project (Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment). A panel session involving audience Q&A concluded the formal event and informal discussions continued during a reception.

Education Day March 2015

Event recordings

Welcome address

Keynote speaker

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Examples from Imperial: student - staff partnerships

  • - Dr Lorraine Craig, Academic Tutor, Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Associate Dean for Learning and Teaching, Engineering; Sarah Dodd, Super GTA, Department of Earth Science and Engineering and Isobel Mackay, Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA), Department of Earth Science and Engineering
  • - Dr Bridgette Duncombe, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Chemistry and Chemistry student partners Ollie Benton, Oli Robotham and Athanasius (Nas) Andriopoulos
  • - Professor Pietro Spanu, Senior Tutor, Department of Life Sciences; Moira Sarsfield, Senior Learning Technologist, Department of Life Sciences and Biology student partners, Kirelle McManus and Sinziana Giju
  • - Dr David Dye, Reader in Metallurgy, Department of Materials and Materials student partner, Iacopo Russo

Transforming the Experience of Students Through Assessment (TESTA)

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Panel discussion and Q&A

  • - Chair: Dr Martyn Kingsbury, Head, Educational Development Unit; Professor Mick Healey; Dr Tansy Jessop; Pascal Loose, ICU Deputy President (Education); Dr Anita Hall, Co-ordinator, Teaching Fellow Network and Rachel Vaux, GSU Rep and AWO for Life Sciences
Teaching strategy exchange

A form has been set up to share information about teaching strategies used at Imperial. If you would like to share information about a teaching strategy that you have used, that would enable another Imperial staff member to develop it for their context, please complete the .

‘Break-in’ workshops - unpacking the idea of ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ as partners

Preceding the afternoon programme, morning 'break-in’ workshops took place in the Imperial College Union, and provided opportunity for more direct student-staff discussion on ways and means for working in partnership around programme design, assessment and feedback, and research.