7.0536 Conference: Higher Education Research Group (1/63)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 2 Mar 1994 20:15:19 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0536. Wednesday, 2 Mar 1994.
Date: 2 Mar 1994 09:48:16 +0000
From: "S.A.Rae (Simon Rae)" <S.A.Rae@open.ac.uk>
Subject: Conference: HERG - practice and priorities
Research into Higher Education in the Humanities
practice and priorities.
HERG Conference at the Open University
The Humanities Higher Education Research Group (HERG)
at the Open University are hosting this one day conference
on Saturday 23rd April 1994 in Milton Keynes.
The conference aims to explore recent research in the teaching and
learning of the arts/humanities in higher/adult education, to look at
aims and priorities for future research and to set up a network of
communication between active researchers.
The keynote speakers include:
- Prof. Anthony Snodgrass, University of Cambridge and
- Heather Eggins, Director: Society for Research into Higher Education
The Conference will be from 10am until 4:30pm, a charge of 20 pounds
will cover the cost of the conference papers, coffee, lunch and tea.
For further details please contact either:
Jan Rae or Ellie Chambers
Institute of Educational Technology
The Open University
MILTON KEYNES
MK7 6AA
UK
phone: (0908) 652577 (Jan) 652629 (Ellie) 652914 (Sec)
fax: 0908 653744
email:
j.l.rae@open.ac.uk or e.a.chambers@open.ac.uk
The schedule for the day is as follows:
START, COFFEE & WELCOME: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 - 10:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1: Prof. Anthony Snodgrass . . . . . 10:30 - 11:15
"Defeat into Victory? The Academy, the ESRC and the Government"
Prof. Snodgrass was a member of the British Academy/ESRC Joint
Working Party on the future of research funding in the
humanities that recommended to the government that a
Humanities Research Council be established.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: Heather Eggins . . . . . . . . . 11:15 - 12:00
"Research priorities in Higher Education in the 1990s"
Heather Eggins is currently Director of SRHE and specialises
in the field of education policy.
RESEARCH MAPPING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:00 - 12:45
A summary of recent and current research interests, methods
and projects in humanities HE.
LUNCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:45 - 1:45
RESEARCH PRIORITIES IN:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:45 - 3:00
a) Humanities computing
b) Uses of multi-media
c) (Other) teaching/learning strategies; subject specialisms
(in parallel).
TEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 - 3:30
PLENARY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:30 - 4:30
Report back from previous session / future plans for
Humanities HE Research Network.
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