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Engagement ~ Personal & Professional Development ~ Research ~ Leadership & Management Development ~ Learning, Teaching & Supervision

Engaging with the Public Using Cafés (Based on the principles of Café Scientifique)

Thursday 18 April 2013, 9.30 – 13.30
BJ Epstein (LDC), Stefi Barna (MED) and Wendy McMahon (AMS)

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This course is aimed at enabling staff and students to design and host their own Cafés in a subject area or discipline of their choosing. The session will begin with the participants taking part in a 'mock' Café which will then be dissected to enable understanding of the components of how a successful Café should be set up and run. Participants will be required at the end of the course to put an action plan in place to go and run their own Café (with help and support) around Norwich and Norfolk. Read More...

CALM LUNCHTIMES: Oasis 3

Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12.30-13.30
Steve Oldfield, CSED
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An Oasis session which as well as calming breathing, relaxing to music and visualisation, includes a Kinhin moving zen meditation to slow us down and help us to be more mindful and body-aware, and a relaxation exercise from Laura Mitchell.

Introduction to REN for New Staff

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 13.00-14.00
Sue Johnson, REN

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All new staff are invited to attend an Introductory Session ideally within three months of starting at UEA to find out about the University’s Research and Enterprise Service (REN).
(*This course will cover research and enterprise functions)

Understanding Teams

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 09.30–16.30 REARRANGED FOR 11 JUNE 2013
Ian Hewes

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Many people have experience of teams that work well, but probably more of teams that could be improved. This session offers a chance to reflect on the factors that make good teams – the ingredients and the process. It should enable participants to appreciate and maximise their strengths, to recognise and use the strengths of others and to help the teams they are in to run better. At one time or another anyone in a team can exercise leadership, with or without fanfares. This course will show how. There will be plenty of opportunity for discussion, reflection on participants’ experience before and during the session, group exercises, a questionnaire, and some individual and collective planning. The session should be informal, thought-provoking, useful and fun.

An Introduction to Twitter and Facebook

Tuesday 16 April 2013, 13.00-14.00
Simon Lancaster - Twitter
Toby Smith & Sarah Drake - Twitter and Facebook
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book by emailing Tim York, t.york@uea.ac.uk

See http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/lt/minibites#twitter for further information

Training Workshop for Members of UG/PGT and PGR Faculty Appeals Panels

Wednesday 17 April 2013, 14.00-16.00
tbc

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The University is now beginning to receive the first academic appeals and complaints under the new appeals/complaints regulations. Since the regulations, processes and appeals panels are all new to colleagues and students alike it is important that the generic training workshops on appeals/complaints which were run earlier in the academic year are followed-up by some more specific training for panel members and the administrative staff supporting both stage 1 and stage 2 of the new process. The need for more specific training has already been requested by panel members and we have identified two dates/times when this can be provided (see above).

Since it is very important that all staff involved in the appeals and complaints process are properly trained and supported in their roles colleagues should make every effort to ensure that they attend one of these April workshops – they will be identical in content/delivery.

An Introduction to General Regulations and Disciplinary Procedures

Monday 22 April 2013, 09.00-12.00 [NEW DATE]
Adam Longcroft, Academic Director of Taught Programmes, Nigel Norris, Chair of the Senate Disciplinary Committee and senior Learning and Teaching Service colleagues.

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During the academic year 2011/12 significant changes were made to the General Regulations governing programmes and student behaviour and to the disciplinary procedures relating to students within the university. These include new regulations or procedures relating to Fitness/Unsuitability to Study, Plagiarism, Attendance Engagement & Progress, and Professional/Academic Misconduct. All staff need to be aware of the regulations and disciplinary procedures to draw them to the attention of students (e.g. during Induction, in advising sessions) and to apply them consistently. Additional changes will stem from those associated with the Integration Project, and further changes will be needed in due course to accommodate the New Academic Model.