A little too quiet...

It has been many months since the last post on this blog, and the site has been rather neglected of late. Apologies for this... and thanks for all the site visits so far. We are currently discussing the future of the site and will be back with more details once these have been decided. 

Supervising qualitative dissertations: new research underway

The 'Teaching Qualitative Psychology' special interest group of the Higher Education Academy (see http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/disciplines/psychology/teaching-qualitative-psychology) is currently undertaking research to identify the experiences and needs of psychology lecturing staff across the UK in relation to the supervision of undergraduate qualitative psychology dissertations (sometimes known as 'empirical projects'). The aim of the project is to examine the current status of needs and support for these tutors, so that potential resources can be identified for future development. To date, the project has been collecting data in the North-east of England, and is now commencing in Scotland. If you are a psychology lecturer/tutor who is, or has, supervised qualitative psychology dissertations/projects at undergraduate level then please get in touch with Sally Wiggins: sally.wiggins@strath.ac.uk for further details. 

UPDATE August 2015. This research project has now been published in Qualitative Research in Psychology and can be accessed here: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14780887.2015.1075641#abstract

CPD event 5th Oct 2013: Dunblane

The ATPS (Association for the Teaching of Psychology in Scotland) is hosting a one-day CPD event on Saturday 5th October 2013, in Dunblane. This event is open to school psychology teachers as well as HE (lecturing) staff.  For more details, see: http://www.atps.org.uk/conference.aspx

MOOCs development

More universities and organisations are joining the MOOC (massive open online course) revolution across the globe. The latest additions to Future Learn include the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde - putting Scotland on the map for advancing learning:

http://futurelearn.com/news/british-museum-and-four-more-universities-join-the-futurelearn-revolution/

MOOCs offer an exciting opportunity for developing an interest in learning and knowledge without (necessarily) the pressure of fees or seeking qualifications. 

Supervising qualitative dissertations workshop

Are you supervising, or likely to supervise, qualitative psychology undergraduate dissertations? If so, then the following workshop (20th June, Darlington, UK) could be for you:

HEA supervising qualitative dissertations workshop

Learning Analytics conference: program available

The 3rd conference on Learning Analytics and Knowledge (LAK) which took place recently in Belgium now have their program available to view:
http://lakconference2013.wordpress.com/category/news/

The conference is interdisciplinary and deals with social phenomena around learning and knowledge - so plenty of scope here for applying ideas to psychology and learning. 

Updates to the events page

Please visit our 'events' page to find out about events this spring and summer, specifically related to teaching and learning (and research within these domains). July looks set to be a particularly busy month! 

Check out the deadlines for submitting papers to these conferences - there may still be time to submit something!