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Undergraduate Research in Australia

Summit Program

DAY 1: THURSDAY 5TH NOVEMBER

Program
8.30

Registration and coffee

9.00

Welcome

Professor Judyth Sachs, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Macquarie University.

9.20

Integrating research, teaching and learning: Summit aims, rationale and outcomes

Professor Angela Brew, ALTC National Teaching Fellow, Macquarie University.

9.40

Keynote address: Establishing the value of undergraduate research: engaging students in real science

Emeritus Professor Elaine Seymour, Ethnography & Evaluation Research, the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.

10.40

Morning Tea

11.10

Keynote address: National Science Foundation models for funding undergraduate research

Dr Linda Slakey, Executive Director, Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation, USA.

12.10

Questions and issues for Australia

Professor Kerri-Lee Krause, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Quality and Student Outcomes) and Director, Griffith Institute for Higher Education, Griffith University.

12.40

Lunch

1.30

Roundtable discussion of questions to put to the panel

To include sharing of what institutions are doing/good practice and issues etc.

group discussion
group takes easy chairs
2.10

Plenary panel

Chaired by Professor Mick McManus, Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) University of Queensland.

audience listening to the plenary panel discussion

Professor, Iain Hay, ALTC Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Flinders University.

audience

Professor John Rice, Executive Director, Australian Council of Deans of Science

john rice in panel

Dr Jeanette Baird, Audit Director, Australian Universities Quality Agency

panel

Mr David Barrow, President, National Union of Students

david barrow
david barrow

Professor Andrew Wells, Executive Director, Humanities and Creative Arts, Australian Research Council

panel
4.00

Afternoon Tea

4.30

Keynote address: Institutional strategies to integrate research, teaching and learning: The Sheffield University experience

Professor Phillipa Levy, Director, Centre for Inquiry-based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK

5.30

Break

6.30

Drinks

7.00

Dinner

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DAY 2: FRIDAY 6TH NOVEMBER

Program
9.00

Welcome

by Professor Richard Johnstone, Executive Director ALTC

9.15

Keynote address: Developing undergraduate research across the USA: The work of the Council for Undergraduate Research

Dr Nancy Hensel, Executive Director, Council for Undergraduate Research, USA.

10.15

Roundtable Discussions

on issues arising and draft Communiqué

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communique
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10.45

Morning Tea

11.15

Parallel Session: The teaching research nexus and the first year student experience: What are the possibilities?

Professor Sally Kift, ALTC Senior Fellow, Director of First Year Experience, Queensland University of Technology.

11.15

Parallel Session: Discipline, diversity and the development of all students' research skills

Drs John Willison, University of Adelaide and Susan Mayson, Department of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University.

12.00

Parallel Session: Motivating the first-year learner through research informed media practice

Dr Denise Wood, University of South Australia.

12.00

Parallel Session: Students' engagement with the discipline: The impact of the undergraduate research journal Nexus

Professor Brian Yates, Head, School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania.

12.45

Lunch

1.45

Interactive keynote address: Institutional practices and strategies to develop undergraduate research and inquiry

Professor Mick Healey, Director, Centre for Active Learning, University of Gloucestershire, UK.

3.00

Final Plenary Discussion

taking these issues forward on a national level. Led by Professor Angela Brew, ALTC National Teaching Fellow, Macquarie University.

3.30

Afternoon Tea and close

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