Equity and Attainment seminar with Dr Wendy Green and Professor Stephen Small

Event details

We are pleased to announce the next event in our research seminar series hosted as part of the Equity and Attainment Theme of Coventry University’s Research Centre, Global Learning: Education and Attainment (GLEA) on 25th May 2018 14:00 – 17:00 in room JAG28 in the Jaguar Building Professor Christine Broughan and Dr Caroline Wilson from GLEA will be delivering the seminar ‘What works? A framework to enable effective design of student engagement intervention activities aimed at increasing equity of attainment opportunity.’ Michelle McLardy from the School of Marketing and Management will deliver the seminar ‘International Postgraduate Students: The Challenges of Equity in Experience and Achievement’ Professor Stephen Small, University of California, Berkeley will be delivering the seminar ‘How capitalizing on the knowledge and cultures of all our staff and students could make universities dynamic and successful learning spaces fit for the future.’ Dr Wendy Green, Visiting Scholar, University of Tasmania, Australia will be delivering the seminar ‘Engaging all students as partners in global learning: Changing the way we imagine and practice ‘international education’.

Speakers

Currently she leads the £1m HEFCE Catalyst-funded DRIVER project, a West Midlands regional partnership project to address barriers to student success using learner analytics, and the Coventry lead on two further HEFCE-funded projects: Interventions for Success and Exploring the Efficacy of Measuring Learning Gain. Christine has a proven track record in education leadership, teaching and research.

Caroline Wilson is a researcher investigating equity and attainment in Higher Education. Reflecting Coventry University’s global profile this involves researching related issues such as international education and global citizenship. She is the evaluator on the DRIVER project, a West Midlands partnership initiative to address barriers to student success. She is also working on several projects around analysis of feedback to improve teaching and the student experience. She has published on teaching excellence, gender disparity in HE, and behaviour change.

Stephen Small, PhD.  teaches in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned his Ph.D. 

He previously taught at the University of Warwick, the University of Leicester and the University of Massachusetts.  He was Director of UC Study abroad programs in in Spain (2013-2015), France (2002-2004), and in Brazil, each summer between 2001-2005. He is currently a faculty member of the Black Europe Summer School in Amsterdam; and the Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Institute in Barcelona. His new book – 20 Questions and Answers on Black Europe – was published January, 2018, and builds on his research and teaching on race and ethnic relations in Europe over the last 30 years.

Dr Wendy Green is a senior lecturer (adjunct) in the School of Education, University of Tasmania, Australia. As an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellow she is leading work on engaging students as partners in global learning. Her fellowship has supported projects, which engage student and staff collaboratively in global learning, at home and abroad, in the formal and co-curriculum.