All Outputs (24)

Professional registration: Chartership with Marlène Rak (2024)
Digital Artefact
Kikteff Rak, M. (2024). Professional registration: Chartership with Marlène Rak. [Magazine]

Marlène Rak talks to Rob Green about her Chartership journey in the first of the IP’s Professional Registration journey insight columns.

The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Urzelai, B. (2023, November). The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines. Paper presented at ISBE Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference (Track: Enterprise Education), Aston University, Birmingham

There are many new demands on academics. One of these is to embed enterprise and entrepreneurship education within a range of different academic disciplines. Intergovernmental, governmental and professional organisations, as well as management expert... Read More about The enterprising academic: Embodying enterprise value among UWE staff across disciplines.

Lost in the fog: The bewildering language of assessment (2023)
Digital Artefact
Minett-Smith, C., Bennett, L., Hassler, S., & Eve, J. (in press). Lost in the fog: The bewildering language of assessment. [Blog post]

A SEDA blog written jointly by the contributors to a QAA Project on the Language of Assessment which resulted in the creation of a toolkit to support both creators of assessments and students in the common points of the assessment journey. The toolk... Read More about Lost in the fog: The bewildering language of assessment.

Object analysis & reflective skills: UWE Bristol ​ (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Peters, M. (2022, July). Object analysis & reflective skills: UWE Bristol ​. Paper presented at ARCLIB (Architecture Librarians Group), University of Brighton

Morwenna delivered a presentation on a workshop she created for MA Design students at UWE Bristol, where she used the students' own objects to develop critical and reflective thinking and writing skills.

Research informed teaching podcast: Episode 5 (2021)
Digital Artefact
Adukwu, E., Weitkamp, E., & Walker, B. (2021). Research informed teaching podcast: Episode 5. [Audio file hosted on webpage]

The aim of this podcast is to explore the notion of research-informed teaching in higher education, both from a practical and theoretical point of view. The episodes bring together a range of academics and graduates to discuss what research-informed... Read More about Research informed teaching podcast: Episode 5.

Maria White & Morwenna Peters on collecting and working with artists’ books (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Peters, M. (2021, December). Maria White & Morwenna Peters on collecting and working with artists’ books. Presented at Scandinavian Artists' Books Partnership Project, Online

Maria White (Independent specialist, UK) and Morwenna Peters (Subject Librarian/Art & Design Library Campus Manager, UWE, Bristol, UK) on collecting, cataloguing and working with artists’ books in an educational setting. This video is part of a UW... Read More about Maria White & Morwenna Peters on collecting and working with artists’ books.

Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities (2021)
Book
Hunt, S. E. (2021). S. E. Hunt (Ed.). Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities. Lanham, Md USA: Rowman & Littlefield

Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement: Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities is a pioneering text that examines the ideas about social ecology and communalism behind the evolving political structures in the Kurdish regio... Read More about Ecological Solidarity and the Kurdish Freedom Movement Thought, Practice, Challenges, and Opportunities.

UWE Bristol Library Research Support - annual report Sep 2021 (2021)
Report
Vaughton, C. (2021). UWE Bristol Library Research Support - annual report Sep 2021. UWE Bristol

The annual report of the Library Research Support Team at UWE Bristol, for September 2021. This report covers developments from 2018-2021.

Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey (2021)
Journal Article
Grieve, R., Woodley, J., Hunt, S., & McKay, A. (2021). Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(9), 1281-1293. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877x.2021.1948509

Oral presentations and public speaking are an important aspect of the student experience in the United Kingdom higher education. Many modules (self-contained units normally within a programme of study) use presentations as a form of assessment and re... Read More about Student fears of oral presentations and public speaking in higher education: A qualitative survey.

Commissioned Writer in Residence (2020)
Other
Clement, A., & Pearn, S. (2020). Commissioned Writer in Residence. Bristol

Started in 2018-2019, this project has offered one student per year an opportunity to become a commissioned writer in residence. The position was created in conjunction with the UWE Bristol Grand Challenge, on the theme of homelessness in Bristol. T... Read More about Commissioned Writer in Residence.

Embedding Academic Skills At UWE Bristol (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Peters, M., & Sebire, L. (2020, July). Embedding Academic Skills At UWE Bristol. Paper presented at ARLIS (Art Libraries Society), Glasgow

Presentation delivered by Morwenna Peters and Ludovik Sebire at ARLIS Conference 2019. Outlines what UWE librarians deliver to support the development of students' academic literacy with examples; the benefits and challenges of this role and futu... Read More about Embedding Academic Skills At UWE Bristol.

Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol (2019)
Journal Article
Shreeve, S., & Hamley, J. (2019). Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol. Legal Information Management, 19(4), 236-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1472669619000550

In this article Sue Shreeve and Julie Hamley give an overview of how the subject support librarian role at UWE Bristol has evolved over the last five years, broadening from subject information specialist to encompass academic skills support and Engli... Read More about Alive and Kicking: Reflections on the Evolving Role of Subject Support Librarians at UWE Bristol.

Supporting NHS nursing associates: Collaborative reflections from a hybrid library team (2019)
Journal Article
McKay, A., Cooper, T., & Plaice, C. (2019). Supporting NHS nursing associates: Collaborative reflections from a hybrid library team. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 25(2-4), 295-314. https://doi.org/10.1080/13614533.2019.1615519

This paper presents a case report of the experiences of a hybrid library team from the University of the West of England (UWE) Bristol providing academic literacy support to the first cohorts of Trainee Nursing Associates following a new National Hea... Read More about Supporting NHS nursing associates: Collaborative reflections from a hybrid library team.

The student body (2019)
Other
Shand, M. (2019). The student body. https://edtechlaunchpad.jiscinvolve.org/wp/files/2019/02/edtech-challenge-idea_The-Student-Body.pdf

This design was runner-up in the Jisc EdTech Challenge: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/could-future-vles-spell-the-end-for-screen-time-25-feb-2019 There is a significant disconnect between different the mediums used in the administration and environm... Read More about The student body.

Private data: how much is it worth to you? (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Shand, M., Page, K., Hawkins, R., & Woodman, T. (2018, June). Private data: how much is it worth to you?. Presented at AULIC 2018, University of the West of England

Would the debate around social media and our privacy look different if we were asked to respond to a business model that did not promise us ‘convenience’ for free? Research demonstrates the importance we place on our personal data, but we continue to... Read More about Private data: how much is it worth to you?.

Embedding study skills support into teaching and enquiry services (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Peters, M., & Delaney, E. (2017, July). Embedding study skills support into teaching and enquiry services. Paper presented at ARCLIB (Architecture Librarians Group), University of Bath

Using examples from both architecture and art and design programmes, Emma and Morwenna discussed how UWE Bristol Library Services has implemented its responsibility for the central provision of academic literacy development, moving beyond the traditi... Read More about Embedding study skills support into teaching and enquiry services.

Big, small and tiny data (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Shand, M. (2017, June). Big, small and tiny data. Presented at AULIC 2017, University of Bristol

In environments shaped by big data, we explore the notions of small and even tiny data. In the transactional environments at universities (library services) we can glean valuable insights from big data (institution-wide, sector-wide, national, intern... Read More about Big, small and tiny data.

Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Shand, M. (2016, December). Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement. Presented at Playful Learning Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University

This project sought to address concerns about student engagement with a previously handbook-based module and its task-based approach. An aesthetic approach to the challenge was adopted, with an extra layer of meaning being added through external play... Read More about Lyra: blurring the line between the physical and virtual to encourage engagement.

Student-led enquiry into the UWE academic journey
Report
Delaney, E., Hamilton, F., & Nash, A. Student-led enquiry into the UWE academic journey. UWE Bristol

Carried out through 2018-19, the Academic Journey Project sought to understand the barriers to academic success that first year home students face at UWE Bristol. Student co-researchers wrote about their first year as they experienced it, and this in... Read More about Student-led enquiry into the UWE academic journey.

Report to UKRI on open access publishing spend from block grant awarded to UWE Bristol 2021/22
Report
Belger, J. Report to UKRI on open access publishing spend from block grant awarded to UWE Bristol 2021/22. UKRI

Each year the higher education institutions in receipt of the block grant for open access publishing are required by UKRI to complete an annual report on expenditure. This is the return from the University of the West of England for the award year 01... Read More about Report to UKRI on open access publishing spend from block grant awarded to UWE Bristol 2021/22.