HE in FE Research

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HE in FE Research Scholarly Activity
Identifying the Terrain

• Mark Stone, HELP CETL Director
• Nick Davy, Community of Practice Developer
• Sue Burkill, Head of Educational Development
  Learning Technology
• Higher Education Learning Partnerships HELP
• Centre for Excellence in Teaching Learning
  CETL

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Setting the Scene

• National picture?
• UPC faculty collaboration and support
• Related aspects of the HELP CETL
• Research including HE in FE staff attitudes to
  Research and Scholarship

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The UNIVERSITY and its Partner Colleges
CITY of BRISTOL COLLEGE
Associated Partner College
NORTH DEVON COLLEGE
EAST DEVON COLLEGE
Accredited Partner College
SOMERSET COLLEGE of ARTS TECHNOLOGY
Bristol
DUCHY COLLEGE
Minehead
Cannington
Bridgwater
ST AUSTELL COLLEGE
Barnstaple
Taunton
TRURO COLLEGE
BICTON COLLEGE
Tiverton
Bude
Okehampton
CORNWALL COLLEGE
Bicton
Exeter
SCHOOL of MARITIME OPERATIONS HMS DRYAD
Sidmouth
Exmouth
Weymouth
Newton Abbot
Bodmin
Dartington
Duchy
WEYMOUTH COLLEGE
Schumacher
Torbay
Liskeard
PLYMOUTH
Saltash
Brixham
St. Austell
Dartmouth
Redruth
FALMOUTH COLLEGE of ARTS
EXETER COLLEGE
Truro
Camborne
Penzance
SOUTH DEVON COLLEGE
Falmouth
Helston
BRITANNIA ROYAL NAVALCOLLEGE
Culdrose
Jersey
HIGHLANDS COLLEGE - JERSEY
PENWITH COLLEGE
RN SCHOOL OF METEOROLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY RNAS
CULDROSE
DARTINGTON COLLEGE of ARTS
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF FE
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE of ART DESIGN
JOHN KITTO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
SCHUMACHER COLLEGE
ESTOVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE
RN HYDROGAPHIC SCHOOL HMS DRAKE
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Developing Knowledge, Individuals Communities

• Staff secondments Community Developers
• Student involvement
• CPD Fellowship Awards
• Development Activities
• Communities of Practice
• External collaboration
• Dissemination recognition
• Aspects of an integrated programme

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HELP CETL interest and focus

• Support in the here and now
• Facilitation up the research scholarship
  ladder
• Capacity Building including structures
• Sustainability
• Partnership and Collaboration
• Research and Dissemination on the process

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Example Issues

• Individual - advice and mentoring
• Group - critical mass and isolation
• Institutional - priority and consistency
• Consortia - support and policy
• National - policy impact / few practitioners
• Knowledge unrecognised / under reported