Title: "Interfaces: knowledges and identities today."

Our December research conference is a chance to acknowledge, share and showcase the work that colleagues have carried out over the last year. It is a chance for debate and making connections across the faculty to enrich all our work by keeping up with current interests and exploring with colleagues ideas and ways forward.

Although extremely varied, as one would expect, research work by colleagues in 08-09 falls into two broad categories. On one hand forms of knowledge have been interrogated by seeking to clarify our understanding of specific concepts and their impact across a range of educational contexts. On the other, the nature and role of principles of identity Have been explored in an attempt to situate learning in a more personal relationship between pedagogy and personhood.

There is no question of the value of both of these strands, but have we overlooked the alignments between them? This conference is a chance to share the success of the past year's research activity. But it is also a space where we can bring these strands together in order to discuss their interfaces and their potentials for future work. This year, colleagues from across the faculty will be exploring and questioning themes such as the complexities of being a professional researcher and the links between knowledge, identity and performativity. Some of the bases of the "Biographical Turn" will be interrogated, as will the educational implications of "uniquely human ways of seeing the world".Kathleen Goouch will be giving us "Permission to Play " and Ian Jasper will be critically exploring the ways learner identities are shaped by form filling.

Programme

9.00 – 9.15 Refreshments and Registration (location to be confirmed)

9.15 - 10.00 Welcome and Introduction in LAUD Lg16
Chris Beighton and Linden West (tbc)

10.00 – 11.00 Session A

• Group One - Newton Nf03   
  Knowledge, identity and performativity.
  Hazel Bryan   
• Group Two - Newton Nf07        
  Consolidating the Chameleon - on being a professional researcher
  Jo Oliver
• Group Three - Newton Ns03         
  C.Wright Mills and the Biographical Turn
  Mike Radford 
• Group Four - Newton Ns04      
  Seeing in and seeing as: the educational implications of.  uniquely human ways of seeing the world
  Gill Hope
• Group Five - Newton Nt04
  The Extended Learning Opportunities Framework
  Linda Leith
  

11.00 – 11.15 Tea Break  the BLUE ROOM (SCR)

11.15 – 12.15 Session B

• Group One - Newton Nf03   
  Knowledge, identity and performativity
  Hazel Bryan   
• Group Two - Newton Nf07   
  Consolidating the Chameleon - on being a professional researcher
  Jo Oliver   
• Group Three - Newton Ns03   
  C.Wright Mills and the Biographical Turn
  Mike Radford      
• Group Four - Newton Ns04   
  Learner identities and form filling
  Ian Jasper    
• Group Five - Newton Nt04   
  Permission to Play
  Kathleen Goouch 

12.30 – 13.15 Tony Booth: Valedictory speech in LAUD Lg16
Title: "From Cable Street to beyond the Tree House; keeping faith in my own words and values."

"My talk will be a reflection on some of the influences which have shaped my involvement in education, the values I draw on to hold education to account within and beyond the University and how these shape the way I approach the development of educational policies and practices."

13.15 - 14.15     Lunch in the Blue Room (SCR)

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