CCCU Diamond Jubilee Learning and Teaching Conference 2022“How our past informs our present and future: learning communities at CCCU”
This year’s 2022 CCCU Diamond Jubilee Learning and Teaching Conference was held on-campus on the afternoon of Wednesday 16th November in Verena Holmes. Around 80 delegates attended.
Dr Theo Gilbert, Associate Professor, Learning and Teaching at the University of Hertfordshire¸ was our keynote speaker. Dr Gilbert’s research on the psycho biological nature of compassion provides new solutions to supporting student mental wellbeing and address the BAME awarding gap; he won the Advance HE/Times Higher Education award for Most Innovative Teacher 2018.
His presentation was titled “Building back Communities: Our Compassionate Brains on a New HE Curriculum” Theo outlined how he and colleagues at the University of Hertfordshire have worked together to make compassionate interactions between students in group-work a valued and assessed part of their courses. He explained the rationale for the decisions as well as sharing some of the practical details of how this has been assessed [see Appendices in the download section].
Other recordings from the conference are available below:
Session 1: Gaining practice and building confidence for all learners during the graduate recruitment process – Kristine Pole, Cecile Tschirhart, Tracy Smith and students (Egle Kulbokaite, Logan Gouwens)
Session 2: Exploring the research trends on ethnicity attainment gap by using bibliometric analysis – Dr Mujde Bideci
Session 3: Evaluating an accounting software for compassionate pedagogy and educating the whole person – Dr Funbi Adesina
Session 4: Disability or superpower? Why do ‘labels’ change our perceptions in higher education? – Sarah O’Hara
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