From mass to universal higher education: building on experience: an ESRC/SRHE research seminar series

Seminar 5b. 8 January, 2004, CISHE, University College London
Changing systems, changing roles: expectations and experiences of staff.

Ian McNay writes:

Here are details of the presentations for this re-scheduled fifth seminar in the series funded by ESRC. Thanks to Stephen Rowland for the invitation to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Higher Education, and to Carol Massey and Jessica Hietasaari-Andersson for organisational support. The seminar took place in the Garden Room at UCL.

Please note that the details on this page are provided for information only, since this event has now taken place.

Programme

Coffee will be available from 10-30; the morning session will start formally at 11-00. Two plenary presentations will be followed by separate discussion groups in the morning and afternoon sessions. The seminar will end by 4-15 at the latest.

Morning presentations will be:

• Ian McNay, University of Greenwich: Role shifts and re-balancing: blending and boundary-spanning
• Wendy Saunderson, University of Ulster: Lipstick on the Gorilla: Gender, identity and EO issues in UK higher education

Lunch will be from 1-00 to 1-45. Afternoon presentations will be:

• Stephen Court, AUT: The state we’re in: academic staff in a mass HE system
• Stephen Rowland, University College London: Overcoming fragmentation in academic life

There is no fee for attendance, but those who register, but do not arrive, will be charged a fee of £25 – it is a nuisance value fee. Registration must be made by Monday, 22 December, at the latest. Support is available to cover attendance costs of a small number of research students. Please let us know of any who might be invited. They may distribute a summary of their work during the seminar, and previous student participants have formed a network to keep in touch.

Please complete and return the form by email to I.Mcnay@gre.ac.uk or by post to Ian McNay, University of Greenwich, 30 Park Row, London, SE10 9LS, by 22 December.

Unless you hear from us, your registration will have been accepted and there will be no further formal mailing. I look forward to seeing you there.

Note that the final open seminar, on governance, management and administration, will be on February 5, 2004. Book the date now.

- Ian McNay,
Professor Emeritus, Higher Education and Management and project co-cordinator.