Vicky Gunn's cyber study

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This is Vicky Gunn's cyber study (a room off Steve's entrance lobby)

(always under construction, never quite fully emerged)

'At one time when each magister taught independently and the name of the university was unknown, there were more lectures and disputations and more interest in scholarly things. Now, however, when you have joined yourselves together in a university, lectures and disputations have become less frequent; everything is done hastily, little is learnt, and the time needed for study is wasted in meetings and discussions.....'	1

'At one time when each magister taught independently and the name of the university was unknown, there were more lectures and disputations and more interest in scholarly things. Now, however, when you have joined yourselves together in a university, lectures and disputations have become less frequent; everything is done hastily, little is learnt, and the time needed for study is wasted in meetings and discussions.....'

Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Glasgow

http://www.gla.ac.uk/learn

Areas of interest:

Thoughts on Learning and Teaching in Higher Education	Interprofessional Education et al	Ecclesiastical History and Queer theology
With QAA Scotland: Graduate Attributes Research and Teaching Linkages, Employability & Enhancement	Academic development in Arts & Social Sciences	Body and belief
Small Group Teaching	Healthcare	Bede
Equality and Diversity	GU LGBT Staff Network	Queering Church History?

Institutional and national level administration and service

For information on publications please see my research webpage: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/contactus/drvickygunn/

In addition:

Research I'm currently working on: Project outlines here

Gunn, V.A. (2011ish!) Considering Academic Disciplines through the len of Black and Minority Ethnic Equality and Diversity: Reflections on the Scottish Context. Commissioned submission for the Putting Race Equalities back onto the Higher Education Agenda Round Table (Edinburgh, May 2010) To be part of a special issue of Scottish Affairs, edited by Dr Rowena Arshad & Dr Vicky Gunn

Gunn, V. A. (2011ish!) Mimetic desire and intersubjectivity: Barriers to graduate attributes development in the Humanities?

Gunn, V.A. (2011ish) 'The idea of the University, research-teaching linkages and Equality and Diversity Imperatives: Just where should academic developers being going?' OR possibly The research-teaching nexus and the role of the university - historical and comparative perspectives (especially: Wissenschaftsideologie through a post-modern lens? European university history, academic development and the search for research-teaching linkages.)

Publications since January 2008

Gunn, V.A. & Owen, M. (2010) Enhancing the quality of workplace interaction through reflective engagement with clinical audit. Reflective Practice, 11(1): 93-104. ISSN 1462-3943

Gunn, V.A. (2009) Bede's Historiae: Genre, Rhetoric and the Construction of the Anglo-Saxon Church. (Monograph) Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, (255 pages) ISBN 978 1 84383 465 6

Gunn, V.A. (2009) Constraints to Implementing Learning Partnership Models and Self-Authorship in the Arts and Humanities. In C. Kreber ed., The University and its Disciplines: Teaching and Learning within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 169-178. ISBN 978-0-415-96520-0

Project Publications

Gunn, V.A. & Kafmann, K. (2011) Employability and the austerity decade. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) @ http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/documents/employability/G21C_VickyGunn_employability060611.pdf

Gunn, V.A. (2011) Maintaining Scotland’s Research Mindedness: Enhancing Research-Teaching Linkages. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) @ http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/documents/ResearchTeaching/G21C_VickyGunnRTL_080611.pdf

Gunn, V.A. (2010) Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Perspectives and Learning at University. Equality & Diversity Unit commissioned briefing, University of Glasgow, http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_175529_en.pdf

Gunn, V.A., Kafmann, K. & Bell, S. (2010) What's Topical/Emergent in Employability. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/documents/G21C/Employability_150910.pdf

Gunn, V.A. (2010) What's Topical/Emergent in Research-Teaching Linkages. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland)http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/documents/G21C/RTL_150910.pdf

Gunn, V.A. (2010) Enhancing research-teaching linkages as a way to improve the development of employability attributes. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) @ http://www.enhancementThemes.ac.uk/documents/G21C/G21C_ERforE.pdf

Gunn, V.A., Bell, S. & Kafmann, K. (2010) Thinking strategically about employability and graduate attributes: Universities and enhancing learning for beyond universities. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) @ http://www.enhancementThemes.ac.uk/documents/G21C/Employability_230210.pdf

Gunn, V.A., Draper, S. & McKendrick, M. (2008) Research-Teaching Linkages: Enhancing Graduate Attributes in the Arts and Humanities. Quality Assurance Agency (Scotland) @ http://www.enhancementthemes.ac.uk/documents/ResearchTeaching/Arts_Humanities_finalreport.pdf

Previous publications

Gunn, V.A. (2007) Medieval Church History and Queer Ministry: Using the Historical Imaginary to Build Theological Community, International Journal of Queer Ministry, 1 @ http://www.queerministry.com/ This journal is no longer on-line. See links to 'Queering Church History?' above for a pdf of the paper.

Gunn, V.A. (2007) What do Graduate Teaching Assistants’ perceptions of pedagogy suggest about current approaches to their vocational development? Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 59(4), pp. 535-549.

Gunn, V.A. & Shopkow, L. (2007) Doing SoTL in Medieval History: A Cross Atlantic dialogue, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 6:3, pp. 255-271.

Gunn, V.A. (2003) Transforming Subject Boundaries: the interface between Higher Education teaching and learning theories and subject-specific knowledge, Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2, pp.265-280

Roach, A. & Gunn, V.A. (2002) Teaching Medieval Towns: Group Exercises, Individual Presentations, and Self-Assessment, Innovations in Education and Training International, 39: 3 (2002), pp.196-204.

Gunn, V.A. (2000) Transgressing the Traditional? Teaching and Learning methods in a Medieval History Access Course, in Teaching in Higher Education, 5: 3, pp.311-32.

Murray, R. & Gunn, V.A. (1999) Creating Environments for Reflecting on the Psycho-Social Processes of writing a PhD ?, in Graal, M. & Clark, R., Writing Development in Higher Education: Partnerships Across the Curriculum, University of Leicester Press, pp. 261-269.

Gunn, V.A. (1993) Bede and the Martyrdom of St. Oswald, in Wood, D., Martyrs and Martyrdom, Studies in Church History, vol. 30, pp. 57-66.

Funded projects

Principal Investigator: QAA Scotland Quality Enhancement Themes Research-Teaching Linkages in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (External Committees) (2007-09)(Ł11,000)

Principal Investigator: QAA Scotland Quality Enhancement Themes Graduates for the 21st Century - Research-Teaching Linkages (External Committees) (2009-11)(Ł22,000)

Principal Investigator: QAA Scotland Quality Enhancement Themes Graduates for the 21st Century - Employability (External Committees) (2009-11)(Ł22,000)

Principal Investigator: One Glasgow Equality And Diversity Series: When Faith Meets Queer Does There Always Have To Be Conflict? Grant GU. Funded. 01/08/2009 (Ł1,600).

Principal Investigator: Student-led, Enquiry-based Project into the Perceptions of Developing Graduate Attributes at a Research Intensive University. (2009-2010) Grant GU. Funded. (Ł13,000)

Evidence of Esteem since January 2008

Member of editorial board of Teaching in Higher Education (international journal) (Editor, Reviewer of Journals or Book Series) – ongoing

Visiting international research fellow, K U Leuven, Belgium, October 2008.

QAA Scotland –advisory board member to QEF theme: Graduate Attributes for 21st Century. (Jan 2009- 2011)

Invited Chair for the SFC funded, knowledge exchange on public policy think tank – Dimensions of persistent inequality in Scotland (Glasgow, Jan. 2009);

Invited consultation group member: policy development for the SFC replacement to Equality Forward Scotland (May-June 2009)

Invited member of a cross-sectoral working group focused on ‘Putting Race back on the Agenda’, chaired by Dr Rowena Arshad, Centre for Education into Racial Equality in Scotland (Edinburgh)

Invited by Universities Scotland to sit on the panel reviewing the Racial Equality Toolkit. (May 09)

Invited poster presenter, Council for Undergraduate Research, pre-ISSoTL ? international seminar, Liverpool, October 2010

Invited programme validation external representative - CEMP, Scottish Centre for Work-Based Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University (Feb, 2009) - PG Cert Academic Practice, University of Edinburgh (Dec, 2010) - PG Cert Supervision (Creative Practice), Glasgow School of Art (Dec, 2010)

Invited Lectures and Conference Presentations:

Gunn, V.A. Research-Teaching Nexus in Work-based Final Year Dissertations and Capstone Projects: Pragmatics or Innovation? Rethinking the Final Year Undergraduate Dissertation Symposium, University of Gloucester, June 2011 (Keynote) http://insight.glos.ac.uk/tli/activities/ntf/creativehops/events/Symposium/Pages/Presentations.aspx

Gunn, V.A. Queering Late Antique Church History: Androgyne Perspectives on Building a Twenty-First Century Christian Community. Theology and Religious Studies, Research Seminar, Feb 2011 (Invited presenter)

Gunn, V.A. Institutional research and graduates attributes in the 21st Century - Scottish Perspectives, Higher Education Institutional Network Seminar (with the Scottish Forum on Lifelong Learning), Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, November 2010 (Invited keynote)http://www.crll.org.uk/media/crll/content/forum/HEIR-vickygunnkeynote.pdf

Gunn, V.A. Enhancing undergraduate learning through the development of research-teaching linkages: Managing the process across different levels within a programme, Stirling University, October 2010 (Invited seminar)

Gunn, V.A. ''Am I still the only gay in the village? Challenges of addressing difference and diversity in beyond school curriculum", The Single Equality Act 2010: Embracing the Challenge Conference (Central College,Glasgow, October 2010) (Invited presenter)

Gunn, V.A., Gibbings, A., MacPherson, K., Oleinika, K., & Wightwick, J. Graduate Attributes? Engaging in institutional quality enhancement of graduate attributes through a student-led enquiry project. Institutional Research: Informing Institutional Enhancement, Practice & Strategy, Higher Education Institutional Research Network Conference, Dublin City University, Dublin, 29th June 2010

Gunn, V.A. Protecting Paideia: research-teaching linkages in the Humanities. HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology & Institute of Classical Studies, London, 23rd June 2010 (Invited lecture)

Gunn, V.A., Weir, J. & Kafmann, K. Quality Enhancement, Employability, and Graduate Attributes for the 21st Century. The Employability Challenge: Evidence, Reflections and Future Agendas, Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, 22nd Learning Forum, 16th June 2010 (Invited workshop).

Gunn, V.A. (2010) Considering Academic Disciplines through the len of Black and Minority Ethnic Equality and Diversity: Reflections on the Scottish Context. Putting Race Equalities back onto the Higher Education Agenda Round Table, Edinburgh University, May 2010 (Invited lecture)

Gunn, V.A. Employability through and outwith subject-specific study and assessment. Annual Learning and Teaching Symposium, University of Aberdeen, May 2010.

Gunn, V.A. Integrating research-teaching linkages, employability and assessment. Dundee University, December 2009 (Invited seminar)

Gunn, V.A. The idea of the university, research-teaching linkages and Equality and Diversity Imperatives: Just where should academic developers be going? Edinburgh University, February 2009. (Invited research lecture and seminar)

Gunn, V.A. The challenges of addressing equality and diversity in university curriculum, First Equality Forward National Conference, Stirling, February, 2009. (Invited conference presentation)

Gunn, V.A. Wissenschaftsideologie through a post-modern lens? European university history, academic development and the search for research-teaching linkages. KU Leuven, Belgium, October, 2008. (Invited research lecture.)

Gunn, V.A. LGBT Student Learning Experiences and Inclusive Curriculum Design. Equality Forward Symposium, University of Abertay, October 2008 (Invited speaker)

Gunn, V.A. Research-Teaching Linkages in the Arts and Humanities – The Scottish Dimension, HEA English Subject Centre Symposium on Research-Teaching Linkages, Edinburgh University, June 2008. (Invited keynote speaker.)

Gunn, V.A. Research and Teaching in Higher Education History: Beyond simple taxonomies, History in Higher Education Conference, Oxford, April, 2008. (Invited keynote speaker)

A list of Book Reviews

A list of invited seminars, papers, conferences etc