INVITED RESEARCH LECTURES & SEMINARS prior to 2008

2007

Invited lecture: ‘Research and Teaching Linkages in History’, Learning and Teaching Symposium, University of Cardiff (Invited) (September)

Invited lecture: ‘Research-Teaching Linkages in Arts and Social Sciences’, School of Arts and Social Sciences Learning and Teaching Symposium, Aberdeen University (June)

2006

Invited lecture: ‘Provoking the Slumbering Giant: Waking up the soul of the disciplines,’ research paper for Prokalo, Postgraduate Architecture Seminar Series, Edinburgh University (May)

2005

Invited keynote lecture: ‘Absent yet present’: Teaching as the Discipline’s Soul, Theorising and Performing Knowledge Conference, Glasgow (November)

2004

Invited seminar: 'Reflecting on Student Learning When Documenting Teaching Evidence’, USA Assessment Institute 2004, Indianapolis, USA (November)

Invited lecture: ‘The Future of Teaching the Middle Ages in Higher Education: Challenges, Paradoxes, Reconceptions, and Optimism’, Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL) and Institute of Medieval Studies, Bloomington, USA (October)

Invited lecture: ‘Constructing Church History: Rhetoric, Genre and Text in Bede’s Historiae and their Implications for Curriculum Design at Undergraduate Level', Institute of Medieval Studies, Bloomington, USA (October)

Invited lecture: ‘Preparing Future Faculty the Scottish Way’, Institute for Advanced Studies and FACET, Indiana University IUPUI, USA (April)

2003

Invited plenary speaker: ‘Managing Teaching and Research’, Graduate Professionalization Symposium, International Medieval Congress, Leeds (July)

Invited lecture: ‘Bede, Rhetoric, and the Construction of Female Sanctity’, Centre for the Greek and Roman World, Glasgow (January)

2002

Invited lecture: ‘Observations on Developing Reflective Practice for Quality Teaching Among Doctoral Students’, British Educational Research Association Special Interest Group Symposium, Glasgow (December)

Invited seminar: ‘Crossing Disciplines: Using Higher Education Learning Theory to Understand Bede’s Audience’, Research Seminar, Interdisciplinary Medieval Reading Group, University of Edinburgh (November)

Invited lecture: ‘When Teaching and Learning Theory meets Early Medieval History’ LTSN History, Classics and Archaeology & Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Glasgow (May)

Invited lecture: ‘The Changing Higher Education Environment 2: Student Learning, Small Group Work and Assessment’ Lecture: Medical Faculty, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria (April)

2001

Invited lecture: ‘The Changing Higher Education Environment 1: Problem Based Learning’ Lecture: Medical Faculty, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria. (December)

Invited seminar: ‘Increasing Student Diversity: Implications for, and approaches to teaching and learning in Higher Education.’ Seminar: Division of Academic Innovation & Continuing Education, University of Stirling (October)

OTHER CONFERENCE PAPERS

2005

‘Doing SoTL: A Cross Atlantic Dialogue reflecting upon the nature of teaching and learning in Medieval Studies,’ with Dr. L Shopkow, IS-SOTL International Conference, Vancouver, Canada (October)

‘The Future of Teaching the Middle Ages in Higher Education’, with L. Shopkow, Developing Teaching and Learning in Higher Education History, Oxford (April)

2002

‘It’s like the spider realising the web’: Understanding the Emotional Processes of the First Year of a PhD?’, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference, Glasgow (December)

‘Transforming the Boundaries: The Interface between Higher Education Teaching and Learning Theories and Subject Specific Knowledge’, British Educational Research Association Conference, Exeter (September)

Starting Early – Imminent Academics and Teaching Professionalism’, Assessing Quality in Higher Education Conference, Vienna, (July)

2001

‘When Phenomenography Meets Early Medieval History: The Intersection of Student Learning, Literacy and the Medieval Audience’, Society for Research into Higher Education Conference, Cambridge (December)

‘Problematizing the Personal in the PhD?’, Student Wellbeing Conference, Glasgow (September)

2000

‘Transgressing Traditional Teaching and Learning Methods in Medieval History’ History 2000 Conference (Bath)