Participation:

All participants are welcome to contribute a position paper of 500 words for circulation on this website prior to the event. The papers will be grouped with other resources here and drawn on during the day.

Please email your position paper to:

Daniel Ashton ( Lancaster University) d.ashton @ lancaster.ac.uk
Debbie Flint (ADM HEA) d.flint @ brighton.ac.uk

In the main body of the email please state the following:
1) If you are willing to present your paper
2) If you are willing to co-chair a session

Position papers:

Position papers may be in two broad areas.

1) On any aspect of your Higher Education teaching experiences relating to Media and Cultural Studies.

Possible themes include:
- stories and experiences of life as a PG teacher in the field
- responses to recent developments in the field and/or policy reports
- your hopes for the field and teaching and learning within it
- the changing knowledge and expectations of students coming into Higher Education due to the increasingly central position of Media studies position within Secondary and Further Education.

A Facebook group for this event will also act as a forum to discuss potential paper themes and issues for roundtable sessions.

2) Relating to the panels on

Teaching Cultural and Media Studies in the age of Web 2:0
Teaching and Research inter-relationships and transitions

Possible themes include:

- the changing status from a ‘Disney’ and ‘goobledegook’ subject to a widely taught and established field
- engaging with the rapid changes in the objects and issues that Media studies addresses
- Mediated learning and the uptake of virtual learning environments and new media at a university strategy level
- Different types of student output for assessment and/or as part of their courses associated with new media
- Experiences of attempting to balance teaching and research commitments
- The experience of teaching to students who may be more concerned with media industries and career then the kind of academic route you are pursuing.

Participants are asked here to keep the presentations to around five minutes and present a particular question, issue, concern, etc for discussion.

Co-chairs:

This is an opportunity to gain experience in chairing academic panels with experienced academics. Co-chairs will be asked to liaise with the member of ICR who is acting as the other co-chair for the session and be prepared to respond to the their paper, position papers presented in the session, and the discussion within the session. Co-chairs will communicate prior to the event to discuss how they would like to facilitate their session.

Reporters:

There will be opportunities for participants to report on the event for the ADM-HEA. Details cab be obtained from ADM-HEA and Debbie Flint.