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Memorial to Colonel Philip van Cortlandt.

In memory of Colonel Philip van Cortlandt of the Manor of Cortlandt. A retired royalist officer of the American War. Died at Hailsham, May 1814, Aged 74 years. The memory of the Just is Blessed. Prov, X, vii Memorial in the interior of St Mary Church, Hailsham, East Sussex, UK

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Mapping your experience and development needs to the UKPSF

I developed this poster for participants on the University of Brighton Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching to map their experience and development needs against the UK Professional Standards Framework. Could also be used at any level for the Professional Recognition Route to the HEA Fellowships as well. Best printed off in A2 but can be done on six sheets of A4 taped together. Originally created in MS Publisher.

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Sustainable development in the humanities.

This is a (non-live) mp3 recording of a lecture I gave in 2012 on sustainability in the humanities. A word document with a trasnscipt is also here.

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Thinking critically about published research

I've developed this resource for use with M-level physiotherapy students. It can be adapted to other disciplines.

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Scenarios for Heads of languages department: Strategic

A series of strategic scenarios for language leader in higher education to discuss.

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Scenarios: You are the Head of Department

Designed for languages, but adaptable to other disciplines these scenarios/dilemmas relate to widening participation, student fees and marketing the course/ university. NB: some of the scenarios might be 'dated' due to recent policy changes/ clarifications.

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Scenarios: Designing/ reviewing a curriculum

This resource consists of three scenarios where a radical curriculum review is required. The exercise was designed for helping staff in modern languages respond to senior management directives/ strategies, but can be adapted for other disciplines.

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Scenarios: Managing a department's reputation

Three scenarios for group discussion in which a department's/ university's reputation is challenged. Examples from languages, but useful for other disciplines.

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Student voice: student choice

A brief presentation of ideas about how students choose a university.Presentation given at Heads of Languages event 2012.

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Voices students hear when applying to university

This resource is simply some quotes or advice or comments a student might hear when applying to a particular university. Could be used as a group exercises by staff, students or potential students to think through responses/issues

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Scenarios: Dealing with difficult people or having difficult conversations in academia.

Scenario discussion exercises. Designed for languages department heads, but will work in other disciplines.

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Presenting your research outside your discipline (group exercise)

These materials were used at a workshop of Heads of Languages Departments to practice presenting content-based research to people outside the languages department/ university.

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Ten useful things to remember when applying for HEA Fellowship¬ (D1 and D2, Professional Recognition Route)

The following list is ten things I believe it is particularly useful to remember when applying for Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, through the Professional Recognition Route. My thoughts are focused particularly on the Associate (D1) and Fellowship (D2) levels though they apply to Senior (D3) and Principal (D4) as well. Here at Brighton it is our aspiration that all teaching staff have, or are working towards, a recognised teaching qualification by 2015, and the HEA’s Professional Recognition is likely to be the main route for more experienced academic staff.

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Sustainability in languages: Why we must take the opportunities

Presentation given on Sustainability and languages at the University Manchester, 28 June 2013

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Introduction to ethnography

Slides and handouts for an introductory session on ethnographic methods for PhD students. The students are asked to view the ethnography video lectures by Graham Gibbs before the face-to-face session.

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Writing for funding

This presentation is aimed at supporting postgraduate students applying for funding.

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Excel spreadsheet to add together Pounds, shillings and pence.

Add up pounds, shillings and pence, allow multiple items and conversion to post 1971 currency.

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Excel spreadsheet to help with statistics involving pre-decimal UK currency.

Until 1971 the UK used pounds (£), shillings (s) and pence (d). There were 12 pence in shilling. 20 shillings in a pound 240 pence in a pound. More about decimalisation can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_Day If basic arithmetic wasn’t enough of a problem, statistics must have been a nightmare. This excel spreadsheet enables the input of up to 300 prices in pounds, shillings and pence and calculates: The Total sum Mean average Standard Deviation Maximum Minimum Upper quartile Lower Quartile Median It also converts all the pounds, shillings and pence data into (today’s) decimal currency. This makes pre-1971 and post-1971 comparisons possible. (Full details of the mathematics behind this are in the Wikipedia article cited above). The excel side of things is a complicated and probably far more complex than it needs to be. Any improvements welcome.

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Research ethics in the humanities

Presentation and scenarios for discussing research ethics with humanities students.

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Memorial to William II of England,Rufus Stone, Hampshire

Memorial to William II of England at Rufus Stone, Hampshire. The stone is the near to the spot where he was believed to have been killed while out hunting in 1100. The Sir Walter Tyrell pub is also pictured.

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Preparing for your PhD viva

A University of Leicester CC document slightly modified for University of Southampton.

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Turning a PhD chapter into an article.

These resources are from a session exploring how to turn a chapter or section of your thesis into an article, from approaching a journal to thinking about format and pitch, to re-writing.

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Statistics for the humanities

Statistics for the Humanities is now available as an open access e-book (PDF format only at present). The book is aimed primarily at undergraduate humanities students, especially those who have not studied mathematics since the age of 16.

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Public engagement for Postgraduate Research students

Presentation for Postgraduate Researchers on Public engagement

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Heads of Language Departments Collection

Resources for Heads of Language departments in UK universities. Most of the resources here have been used in past Heads of Department events.

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Postgraduate Research Student Training (Collection)

Resources used with Humanities doctoral students to developing their research skills. I've also added some items on assessment for early career teachers.

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Putting the thesis together

A worksheet to help PhD student plan the overall shape of their thesis.

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Giving a research paper

A presentation used with Postgraduate Research students. Many are about to present their research for the first time. Incoporates material used by Ted Way, a former postgraduate student who presented on this topic.

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Rewriting and responding to criticism

Presentation used with Postgraduate Research students at the University of Southampton

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No open learning without open access: a portal for open access research into teaching modern languages

The effectiveness of Open Educational Resources (OER) and Mass Open Online Courses (MOOCs) can be seriously undermined by lack of open access to original academic research. Copyright restrictions and subscription fees mean that most research is completely unavailable to those who are not staff or students at a university, or who work in institutions or countries where financial resources are very limited. At best, those with limited access to original research are forced to rely on the summaries and interpretations of others. This presentation showcases YazikOpen.org.uk a portal for open access research into the teaching and learning of modern foreign languages. The portal catalogues language teaching research published in open access journals or on open websites. This research is available to anybody, anywhere in the world with access to the internet without viewing or subscription fees.open access logo Those teaching on courses relating to language teaching (e.g. TEFL, Applied Linguistics, Teaching Training etc.), whether face-to-face or online, can search YazikOpen to identify course readings which will be available to all students, irrespective of institution, geographical location or access to financial resources. Open access also means that original research is accessible to practitioners such as schoolteachers, Teachers of English as a Second/ Foreign Language, teachers at language clubs and teachers of languages in the community. Bringing down access barriers also means that practitioners and other interested parties can engage in debates and publish their own research with fewer disadvantages. The presentation will also explore the wider discussions currently taking place about open access from the ethical as well as the financial and organisational perspectives. Open access to research is also crucial in ensuring that MOOCs are genuinely open and inclusive and do not perpetrate the current privileges of students and staff in well-resourced institutions.

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Student information reading list

A list of websites and publications concerning the information students use to choose a university.

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Student choice: student voice

Overview of information students sources use to choose their course and university. Also examines some research into the decesion making process.

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Spheres of decision making in universities: leadership exercise.

The attached publisher file is a way for groups of individuals to map out, issues, questions and decisions will affect the university and where these decisions are made.

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Open Access research into teaching and learning languages

Yazikopen is a portal linking to open access research into teaching and learning modern foreign languages.

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SPEAQ: helping lecturers reclaim quality.

A dialogue sheet for use with teachers in higher education. It is A0 size, but can be printed on nine sides of A3. 1. Look at each picture and write down what questions you might ask about its quality. 2. Think about which of the questions might be asked about an higher education. 3. Participants can reflect on these questions as they relate to their own teaching. 4. Participants fill in an action plan to think about how they can take ownership of quality in their own teaching activities.

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Gernika Tree plaque, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Romsey, Hampshire, UK

Inscription reads: "From the Tree of Gerinka". Presented to Hampshire County Council by the County Council of Bizkaia to mark the cooperation agreement between the two counties signed in Winchester on 17th March 1994.

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Presentation on embedding sustainable development in language teaching

The slides of a presentation I gave in 2010 on possible ways of embedding sustainable development into the language curricula.

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Evaluation of possible assessments in languages

This resources draws on the criteria Phil Race has developed to evaluate different assessments. The examples are also available here to be printed off separately.

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Introduction to assessment for new academic staff

I give a version of this presentation each year at the LLAS Centre New staff workshop. It is a basic presentation which returns to the foundational principles of assessment.

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YazikOpen (Open Access language teaching research) flyer

A flyer for the Open Access Language Teaching research database YazikOpen.

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Blank module template for an introductory course

This template was designed for an exercise at the Islamic Studies Network PhD student event in Febrary 2012. The brief is to design a single introductory module which can be taken by all students, including those with no previous knowledge of Islam. It can be modified for other topics.

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What is American Studies?
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Modifying the Discover American Studies CD

The files from the Discover American Studies CD can be modified to allow users to remove or add material. It could be used to promote a specific course or institutation.

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Employability action plan

I used this with postgrade students in conjuction with an adaptation of the ESECT card sort.

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A0 dialogue sheet for National Student Survey focus groups

This AO table top dialogue sheet can be used with students or staff to facilitate discussions around the National Student Survey. There are instructions about how you might use it on the sheet itself. If you do not have access to an A0 printer the sheet can be printed off on multiple A3 (preferably) or A4 pieces of paper taped together. It has been derived from one used by Abbi Flint et al., “Preparing for success: one institution's aspirational and student focused response to the National Student Survey,” Teaching in Higher Education 14, no. 6 (2009): 607-618.

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Sustainable development in languages, linguistics and area studies

A list of books and articles to help introduce sustainable development to students of languages, linguistics and area studies

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Map of the Eastern Townships, Quebec

Map showing various definitions of the Eastern Townships (Cantons de l'Est), Quebec

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Writing an academic book review

This is a PowerPoint presentation and handout on writing an academic book review. It has been developed for use with postgraduate students undertaking research training.

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Items where Author is "Canning, Dr John"