Bringing Teaching and Research Together Through Interlinking Policies
for Teaching and Research: Realistic Ways to Bring Them Together
Deans, Heads of Academic Units, members of CADRES, Education Committee
and Research Graduate School Committee are invited to attend a
presentation by visiting academic
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Westminster Institute, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Monday 25th October 2004
Council Room, First Floor, Building 3A
Monash University, Clayton Campus
2.00 - 3.30pm |
"If teaching and research are as inseparable as many
participants claimed, the lack of explicit strategies to promote this
synergy is interesting. The discussions with heads of departments
and other managers of staff time indicated that on a managerial level, it
is more convenient for teaching and research to be treated as separate
activities. On an intellectual level, however, academic managers
would rather perceive the two to be synergistic. What seems to be
missing is an intellectual perception of teaching and research as
integrated. For example, we visited many departments where Research
Committees and Teaching Committees had been established, but these two
bodies worked independently of each other." (Coate et al,
2001, 162). Coate, K., Barnett, R & Williams, G. (2001)
Relationships Between Teaching and Research in Higher Education in
England, Higher Education Quarterly, 55 (2), pp 158-174.
This workshop is particularly aimed at institutional and department
'leaders'/policy makers for teachers and for research. It
takes as strategic points that:
a) linking teaching research should be central to the student and staff
experience of higher education
b) however, aspects of government and institutional policies may threaten
the teaching/research nexus in particular the policy seperations between
teaching and research.
The workshop will focus on a range of strategies that institutions -
and their departments/faculty structures - can use to bring teaching and
research together; and support those attending in taking forward this
agenda in their institutional context (s). These examples used by
the presenter will be drawn from international experience; in particular
Australasia, UK and North America.
A light lunch will be served in the foyer between
1.30-2.00pm
Please RSVP to Iliana Findikakis by 22 October via e-mail
or on extension 55058
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