There are four different breakout sessions, each of which will be held twice. All delegates can attend two of the four sessions; outcomes of each session will be made available to delegates online after the conference.
- Feedback for Postgraduates
Facilitated by Rachel Vaux and Stuart Haylock, Academic & Welfare Officers of the Graduate Students' Union
This session will explore what feedback means to taught postgraduates and doctoral researchers, as well as the academic and professional staff they work with. Participants will debate the following questions:
- How do we create and build positive, beneficial supervisor-supervisee relationships?
- How can departments and faculties measure or improve feedback across a diverse range of semi-autonomous research groups?
- Does the short, intense nature of PGT courses make feedback simultaneously harder, yet more important?
- Does the higher experience level of students make peer assessment a possibility?
- Are we acting on PRES and PTES results - and what does 'sharing best practice' mean in reality?
- Feedback for Undergraduates
Facilitated by Iacopo Russo and Emilie Lunddahl, Departmental Representatives for Materials and Chemical Engineering
This session will explore the key questions around feedback for undergraduates, debating the following questions:
- Is feedback a problem of perception, planning, or neither?
- What does 'sharing best practice' actually mean in reality?
- How do we create and reward clever, innovative feedback methods?
- Should feedback be the responsibility of key champions, or of everyone?