Aims and Purpose of Colloquium
The aim of the International Colloquium is to progress understanding of how state and institutional policies can, and should, be modified in order to enable the integration of the main academic activities to the benefit of society (including particularly students) and those activities (and people who conduct them).
It is hoped that the conference will move the discussion forward from the conventional research/teaching dichotomy towards a more integrated concept of academic enquiry, together with at least an exploration of the policies at institutional and state levels that have or could achieve this. It is also conceivable that the conference will throw up some thoughts as to how our understanding could be further advanced through some international research collaboration on these issues.
The conference will build on the previous Marwell discussions in 2004 and all participants are asked to refer where appropriate to the conclusions of the 2004 conference| and to the 2004 papers and presentations|.
Purpose
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To consider what has been learnt from policies that have been applied since the last International Colloquium and to evaluate what is now understood about the relationship between research and teaching on the basis of that. This will include a “stock take” with an update on work that has been completed since then.
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To consider what a future discussion of the research/teaching relationship might cover.
Themes
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To develop a concept of academic inquiry that moves beyond conventional views of research, teaching and outreach to achieve a more unified or integrated notion of academic work.
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To identify the social and educational benefits of such a concept.
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To consider what policies at system and institutional level might promote such inquiry.
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What has been learned at the conference and how the discussion might be taken forward.
Research Evidence
A series of speakers will discuss what is known and not known about these relationships from three different perspectives: those of student learners, academic staff and disciplinary communities, and institutions.
Policies
A series of speakers will comment from either institutional or state/system perspectives.This will be necessarily be a mixture of personal and organisational perspectives on the issues, i.e. people will speak from both a personal point of view and from the point of view of their organisation. Speakers will use the following broad headings:
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What is your conception of the relationships between the core activities?
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What in your view should be the relationships between them?
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What policy interventions have you designed and implemented, or consider applicable, and with what success, or performance criteria, to bring these activities into line with your understanding?
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