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Faculty of Humanities

Training opportunities

As part of its commitment to the New Academics Programme, the Faculty of Humanities makes available a grant for participants of the programme for the attendance at Subject Centre or equivalent events. For further information, please contact the Programme Co-ordinator at HNAP@manchester.ac.uk.

If participants would like to share information about training or information sessions which might be of interest to their colleagues, please inform the Programme Co-ordinator who will post this information on these pages.

Events

See the Faculty's lists of news and upcoming events. You will also receive a weekly bulletin from the Dean's Office listing upcoming events in the Faculty.

Researcher development and supervisor awareness

The Faculty of Humanities Researcher development team seeks to work alongside other University training providers to offer relevant, effective and comprehensive professional development for researchers at various stages of their careers.

They also offer lunchtime training sessions on supervisor awareness which are intended to complement the training you receive on the HNAP. For more information contact Eljee Javier (eljee.javier@manchester.ac.uk).

Teaching and learning events

The Faculty has held several Teaching and Learning Showcase events which included presentations from Faculty colleagues on a range of approaches and technologies to improve improving student learning, student experience and the staff experience.

A list of the presentations and further information can be found on the Teaching and Learning Showcase page. To find out more about all Teaching and Learning events in the Faculty of Humanities, please see the Teaching and Learning updates.

eLearning

Find out about eLearning events, training on eLearning tools (such as classroom clickers) and further training on the eLearning events page (link leads to original teaching and learning site). For further information contact the eLearning team via the eLearning Support Page.

eLearning / Blackboard weekly drop-ins

Every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:00 - 13:00 in Room C1.44, Ellen Wilkinson Building. No need to book, just turn up and receive:

  • support in preparing your course for migration
  • a tour of Blackboard
  • discuss some of the new features of Blackboard
  • to get a clearer idea of the impact of Blackboard on how you deliver teaching and learning?
  • advice on using specific tools such as the assessment and assignment tool, discussion tools etc

Academic writing (for members of staff whose first language is not English)

The University's Staff Learning and Development section delivers this three-hour workshop, plus a follow up one-to-one tutorial. Areas explored include:

  • What do successful writers do when they write? Participants will explore the process of writing with reference to their own experiences of writing and with reference to what we know about the practices of other experienced writers
  • What are the principal features of academic writing? Some of the commonly recognised characteristics and conventions of academic writing will be explored and discussed
  • How can greater clarity and flow in writing be achieved? Participants will learn about and discuss a number of useful strategies for improving clarity and flow

Participants will be asked to bring samples of their own writing to the session for analysis and discussion. The session and follow-up tutorials will be run by a highly experienced writer and teacher of English for Academic Purposes.

For further information and future dates, please email staffld@manchester.ac.uk, quoting course code TTL11 in the subject line.