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Higher Education Academy:
routes to funding and support
Richard Atfield, Discipline Lead – Business and Management
HRD workshop, University of Portsmouth
26 October 2012
New UK HEA structure
From August 2011
All staff directly employed, located in the York, Edinburgh and
Cardiff offices or home-based
3 service areas:
Academic Practice, Teacher Excellence, Institutional strategy
4 academic practice clusters:
Arts and humanities
Health & social care
Social sciences
STEM
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk
Discipline Support through HEA
24 Subject Centres, range of
constituency sizes
‘Franchised’ to HEIs
Most SC offered individual and/or
departmental grants
Most SC organised workshops and/or
offered funding
Open to any UK HEI staff
Open to any institution
28 Discipline Leads, balanced across
HESA student numbers, directly
employed by HEA
£1.5m grant funds for individual,
department and collaborative bids,
involving HEA Fellows in some cases
5-10 workshops per discipline plus
some themes
Doctoral programmes and
International scholarships
Open to any subscribing institution
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Main HEA Themes 2012-13
New for 2012-13 *
Assessment and
feedback
Online learning *
Education for
sustainable development
Reward and recognition of
teaching
Employability
Students as partners *
Retention and success
Flexible learning
Internationalisation
These relate to the key expectations of the
four countries through requirements
identified by their funding councils
Social Sciences Grouping
Discipline Leads for:
Business and management
Politics
Economics
Sociology
Education
Oversight of:
Finance and accounting
Anthropology
Hospitality
Islamic Studies
Law
Journals
Marketing
Funding Opportunities
(for subscribing institutions)
Workshops and Seminars (up to £750)
Grants:
• Individual up to £5k (call Jan-12)
• Departmental up to £15k (closed Oct-11)
• Collaborative up to £60k (call Feb-12)
UK Travel Fund (staff and students) open call
Doctoral Programme
Travel Scholarships up to 20k
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding
Other opportunities
National teaching fellowships, (£10k, HEFCE/HEFCW)
OER - Open educational resources (HEA/JISC)
Social Sciences Cluster teaching research methods
project
NSS reports
HEA commissioned research
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HEA commissioned research
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding/detail/Current_research-projects
HEA - Literature review of the impact of teaching and
development programmes (HOST policy research)
HEA &NUS - Exploring behavioural approaches to
understanding student choice (CFE, with Sheffield)
HEA & Leadership Foundation - Leading the student
experience: academics and professional services in
partnership
HEA - Review postgraduate taught experience survey
HEA - Measuring the impact of the UK Professional
Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting
Learning (UKPSF) (current call)
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Dissemination opportunities
National HEA conference, 3-4 July, Warwick
Social Sciences Cluster conference, 23-24 May, Liverpool
HEA/ABS teaching and learning conference, 23-24 April,
Nottingham
ELiSS journal, enhancing learning in the social sciences
Social Sciences blog including workshop and project outputs
Workshops and seminars, updates, think pieces and reports
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International Scholar 2012
Glenn Hardaker
Professor of Innovation Management, Huddersfield
Educational initiatives in e-learning and Islamic pedagogy. Long
interest in Islamic world, recently lived in Morocco and Malaysia
seeking excellence in Islamic pedagogy, observed a lack of focus
on understanding excellence in T&L methods
Collaborating with internationally recognised Islamic universities
and institutions in Malaysia, which is seen to be leading the world
in Islamic finance and Halal management and with aspirations for
leading international excellence in Islamic Studies
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National Teaching Fellow
Beverly Leeds
Principal Lecturer, UCLan
At the forefront of e-learning developments at UCLan, pioneered
Adobe Connect web-conferencing for live and recorded lectures,
also remote seminars and assessment feedback
Developed 100+ reusable OERs through various projects, led the
way in use of blogs and e-portfolios for reflective and enquirybased learning
Uses ‘flipped-classroom’ approach – lectures online anytime,
maximising seminar time for discussion and practical activities
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Departmental grant, Coventry
Activity-led Learning (ALL) in postgraduate engineering programmes,
School of Engineering Management, Coventry
• Approx. PG 400 students, 75% non-UK, 50% P/T
• ALL involves students in solving real problems, against real
deadlines using practical skills and teamwork
• Using trained student advocates for external fact-finding, plus
internal survey of staff, students and local businesses
• Impact? higher retention; lower failure/early withdrawal; earlier
more effective engagement between students; retention and
application of learning , development of interpersonal skills.
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Departmental grant, Birmingham City
Developing essential knowledge and skills in health care via mobile
technology, School of Health & Social Care, Birmingham City
• team of staff, student partners, employers and learning
technologists, plus technology and engineering students
• develop toolkit including an app and laminated cards with QR
codes leading to useful information
• connects teachers and learners in college and work-based
settings in a creative and dynamic way
• Impact? teaching bioscience to support students in all learning
environments in a way that increases confidence, knowledge,
skills and employability
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More information:
Business Education
Richard Atfield, Discipline Lead – Business and Management,
[email protected] Twitter@HEA_BusinessEdu ,
Lyn Bibbings, Discipline Lead – Hospitality, Sport, Leisure, Tourism and
Events, [email protected]
Lyn Vos, Discipline Lead – Marketing, Interim DL for Finance and Accounting,
[email protected]
HEA website: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/home
Discipline pages: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/disciplines
Events: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events
Funding: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding
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