IER News & blogs
First findings of AHRC research on digital skills in museums
The ‘One by One’ project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, seeks to understand the impact of digital technology on museums. The notions of visit and object, collection and exhibition, have all been disrupted and renegotiated by the influence of digital technology. However, over a third of museums in the UK still feel that they do not have the in-house skills to meet their digital aspirations, and rather than improving, some digital skills areas have decreased.
Sally-Anne Barnes, Erika Kispeter and (University of Leicester) have undertaken the first phase of the project mapping digital skills and literacies in UK museums. Some initial findings have been as part of the Museums in the Web 2018 conference to be held in April. The project is led by from the University of Leicester.
Sally-Anne Barnes gave keynote at CDI student conference
As part of IER's continued engagement with the CDI , Sally-Anne Barnes gave a keynote at the 'From student to registered career development professional' on 28 March. Sally-Anne's keynote 'Using careers labour information and intelligence in practice' talked about the recent DfE Careers Strategy and the importance of LMI. She talked about what LMI is needed, where it comes from and how it can be used in practice. For more information on Sally-Anne's work on LMI go to the .
Sally-Anne Barnes presented at Access to HE conference 2018
Sally-Anne Barnes contributed to the recent y' held at the Royal Berkshire Conference Centre on 5 April. Sally-Anne ran a workshop on 'Developing aspiration - overcoming barriers to lifelong learning' for those delivering the Access to HE course and working in adult education. She drew on findings from recent research on lifelong guidance and learning, education and employment programmes for young people, and adult education.
Development of on-line collaborative learning for careers and employment practitioners - Blog from Professor Jenny Bimrose
A paper jointly presented by Professors Alan Brown and Jenny Bimrose at the 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), 15 – 17 March, Madeira, provided an overarching view of how to use on-line collaborative learning to facilitate learning development and professional identity transformation of careers and employment practitioners. It built upon work from a European research project, EmployID.
International visitor to IER
Dr David Owen met from Waseda University in Tokyo to discuss IER work on the DfE Teacher Workload Survey and research into teacher earnings for the NASUWT on March 22nd.
Prof Yufu is a quantitative researcher who studies teachers' working conditions and educational reform in Japan. She runs a regular survey of teacher workload in Japan. Her particular interests are in the effect which the school environment and neighbourhood have on workload and trends in workload over time.