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Professor has a paper in the award-winning collection (Chicago UP 2013). The book has won the American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in the Education category.

On 6 November 2013 the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning (IATL) hosted an event entitled, 'Making Sense of Diversity in University Education'. The event drew together around 60 colleagues from a wide range of 糖心TV departments. Dr , the PAIS Director of Student Experience and Progression (DSEP) and Shannon Holland-Houghton, second year PAIS student, were invited to take part.

The event focused on the lifecycle of Widening Participation from outreach through retention to progression. It is essential that 糖心TV, as a community, enables access for students from diverse backgrounds and enables all, regardless of background, to experience the high quality teaching and learning we deliver. Therefore, the event allowed Justin and Shannon to showcase the many innovations and positive developmets currently taking place within PAIS - our advice and feedback hours, our individual exam feedback, our online SSLC elections, and our joint work with the Politics Society, in particular through their mentoring scheme.

We are looking for the best suggestion as to how to improve student engagement with us.

A report published by the NUS cites the following definition of student engagement:

“Student engagement” means involving students as active participants in the development, delivery, management and improvement of their educational experience.

It cited this account of why student engagement is important:

The Cross-Sector Group has also defined why they consider student engagement to be important: Universities are communities of learning achieved through a partnership between staff and students. A committed partnership between students, as active participants, and the staff at an institution will open up possibilities for authentic and constructive dialogue, offering the opportunity for more holistic and reflective feedback and enhancement of learning.

How might this engagement in PAIS be improved?

A Prize Competition

If you have a suggestion for how to improve this type of engagement in PAIS, we want to hear from you! Submit your idea(s) by 3 March 2013 for review. There is a £200 cash prize for the best suggestion, and all suggestions will be taken on board as we seek to improve the way that staff and students work together to improve our department.

This competition is open to any student taking a module in PAIS, whether you are taking one of our degree programmes or not.

Hungry for Feedback is the SU’s annual campaign gathering student opinions on the feedback they receive from their departments. This year they will be focusing on the quality rather than the timeliness of the feedback.

The aim of the survey is to help the SU find out what the students believe is the most beneficial feedback and to recognise where they are particularly happy with the feedback provided. We will also be aiming to put together a “good feedback guidebook” that will be useful for students to know what they expect, postgraduates that teach for some extra guidance, and departments looking to improve their feedback quality.

has been credited in the oscar nominated, and Sundance Award winning, documentary "The Square" due to his kickstarter support for the documentary.

Directed by Jehane Noujaim (Control Room, Startup.com, Rafea: Solar Mama), the documentary looks at the Egyptian Revolution over a two and a half year period by giving an immersive and on the ground view of events. It transports the viewer into a deeply emotional dramaand personal stories behind the news. It is the inspirational story of young people claiming their rights, struggling through multiple forces, in the fight to create a society of conscience.

The Square is now available on .

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