Call for papers: Special Issue > The Playful Academic

Dear all,

Hopefully a few of you might be interested in this, as I know lots of you are playful academics yourselves J

The Playful Academic: Playful attitudes, approaches and activities in learning, teaching and research

Call For Papers for special issue of Journal of Play in Adulthood (full details on the journal website: https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/news/7/)

Guest Editors

Rikke Toft Nørgård, Aarhus University

Alex Moseley, Leicester University

Josephine Eghave Midttun Solheim, Aarhus University

In academia and higher education, there has been little research considering playful attitudes, approaches and activities in relation to academic development, research practice, teaching and learning or other institutional practices. This special issue seeks to create an international and transdisciplinary dialogue around what it could signify and entail to be a playful academic as it is conceptualised and practiced through different attitudes, approaches and activities as well as the connections between them. The overall aim is to explore the transformative academic potentials and possibilities of playful academia in the broadest and deepest sense of this term.

The special issue seeks to explore and qualify both scholarly and practice-related understandings of what ‘the playful academic’ is and could be – as well as to discuss the complex relations between this and learning, teaching and research in relation to the present and future higher education landscape. Importantly, the call invites for contributions that are themselves playful academic acts and show the courage and curiosity to draw up alternative academic ways of for thinkers and practitioners to participate in a dialogue on this. Taken together, the purpose of the special issue is to connect thinking around and practice of the playful academic more closely to dimensions of learning, teaching and research and for higher education futures.

All in all, the special issue seeks to establish playfulness, playful practice and playful thinking as important perspectives within academia and higher education institutions. Here, the special issue provides a space for sharing knowledge on playful learning, teaching and research as well as putting forward to be more playful academics in the way we create and share knowledge on such topics. The goal is to both showcase and stimulate playful academic thinking and practice and contribute to theoretical and methodological development while also providing important studies, insights and results within the area that can inform and inspire future thinking and practice broadly.

The call invites for contributions on both the macro, meso and micro level as well as within the three different themes of (1) academic learning, (2) academic teaching, and (3) academic research (listed in more detail online: https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/news/7/).

Article length

5000-8000 words for academic articles (including references) The full articles should adhere to the submission guidelines and processes outlined here:

 https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk/submissions/

Copyright informaton

The Journal of Play in Adulthood makes content available on an open access basis, with the default of a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Authors retain their own copyright of submitted material, simply licencing the journal to publish. No fees are charged to read, or to publish in, the journal.

Important dates

December 10th, 2019: Deadline for submitting abstract

January 10th, 2020: Notification of acceptance/rejection

July 1st, 2020: Deadline for submitting full paper

September 1st 2020: Review of papers

November 1st 2020: Submission of final versions

January 2021: Target publication date

Regards,

Andrew

Andrew Walsh MSc MCLIP FHEA FRSA CMgr MCMI

University Teaching Fellow, National Teaching Fellow

Academic Librarian for Education and Professional Development.

Editor of the Journal of Play in Adulthood.

https://www.journalofplayinadulthood.org.uk

Using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD)

CALL FOR CHAPTER CONTRIBUTIONS

We are pleased to announce a forthcoming Routledge book on using storytelling in education for sustainable development (ESD). We anticipate that potential contributors will be colleagues with an interest/expertise in one or more of the following areas: Storytelling, ESD in Higher Education, Innovative Pedagogies. Book editors will be Heather Luna and Dr Petra Molthan-Hill  (both Nottingham Trent University), Dr Denise Baden (University of Southampton) and Professor Tony Wall (University of Chester). To facilitate the writing process, we are offering an initial webinar.

 

WHAT: Storytelling & Sustainability Webinar

WHEN: Wednesday 25th April 3-5pm BST (2-4pm UTC)

WHERE: on Zoom

HOW: You will receive a link prior to the webinar that you click to join. You will need a webcam and microphone (embedded ones are fine). If you are unfamiliar with Zoom, Heather will arrange a practice run to ensure the technology goes smoothly for all.

 

This webinar will consist of:

* An overview of what we would expect from a submitted chapter, with Q&A

* A small group activity with others in your discipline area

* A round of sharing ideas

* A small interdisciplinary group activity

* Time outside the webinar to develop ideas

* Another round with your interdisciplinary group to report back

* A round-up of ideas and further Q&A

 

To book onto the webinar, please email heather.luna@ntu.ac.uk. If you are not available for this webinar but would like to contribute to the book and/or participate in a future webinar, please contact Heather.

 

SUSTAINABLE STORY WRITING COMPETITION

On a related note, please find attached details of a writing competition for short stories (<3500 words) set within a sustainable society. Deadline for submissions is 19^th April 2018. Perfect to whet your appetite for the book! For more information visit: http://www.greenstories.org.uk

ICED Conference 2016: Purposeful Play workshop followup

This post is intended mainly for those people who attended Claire Hamshire and my pre-conference workshop at ICED 2016. The workshop aim was “To explore the potential of using games and scenarios to provoke and support discussion about quality assurance and quality enhancement”. Thanks to everyone who attended and made it so much fun: we hope you did also achieve the intended learning outcomes, which was “at the end of this session you will be able to use game theory to develop your own simple board games or scenarios to explore potentially challenging topics with staff and students”

To help with this, we have put together some further information about some of the games and activities on this page. Please don’t hesitate to contact either of us to ask questions, tell us how you might use the activities, or propose collaborations.

Claire Hamshire  @clairehamshire

Rachel Forsyth  @rmforsyth

Clinical Reasoning Activities:

Business card suppliers Moo (used for the clinical reasoning activities)

Medical images from the Wellcome Collection (used on the cards) – you need to ask for permission for re-use but it is very likely to be given, in our experience.

Staying the Course

You can find out more about the data used in this game at the Staying the Course website

Accreditation!

You can download the game board and editable versions of the cards, together with some suggested rules, at the JISC DesignStudio site. The game was developed as part of a larger Curriculum Design and Delivery project, partially funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Council. The game pieces were bought very cheaply from eBay. The game is CC licensed and you are free to adapt it with acknowledgement.

Curriculum Planning Cards

These course planning cards can be downloaded in PDF format – they are very simple and the idea could be adapted to use names of activities more commonly in use in your own institution.  There are also ideas for their use on this page.

You can also download additional cards, which we didn’t use in the session, to add a bit more challenge to the planners – to consider how the proposed course might address employability and sustainability issues, or be adapted to be more inclusive. The assessment descriptions can be downloaded in PDF format here. All of these resources are  licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Check my Specs

This game is still under development, but if you email me, I can send you the Game board, as well as the Excel file with the examples in it, which we mail merged into a file to make the stack of cards.

Slides from the session  to download (sorry, large file!)

Education for Sustainable Development workshops

CELT in collaboration with Special Collections and Science and the Environment  are offering a number of workshops on key themes relating to Education for Sustainable Development. Please click on the link to see the sessions on offer and to book a place http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/cpd/eventsbytopic.php?topic=ESD. They are open to any academic, professional and technical services staff in student facing roles.

For information here is the link to the entire workshop programme, in case other sessions are of interest http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/tale/index.php .

Festival of Social Science event at Manchester Metropolitan University

‘Deal with each other in the spirit of Ubuntu’

Place: Brooks Building, Manchester Metropolitan University, Bonsall Street, Manchester M15 6GX Reception tel: +44 (0) 161 247 2646

Time: 2-5pm

Date: 9^th November 2016

This creative programme of activity brings together a world-class social scientist with students from Manchester universities and two community artists. An exhibition, a walking tour, and creation of a collaborative artwork, will help to create a unique experience themed around global citizenship and the idea of ‘community’ that will shine a light on the ways in which social sciences and the creative arts can come together.

This event is completely free and open to all.

Please use the following link to sign up to attend:

http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/cpd/viewcourse.php?unit_id=234

 

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti: Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, at the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Vanessa has extensive experience working across sectors internationally in areas of education related to international development, global citizenship, indigeneity and social accountability.  Her work combines poststructuralist and postcolonial concerns in examining educational discourses and designing viable pedagogical pathways to address problematic patterns of international engagements, flows and representations of inequality and difference in education. Many of her publications are available at: https://ubc.academia.edu/VanessadeOliveiraAndreotti.

Kerry Morrison – Environment Artist and In-Situ Director

Kerry Morrison merges art with ecology to produce intriguing interventions in the everyday landscape of our urban lives. Through a conspicuous process of walking, talking, listening, drawing, collecting, and performance, she explores people’s connections with the environment: how we move through it, take from it, and add to it. Her approach is durational and transitory whereby art is a verb: a process of action, dialogue, and performative patterns resulting in new, shared experiences and unfolding narratives. She co-founded InSitu, a not-for-profit artist-led organization based in Pendle, East Lancashire. In Situ nurtures into existence art that addresses local issues with the aim to make a positive difference to people’s lives and the environment.

Mary Courtney – visual artist and poet

“I like to experiment with drawing and different visual art forms, to play with words and ideas and bring out creativity in others”.

Mary has been artist in residence at Warwick University Chemistry Department during 2016, leading art workshops for staff and students and scripting and producing a chem-art film called “Planet Biscuit: Into the Micronosphere”. She’s organised giant community map-making events, with hundreds of participants, including the “Mappa Magnificellaneous” this year. Art-poetry combinations have been exhibited at Compton Verney, Tate Modern and MediaCityUK. She has received poetry awards from the National Poetry Competition, the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and Cambridge University.

 

For more details contact:

Alicia Prowse at Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, Manchester Metropolitan University, a.prowse@mmu.ac.uk

Valeria Vargas at Faculty of Science and Engineering, Manchester Metropolitan University, v.vargas@mmu.ac.uk

Susan Brown, School of Environment, Education and Development, University of Manchester, Susan.A.Brown@manchester.ac.uk

101 Creative Ideas project

We are about to bring to life the 101 Creative Ideas project. This is a fantastic opportunity for YOU to share your creative ideas on how to encourage, support and/or assess students’ creativity in higher education. Ideas can be big or small but we are looking for concise descriptions of no more than 50-80 words.

So if you are doing something that is interesting or novel in your practice, please click here and share your idea.

All ideas will be credited and made available through an online OER collection under a  CC BY NC 4.0 licence.

A panel consisting of students and practitioners in higher education will decide on the 101 most interesting ideas which will be turned into a published resource. These will be a valuable resource to refresh teaching and support further creative projects.

You can start submitting your ideas now and they will be collated and reviewed in January. The 101 ideas that are selected will be shared via Twitter 1 idea per day up to the start of the World Creativity and Innovation Week in April 2017.

#101creativeideas is a #greenhouse contribution and part of the year long Creativity in Higher Education Project led by Creative Academic. To find out more, please check out http://www.creativeacademic.uk/2016-17-programme.html

Thank you in advance for your contributions,
Eleanor Hannan and Chrissi Nerantzi
#101creativeideas

Call for Papers: Symposium “Universities and Climate Change: the Role of Higher Education Institutions in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges” Manchester, United Kingdom, 1st -2nd September 2016

Dear Colleagues,

 

Many universities across the world perform state- of-the art research on matters related to climate change, both in respect of

mitigation, and adaptation. Yet, as shown by the latest 21st Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention on Climate Change
(COP 21), held in Paris in December 2015, there is much room for improvements in the role played by universities in the negotiations and in influencing decision-making on a matter of such a global importance.

There are unfortunately relatively few events where a multidisciplinary overview of university-based research efforts and projects on climate change can be show cased, and where researchers from across the spectrum of the natural and social sciences have had the opportunity to come together to discuss research methods, the results of
empirical research or exchange ideas about on-going and future research initiatives focusing on climate change mitigation and adaptation.

It is against this background that the Symposium “Universities and Climate Change: the Role of  Higher Education Institutions in Addressing the Mitigation and Adaptation Challenges”
is being organised  by Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and HAW Hamburg, Germany, under the auspices of the  International Climate Change Information Programme (ICCIP).
It will be held in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 1st -2nd September 2016.

The Symposium will involve researchers in the field of climate change in the widest sense, not only
from traditional climate science, but also from the fields of environment, human geography, business and economics, arts, administration and media studies.

The Symposium will focus on the role of higher education institutions in addressing the
mitigation and adaptation challenges and will contribute to the further development of this fast-growing field.  All papers will be peer-reviewed and the accepted ones will
be published in the “Handbook of Climate Change Research at Universities: addressing the mitigation and adaptation challenges”. This will be a unique, state-of-the-art publication, which will document and promote the research on climate change taking place at universities across the world. The publication will be  part of the award-winning
“Climate Change Management Sustainability Series” (launched in 2008), published
by Springer, one of the world´s top five scientific publishers.

Selected papers presented at the event, will be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management, which is a fully indexed journal. The call for papers can be seen
here: http://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/products/journals/call_for_papers.htm?id=6464.
Please note that no ad hoc submissions are possible. Only papers presented at the event and discussed,
may be considered.

If you are working and/or publishing on climate change, this is an event not to be missed.Further details can be seen at:
http://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-als/veranstaltungen/universities2016.html

Rgds,
Walter Leal

Chair

Blog post contributed by Prof. Walter Leal

Play for Learning at MMU > invite to contribute

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Dear colleagues,

Playful teaching practices have started spreading at MMU and it is very refreshing.

We would like to collect your stories and make them available in a special issue of Learning and Teaching in Action to spread your playful learning and teaching interventions with further colleagues across our institution and further afield.

Each story should be about 1000 to 1500 words and include visuals to bring your story alive. Please adapt the template to capture your story and submit it by the 1 May using the submission form.

Consider also using your playful story towards 15 or 30 FLEX credits. You will also be invited to share your story in a Play cafe during the Learning and Teaching Festival during June 16.

Please email any questions and/or your contribution to Dr Stephen Powell at Stephen.powell@mmu.ac.uk

Thank you for considering this opportunity.

Chrissi (@chrissinerantzi) and Stephen (@stephenp)

 

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Case study template

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Author
Email
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Provide a brief overview / context

What did you do and why?

What did your students do?

How did it work for you and your students? How do you know?

What did you learn and what will you do next?

What are your top 10 tips for others who would like to adopt more playful learning approaches in their practice?

Call for Contributions – Summer Festival of Learning and Teaching

The Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) is pleased to announce the CELT summer Festival of Learning and Teaching.

As you probably know, we normally run an annual conference in the summer term which focuses on learning and teaching at MMU. This year, we’re taking a slightly different approach, and we’re planning a more distributed conference over the month of June. The Festival will give all MMU staff an opportunity to share their own good practice, find out more about interesting approaches and resources used at MMU and in other institutions and to collaborate with colleagues both at MMU and internationally.  In addition, we are linking the Festival to an exciting collaboration with our CARPE partners: a summer school for staff who’d like to find out more about joint teaching and research across the CARPE network.

There will be several events offered each week during June, at both the All Saints and Crewe campuses. We will be releasing more information soon, but in the meantime we’d like to open the call for contributions and would like to encourage you to contribute to the Festival. Please visit the Festival website at to submit a contribution or to suggest something you’d like to see included. Deadline for proposals is 15 March 2016.

Call for Papers: Sustainable Water Management in Transboundary River Basins

Prof. Walter Leal (MMU, UK) and Dr. Vakur Sümer (Selcuk University, Turkey)

There are over 260 transboundary basins in the world. They are very important in respect of their ecological, economic and social functions, and also provide important ecosystem services. But despite its thematic relevance, there is a paucity of publications which explicitly look at the connections between water use and management, in a transboundary context. This book will combine the themes of “sustainable water use” and “transboundary river basins”, and will entail contributions from both engineering and social sciences at the same time.

The book, which will be published by a leading international publisher, will introduce the latest research and outcomes of projects focusing on the sustainable use and management of water in transboundary river basins. It will provide a state-of-the art description of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from across the world, illustrating how water resources can be managed and used in a more sustainable way at an international scale. The publication will provide a timely contribution towards the dissemination of approaches and methods which may improve the quality of life of millions of people, in especially arid and semi-arid regions.
Expressions of interest for papers dealing with one or more of the following issues, and consisting initially of a 200 words abstracts –with all contact details of the authors- are now being sought:

• ecological functions of transboundary basins

• the role of ecosystem services

• engineering components in the use of transboundary basins

• socio-economic issues

• aspects of policy and governance

• climate change impacts on river basins

• floods, risks and resiliance

Other themes may also be accepted, and interested authors are warmly encouraged to contact the editors and seek advice.
The deadline for submissions of abstract is the 20th January 2015. Full papers are due by the 30th April 2015.

The book is expected to published in September/October 2015. Abstracts should be sent by the above deadline to: beids@beids.de. Further details on submissions and format will be discussed with the authors whose abstracts have been accepted.

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Prof. Dr. (mult.) Dr. h.c. (mult.) Walter Leal Leiter, Forschungs- und Transferzentrum „Applications of Life Sciences“ Head of the Research and Transfer Centre „Applications of Life Sciences“ Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg /Hamburg University of Applied Sciences Fakultät Life Sciences /Faculty of Life Sciences Ulmenliet 20, Sector S4 / Room 0.38
21033 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49-40-42875-6313
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e-mail: walter.leal@haw-hamburg.de