Building a Pedagogic Research Community Dr Simon Pratt-Adams and Mark Warnes Anglia Learning & Teaching

Background and Context

Pedagogic Research Community

Pedagogic Research Community support university learning, teaching and research strategies and plans establish interest groups as cultivation of the university's pedagogic research community support early career researchers with their writing run seminars, including visiting speakers contribute to learning and teaching conference encourage external networking support faculty learning and teaching research groups participate in pedagogic research writing retreats to support the development of publications

Monthly Meetings Once per month during the academic year since early 2016 Cambridge and Chelmsford campuses Over 40 interested scholars, including academic staff and Professional Service departments Experienced researchers mentor and support more than ten early career researchers Robust discussions about shared experience highlighting the similarities of the research process regardless of discipline 2018/19 plans to refresh monthly meetings around the Life Cycle of a Pedagogic Research Project

Writing Retreat

Writing Retreat One per semester, off campus Loosely structured, including short, targeted exercises and scheduled breaks Words written ranged from 390 to 4,602 with a mean of 2,187 Total number of words written during the day was 43,741 New writing habits: regular scheduling of writing time, planning the writing, taking breaks, and free writing ‘I felt guilty about checking e-mail while I normally feel the opposite’ Early stage and Established writers

Learning and Teaching Projects Up to £3,500 Average 17 applications per year Projects run over one academic year Present findings at annual Learning and Teaching Conference in June Case Study for the Good Teaching Exchange Encouraged to publish externally, supported by PedRes

Pedagogic Research Directory 134 Resources 96 Contributors 48 Journals arul.ink/alt-prd

Pedagogic Research Directory Google Analytics – May 2018

Pedagogic Research Directory Google Analytics – May 2018

Capturing Excellent Teaching

Pedagogic Research Journals

Feedback on the Directory Users were generally positive Useful additional means of disseminating work Can find like-minded colleagues (cross-faculty collaboration) Useful list of pedagogic journals Teaching-Research nexus: ‘I wanted to looked for inspiration’, ‘It closes the loop’ Shares excellent practice: ‘portal of excellence’ Building community network : ‘PedRes directory anchored it’ Develops new knowledge: ‘builds confidence in what I'm doing’, ‘Everything… has contributed to developing my knowledge’

Next Steps Change focus for next academic year: Life-cycle of a Pedagogic Research Project Host a Writing Retreat in Chelmsford Directory being rebuilt in-house

Thank you! Dr Simon Pratt-Adams: simon.pratt-adams@anglia.ac.uk Mark Warnes: mark.warnes@anglia.ac.uk Pedagogic Research Community: arul.ink/alt-pedres Pedagogic Research Directory: arul.ink/alt-prd Learning and Teaching Project Awards: arul.ink/alt-ltpa Centre for Innovation in Higher Education: anglia.ac.uk/cihe