1. ENHANCING STUDY ABROAD PARTNERSHIPS: ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
UEA Learning & Teaching Day - 18 May 2017

2. ENHANCING STUDY ABROAD PARTNERSHIPS: ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE - overview
Gaining a global experience has become an increasingly important component of the student’s study experience. Meeting these worldwide ambitions to increase student mobility has led to a significant growth in recruitment to degrees with a year abroad at UEA, and in doing so has required us to develop quality exchange partnerships to meet this growing need.
During this short session we will:
Consider exemplars of how UEA academics have utilised existing and new exchange partnerships to enhance enriching and long-lasting relationships
Discuss the maintenance of these crucial relationships and explore mechanisms used to engage both academic and administrative colleagues at partnering institutions

3. Case Study: Frederik Byrn Køhlert School: AMA
INSTITUTION: School of Humanities and Liberal Studies, San Francisco State University
COUNTRY: USA
DATE: Ongoing TYPE OF EXPERIENCE: Teaching staff mobility
WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
Existing collaborator activities:
Co-writing journal article on pedagogical approaches to teaching comics and graphic novels
Co-teaching of modules on comics and graphic novels at the University of Calgary
Involvement with large research grants anchored at the University of Calgary
Personal connection between collaborators is inspiring students from both institutions to study abroad at UEA/SFSU
Ideas for future collaboration include:
Staff exchange to enable co-teaching and research collaboration
Co-taught and split-site modules between UEA and SFSU
Research grant collaboration
Ideas for future collaboration include staff exchange to enable co-teaching and research collaboration; co-taught modules between UEA and SFSU, either via Skype, through campus visits, or as two-step modules including classes taken at both universities
Research grant collaboration

4. Case Study: David Milne School: HIS
INSTITUTION: Oregon State University
COUNTRY: USA
DATE: Ongoing
TYPE OF EXPERIENCE: Research Collaboration
WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
Collaborating with potential exchange partner Oregon State University (OSU) on the intellectual history of U.S. foreign policy
Co-edited Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (New York: OUP, 2013)
Launch Event at OSU in May 2013, including a series of lectures and presentations – plenary event televised by C-SPAN
Invitation followed for a collaboration on ‘US Grand Strategy’ at OSU in May 2016 – Rethinking Grand Strategy forthcoming with Oxford University Press

5. Case Study: Claudina Richards School: LAW
INSTITUTION: Charles University
COUNTRY: Czech Republic
DATE: 2014
TYPE OF EXPERIENCE: Teaching
staff mobility
INSTITUTION: Université François Rabelais
COUNTRY: France
DATES:
TYPE OF EXPERIENCE: Teaching
staff mobility
WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
Teaching opportunities to introduce students at partner law schools to aspects of English law which they would not otherwise be able to study
As LAW's Erasmus Director, opportunities to get to know better partner universities to help LAW students choose their year abroad destination and to facilitate future communications with counterparts  
Strengthening existing student exchange partnerships  and opening possibilities for other collaborations

6. Case Study: ALFONSO AVILA-MERINO School: NBS
INSTITUTION: University of Bologna (highly ranked in Europe)
COUNTRY: Italy
DATE: 2016 and ongoing
TYPE OF EXPERIENCE: Teaching staff mobility
WHAT’S IN IT FOR US?
Co-taught modules on Innovation Management at the University of Bologna
Staff exchange between University of Bologna and Norwich Business School in topics related to Innovation and Environmental impact
Student exchange between Bologna University and UEA (ECO and NBS) began 2016
Currently attempting to widen the agreement for MSc students from Bologna University to study within SSF
Attempting to widen the number of students Bologna University can accept from UEA every year

7. ENHANCING STUDY ABROAD PARTNERSHIPS: ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE - discussion
Considering what we’ve heard from these experiences…we ask Claudina and Alfonso to share with us, with staff from the International Programmes and Study Abroad Office…
How do we enhance/ enrich long-lasting relationships?
What tactics are used to maintain these crucial relationships?
What mechanisms are used to engage both academic and administrative colleagues at partnering institutions?
How often might we visit a partner institution?
How does engaging in other activity enhance the student experience?
How do degrees with a year abroad fit in to all this?
What advice or guidance is there to support partnership development?
And feel free to ask your own questions!
In particular focus example on NAFSA…

8. ENHANCING STUDY ABROAD PARTNERSHIPS: ENHANCING THE STUDENT EXPERIENCE
Thanks for joining us!
Please come and hear about funding opportunities at the “EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR STAFF MOBILITY” poster during the breaks!