Conference Programme was as follows

Sunday 23 July (optional events)

10.00 am - Minibus trip from Lancaster University to Lake District to walk one of the beautiful fells. Meet outside the Chaplaincy Centre at 10

6.00 pm - Reception – drinks and light buffet: InfoLab

Monday 24 July

10.00 am - Walk around historic Lancaster Meet outside the Chaplaincy Centre at 10

1.00-2.00 pm - Lunch

2.00-3.15 pm - Welcome and announcements. Keynote 1 - Paul Ashwin

3.20-4.00 pm - Parallel sessions

Theme A 1 Blaj Problematic places within disciplinary spaces: Parameters for training Humanities doctoral students to undertake inter- disciplinary research.	Theme B 2 Davison Methodological Instability and the Disruption of Masculinities in Postmodern Times	Theme C 3 Chitashvilli Institutional- isation of new graduate programs and resistance old soviet style universities.	Theme D 4 Watson Concept development in an introductory legal course	Theme D 5 Case and Marshall Being a successful student: identifying students’ Discourse models.

4.00-4.20 pm - Refreshments

4.20-5.00 pm - Parallel sessions

Theme A 6 Comrie and Farley How do lecturers think about teaching generic skills?	Theme B 7 Diezmann Using Narrative Inquiry to Facilitate Reflection on Supervisory Practice	Theme C 8 Keane The Experiences and Views of Academic Staff in the Context of Increasing Student Diversity: A Post-positivist Grounded Theory Approach	Theme D 9 Morberg and Steiner Instructional strategies and student learning outcomes	Theme D 10 Chapman, Parmar and Trotter Enhancing the higher education experience of mature students.

7.00 pm - Dinner: Great Hall

8.30 pm Barn dance – Great Hall or Courtyard outside Great Hall

Tuesday 25 July

Details to be added shortly.

9.30-10.30 am - Keynote 2 - Chrissie Boughie

10.35-11.15am - Parallel sessions

Theme A 11 Fanghanel Enhancing Educational development practices through a socio-cultural understanding of university teaching	Theme B 12 Mills Science = vocation? : Rethinking the academic 'career' in the social sciences	Theme C 13 Diezmann and Watters Structuring reflection as a tool in qualitative evaluation.	Theme D 14 Tight The Life and Death of a course.	Theme D 15 Hillier and Rawnsley Education, Education, Education or Employers, Education and Equity managinf Employer and employee expectations of foundation degrees.

11.15-11.30am - Refreshments

11.30-12.20 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A 16 Bentley Discussion, Assessment and Constructive Alighnment	Theme A	Theme B 17 Haggis Problems and Paradoxes in 'fine grained qualitative research': an exploration of 'context' from the perspective of complexity and dynamic systems theory.	Theme C 18 Ingram Higher National Certificate/ Diplomas in Scotland and Foundation degrees in England: A qualitative study of two post-compulsary education systems.	Theme D 19Lindberg-Sand and Olsson Sustainable Assessment in Engineering Education-Critical features if the examination process.

12.25-1.05 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A 20 McMullen Taking a close look at the award winning university teachers: A narrative study of the development of teaching expertise in times of change.	Theme A	Theme B 21 Mclean A Methodology for critical theory: Habermas and the everyday lives of students and teachers.	Theme C 22 Meister-Scheytt and Scheytt Boards at work: Enacting Governance in the 'New' Austrian Unviersity.	Theme D 23 Matos PhD: What is it? An analysis of how different stakeholders perceive the doctoral degree. Match or Mismatch?

1.05-2.15pm - Lunch

2.15-2.55pm - Parallel Sessions

Theme A 24 Stocks What the Doctor ordered?: The role of the Faculty in developing graduate teachers.	Theme A	Theme B 25 Savin-Baden Qualitative meta analysis? The theory and practice of interpretive meta ethnography.	Theme C 26 Machell, Lent and Saunders The Scottish Quality HE Enhancement System - a close up evaluation.	Theme D

3.00-3.40 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A 27 Tait The formation of professionals who teach: a loca enquiry in a national conntext.	Theme A	Theme B 28 Shay Researching assessment as social practice: Implications for research methodology.	Theme C 29 Amare Ethiopian Higher Education: ethical and moral dilemmas in the change process.	Theme D 30 McDowell and Montgomery Socail networks and the international student experience; a community of practice to support learning?

3.45-4.00pm - Refreshments

4.00-4.40 - Parallel Sessions

Theme A 31 Tummons "I seem to remeber going with quite a thick pile of paper home, and I had no idea what I was doing": Assessment and the literacy practices of trainee PCET teachers.	ThemeA	Theme B 32 Boland Conducting insider case study research within a relatively small higher education system: Some methodological issues.	Theme C 33 Venter and Taylor Phases of institutional research development: Two South African research management cases.	Theme D 34 Weedon and Riddell Making 'reasonable' adjustments for disabled students in Higher Education: tensions between individual learning provision and mass education.

4.40-5.30pm - A reflective moment: An opportunity to discuss the papers so far.

7.30 - Conference Dinner - Great Hall

Wednesday 26 July

Details will be added shortly.

9.30-10.30am - Keynote 3 - Mike Prosser

1035-11.15 - Parallel Sessions

Theme C 35 Fisher The metamorphosis of Higher Education in the UK - is there an identity crisis?	Theme C 36 Nabwera, Purnell and Bates Principles and practice underlying develpment and delivery of high quality educational courses in Africa.	Theme D 37 Knight Assessment close up: exquisite descriptions of acheivement.	Theme D 38 Reimann Perspectives on assessment: student (non-) engagement with seen examination questions.

11.15-11.30 - Refreshments

11.30-12.20pm - Parallel Session

Theme C 39 Grealy Tribes and territories in Library and information studies education: a research perspective.	Theme C 40 Sisay The hangover of traditional assessment on implementation of the new assessment policy in higher education.	Theme D 41 Bohrer The role of the student in quality assurance processes.	Theme D 42 Wedlund, Axelsson and Melin Project oriented education-Managing three simultaneous processes.

12.25 - 1.05pm - Parallel Sessions

Theme C	Theme C	Theme D 43 Slack and Vigurs Problematising participatory research with 'potential learners':tales from the field.	Theme D 44 Coate Unknowability: the limits of qualitative research on the international student experience.

1.05-2.15pm - Lunch

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