Participation Policy

Identity and firmness of commitment of proposed speakers

Professor Peter Halfpenny, Executive Director, National Centre for e-Social Science, University of Manchester – invited and agreed

Professor Richard Andrews, Chair in English, Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication, Institute of Education – firmly committed
Professor Andrew Brown, Chair in Education; Head of the Doctoral School and Associate Dean for Research, Institute of Education – firmly committed
Dr Andrew Burn, Reader in Education and New Media, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education – firmly committed
Anton Franks, Senior Lecturer in Education, English and Drama, Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication, Institute of Education (near completion of PhD on cultural theory and what learning in drama looks like) – firmly committed
Dr Carey Jewitt, Reader in Education and Technology, London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education – firmly committed
June Parnell-Parmley, PhD student, Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication , Institute of Education (starting work on complexity theory and e-learning) ¬– firmly committed
Dr Caroline Pelletier, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Learning, Curriculum and Communication, Institute of Education – firmly committed

Dr Stephen Boyd-Davis, Head, Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts, School of Arts and Education, Middlesex University – firmly committed
Professor David Durling, Professor of Design, Middlesex University – firmly committed
Dr Magnus Moar, Senior Lecturer in Digital Design Technologies, Middlesex University – firmly committed
Helen Bendon, Senior Lecturer in Moving Image, Middlesex University – firmly committed

Erik Borg, Lecturer, Centre for Academic Writing, Coventry University (near completion of PhD on the study of writing in Fine Arts Practice and Design at PhD level) – firmly committed
Mark Evans (Coventry) and Mark Hill (Northumbria) – tentatively committed

Jude England, Head of Social Science Collections and Research, The British Library – firmly committed
Barry Knight, Head of Conservation Research, The British Library – firmly committed
Joanna Newman, Strategic Partnerships Manager and leading on project Gateway, The British Library – firmly committed; Anthony Troman, Head of EthOS, The British Library - committed
Johnny Robinson, Social Science Collections and Research, The British Library – firmly committed

Myrrh Domingo, PhD student, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University (research on multimodality and social dimensions of literacy) – firmly committed

Range of students to be invited

The principal audience, among students, will be research students. However, past experience has shown that interested Masters students will also attend. Experience has also shown that most of the attendees come from the host institution, but the funding will ensure at least 12 students from outside the host institution. As indicated in the next section, the costs of speakers and a finite number of research students are met by the proposed budget. In addition, we will invite staff and students from all other UK universities to attend at their own cost. We expect 40—50 attendees per seminar.

Publicity and follow-up action

Publicity will be the responsibility of the Institute of Education and will take the form of posters for the series as a whole, and individual posters for each of the seminars. UK universities will also be informed through information networks, and there will be publicity too on the web pages of the seminar series at each of three participating universities and the British Library. As the focus of the proposed seminar series is national, it is unlikely that we will advertise the series internationally. The administrative team responsible fore the series at IOE will keep a database of attendees, and will ensure that all seminars are advertised to the growing list of attendees via email and via the web pages. See previous section for final conference details.