Academic Resilience
Learning experiences are cognitively and emotionally demanding, and fraught with setbacks. Students beginning their university education will typically find themselves in an environment where they have less support, less guidance, the work is more complex, failure more costly, and more is expected of them, than at any time in their education previously.
Broadly speaking, academic resilience is the ability to cope with these sorts of pressures and circumstances, and to bounce back after failures and setbacks.
This one-day event introduces participants to the concept of academic resilience and contextual reasons for being interested in it; considers ways to promote academic resilience for our students through teaching and curriculum design; and considers the role that academic resilience plays in the working lives of staff who teach.
Date: Thursday 25th July
Venue: MB0.08
Provisional programme:
9:45 - 10:00 Arrival, and coffee
10:00 - 10:20 Welcome
10:20 - 11:00 Introduction to Academic Resilience
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee and refreshments
11:15 - 12:15 Integrating Resilience Strategies into Day-to-Day Teaching
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Fostering Resilience Through Course Design
14:30 - 14:45 Coffee
14:45 - 15:15 Resilience for Tutors and Colleagues
15:15 - 15:30 Closing discussion
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Facilitators:
Sue Johnston-Wilder
Dr. Maddy Findon
Dr. John Thornby
Dr. Peter Fossey
