Programme

University of Warwick – Virtual

Programme of Events

15 April 2021

09:30	Arrival and Breakout Rooms
10:00	Opening Statements and Welcome
10:10	Keynote Address – Dr. Linda de Greef, University of Amsterdam Dr. de Greef is a program manager in education innovation and has led on several publications including Designing Interdisciplinary Education, A Practical Handbook for University Teachers, 2017. https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/g/r/l.degreef/l.de-greef.html
11:00	Break Out	Work-based Interdisciplinarity Human-Centred Workplace Innovation as an Interdisciplinary Experience: What and Why? Creating Learning Opportunities in Human-Centred Workplace Innovation Across Disciplines Transforming Students’ Perceptions of Innovation and of Themselves as Innovators – T. Carey, S. McDonald, F. Nobis, M. Stephenson, Monash University, Melbourne (Australia)
		Student-led Interdisciplinarity Exposure and Expertise: Vulnerability in Interdisciplinary Teaching – K. Lockwood, University of Nottingham Co-Constructing Sustainability: Online interdisciplinarity and the Sustainable Development Goals – J. O’Brien, University of Manchester Communicating co-creativity, innovation and design thinking skills within interdisciplinary education through the creation of a multimedia student magazine – L. Schrock, C. Evans, K. Watts, D. Allcoat, and A. Dixon, University of Warwick
		Interdisciplinarity at School level Valuing interdisciplinary learning: the IB extended essay – R. Julian, Curriculum Manager, International Baccalaureate Interdisciplinary Concepts in a Secondary Context – H. Paddle, International Baccalaureate educator Transitions into Interdisciplinarity: Can we prepare students in Secondary for HE practice? – D. Morrison, PGCE
11:50	Break
12:10	Break Out - Parallel Sessions	Student-led Interdisciplinarity 2 Deliberative Democracy in an Interdisciplinary Department – J. Everest, University of Birmingham Interdisciplinarity and the Lifelong Learner: celebrating individual stories and collective voices – R. Strisino and C. Jones, University of Warwick ‘Open Box’ curriculum at the Open University – How we are helping students to make their learning count – G. Curry and L. Robson, The Open University
		Interdisciplinarity across ‘disciplines’ Reflections on the launch of an interdisciplinary STEM qualification – J. Baxter, The Open University Teaching and Learning Science with Graduate-Entry Medical Students from Diverse Subject Backgrounds – N. Hopcroft and P. Pollitt, University of Warwick Curriculum Planning for Medicine and Law: A Model for collaborative learning – A. le Roux-Kemp, University of Lincoln
	Workshop	What are the challenges to interdisciplinary teaching and how can we overcome them? – D. Marais, B. Kelestyn, I. Molinaro, L. Schrock, J. Wale, University of Warwick
13:00	Lunch
13:30	Break Out - Parallel Sessions	Interdisciplinary Pedagogy in Practice Our experience developing a university-wide interdisciplinary teaching model at undergraduate level – challenges and recommendations – A. Quintana and P. O’Toole, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile Pedagogies that can support collaborative teaching and learning: benefits and challenges – L. Mirbahai, University of Warwick and J. Page Utrilla and R. Gómez, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Universalizing interdisciplinary pedagogy? Matching pedagogy to cognitive structure – D. Roberts, Loughborough University
		Embedding Interdisciplinarity Navigating Utopia: Module Design for the Co-production of Knowledge – K. Harris, University of Warwick Future-proofing education: Challenges and rewards of interdisciplinary learning and teaching in a capstone module – I. Fischer, University of Sussex From the classroom to the boardroom: radical interdisciplinarity in the Regulations – E. Brown, P. Baxter and E. Coonan, Anglia Ruskin University
		Student-led Interdisciplinarity 3 Experiential Learning Impacts for Post-Graduates within Scholar-Led Editorial Practice – G. J. Johnson, University of Warwick Learning From Each Other Through a Community of Practice: Warwick's Interdisciplinary Learning Circle – J. Wale, University of Warwick Practicing interdisciplinarity: Developing Interdisciplinary ‘Knowing’ and ‘Doing’ – M. Woodward, Cardiff Metropolitan University
14:20	Break
14:45	Parallel Sessions - Workshops	Workshop Meaningful assessment in interdisciplinary education – L. de Greef, J. Rodermans, D. Gerritsen, University of Amsterdam
		New Forms, New Features; Changing Structures of Interdisciplinary Curricula – R. Hallett and F. Nereo, Keele University
		Embedding Undergraduate Research as Interdisciplinary Pedagogy – K. Harris, G. Schwartz-Leeper, T. Burnett, University of Warwick
		Learning from Each Other through Design Thinking – B. Kelestyn, R. Freeman, L. Netherclift, G. Bottoli, C. Nithila-George, J. Pittgens, University of Warwick
15:50	Plenary – Closing Statements Conference 2022
16:30	End

Please note that this programme might be subject to change.