09.45

Coffee

10.00

Welcome and grand announcement of:

Competition! (Get out your slide rules, log tables or SPSS)

Guess the mean weight and standard deviation of the Christmas puddings

(3 lucky winners will each receive – a Christmas pudding!!)

Write your New Year’s (Research) Resolutions.

10.05 - 11.00

Keynote: ‘Collaborative Professional Enquiry and Trojan Horses

Drawing on qualitative research using event and discourse analysis this talk explores the effects of teachers’ changing their practice to accommodate collaboration.  It looks at the dynamics of learning and development on a Chartered Teacher Programme and raises questions about notions of structuration and agency in practice-focused CPD focusing in particular on the relationship between schooling and development as pedagogies for change

(Keynote presentation ppt file)

Jenny Reeves, University of Stirling 

11.10 - 12.40

Research across the School of Education

15 minute presentations by research students will be followed by an opportunity to ask questions.

Rachel Shanks (Education) New Teachers’ Professional Learning

Fiona-Jane Brown (Elphinstone) Beliefs and traditions of Scottish fishing communities.

Almut Boehme (Music)  The study of traditional Scottish music in the manuscript collections of the National Library of Scotland

Leila Holm (Education) Chartered Teachers - Role Confusion, Identity Confusion, Paradigm Confusion: Seeking Clarity through Narrative Approaches.

Irene Watt (Elphinstone) The power of the lullaby.

12.45 - 13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

‘Speeed (research) dating’ – find your ideal research partner ...

14.30

Summing up, competition winners, New Year’s (Research) Resolutions

Rachel Shanks

Education

Fiona-Jane Brown

Elphinstone

Almut Boehme

Music

Leila Holm

Education

Irene Watt

Elphinstone