TEACHING FELLOWS AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

DOUG NEWTONPROFESSOR

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Different roles?

‘Teaching Fellow’

Scholarly Activity

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‘Lecturer’

Research

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Scholarship & Scholarly Activity

Scholarship: erudition, extensive assimilated learning, being an authority in a field of learning.

Scholarly activity: the process of achieving, maintaining and fostering extensive learning, and of widening awareness of its value in specific contexts.

Some scholarly activities

Updating subject knowledge Attending a research seminarDeveloping teaching skills Attending a teaching conferenceGiving a seminar to colleagues Preparing a poster for a conference Speaking at a teaching conference Writing for a professional journal Active membership of a professional bodyStudy for a further qualification/for additional skills Devising anew approach to teaching Applying for a HEA teachingdevelopment grant Writing a textbook review Reviewing aresearch article Writing a textbook Being an editor of a professional journal Submitting a paper to a research journal Applying for research funds Promoting subject via the mediaPresenting a TV programme/series Raising the public profile of

asubject through writing Organising a conference

And some‘research’activitiesUpdating subject knowledge Attending a research seminarDeveloping teaching skills Attending a teaching conferenceGiving a seminar to colleagues Preparing a poster for a conference Speaking at a teaching conference Writing for a professional journal Active membership of a professional bodyStudy for a further qualification/for additional skills Devising anew approach to teaching Applying for a HEA teachingdevelopment grant Writing a textbook review Reviewing aresearch article Writing a textbook Being an editor of a professional journal Submitting a paper to a research journal Applying for research funds Promoting subject via the mediaPresenting a TV programme/series Raising the public profile of asubject through writing Shaping subject teaching internationally

Some concrete products of scholarly activity

Better teaching evaluations Seminars for colleagues Poster/presentation at a conference Book/article review Issues/Journals produced as an editor Professional/academic articles/books/software Income (e.g. HEA) Further qualifications Radio/TV programme/series Contributions as a member of committees Contributions made as a consultant Prizes and awards for teaching/books/supervision

Well kept secrets Some of the 40,000 bronze arrowheads recovered from the site of the Terracotta Army © Imperial Logistics Project

The project’s latest results focus on investigating the logistics of technology and labour organisation behind the construction of the Terracotta Army’s bronze weaponry. Each of the individually crafted warriors was fully equipped with state-of-the-art bronze weapons. Over 40,000 arrowheads (most bundled in groups of 100 and placed into quivers) have been excavated as well as hundreds of crossbow triggers, swords, lances, spears and honour weapons. Detailed measurements and scrutiny of the crossbow triggers identified very subtly different subgroups in the collection. This suggests a range of different casting moulds and workshops were used to make these weapons.

Less tangible products

Raising the profile of subject/department/University publicly

Increased personal motivation/interest/vigour in teaching

Enhanced respect Public recognition/esteem Evidence to argue for promotion

Making a difference: evidence of impact Evidence of better/effective/efficient

teaching/enhanced student achievement Evidence that others use your ideas Evidence of engagement with your ideas

(e.g. book sales, reference to your approach) Evidence of effectively promoting your

subject Evidence of changes in policy/organisation/

content/perceptions/value due to youThese may be local, national, international

Scholarly activity

Scholarly activity is wide ranging Engaged in to the full, it produces

scholars and scholarship Scholarship has the potential to promote

the University and its scholars Where it is ignored:

It is a missed opportunity for promotion of the institution/faculty/department

It risks a narrower and, I believe, poorer intellectual ethos.

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To conclude

Where scholarly activity has a narrow interpretation, scholarly activity and scholarship may not be understood.

In which case, scholarship may be interpreted narrowly as dabbling in research.

Some may need to be enlightened. Some may need to be enlightened

more than once.