Workshops
These three-day workshops run in Turkiye relate to the two SP research activities. The first focuses on academic writing, bringing together SP-research teams and their Cara-partnered mentors to work funding proposal or final research outputs for publication in peer-reviewed journals. In addition to its Open Society Foundations and Mellon Foundation grants, the SP has benefited from three British Academy (BA) Academic Writing Workshop Grants, secured by UK-university colleagues from IDS/Sussex, Surrey and Kent with the Cara SP a named partner. The latest awarded in the first half of 2023, aims to benefit previous BA grants alumni (SP participants) through a series of 7 monthly (Jul. 2023 to Jan. 2024) online sessions followed by two 3-day in-person workshops in 2024, the last to be run by the alumni. The second workshop series, initiated in Sep. 2022 as part of the SP Cara-commissioned Research (Phase 4), supports an action-research approach to the development and pilot of an HE quality-enhancement model with by Al Sham University faculty, to evidence adherence to international HE quality standards, i.e. European Standards and Guidelines, in the absence of formal institutional accreditation. Al-Sham is a not-for-profit private university, in a small HE sector that has emerged in the non-regime northwest of Syria since 2015.
HE Quality Enhancement: An Action-Research Approach to the Arts, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
4-6 March, 2024
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Dr Tahir Zaman/University of Sussex To continue the…
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20-22 February, 2024
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Prof Aysha Divan/University of Leeds Workshop participants will…
Read MoreAcademic Writing for Publication
16-18 December, 2023
Led by: Prof Anastasia Christou/Middlesex University and Dr Maggie Charles (retired)/Oxford University Main Workshop Aims Key…
Read MoreProgramme Development and Assessments (2)
7-9 November, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Dr Tahir Zaman/University of Sussex. Main Workshop Aims…
Read MoreProgramme Development and Assessments (1)
24-26 October, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent. Main Workshop Aims Key Learning Outcomes Workshop participants will…
Read MoreHE Quality Enhancement: An Action-Research Approach — Arts, Humanities & Humanistic Social Sciences AND Programme Development & Learning Outcomes
6-9 September, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent, Prof Aysha Divan/University of Leeds and Dr Tahir Zaman/University…
Read MoreWriting Research Proposals & Writing for Publication
4-6 August, 2023
Led by: Prof Anastasia Christou/University of Middlesex and Dr Maggie Charles/University of Oxford. This workshop was…
Read MoreHE Quality Enhancement: An Action-Research Approach — Arts, Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
21-23 July, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent, Prof Anastasia Christou/Middlesex University and Dr Tahir Zaman/University of…
Read MoreHE Quality Enhancement: Sham Pilot (2)
18-19 June, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent, Prof Anastasia Christou/Middlesex University and Dr Tahir Zaman/University of…
Read MoreHE Quality Enhancement: Sham Pilot (1)
1-2 May, 2023
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent, Prof Aysha Divan/University of Leeds and Dr Tahir Zaman/University…
Read MoreCara Research Grant Recipients Writing for Publication
29-2 October, 2022
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Prof Anastasia Christou/Middlesex University. This workshop was run…
Read MoreEducating the Educators
25-26 July, 2022
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Prof Aysha Divan/University of Leeds. Main Workshop Aims…
Read MoreWriting for Publication
17-20 March, 2022
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Dr Marion Heron/University of Surrey. Main Workshop Aims
Read MoreEnglish for Academic Purposes
6-10 February, 2020
Led by: Michael Jenkins/University of Edinburgh, Manuel Flores-Lasarte/University of Sheffield, Sarah Mattin/University of Reading and Dr…
Read MoreSurveys & Oral Histories
24-27 January, 2020
Led by: Dr Tom Parkinson/University of Kent and Dr Cath Camps/University of South Wales. Main Workshop…
Read MoreProposal Review and Refine
14-16 December, 2019
Workshop aims An EAP colleague provided support throughout, focussing particularly on sentence level writing, idioms and…
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