* HERDSA 2017: EARLY BIRD RATES EXTENDED TO 12 MAY!
* Call for Participation Learning Designer Research
* University Teaching (MOOC on Coursera) to be launched on 29 May 2017
* Free Event – Creating Effective Innovation Ecosystems: Examples from Europe and Applications in Australia
* Budgeting & Financial Management for Tertiary Education Managers
* Research symposium on 'Education, migration and translation' - 26 November 2017, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
* Call for papers – Service Improvement and Innovation in Universities Conference 2017
* Engaging and retaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in university
* International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) Issue Available
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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EARLY BIRD RATES EXTENDED TO 12 MAY!

The HERDSA 2017 Early Bird rates have been extended to Friday 12 May.  Don’t miss the savings! 

Take time to sharpen your understandings of teaching and learning in higher education; hear about new research around curriculum transformation first hand; and spend quality time networking with old friends and making new collegial contacts at HERDSA 2017.

These phenomenal rates won’t last much longer!  Extended early bird rates close 12 May!

http://www.herdsa2017.org/registration.php

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Call for Participation Learning Designer Research
Surveys close May 19

CADAD has funded researchers at UQ and USC to undertake a research project Professionalisation in Academic Development: Exploring learning designer roles in a changing higher education sector (Ethics approval 2017000315) to identify and document current learning designer practices across Australian universities. We are investigating the:

• relevant skills, knowledge, education and professional background,
• types of roles undertaken and employment conditions,
• challenges and enablers in these roles and conditions and
• areas for future attention.

As part of this project we are undertaking two national online surveys (which take approximately 15 minutes to complete) 
• one for institutional teaching and learning leaders and 
• one for learning designers.

We would value your participation. Survey links and further project details are available at: https://itali.uq.edu.au/content/ld-project.

Further information c.slade@uq.edu.au

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University Teaching (MOOC on Coursera) to be launched on 29 May2017

University Teaching is an introductory course on teaching and learning in tertiary education, designed by staff at the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Hong Kong. 

This online course collects input from instructors, guest speakers, teaching award winners, students, and experts in the fields and provides you with research evidence in relation to effective university teaching and practical instructional design strategies. 
After completing the learning tasks in this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the teaching and learning context in higher education and reflect on the potential challenges and opportunities you might encounter.
- Explain key teaching and learning concepts and relevant evidence in relation to effective university teaching.
- Analyse the relationships between various aspects of teaching and student learning.
- Identify a range of instructional strategies to support effective student learning.
- Apply key concepts to the structuring of course outlines and lesson plans in order to create learning experiences to support successful student learning.

Course trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJu-dViz3NE
Course outline: http://www.cetl.hku.hk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/CETL-MOOC-course-outli...

Further information https://www.coursera.org/learn/university-teaching

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Free Event – Creating Effective Innovation Ecosystems: Examples from Europe and Applications in Australia
14th June 2017

12:30 - 5:30pm | Wednesday 14 June 2017 | Woodward Conference Centre, University of Melbourne

There is general agreement that Australia will need to transition its economy in the years to come, but exactly how to do this remains a point of debate. The aim of the workshop series is to highlight both the challenges the country is facing and the opportunities and best regional practices. In this third workshop "Examples from Europe and applications in Australia" we will present the findings from the recent LH Martin Institute study Tour to Italy and the Netherlands and hear two case studies from within Australia and a closing panel session. 

Places are limited and registration essential. For more information and to register please visit: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/gy66

Further information Ms Melissa Hendicott LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management hendicott.m@unimelb.edu.au

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Budgeting & Financial Management for Tertiary Education Managers
15-16 June

Held at the Parkville campus on Thursday 15 & Friday 16 June this program provides an opportunity for those responsible for managing financial resources to enhance their understanding of financial systems, tools and processes, and optimise their use in improved management and strategic planning. Tailored to the tertiary education environment and utilising a series of related case studies, the program's sessions will relate back to participants' individual situations and responsibilities. 
More information and registration: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/5ckn Enquiries: Dina Uzhegova, 8344 3087 / dina.uzhegova@unimelb.edu.au 

Further information: Ms Dina Uzhegova LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management dina.uzhegova@unimelb.edu.au

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Research symposium on 'Education, migration and translation' - 26 November 2017, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Deadline for abstracts and short biography (200–250 words): 30 June 2017

“Education, Migration and Translation”
Research Symposium, Sunday 26 November 2017
Hosted by the Centre for Global Migrations, Dunedin, University of Otago
Keynote speaker: Professor Michael Singh (Western Sydney University)

In educational contexts, those who experience or encounter migration in its many manifestations will negotiate linguistic, cultural and/or epistemological translation. Translation allows people to move between languages, social and behavioural norms, ideas, interpretations, and individual and collective meanings. However, (mis)translation also risks misunderstanding. Historically, translation and language loss have occurred alongside colonisation, and colonial relations continue in university ranking methodologies and academic publishing processes that privilege the English language. Indigenous perspectives demand attention to the purposes and outcomes of education at all levels, including the role of education in promoting both language loss and language revitalisation.

This multidisciplinary symposium welcomes proposals for 20-minute presentations that examine the connections between education, migration and translation (a further 10 minutes will be allocated for questions and discussion). 

Abstracts should be submitted in English, or English and another language as appropriate, to <henry.johnson@otago.ac.nz>.

The conference registration fee is $25 (NZD). For those not presenting, we will need confirmation of attendance for catering purposes by 31 October.

Those visiting Dunedin may also be interested in the New Zealand Asian Studies Society conference beginning Monday 27 November: http://www.otago.ac.nz/nzasia-2017/index.html

Further information henry.johnson@otago.ac.nz

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Call for papers – Service Improvement and Innovation in Universities Conference 2017
31st July 2017

We warmly invite papers and contributions for the 2017 Service Improvement and Innovation in Universities Conference which will take place in Sydney, 19-20 October. If you have a story of success (or failure), an innovative tool or lesson worth sharing with your peers, please let us know.

Full details on the conference themes, format, dates and venue can be found here: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/cy66
To download an application form and view the full call for papers please visit the website: http://go.unimelb.edu.au/7y66

Further information Ms Melissa Hendicott LH Martin Institute for Tertiary Education Leadership and Management hendicott.m@unimelb.edu.au

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Engaging and retaining Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in university

For those of you interested in the participation and retention of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in university, check out the findings and publications from a five year research partnership with the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME) . All publications and findings from this research are freely available at https://aimeresearchpartnership.wordpress.com/

AIME is a national mentoring programme that works to close the educational gap for young Indigenous Australians, creating meaningful mentoring partnerships between school and university students. The five-year affiliation between AIME and University of Wollongong has involved over $520,000 in national funding (Australian Research Council: $211,000 / Federal Government: $310,000). The AIME Research Partnership blog lists and links to 21 publications that report on this ongoing, large-scale, mixed methods, research project involving AIME programs in QLD, NSW, ACT, VIC, SA and WA. To date, research activities have included mentee and mentor pre/post program surveys (mixed methods), over 290 qualitative interviews, and observations of over 150 AIME sessions. The culmination of this project was the piloting of virtual mentoring with young people located in a remote Indigenous community and AIME mentors located at the UOW campus. Details of this pilot are available at https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/virtual-mentoring-potential-exploring-possibil...

For further details please contact Professor Valerie Harwood (Project Lead) at vharwood@uow.edu.au or Dr Sam McMahon (Research Fellow) at smcmahon@uow.edu.au

Further information https://aimeresearchpartnership.wordpress.com/

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International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) Issue Available

We are delighted to share the first issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP), which is co-edited by students and academics from Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US.

In Issue 1 https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap you will find an editorial, an opinion piece, 4 research articles, 3 reflective essays, 4 case studies, and 2 book reviews. Together these contributions have been written by 21 students and 28 staff/faculty from four different countries.

If you enjoy this first issue we hope you will support the journal in a variety of ways including:
a) Writing for the journal in any of the genres we publish. Please contact us with your ideas. We encourage you to send us (ijsap@mcmaster.ca) your proposals for articles, case studies, or reflective pieces before you submit them.
b) Reviewing for IJSaP. We will provide training for inexperienced reviewers. If you are interested, please complete the reviewer expression of interest form.
c) Telling others about the journal and contributions that you find particularly interesting. E.g. Twitter: @InterJournalSaP
d) Checking that your library lists IJSaP in their catalogue and knowing it is freely available from https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap.

We welcome hearing your views about the journal. Please send us an email (ijsap@mcmaster.ca).

The IJSaP Editorial Board
Anthony Cliffe, Alison Cook-Sather, Mick Healey, Ruth Healey, Beth Marquis, Kelly Matthews, Lucy Mercer-Mapstone, Anita Ntem, Varun Puri and Cherie Woolmer

Further information https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/view/306

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Higher Education in the Headlines

Cuts ‘hurt strugglers’ | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Education | 10 May, 2017
Even though one in five unis in are the red, cuts have been justified on the premise that they are flush with funds.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/budget-2017/budget-2017-higher-education...

Even in Limbo, Trump’s Travel Ban Reverberates  | Karin Fischer | Chronicle of Higher Education | 28 April, 2017
After the president tried to bar travelers from six countries, the personal effects are still being felt.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Even-in-Limbo-Trump-s/239864

UK and Australian universities ‘more stressful than Uganda’ |  | Times Higher Education | 27 April, 2017
First transnational study of stress levels in higher education finds Germany’s academics are the world’s happiest
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-and-australian-universities...