General Discussion Session, Teaching Fellow Network, Durham University

1. ∂
Schedule for Today
• From 13:45 Coffee etc
• 14:00-14:15 Welcome, Prof. Tom Ward, PVC Education
• 14:15-14:20 The Purpose of Today, Sam Nolan
• 14:15-14:30 Introducing Scholarship, Prof. Douglas Newton, School
of Ed.
• 14:30-15:00 Developing a National Profile, Simon Forrest, Senior
Teaching Fellow, School of Medicine and Health
• 15:00-15:30 Discussion Session: Why a Teaching Fellow Network
and What Should It Do for You, Sam Nolan
• 15:30-15:45 What CARD can Do for You, Lowry McComb
• 15:45-15:50 Looking Forward, Sam Nolan

2. ∂
The Purpose of Today
• The aims of the network:
• To provide support and mentoring to teaching fellows across the
university to develop scholarly activity and to provide a
mechanism to allow additional interdepartmental scholarship
activity.
• It will also provide a forum for advice and support on probation
and promotion activity for teaching fellows.
• It could act as a voice to represent the views of Teachings Fellows
at University level.

3. A Teaching Fellow Network
What’s it for ?
What should it do ?
What shouldn’t it do ?
Sam Nolan

4. ∂
• The response
• The idea
• What Next
– Discussion 1:
• Scholarship
– Discussion 2:
• Mentoring
– Discussion 3:
• A Political Voice

5. ∂
The Response
• List of emails from HR of all with majority teaching
contracts (630 people)
– Many were PGR Markers etc
• 1st Email Sent Out 15th Jan 2014
• Within 24 Hrs 65 Registrations
• To Date 110 Registrations
• 55% picked 26/3 as date of first meeting
• 45% confirmed attendance

6. ∂
The Purpose of Today
• The aim of the network will be:
• To provide support and mentoring to teaching fellows across the
university to develop scholarly activity and to provide a
mechanism to allow additional interdepartmental scholarship
activity.
• It will also provide a forum for advice and support on probation
and promotion activity for teaching fellows.
• It could act as a voice to represent the views of Teachings Fellows
at University level.

7. Scholarship
Strand 1

8. ∂
Scholarship: Strand 1
• What would be/have been the challenges to you in
engaging with scholarship ?
• What do you feel are the opportunities that being
engaged with scholarship would provide ?
• How could a network of Teaching Fellows support you in
developing your Scholarship ?

9. Some scholarly activities
Updating subject knowledge Attending a research seminar
Developing teaching skillsAttending a teaching conference
Giving 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 body
Study for a further qualification/for additional skills Devising a
new approach to teaching Applying for a HEA teaching
development grant Writing a textbook review Reviewing a
research articleWriting a textbook Being an editor of a
professional journal Submitting a paper to a research journal
Applying for research funds Promoting subject via the media
Presenting aTV programme/series Raising the public profile of a
subject through writing Organising a conference

10. Progression & Promotion
Strand 2

11. ∂
Progression: Strand 2
• What are the challenges for Teaching Fellows in seeking
progression/promotion ?
• What do you feel are the opportunities for
progression/promotion for Teaching Fellows ?
• How could a network of Teaching Fellows support you in
seeking progression/promotion?

12. A Political Voice
Strand 3

13. ∂
A Political Voice: Strand 3
• Do you feel as though Teaching Fellows need a voice
within the University ?
• Why?
• How could a Teaching Fellow Network provide this ?

14. ∂
Next Meeting
• We’ll circulate a poll to find a suitable date for our next
F2F meeting
• Venue (Derman Christopher Room – Thanks to CARD)
• Idea for each will be to have some talks on Scholarship
from members of the network
• A discussion session to allow the formation of a:
– Mentoring Group
– ?