Professors Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University) and Mick Healey (University of Gloucestershire) present Session 1 to the Higher Education Academy All Wales Research-Teaching Nexus Action Set Conference at Gregynog Hall, 1-2 September 2009 (near Newtown, Powys, Wales, UK). Session is introduced by the conference convenor Professor Simon Haslett of the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the University of Wales, Newport (to skip introduction move to slide 2).