E & T Foundation Blog

The Education and Training Foundation have a blog that regularly hosts comment and opinion from leading practitioners in the FAVE Sector about current issues and trends.  It is a useful resource to help you keep up to date with publications, event and news that may be useful in your practical teaching.

http://www.et-foundation.co.uk/category/blog/

Library Access: SCONUL Access Scheme

Dear Research Fellows,

Some of you have asked about access to library resources at University of Sunderland.  After some research it appears there is a scheme that enables you to use the University Library.

There is a national scheme called SCONUL Access. It’s simple to apply using an online form, where you provide details of your home institution and the libraries you’d like to visit. Your home institution then verifies you as a library user and you receive a confirmation email. Simply take this email, along with your home institution library card, to the library you want to visit and they will issue you with a card to access their library resources. Each library will have its own rules and regulations, but for Sunderland University, any incoming SCONUL user is allowed to access the library during staffed hours, borrow up to 4 resources at a time, can be logged onto a guest PC in the building to access the internet, standard software etc. and access our e-resources including journals, where our licenses allow.

The SCONUL application form is found here  http://www.sconul.ac.uk/sconul-access

Happy researching!

Hayley

Team SUNCETT

Mary Ward House: ETF Summer Conference 2015

The SUNCETT Team would like to thank those of you who have agreed to present your work at the upcoming ETF Summer Conference in July. The progress you have made in your research over the past year has been impressive and goes a long way in demonstrating the power and potential of practitioner research conducted by the sector, for the sector.

Below are a series of guidelines that we ask you to keep in mind whilst preparing your presentation:

· You will be placed in a workshop that best matches the theme of your research.
· Each workshop will have three projects being presented and will run for 1 hour.
· The length of your presentation should be 15 minutes.
· You will have an additional 5 minutes after your presentation for Q+A.
· These timings will have to be strictly adhered to in order to give everybody in the workshop a chance to present.
· You can choose to present your work in whatever fashion you feel most comfortable with, although a PowerPoint may be the easiest method.
· It would also be extremely helpful if you could email me the most up to date title of your project so that I can update our records.


Please do not hesitate to contact either the team if you require any further information or assistance.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference on the 7th July!




For more information please visit the ETF website: http://www.et-foundation.co.uk/news/research-from-the-coalface-is-the-focus-of-the-etf-research-conference/