Projects & Programmes
- AHRC HAPPEN – Public Engagement Programme for North West Post Graduate Researchers
- Culture Campus Liverpool CPD Portal – CCLiP
- Professional Development Needs (CPD) Study, Cultural Sector
- UK eProspectus Standard XCRI
- CPD Noticeboard
- Liverpool Professional Education Research & Practice Group:
- Schools Learning Networks Research
- Every Child Matters Research - Learning Matrix
- Aimhigher Greater Merseyside
- Greater Merseyside & West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network
- Collaborative Learning Research
- One of five successful bids across the country for this new, impact related programme.
The AHRC envisage this providing a hub for public engagement training for Humanities PGR students in the North West and to show-case it as a public engagement model to be encouraged across the UK. - ‘HAPPEN’ – is a public engagement training programme for PGRs from across the North West offers opportunities for students to engage with world-class cultural institutions in the region, and participate in a structured, public engagement-centred series of events with established national and international standing, that engage with the public, cultural/creative industries, small and medium enterprises and local community groups.
- A typical programme will include: 3 day internship, shadowing of cultural organisation staff, presentation at research seminars held by cultural organisations, engagement with specific community groups on learning and helping meet their areas of interest
- Principal Investigator Dr Mark Llewellyn, Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Liverpool
‘HAPPEN’ will:- enhance the awareness of Humanities and Arts PGRs students across the region of the potential contribution their research can make to society
- open up fresh perspectives on PGR projects, widen the horizons of PGRs, the public and cultural sector organisations
- provide quality public engagement training to support the research community through enhancement of institutional experience, improved standards and dissemination of good practice models
- build on existing collaborations and develop new networks to provide innovative ways of reaching a wider range to audiences that provide opportunities to put research knowledge into practical and enhancing PGR experience and career planning
- improve the skills of PGRs and ECRs in communicating their work to different audiences, through networking and influencing
- support researchers in sharing best practice and provide opportunities for critically constructive feedback
- provide opportunities to develop awareness of the embedded relevance, impact, legitimacy and reputation of PGR activity to the regional economy, and contribution to the well-being of society.
- enhance the awareness of Humanities and Arts PGRs students across the region of the potential contribution their research can make to society
Culture Campus Liverpool CPD Portal (CCLiP) www.cclip.org.uk Introduction: CoL held the initial leadership role engaging all nine cultural employers of LARC and COOL, and the three HEIs to the first critical path point - a rather dry process of mapping each organisation’s data format, process and marketing against the XCRI schema. Drawing on national expertise, the particular nuisances pertinent to employers interests were accommodated. The University of Liverpool, Centre for Lifelong Learning as the lead accountable body took on the implementation and project management thereafter. The experience of City of Learning with the CPD Noticeboard creation, and its relationship with the city’s cultural employers was drawn upon for the Culture Campus Portal (CCLiP). University of Liverpool made a successful bid to JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), a HEFCE linked agency - innovation in the use of ICT for education and research for £227K. The project builts on precursor projects, Learning Matrix, JISC funded £220K, LJMU led, and CPD Noticeboard, CoL led and funded £225K. The CCliP project aimed to produce a portal, based on an efficient, automatic data population system ‘XCRI’, to offer CPD opportunities from both the 3 HEIs and the 9 cultural employers (LARC - 8, and COOL): It involves the use of the new UK eProspectus standard, ‘XCRI’, a schema for structuring information about courses and opportunities. XCRI is essentially a form of XML used by many organisations, small and large. It offers organisations: XCRI – automatic portal data population CCLiP based on XCRI presents the opportunity for professional development courses, events and opportunities offered by the Liverpool HEIs and cultural sector employers to be viewed through a single portal (with no extra inputting/editing work) – and also through any other portal based on XCRI. An increasing number of HEIs and FECs across the country are using the schema. Edge Hill are quite advanced in their implementation prompted by the CPD Noticeboard work. UCAS have undertaken initial pilot work with XCRI and as they progress from Stage 3 of their 10 stage data strategy review, are expected to go to further stages of trial implementation in spring 2011. In 2010, the then DCSF directed that all 14-19 partnerships should use XCRI for their prospectus portal. From this a number of schools have taken on board the schema. The University of Nottingham has been leading on the 14-19 developments. Once data is structured in the XCRI standard format (eg postcode always in a separate field, course start date always listed in standard numerical format 10/01/11, rather than eg Semester 2), an organisation can advertise and update with no retyping, on any XCRI compatible portal. This could be European Business Schools offerings, or cultural events in the north west, widening participation activities offered by schools, FECs, HEIs, employers in the city region. Only the specific fields the organisation wishes to be advertised at each respective outlet will be made available As a free national standard schema, XCRI offers a robust foundation for e.g. an events listing for cultural organisations, some data sharing across Local Enterprise Partnerships, a range of module offerings from different education providers. Definition of CPD - following the experience with CPD Noticeboard, a broad definition of CPD offerings was adopted for the portal. In essence, courses, seminars, events, programmes which were not leading to a full U/G award were included. Such as: Masters degrees, PhDs, one day conferences, Tate research seminars, exhibitions at NML, concert at Hope, Bluecoat literary seminars etc. |
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CPD Needs study – Cultural Sector www.culturecampus.co.uk/content/LARCCPDNeedsStudy.aspx UK eProspectus standard (XCRI) national development work CPD Noticeboard - www.cpdnoticeboard.ac.uk More than 700 opportunities covering Health & Social Care, Business & Management, and Education from the four universities have been presented. Built on XCRI principles, with a view to longer term being fully powered by XCRI (see above, CCLiP) when the organisations are fully XCRI compliant. The work built on the Learning Matrix project, led by LJMU and funded by JISC, where proof of concept of XCRI was demonstrated in a local context – four HEIs offered Taster Days to students in three FECs via a single portal This innovative facility provided the foundation for the JISC funded Culture Campus CPD Portal.
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Greater Merseyside & West Lancashire Lifelong Learning Network
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Liverpool Professional Education Research and Practice GroupThe Steering Group comprises senior members of education faculties of the HEIs, Liverpool headteachers and local authority representatives.
Principles of the Partnership:
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Schools Learning Networks Research
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Every Child Matters Research
Learning Matrix The Matrix commenced as a pilot project in 2005, funded by HEFCE JISC, led by LJMU, supported by CoL, with the aim of enabling non-traditional students considering progression to higher education to access appropriate learning opportunities from a partnership of further education and higher education institutions through a common learner interface. Since the initial pilot work, developments are underway in 2006 to enable a professional development arm of the Matrix system to be realised. This would enable enquirers to search for professional development courses in Merseyside using a system with up-to-date user-friendly search facilities, and additional contemporary facilities included up to date personal account information, with details of potential courses listed, personal development plan support aids, and being kept informed of future potential courses which my be of interest. To view CPD Noticeboard go to: www.cpdnoticeboard.ac.uk. Other developments linked to the Matrix are the North West Lifelong Learning Network project to provide learning portals for the networks which commence October 2006. |
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