Resources from Students as Researchers: Novice to Expert; The First Annual ESCalate Student Conference

This event, held in April 2009, was for Education undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students to consider the value and purpose of small-scale personal research in education for both individuals and groups. Attached are the resources from this event, including:

• Keynote Address: Negotiating tricky corners: becoming a researcher in Education by Professor James C Conroy, Dean in the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow
• Getting involved from the word go: students as researchers in the first year undergraduate experience by Professor Kay Sambell, Director of Assessment for Learning Enhancement; Linda Graham, Student Development Officer; Dr Catherine Montgomery, Research Lead, Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (AfL), Northumbria University
• The Research Process: from Inception to Dissemination: "An Introduction to ESCalate Student Grants" Dr Alexis Taylor, ESCalate Academic Consultant : School of Education, Brunel University
• The Research Process: from Inception to Dissemination: "Start to Finish: The Research Process for Investigating Student Writing" Joelle Adams, Student Achievement Coordinator, Bath Spa University
• The Research Process: from Inception to Dissemination: "Data collection - a love / hate relationship: experiences as a new researcher" Angela Jaap, PhD Student, University of Glasgow
• The Research Process: from Inception to Dissemination: "Student as Producer - Publication and Dissemination of Undergraduate Research" Caroline Gibson, Managing Editor, Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research
• Inquiry Based Learning as a method for researching change: students and tutors as co researchers by Dr Margaret Page, Senior Lecturer, Dr Hugo Gaggiotti, Senior Lecturer, Liza McCann, Daniel Staley, University of the West of England
• Blogging as data gathering - how might Web 2.0 technologies interrupt and disturb our notions of research? and....what are we going to do about it? by Julie Hughes, Principal Lecturer in Learning and Teaching; Emma Purnell, eportfolio Advisor/Researcher, Institute for Learning Enhancement, University of Wolverhampton
• Creating Research Opportunities through Enterprise and Innovation by Joe Gazdula, Director of Enterprise and Placements; Amanda Dalzell, Student Entrepreneur; Javed Munshi, Student Entrepreneur, Liverpool Hope University
• An introduction to the Open Space session by Helen Bulpitt, Deputy Director, SWAP (Social Policy and Social Work Subject Centre)
• Notes from the Open Space session (posted in the image gallery)

For further information about the event, as well as pictures from the day, please see: http://escalate.ac.uk/5174