Tag: education

  • Wellness in Law Forum, day 2: session 6b: Starting Well – The first year experience

    Final parallel session of the Forum.  First up, Joanne Stagg-Taylor, Griffith U., on ‘Starting the conversation: embedding approaches to hope and wellness in the first year experience’.  She summarised the stressors for anxiety and depression in first year students, eg competition with other students, doing poorly on a course, family care for 5+ hours a…

  • Wellness in Law Forum, day 2: plenary 2 & panel discussion

    This plenary by Laura Helm, Law Institute of Victoria (Human Rights & Admin Law) – ‘Changing minds: towards a mindful profession’.  She’s talking on research on the causes of depression and anxiety in lawyers; the framework for response — prevention and cultural change; LIV strategies, and the way forward.  She cited the stats from Courting…

  • Parallel session 4b: Emotion, empathy and relationships

    I’m chairing so comments will be shorter.  First up, Jenny Richards, Flinders U., on ‘ Developing a sociolegal theory of criminal lawyering: increasing wellbeing through holistic engagement with clients’.  She focused on both her work as a lecturer at Flinders, and as a lawyer at the Criminal Bar.  Managing client emotions were a key need…

  • National Wellness for Law Forum, 5-6 February, Keynote

    Liveblogging the fourth Forum, in the China in the World Centre at ANU, having arrived here a couple of days ago from -4 conditions in Glasgow, and with a lurgy, so doubly fuzzy.  All three readers of this blog, you need to bear with me.  Twitter handle: #wellnessforlaw. Eloquent Acknowledgement of Country and introduction by…

  • Conference final thoughts

    The sessions were pretty short — 15 mins, no questions.  Julian mentioned he was bursting to ask questions, make comments, and that was my experience too.  But interestingly, the constant roll of presentations allowed us to see the comparisons and contrasts, the common points between the presentations.  There were some stand out approaches to assessment,…

  • 50 years of assessment in legal education

    This is a conference hosted by the Association of Law Teachers at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, today, and part of their 50th anniversary celebrations (there’s a 50 Years of Legal Education conference later in the year), which are looking back as well as looking forward to the future(s) of legal education.  Maybe it’s…

  • BILETA2014 reflections

    Karen McCullagh was this year’s BILETA organiser at UEA — she was great, and this year’s conference was wonderful.  Our Chair, Gavin Sutter, introduced, segued, announced; sessions ran smoothly, accommodation was good, dinner was hosted at Norwich Football Club,  and I didn’t get the connection between  the place & food until I saw the name…

  • Liveblogging

    Liveblogging an event is basically where you do just that — blog it as it happens.  Nice post, via Stephen Downes’ Oldaily, from Matt Thompson over at Poynter, on how to do it and why he likes doing it.  Stephen summarises it well — – a liveblog forces you to genuinely pay attention – it…

  • Recently…

    Long time no blog!  I'm thinking of moving platform, and about to start that soon (the task of shifting old posts is non-trivial, as I've discovered), but meantime there are so many interesting happening.  I've been on research leave since February, and the routine has been scribbling scribbling (digitally) in my wee room at home,…

  • Webcasts: pace & rhythm

    Been thinking about this, since we're engaged in a project that incorporates them at Northumbria Law School.  Talking to staff today it was borne in on me yet again how much lectures are culturally more sophisticated events than we tend to think.  

  • HEA conference, roundup

    On the train, back to Newcastle.  Reflections on the last two days…

  • HEA conference, day two, Simshare session

    No surprise that I was at this session since I was part of the team delivering it, with Karen Barton and Patricia McKellar.  Lots of ideas re SIMPLE and other sims, Simshare and OER slides in 30 mins…   Questions were taken, eg about the sustainability of digital resources — good point, though it goes beyond…