Workshop Schedule

The agenda outlines the day’s key sessions, including workshops and lightning presentations.

9.00 – 9.30

Registration

Tea, Coffee, and Networking

9.30 – 9.45

Opening Remarks

Welcome

  • Dr Ross Woods, Senior Manager, Teaching and Learning, Student Success, Health and Wellbeing, Higher Education Authority
  • Dr Andrew Power, Vice President, Academic Affairs and Registrar, IADT
  • Dr Selina Guinness, Head of Teaching and Learning, IADT
  • Introduction of Dr Alison Cook-Sather, Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education, Bryn Mawr College, USA

9.45 – 10.45

Interactive Keynote

Dr Alison Cook Sather

10.45 – 11.00

Networking Break

11.00 – 11.30

Lightning Talks

Student Partnership in Course Design – National Student Engagement Programme: NStEP
Niamh Kennedy and Rachael Sarsfield Ryan, NSTeP

Student Volunteer Ireland Centres Student Voice in Decision Making
Dr Lorraine Tansey, StudentVolunteer.ie, and Ayanna Letcher, University of Limerick

DCU Futures
Dr Susan Hegarty, Institutional Lead, DCU Futures, Dublin City University

Peer Led Wellness Cafe
Sharon Ferguson and Aimee O’Byrne, Atlantic Technological University

Co-creating Inclusion & Equity in Teaching & Learning
Dr Anna Santucci and James Coakley, University College Cork

11.30 – 13.00

Workshop

Workshop on whole-course co-creative
Dr Alison Cook Sather

13.00 – 13.30

Networking Lunch

13.30 – 14.00

Lightning Talks 2 and Student Success Update

Student Success Update
Rebecca Roper, Teaching and Learning Policy Advisor for Student Success, Higher Education Authority

UCD Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning
Leone Gately, University College Dublin

Engaging Students with intellectual disabilities in storytelling for screen
Dr Sivakumar Ramachandran, IADT Institute of Art, Design and Technology

Case Studies in Partnership – NSteP
Niamh Kennedy and Rachael Sarsfield Ryan, NSteP

Transforming the student experience through learner empowerment in the Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology in Ireland with N-TUTORR supported by Next Generation EU
Dr Carina Ginty, Head of Teaching and Learning, Atlantic Technological University, and Dr Moira Maguire, Acting Head of School of Health and Science, Dundalk Institute of Technology

14.00 – 15.30

Workshop

Workshop on pedagogical partnership with liminally positioned student partners
Dr Alison Cook Sather

15.30 – 15.45

Break

15.50 – 16.00

Workshop

Workshop on Writing for Partnership
Dr Alison Cook Sather