University English AGM 2016
Held at St Anne’s Oxford in the Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre from the afternoon of Monday 11th April till Tuesday 12th April.
The programme was as follows:
PROGRAMME
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016
St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Monday 11th – Tuesday 12th April 2016
Mary Ogilvie Lecture Theatre
Monday 11th April
From 4.00pm Registration; tea and coffee
5.00pm Keynote Address by Rick Rylance, (Director, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London)
6.30pm Reception; University English Book Prize award (Ruth Deech Building)
7.30pm Conference dinner (Dining Hall)
Tuesday 12th April
9.30am Panel 1: Changing Geographies of UK Higher Education
Conveners: Delia Da Sousa Correa and Alison Waller
This panel explored the possible outcomes of this year’s Referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU, and ongoing consequences of devolution in the UK for the discipline. We also explored the impact of changing government policies on admissions to English across the UK, and across the sector, and presented a first look at the results of University English’s survey of admissions figures for the last six years.
• Pierre Lurbe (Université Paris-Sorbonne; President, Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur);
• Graham Caie (Professor emeritus, University of Glasgow);
• Katharine Baxter (Programme Director (English), Northumbria University).
• Fiona Douglas (University English; University of Leeds)
10.45am Tea & Coffee
11.00am Panel 2: Bridging the gaps: transition and integration in English Studies
Conveners: Natasha Alden, Fiona Douglas and Clare Hurley
This panel considered how we, and our students, might best negotiate the interfaces between school and university, and across different areas of the subject. How can we equip our students to succeed? How might we help them to improve their academic literacy? Would a more integrated view of our discipline help or hinder?
• Eleanor Trafford (Bradford Grammar);
• Integrating English project: Billy Clark (Middlesex University); Marcello Giovanelli (University of Nottingham).
• John Hodgson (University of the West of England, Research Development Officer at the National Association for the Teaching of English.)
12.30pm Lunch
1.30pm AGM Business Meeting
2.30pm Tea & coffee
2.45pm Panel 3: Universities at War?
Conveners: Susan Bruce and Alex Thomson
This panel scrutinized the proposals contained in the BIS Green paper on higher education, as well as the wider policy changes affecting the sector in this time of uncertainty: what does TEF mean for us? What will proposed changes to the infrastructure of research funding mean for English? What is the future for part-time study?
• Thomas Docherty (University of Warwick)
• Andrew McRae (Head of English, University of Exeter)
• Richard Brown (Interim Executive Dean, Faculty of Arts, Open University)
• Katherine Cox (Head of English, Sheffield Hallam University)
4.00pm Finish
4.00-5.30pm Executive Committee meeting
