Event title: What’s Your Problem? Writing Effective Research Questions for Quality Publications

Event date: Monday 9 December 2024

Event start time: 08:00 UK (GMT)/ 09:00 CET/ 19:00 AEDT / 16:00 AWST / 16:00 Singapore

Event mode: online via Zoom

Event format: Presentation and workshop activity.

The Curriculum and Assessment Design Editorial Team from the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) will offer an overview of considerations and guidance for developing research questions for quality publications. Following the presentation, participants will then engage in workshop activities to support their research practice.

Dr Alison Purvis is an Associate Dean Teaching and Learning at Sheffield Hallam University (UK) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) with 25+ years of higher education experience. She is actively researching in the areas of higher education practice and leadership, digitally enhanced learning, inclusive practice, physiology of exercise, and public health. Alison is a senior editor at the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) and a director at the Open Access Publishing Association (OAPA). She is passionate about open access publishing where the academic community support each other to publish quality articles, challenging the predominant for-profit model of publishing.

Dr Victoria Nicholas is an Associate Dean Faculty and Strategy in the STEM Faculty of the Open University (UK) and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA) with 30 years of higher education experience. Her scholarship interests are online group work and writing retreats for level 4 undergraduate students, as well as some work on tutor provision for students in secure environments. Vic is an associate editor at the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP). At the Open University (UK) Vic has been the academic lead for an institutional Assessment Framework and chaired the delivery board of the institutional Teaching and Learning Plan.

Dr Joanna Tai is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Her research in assessment focuses on inclusion and diversity, feedback literacies, developing evaluative judgement, and student experiences across the university and workplace. She is currently undertaking funded projects on feedback literacy (Australian Research Council) and inclusive assessment (Australian Collaborative Education Network; Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching). Joanna is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professions Education, and the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. She has a background in medicine and health professions education.