- Tuesday, 23 May 2023
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Zoom – further details provided upon registration
About the Event
Please join us for this upcoming FFYE Forum to hear Professor Kylie Readman DVC (Education and Students) introduce the proposed UTS Student Experience Framework and highlight some of the scholarship underpinning its design. Attending to both the academic and personal aspects of the student experience, the Framework has four dimensions – Engagement, Belonging, Wellbeing, and Partnership (particularly student partnerships). In many ways, this Framework consolidates much of the work that the FFYE Community has been doing for some time, but it also holds the promise for new opportunities for practice. As the Framework continues to be a work in progress, this Forum provides an opportunity for the FFYE Community to learn more about the proposed Framework, to offer examples of existing practice, and to collectively reflect on specific aspects that we might wish to build further.
In the second half of the forum, we will focus on the area of Partnership and revisit some of the work that has been developed in this space, both internationally and here at UTS. Reflecting on our May 2019 Forum, Students as Collaborators and Partners in the Transition Curriculum Space, we explored co-design, co-production and co-research and inquiry practices with students at the centre. But how far have we come to embed these practices into the ethos and culture at UTS? In this Forum, you will hear from current Students as Partners (SAP) practices across faculties and student support/engagement areas that ‘create space for students and staff to work together towards shared educational goals’ (UQ, SAP), and we will start to think strategically about how the proposed UTS Student Experience Framework might enable a more systemic approach to partnership across the board.
This forum is totally online. However, there will be opportunity to network with new people, share practice and learn from one another.
We welcome all academics, student support staff and students to join us in this Forum.
We look forward to meeting you online.
Kathy and Jacqueline
Guest Speaker: Professor Kylie Readman
Professor Kylie Readman is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Education and Students) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and is an experienced leader in the field of education. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing UTS’s key priorities in teaching, learning, and the student experience. She has a particular focus on engagement, belonging, wellbeing, and partnerships with students.
Banner Image: Yellow River Cruising (section) by Lara Scolari
What is the UTS FFYE Program?
The UTS FFYE (First and Further Year Experience) Program is an institutional wide program, designed to support the successful transition of students in their journey through their degrees and into the workplace. The program has three foci: curriculum, people and the university infrastructure, drawing from community and connection in collaboration with academic and professional staff.
One key element of the program is community building. FFYE Forums (regular meetings) and FFYE community (MSTeams) provide spaces for sharing, learning and ongoing collaborations connecting research, practice and student experience. Contact Kathy Egea (FFYE coordinator) to join.
Dr Kathy Egea, Senior Lecturer, UTS First and Further Year Experience (FFYE) Coordinator, TACT
Dr Jacqueline Melvold, Senior Lecturer, TD School
Join the ‘FFYE Community’ MS Teams. You’ll be able to stay connected, view shared resources, favourite papers, blogs and website links. You can leave the MS team space at anytime or email IML_Ops@uts.edu.au to opt out.
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