ECUScotland conference

25 April 2018, Glasgow

Submission guidelines for papers and workshops

Overview

Innovation, change, impact: Creative approaches to mainstreaming and embedding equality

Colleges and HEIs in Scotland have been working towards mainstreaming and embedding equality for some time, as it is a requirement of the specific duties regulations in Scotland. Early in the current reporting cycle, this conference aims to provide a showcase for this work and an opportunity for collaboration and sharing of experience.

Conference themes

ECU is looking for short papers from colleges and HEIs to share experience and innovation around the following themes:

=Innovation - Creative approaches and radical ideas to progressing equality and diversity activity:

–Delivering equality through wider institutional strategies, processes or frameworks, e.g. learning and teaching, outreach, quality assurance, international strategies or staff recruitment and selection.

–Using positive action to advance equality for staff or students.

–Developing approaches that go beyond the legal requirements or that extends activities to include wider policy areas e.g. for care experienced people, prevention of violence against women and girls or incorporating human rights.

–Developing rights based approaches to equality, diversity and human rights, user involved or user led models.

–Developing effective intersectional approaches, the benefits and challenges of exploring intersectionality.

=Change: Identifying and measuring effective change

–Partnership approaches to making effective change e.g. identifying and best utilising partnerships.

–Using levers and drivers to secure buy-in for equality initiatives across the institution, e.g. equality data, institutional targets or funding drivers.

–Using charters as a mechanism for change.

–Identifying what works when recognising and using change agents e.g. involving Students’ Associations or student representatives, having senior leadership or involving the board of governors in change activity.

–Developing change across institutional functions e.g. change programmes in learning and teaching or support services that address equality and diversity.

=Impact: Developing creative approaches to identifying and evaluating impact

–Impact v change e.g. developing approaches to understanding when change has a positive impact.

–Using EIAs to identify impact and as a creative tool for future work.

–Developing approaches to identifying, understanding and mitigating where positive impact for some can mean a negative impact for others.

–Developing methods to measuring impact in long term projects.

–Assessing, measuring and evidencing impact to inform ongoing decision making and priority and outcome setting in order to support positive change.

Workshop format

Workshops should last 60 minutes. They should aim to provide a forum for collaborative development and discussion of ideas and practical examples related to one or more of the conference themes. Workshops can be based on existing or developing research or practice and the impact of such should be included. Workshops are intended to be interactive and proposals should clearly indicate how participants will actively contribute to the session and what they will get out of it.

Paper format

Papers will provide a focused opportunity for delegates to formally present on a topic or issue related to the conference theme/s. Papers should aim to give an overview of a piece of research or practice, sharing highlights of research findings, showcasing best practice or profiling an initiative and where possible, impact or evaluation should be included. Presenters are invited to discuss new, ongoing or completed research or practice. Each paper should last a total of 20 minutes: 15 minute presentation plus an additional 5 minutes for questions/discussion. ECU will group successful papers into panel sessions lasting 60minutes.

Review criteria

Each proposal is subjectto review against the following criteria:

=Relevance to conference theme/s

=Anticipated interest

=Clarity of the proposal

=Originality of the idea/approach

Submission

The deadline for submissions isThursday 18 January 2018.

Please complete the submission form and send to

You will be informed of the outcome of your submission by Friday 9 February 2018.

Information for presenters

Presenters and co-presenters will need to complete conference booking by Friday 23 February 2018 or we will assume that you wish to withdraw and your slot will be offered to presenters on the reserve list.

Please include all co-presenters on the submission form. It is the responsibility of the lead presenter to pass on all relevant details to any co-presenters and to ensure the session runs to time and as indicated in the proposal.

Data protection

All the information you supply on the submission form will be stored by ECU in paper and/or electronic format for the purposes of administration of the conference. It will be shared with two external reviewers. Additionally, sections of the form (e.g. abstracts) may be published in the conference programme and website.

Important dates

Thursday 18 January 2018 / Deadline for submissions
Friday 9 February 2018 / Presenters informed of outcome of review process
Friday 23 February 2018 / Deadline for presenters to have booked onto the conference
Friday 23 February 2018 / Deadline for receiving speakers’ presentations

Further information

Please send any enquiries to:

Section 2: Paper and workshop submission form

A. Presenter details

First presenter

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Second presenter

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Third presenter

Name / Name / Name
Job Title / Job Title / Job Title
Institution / Institution / Institution
Email / Email / Email
Telephone / Telephone / Telephone

B: Details of proposed session

Title

Please insert the title of your session here.

Abstract

This should not be more than 200 words, and should summarise the aims and nature of the session. Please also consider the review criteria in the formulation of your abstract.

Overview

Participant engagement: / Please specify if, and if so how, you will engage participants. Workshop proposals must show that the session is interactive.
Relevance: / Please explain how your session links tothe conference themes.
Keywords: / Please supply a maximum of five keywords for your session.

Additional equipment

Please provide details of any additional equipment, space, etc. that you require.

C: Permissions

Please tick the box if you are happy for us to tweet or blog about your session: ☐

Please tick the box if you are happy for a photographer to photograph your session: ☐