Wednesday 31st January 2024
9:30am - 3:00pm
Virtual Conference
Integrating Employability 2024 will bring together the latest research, practice and innovation in embedding employability into teaching and learning successfully across the higher education sector.
The Conference will share fresh ideas and provide a practical toolkit in supporting both academic leaders and employability services to support an integrated approach to student success and progression.
Attendees will examine solutions for developing an institution-wide strategy, driving collaboration with faculties and supporting employability-led curriculum design. The Conference will also offer expert-led case studies and innovations from institutions leading the way in supporting an integrated student lifecycle.
Objectives
Optimise your strategic approach for integrating employability across your institution
Examine solutions on enhancing collaboration between careers team and academic leaders
Explore how to embed core employability skills and attributes into a programme
Assess the latest innovations and research in designing an employability-led curriculum
Hear from sector leaders on how they developed successful approaches to embedding employability
Headline Speakers
Gemma Kenyon
Integrating Employability Director, AGCAS
Director of Careers and Employability, University of London
Tom Lowe
Senior Lecturer in Higher Education
University of Portsmouth
Dr Annie Hughes
Head of Learning and Teaching Enhancement
Kingston University
Dr Kate Daubney
Careers and Employability Consultant
Agenda
9:30 am
Chair’s Welcome Address
Gemma Kenyon
Integrating Employability Director, AGCAS
Director of Careers and Employability, University of London (CONFIRMED)
9:40 am
Opening Keynote: What Does Embedding Employability Mean in Practice?
Building on Advance HE’s ‘Frameworks for embedding Employability and Enterprise and Entrepreneurship’, and QAA’s Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Guidance, this session will examine what it means to translate these approaches into delivery. The session will consider:
Exploring the key components of a robust approach to embedding the ‘3E’ of employability, enterprise, and entrepreneurship across an institution. Understanding the quality of provision perspective
Latest thinking when mapping out frameworks to inform practice, based on AdvanceHE / HEFCW recent report January 2024
Transforming practice in the long term, what evaluation tools can help?
Lessons learned from reviewing the core principles of an embedded approach to the 3E strategy, inclusivity, collaboration and engagement
Professor Andy Penaluna
Associate, Advance HE
Professor Emeritus, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Director, National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (CONFIRMED)
10:00 am
Panel Discussion: Are We Really Embedded? Action Points in Delivering an Integrated Approach to Teaching and Learning
Bringing together academic and employability leaders, this session will question where the sector stands on the embedded employability agenda and where gaps exist in practice and delivery. The session will consider:
How to support joined up strategic thinking between careers services and academic staff
How pedagogy and staff development must evolve to reflect the needs of an embedded employability agenda
What lessons can be learnt from the pockets of outstanding practice across the sector?
How can we ensure real ‘buy in’ from academic staff?
The next steps in building an institution-wide approach to student success
Dr Annie Hughes
Head of Learning and Teaching Enhancement
Kingston University (CONFIRMED)
Bev Herring
Head of Careers and Employability, The Careers Service
Aberystwyth University (CONFIRMED)
Morag Walling
Embedding Employability Consultant
The Careers Group, King’s College London (CONFIRMED)
Dr Eve Kalyva
Employability Lead for Arts and Humanities and Lecturer in Art History
University of Kent (CONFIRMED)
10:40 am
Break and Networking
11:00 am
The Assessment Opportunity to Address Graduate Outcomes: Integrating Employability into Assessment to Overcome Engagement Challenges
Examining the barriers to developmental activity, such as career management, for disadvantaged students
Examining why a summative assessment route is essential for supporting employability for students with barriers to engagement
Making the argument for the case to convert and replace established assessment practices with employability rich assessments relating to applications such as submitting applications for live job adverts, creating graduate CVs and working on real world life briefs
Tom Lowe
Senior Lecturer in Higher Education
University of Portsmouth (CONFIRMED)
11:20 am
Case Study: Designing Integrated Programmes that Support High Impact Graduate Outcomes
Recently recognised for gold on the student outcomes category of TEF 2023, this session will explore the approach of the University of Manchester in linking integrated programme design with real impact on employability. The case study will examine:
Inspiring students to proactively prepare for their futures with confidence
Engaging employer voice in programme design and delivery
Preparing students with an authentic recruitment selection experience
Using a confidence metric across interventions to measure impact
Kelly-Ann Mallon
Head of Access, Student Employability, Success and Development
University of Manchester (CONFIRMED)
Tia Rapley
4th Year University of Manchester Student, BSc Fashion Marketing
Industrial Placement year at N Brown (CONFIRMED)
12:00 pm
Re-Imagining Taught Employability for International Students
Examining the distinct challenges facing international students on employability
How can module delivery support progression of international students?
Dr Marina Boz
Academic Employability Consultant
Anglia Ruskin University (CONFIRMED)
12:20 pm
Break and Networking
1:00 pm
Case Study: An Academic-Led Approach to Enhancing Entrepreneurship through Teaching
Developing a team-based approach to support collaboration between academics and industry leaders
Embedding opportunities for ‘entrepreneurial intentions’ across the learner journey
Designing entrepreneurial-based modules across a degree programme that support continued exposure to core skills
Harnessing competency-based assessments that allow students to practice and entrench entrepreneurial attributes
Supplementing course delivery with targeted interventions outside the programme that engages wider university stakeholders
Dr Robert J Crammond
Senior Lecturer in Enterprise
University of the West of Scotland (CONFIRMED)
1:20 pm
Embedded Employability Across an Entire Degree Programme – Lessons on Delivery and Ideas on Development
Delivering high impact taught employability interventions at undergraduate level
Beyond skills: re-evaluating pedagogy, module design and course delivery to support students’ individual identity development
The transformational journey approach: an academic’s perspective on building an entire programme based on constructivist learning principles
Dr Kim Bradley Cole
Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology
University of Winchester (CONFIRMED)
1:40 pm
A Whole-University Approach to Embedding Resilience as a Core Skill
What we know about resilience in undergraduate students
How to build a wider view on resilience beyond the concept as a narrow character trait
Translating findings from a wellbeing setting in a wider model for employability
Practical insights on what it takes to support and drive resilience in students
Dr Snigdha Dutta
Research Access Manager
UCL (CONFIRMED)
2:00pm
Break and Networking
2:20 pm
Exploring how to Integrate an Institutional Language of Transferable Skills into Your Teaching
Where does an institutional language of transferable skills come from?
How can that institutional language of transferable skills be integrated into learning outcomes without negatively impacting curriculum rigour?
What are the implications for teaching and assessment of using an institutional language of transferable skills?
Dr Kate Daubney
Careers and Employability Consultant (CONFIRMED)
The Value Me Framework: Increasing Self-Awareness and Confidence in the Student’s Employability Journey
2:40pm
This session will examine the Value Me framework, a distinct model which supports students to build a picture of their skills, strengths, values, personality and purpose, and articulate their value to employers. The framework was developed initially for students on the suite of LLB Law courses at the University of Portsmouth before becoming a core activity in the spiral curriculum for the University’s Personal Tutoring & Development Framework, and a key part of The Portsmouth Award.
The session will explore:
Value Me as a vehicle to help students forge a strong employability narrative and personal brand
The impact of Value Me on employability-related self-confidence and the transferability of learning
Strategies to scaffold the learning and embed at scale
Charlotte Harrison
Principal Lecturer, Graduate Employability & Work-Integrated Learning
University of Portsmouth (CONFIRMED)
Conference Close
3:00 pm
* Programme subject to change
Audience
This online Conference is designed for those across higher education concerned with supporting integrating employability into the curriculum. Those in attendance will include:
Directors of Teaching and Learning
Heads of Teaching and Learning
Employability Managers
Graduate Opportunities Managers
Heads of Careers and Employability
Associate Lecturers
Heads of Faculty
Directors of Careers and Employability
Faculty Employability Managers
Head of Placements and Partnerships
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£345 + VAT
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Private Sector
£395 + VAT
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