[SSC] Letter of invitation to academics

[Terry Wassall]

Given the emphasis on face-to-face and local it is likely, as the discussion indicates, that participating and contributing academics will be recruited from Lincoln and within reasonable commuting distance. It may be worth considering another recruiting strategy in addition to the letter to local prospects if the group thinks there is any mileage in having further-flung academics or PGs that could participate on a more occasional basis, perhaps contribute to the discussion on a particular topic or run one-off sessions on an area of interest to the students that fits in with their more regular studies.  I know the intention is to get away from traditional roles and teaching methods so how and to what extent occasional visiting speakers or participants could be integrated into the Centre and its activities will probably depend upon other decisions about how teaching/learning is conceptualised and put into practice. This may also have implications about what sort of membership may be appropriate for 'visitors', if any.

Terry


Dr. Terry Wassall
Principal Teaching Fellow
School of Sociology and Social Policy
University of Leeds
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From: ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org [ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org] On Behalf Of Richard Hall [RHall1 at dmu.ac.uk]
Sent: 01 March 2011 08:25
To: ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [SSC] Letter of invitation to academics

Some notes/questions added-in at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E2Bcb_vS2Ulu6uK4nhLvArds7sjD83Eukgjm
F9_duso/edit?hl=en_GB&authkey=COq-u7cN

I think we need to get some of the other details nailed [monies,
membership, accreditation, certification, curriculum] before we can get
this finalised.

In solidarity.

R.

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[mailto:ssc-bounces at lists.aktivix.org] On Behalf Of Joss Winn
Sent: 28 February 2011 23:00
To: ssc at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: Re: [SSC] Letter of invitation to academics

I've started the letter, using the text we currently have on the
website. It needs a lot more work but it's something we can begin to
shape up. Discussions on this list over the next couple of weeks/month
will inform the message that we send out to people.

Joss

On 28/02/11 15:55, Joss Winn wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> May I suggest that we use this link and discussion thread as a way to
> collectively author a letter of invitation to academics?
>
>
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E2Bcb_vS2Ulu6uK4nhLvArds7sjD83Eukgjm
F9_duso/edit?hl=en_GB&authkey=COq-u7cN
>
> It's a Google doc. You don't need to sign in to edit it (it's empty
> right now). Feel free to edit the document directly or you can insert
> comments if you prefer. A full revision history of the document is
> always available from the file menu.
>
> I think we may as well start with the description we have already:
>
> http://socialsciencecentre.org.uk
>
> Cheers
> Joss
>
>
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