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FIESOLE Group Symposium 2016

FIESOLE Group Symposium 2016

European University Institute

Badia Fiesolana, San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence), Italy

Monday 29 February 2016 - Tuesday 1 March 2016

Transnational perspectives on training early-career scholars for academic practice: insights from 10 years of the FIESOLE Group and the challenges ahead

The FIESOLE Group, an interuniversity network dedicated to developing best practices in training early-career scholars for international mobility and career advancement, came into existence ten years ago. This year's Symposium - held at the institution where it was born, the European University Institute - marked this anniversary by reflecting on what the Group has achieved so far and discussing the challenges that lie ahead.

The 2016 Symposium brought together a variety of voices too seldom seen in the same room - practitioners, academic managers, theorists, and teacher-researchers. The Symposium had several intertwined aims:

to reflect on and celebrate the work done by the FIESOLE Group in the past ten years
to discuss what the changing academic landscape means for the early-career scholar
to consider the FIESOLE Group's role in addressing the challenges ahead for the early-career scholar

FIESOLE Group Symposium 2016 programme (PDF)

You can find links to several of the presentations visuals below.

FIESOLE Group Symposium presentations

Taking stock: Ten years on

The FIESOLE Group: History and development (PDF)

Nick Byrne, Director of Language Centre, LSE

Responding to the changing needs of post-doctoral researchers: Ten years in perspective (PDF)

Nicky Owtram, Coordinator of Centre for Academic Literacies and Languages (CALL), EUI

Nicki Hargreaves, EAP teacher EUI

What the Max Weber Fellows can teach us about international academia: Research perspectives (PDF)

Laurie Anderson, Professor of English Language and Translation, University of Siena/EUI

The changing academic landscape

Implications for early-career teaching (PDF)

Lynn McAlpine, Professor of Higher Education Development, University of Oxford

Implications for early-career publishing

Theresa Lillis, Professor of Language and Applied Linguistics, Open University

Implications for early-career development: A chat with Paul Kelly, Pro-Director of Teaching and Learning, LSE

interviewed and moderated by Joyce Kling, Center for Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use, University of Copenhagen

World Café discussion: the challenges ahead

Using World Café methodology, and chaired by Claudine Provencher, Teaching and Learning Centre, LSE, the Symposium participants discussed the following three questions in three rounds:

What are the key challenges that early career scholars will be facing by 2026?
What could help them to address these challenges?
How could the FIESOLE Group help address these challenges?

What is a World Café? and Points for Discussion (PDF)

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