Collaboration, Power and Influence

PIM - KCL March 2024

As EAP professionals our work relies on effective collaboration across and beyond the university. However, our willingness to collaborate may not always be reciprocated by faculties, students and other stakeholders. Join us at King’s College London to discuss this issue, consider how power is shared in higher education and exchange ideas on how we can build influence effectively.

Slides

Ayub and Coates: A tale of two tribes: Developing the writing skills of financial mathematics students

Ding: Taking Bourdieu on a Field Trip: Analysing Practitioners, Power, Influence and Collaboration

High and Stevenson: Collaboration across the disciplines what do students really need from In-sessional EAP?

Shiel, Ouyang, Wilding and Shen: EAP and the power dynamics of transnational (cross-border) collaboration

Cetl and Jones: Interdepartmental Collaboration at Durham University: Obstacles and Opportunities

Jones: Authentic EAP Leadership: Influencing Power Structures

Schutz and Hansel: Proposing authentic, motivating and ambitious projects in the EAP classroom

Villegas: Redesigning EAP provision to challenge NS/NNS dichotomies

Axelby and Nicholls: Academic literacy in a hostile environment: improving access to university assessments through collaborative teaching

Collins-and Blackett: The glue that holds collaborative endeavours together: intra-personal relationships

Rush: Building Networks and Embedding EAP Conceptualising Status and Withstanding Upheaval

Winiarska-Pringle and Di-Giallonardo: LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN collaboration between EAP and Widening Participation

Hakim: Collaboration and Embedded Academic Literacy Provision in the UK: Where are We now?

Wallington Bartrick and Rose: Empowering feedback boosting student agency in the formative assessment process

Evans and Bond: Building sustainable ESAP expertise and influence across wide scale insessional provision

Playfair: The contexts of collaboration

Bunch and Watson: Interlopers, Collaborators, Allies and Resistance: the complex positioning of EAP tutors in the modern university

Burakov and Leigh: Spheres of Influence: Collaborating with Shanghai International Student Recruitment (ISR) Team

Tibbetts: Realising the in-sessional dream 

AI Assisted Academic Writing - who's the author now? 

PIM - Durham University, June 2023

The PIM explored how HEIs, and EAP / ESP teachers and high-stakes assessment course designers are responding to the latest advances in AI tools available to our students. Neural Machine Translation seems to be moving texts from flawed to ‘too good’, while Transformer AI is getting creative: generating text, mimicking writing styles, and even producing plausible academic misinformation.

What does this mean for the role of English language competence, digital literacy in academia, and authorship in HE? How are HEI policies adapting, and how are / should we be teaching and assessing our pre-sessional and in-sessional students?

Slides 

PLENARY: Mike Sharples - Generative AI and Academic Writing: Issues and Opportunities

Andrew Woodward - Understanding the latest advances in AI tools: how do large language models work?

Chris MacAllister - Chat GPT/AI: a campus wide response or a tale of assessment review and renewal told as a heist movie

Drew Shaw - Navigating AI Assisted Writing while keeping a Critical Human Voice

Jinyang Song - Integrating AI for enhanced EAP learning strategies and case study from XJTLU

Matt Wood, Candance Nolan Grant and Paul Finley - ChatGPT in the Ivory Tower: Navigating Conversations with Academic Staff

Melinda Whong - The Living Laboratory: Transition to Generative AI-based Teaching and Learning 

Neil McGregor - Issues with the move to AI proof assessments

Paul Breen - Rewriting the script for the way we use AI: freeing writing and process over product

 

Watch selected talks from the event on our YouTube Playlist 

Knowledge in EAP - 2019 (June) PIM at University of Northampton

The following collection resulted from the PIM. Participants discussed various themes around the topic of “Knowledge in EAP” in World Cafe style settings hosted by colleagues who then collected thoughts into papers below.

The PIM host Susie Cowley-Haselden introduces the collection.

Steve Kirk (Durham University): What do we actually mean by 'knowledge'? Some opening thoughts for today.

Jo Kukuczka (University of Northampton International College: Embracing knowledge: empowering EAP

Christina Healey "The three Ls Cafe (Learners, Language and Learning)"

Paul Breen (University of Westminster): "Where do broader theories of teacher knowledge fit into EAP Practice?"

Emma Lay (Arts University Bournemouth): "The Knowledge Base of EAP Practitioners"

Albert Wong (Hong Kong University): "Dialogue in the EAP classroom: practitioners' and learners' collaborative knowledge-building"