Wednesday 13 September 2017 0900 - 0945 Refreshments and Registration (Atrium) 0945 - 1000 Opening remarks from the HEIR Network and Conference Chair (N242) 1000 - 1015 Welcome from Ferdinand von Prondzynski, & Vice , Robert Gordon University (N242) Keynote: Niall Sclater (Consultant and Director at Sclater Digital, and affiliated faculty at the University of Amsterdam) 1015 - 1115 Learning Analytics: The Evidence and the Potential (N242) 1115 - 1125 Refreshments (Atrium) Empowering Learners Engaging Diverse Audiences Supporting Strategic Decisions Policy Landscapes Room N342 Room N344 Room N345 Room N311 Session WORKSHOP: What Lies Session RESEARCH PAPER: Session RESEARCH PAPER: Session WORKSHOP: Student 1A Beneath? Using Data to 1B How Can We Become 1C Assessing the Impact of 1D Partnership in 1130 - 1155 Address the Hidden More Efficient and Admitting Students With Enhancement: Problem of Student Effective in IR? Lower Entry Tariffs on ’s Approach Loneliness Ian Scott First Year Outcomes Oxford Brookes University Paula Webster King’s College London Session Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session 1200 - 1225 2A 2B Researching Gender in the Session WORK IN PROGRESS: The 2D Institution: Diversity and 2C Matrix of Metrics Approach Reach? to Strategic Performace Decision-Making Simon Varwell Kate Carruthers Thomas Liam Waldron SPARQS Birmingham City James Evans and Robert Gordon University Kerry Harrison University Dave Kirk RGU:Union 1230 - 1330 Lunch and Posters (Atrium) 1230 - 1300 Optional Activity - DART Simulator (Booking Required) 1300 - 1330 Optional Activity - Campus Tour (Booking Required) Empowering Learners Engaging Diverse Audiences Supporting Strategic Decisions Policy Landscapes Room N342 Room N344 Room N345 Room N311 Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORKSHOP: New Project Session RESEARCH PAPER: Session WORKSHOP: DRIVER: 1335 - 1400 3A Developing Real World 3B Management Framework 3C From Data to Dashboard 3D Data Responsive Learning Within a for Institutional Research to Deciding on Quality: The Initiatives as a Vehicle Science Faculty Successful Implementation for Achieving Equity in of an Education Results Peter Garside Dashboard at KU Leuven Jeroen De Keyser Mark Coombs KU Leuven Plashet School Annelies Govaerts Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session KU Leuven Session 4A 4B 4D 1405 - 1430 A Strengths-Based Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Approach to Information 4C Identifying and Addressing Literacy the Challenges of Widening Participation in Sebastian Krutkowski Aisling McKenna Medical Education Christine Broughan Dublin City University Amandip Bisel

Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: 1435 - 1500 5A PedR: Excellence in 5B Maynooth Metrics: An 5C Widening Access in the 5D Picturing the Understanding Learner Approach to Evaluating North East of Scotland Postgraduate Student and Learning the Role of Critical Skills Experience and in Preparing Students Preparing for TEF 4 for Academia and Beyond

Louise Comerford Boyes Emer Nestor, Ruth Wilson Clare Milsom and Maynooth University Robert Gordon University Elena Zaitseva Liverpool John Moores University

1500 - 1530 Mark Sollis (Vice-Principal University Advancement, Robert Gordon University) Shaping the Future: Developing an Institutional Strategy (N242) 1530 Refreshments

1900 Conference dinner and ceilidh at the Norwood Hall Hotel (prior booking required) Thursday 14 September 2017 0900 - 0940 Refreshments and Registration (Atrium) 0940 - 1045 Welcome (N242) 0945 - 1045 Keynote: Professor Gilly Salmon (Professor of Innovation and Transformation at the Management School) Four Places to Be for 2023 (N242) 1045 - 1110 Refreshments (Atrium) Empowering Learners Supporting Strategic Decisions Supporting Strategic Decisions Policy Landscapes Room N342 (i) Room N344 (ii) Room N345 Room N311 1115 - 1140 Session WORKSHOP: The Use Session WORKSHOP: IR and Session WORKSHOP: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Universities: Places of 6A of Reading to Improve 6B Research Ethics: Are 6C Transforming Data into 6D We Behaving Ethically? Impact: Enhancing the Learning but not Student Transition to Learning Organisations. University - and Student Experience of Assessment and Feedback An Evolution of the Build the Wider Learning Organisation Community. A Case Model Using a Network Study Within Two of Communities of Universities Practice Nick Almond and Penny Haughan Session Session Session Jacqui Nicol Liverpool Hope 1145 - 1210 Alison Baverstock 7A Kingston University 7B 7C Robert Gordon University University Laura Ennis Steve Woodfield Kerry Harrison Session RESEARCH PAPER: Edinburgh Napier Kingston University RGU:Union 7D Interim Module University Steve May Evaluation: Keep It or GSM London Skip It? Session Session Session WORK IN PROGRESS: WORK IN PROGRESS: RESEARCH PAPER: Elena Zaitseva 1215 -1240 8A 8B 8C UCEM: Using Learning Pedagogies for Work Is Low Motivation a Liverpool John Moores Analytics to Enhance Based Learning in Factor in the BME the Student Experience Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Scotland Attainment Gap? 8D Act or React - Gethin Edwards and Universities in Schools Janet McCauslin Peter Stone Skills Development Nigel Ling University College of Lorraine Gearing Scotland Kingston University Estate Management Coventry University 1245 - 1345 Lunch and Posters (Atrium) 1245 - 1315 Optional Activity - DART Simulator (Prior Booking Required) 1315 - 1345 Optional Activity Campus Tour (Prior Booking Required) Empowering Learners Supporting Strategic Decisions Supporting Strategic Decisions Policy Landscapes Room N342 (i) Room N344 (ii) Room N345 Room N311 Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session 1350 - 1415 WORKSHOP: Improving 9A Evaluation of Teaching 9B Evidence-Based 9C Developing Multimodal 9D Outcomes for TEF Support Towards Enhancement of the Approaches to Actionable Metrics Student Retention and Abertay Student Insight in a Widening Experience Success Participation Strategy Eric Bohms Alastair Robertson and Helena Gillespie and Electric Paper Ltd. Steve May Julie Blackwell Young Garrick Fincham Helena Lim GSM London University of East Anglia HL4 Education

1420 - 1445 Session RESEARCH PAPER: Session RESEARCH PAPER: Session WORK IN PROGRESS: Session RESEARCH PAPER: 10A Rethinking Peer 10B Online Brain Storming 10C Enhancement V 10D Understanding the Effect Assessment to as a Tool for University Metrics: Which Comes of Commuter Students Planning - The Develop Inter- First? on Course Satisfaction Cultural Competence Experiences of a University using Open in Student Group Work On-Line Engagement to Inform its Strategic Nina Anderson and Egle Butt and Planning Process Jessica Hancock and Alistair Pettigrew Matt Hiely-Rayner Thomas Peschken Karen Johnston and University of the Kingston University Glasgow Caledonian Aisling McKenna West of Scotland University Dublin City University

1450 - 1510 Refreshments (Atrium) 1515 - 1530 Evasys Conference Evaluation Results (N242)

Closing Remarks from HEIR Network and Introduction to HEIR 2018 - Aoife Flanagan, Royal College of Surgeons , Ireland 1530 - 1550 (N242)

1550 - 1600 Closing Remarks from Robert Gordon University (N242)