Staff with the School of Built Environment and Architecture recently took part in the biannual BEA Scholarship Week. This interactive week affords the school’s faculty the chance to engage with each other through workshops, presentations and group activities. This year’s iteration was the best yet, with staff from every part of the school in attendance.
The aim of this week is to ensure the School of BEA can share their knowledge between each of the members, to help each other with the processes they use and, of course, to build team morale. The topics covered had showed the real utility of the week: Lesley Roberts delivered a talk on how to dealing with and understanding potential difficult student behaviour in sensitive situations.
Benjamin Crooks shared his ideas and methods in marketing the school and its courses on offer.
With a more political and real-world bearing, Sarah Plant spoke about the complexities of Brexit, and how the landscape of research funding may change, especially leading up to Horizon 2020, whilst Karl Smith presented a workshop on how to deliver world class, 4* research for REF2021, the upcoming assessment of research standards across HE institutions.
The week was rounded off by the all-important, inaugural Brush Party, in which the staff got the chance to relax and flex their creative muscles to varying degrees of quality (pictured above).
Lesley Roberts organised a workshop on handling difficult student behaviour
Benjamin Crooks delievered an engaging presentation on LSBU's marketing profile
Sarah Plant explained the implications of Brexit on the future research funding landscape
Staff took part in a research workshop arranged by Karl Smith
