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This two day event will examine the challenges facing TRS in this difficult time for HE, providing an opportunity for delegates to be better informed about the changes taking place and their significance for TRS in a fast-changing landscape, to garner different perspectives and to feed into discussion about ways forward at a national level.

Event type: Conference

Organiser: AUDTRS/PRS

Location: Liverpool Hope University

Country: Great Britain

Date: 2nd September 2010 to 3rd September 2010

Event Webpage: https://my.heacademy.ac.uk/multievents/displayEvent.asp?Type=Full&Code=PRS0029&css=3

Registration Deadline: 23rd August 2010

Contact name: Ron Geaves

Contact email: geavesr@hope.ac.uk

Details:

This two day event will examine the challenges facing TRS in this difficult time for HE, providing an opportunity for delegates to be better informed about the changes taking place and their significance for TRS in a fast-changing landscape, to garner different perspectives and to feed into discussion about ways forward at a national level.

The AUDTRS Committee is acutely conscious of the need for everyone within our membership, and our disciplines in general, to be able to address these challenges. In light of this, AUDTRS and the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Philosophical and Religious Studies are co-organising this event to create a space for reflection on these important issues. The event will include this year's AUDTRS AGM.

A number of speakers who are able to explore these issues from a range of perspectives have agreed to join us, including:

  • Professor Dianne Willcocks (Vice Chancellor of York St John University)
  • Professor Gerald Pillay (Vice Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University)
  • Professor Robin Osborne (Arts and Humanities User Group)
  • Professor Douglas Davies (President of the British Association for the Study of Religions)
  • Professor Helen Beebee (Director of the British Philosophical Association)

There will be workshops on:

  • Taught postgraduate benchmarking
  • Representing the interests of research students and those in post-doctoral positions
  • The REF and the ‘impact’ agenda

As well as members of AUDTRS, this meeting is open to all members of staff in Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) departments, and to those who identify themselves as teaching TRS outside of TRS departments.

Draft programme (subject to change)

September 2nd

12.00 Registration and lunch

14.00 Opening address from Professor Gerald Pillay, the Vice Chancellor of Liverpool Hope (a Church Historian by discipline).

15.30 Other sessions

19.00 Reception hosted by the Subject Centre for PRS

20.00 Conference dinner

September 3rd

09.00 Workshops and sessions, including time for discussion and networking.

13.00 Lunch

14.00 AUDRS AGM. All delegates are encouraged to attend.

Rates and registration

Delegate packages, and their associated costs are as follows:

Conference Package   
Whole conference (includes bed and breakfast on 2nd Sept, lunch and refreshments on both days and a three course self-service evening meal on 2nd Sept)    £106.45

Day delegate (includes refreshments and lunch on either 2nd or 3rd September)    £29.50

Day delegate – both days (includes refreshments and lunch on 2nd and 3rd September 2010)    £59.00

Conference dinner only 2nd September 2010 (for day delegates wishing to attend the evening meal)    £15.75

Please contact Ron Geaves geavesr@hope.ac.uk to discuss your requirements if the above options are not suitable.

Please register and choose your payment options here:

https://my.heacademy.ac.uk/multievents/displayEvent.asp?Type=Full&Code=PRS0029&css=3


Registration fees can be paid through BACS or by cheque. The Subject Centre will register you for this event, and then pass your details on to AUDTRS, who will contact you to arrange payment. AUDTRS will invoice you / your institution following registration for the conference.

The Subject Centre cannot accept registrations from delegates wishing to pay by credit card.