Opening Out: Shân Wareing, Jason Arday & Silke Lange

Overview

Bringing together external collaborators from across the global creative education sector and beyond, alongside internal active chairs, the series creates space for open, critical and generative conversations about creative arts education and its future. Sessions take the form of an online panel discussion or presentation, designed to encourage exchange, debate and shared learning.

In this session:

Join ProfessorShânWareing(Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex University), Professor Jason Arday (Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge) and Dr Silke Lange (Reader in Hybrid and Participatory Pedagogy and Head of Educational Research, UAL) for the next session in the Opening Out series.

The first half of each event will be dedicated to presentations and discussion led by our invited speakers. The second half will focus on questions and discussion from the audience. Ask your questions at the link here.

Speaker Bios

ProfessorShânWareing is Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University. She previously served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Northampton, Chief Operating Officer at London South Bank University, and Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching at Buckinghamshire New University. Shân has also worked with University of the Arts London, leading institutional transformation projects on assessment and feedback that achieved sustained improvements in student satisfaction. She is Chair of the Unite Foundation, Chair of AdvanceHE’s Leadership and Management Strategic Advisory Group, and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research focuses on leadership, governance, diversity and inclusion, and higher education policy.

Professor Jason Arday is Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Education and a Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. Previously, Jason was Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in the School of Education, College of Social Sciences. Professor Arday has also held the position of Associate Professor in Sociology at Durham University in the Department of Sociology and Deputy Executive Dean for People and Culture in the Faculty of Social Science and Health. Jason is a Patron of the Adult Literacy Trust (ALT) and Get Further. He was formerly a Trustee of the Runnymede Trust, the UK’s leading Race Equality Thinktank for 11 years. He is a Trustee of the British Sociological Association (BSA). Jason sits on the NHS Race and Health Observatory Academic Reference Group and the ITV Cultural Advisory Council.

Dr Silke Lange is Reader in Hybrid and Participatory Pedagogy and Head of Educational Research at UAL. Her research into critical inclusive art and design pedagogies, focuses specifically on collaborative, ethical and interdisciplinary practices. She was a collaborator in FUEL4Design: Future Education and Literacy for Designers, and works closely with the ELIA community on intercultural, border crossing projects such as the UAx Platform, and as advisor and moderator for the ELIA Dialogue Series: Higher Arts Education in Times of Conflict. Find out more about Silke’s research on the UAL portal.

Hosts

Hosted by the Learning and Teaching Directorate, Staff Engagement Team

Who Should Attend

This workshop is open to all UAL staff and guests.

Where

This event will take place online. Please sign up using your UAL email and you will receive the link to the online event space on the day of the event.

Extra information

Registration Instructions

Please only register for yourself, if you wish to share with others please refer them to the event listing. Please note that this is for UAL Staff only. Only some of our events are open to students and / or people from outside UAL. Please check the 'Who Should Attend' section above to make sure you are eligible.

Event booking confirmation and reminders

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Tickets can be booked up to 30 minutes before the event. You will receive a “Starting Soon” email with the event link 15 minutes before the event begins.

Cancellation

If you can no longer attend this event we’d appreciate it if you could cancel your place within the booking system. This gives others the opportunity to take your space.

We reserve the right to cancel this event if we do not get enough numbers, or due to other circumstances outside of our control. You will be notified via email if this happens.

Accessibility

The Learning & Teaching Directorate strives to make both our physical and online events accessible for all our participants. If you would like to discuss your needs prior to booking please contact us: teachingexchange@arts.ac.uk.

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Image:Stories of Nablus, Zeina Soliman, 2024 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL | Photograph: Zeina Soliman
For the purposes of distinguishing between events in this series, the Learning & Teaching Directorate added a filter and speaker names to the image, but have not altered the original artwork, which can be viewed onthe event series landing page, and as the second event image.