Summer Conference 2010

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This year’s Summer Conference is based on St Anne’s College, Oxford in the new and architecturally superb Conference Centre. Accommodation is in comfortable en-suite rooms located in acres of beautiful leafy grounds, with award-winning catering facilities, guaranteeing a summer experience to remember – and a relaxed opportunity to meet friends old and new.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Professor Steve Smith - President, Universities UK & Vice Chancellor, University of Exeter
• Professor Adrian Smith - Director General, Science and Research, Department for Business Innovations and Skills
• Professor Les Ebdon - Chair, million+ Group & Vice Chancellor, University of Bedfordshire
• Professor Noel Lloyd - Chair, Higher Education Wales & Vice Chancellor, Aberystwyth University
• Professor Chris Park - Senior Associate, Higher Education Academy
• Helen Connor - Associate Director, CIHE
• Dr Iain Cameron - Head, Research Careers & Diversity Unit, RCUK
• Professor Mick Fuller - Head, Graduate School, University of Plymouth & UKCGE Honorary Secretary
• Ellen Pearce - Director, Vitae
• Gill Clarke - University of Bristol & UKCGE Executive Committee
• Dr Debbie McVitty - Research and Policy Officer (Postgraduates), NUS
• Sarah Hutchinson - Vice-President (Graduates), Oxford University Students Union
• Dr Sue Carver - Head of Research Careers, Training and Peer Review, AHRC

Key issues around the financial sustainability of Taught PG and PGR programmes will be presented by authoritative speakers in plenary and parallel sessions on themes including:

• Sustainable Postgraduate Education
• Future Perspectives for Postgraduate Funding
• The Concentration of PGR Funding
• Outcomes from the BIS Postgraduate Review 2010
• The Launch of the 2010 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey Report
• Employer's Perspectives on the Value added by Postgraduate Education
• Skills training provision post-Roberts
• Current Issues on the Development of Graduate Schools
• Policy Planning for Training at PGR Level - including the Vitae Researcher Development Framework
• Outcomes from the recent EUA-CDE Conference in Berlin
• Student perspectives on enhancing the Doctoral Training experience
• A Research Council Perspective on Early Career Researcher Development
• The launch of two UKCGE reports:
  - Confidentiality of PhD Theses in the UK
  - Professional Doctorate Awards in the UK