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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/HTML:HEA STEM (Maths, Stats & OR): Professional development and employability in undergraduate and postgraduate Mathematics and Statistics curricula
This workshop will provide an opportunity to discuss professional development and employability within Mathematics and Statistics courses at all levels in higher education.
Presenters will draw on their experiences of engaging undergraduate and postgraduate Mathematics and Statistics students with employability-related activities, embedded in various ways within their courses or programmes of training. Participants will be encouraged to share their own experiences in this area. The workshop will also include the employer’s perspective.
All attendees are invited, if they wish, to bring a poster to illustrate how they incorporate innovative approaches to professional development and employability into their degree programmes in Mathematics and Statistics.
Programme
10.30 Registration and Coffee
11.00 Welcome Gillian Lancaster and James Groves, Lancaster University
Mary McAlinden, HEA Discipline Lead for Mathematics, Statistics & Operational Research
11.15 Strategies for embedding employability in the HE Maths and Stats Curriculum (Jeff Waldock, Sheffield Hallam University)
12.15 Enhancing the communication skills of Maths undergraduates (James Groves)
12.30 Small group discussion
13.00 Lunch
13.45 An employer’s perspective of HE graduate skills training (Peter Cooper, QIAGEN)
14.30 Case studies of training postgraduate Statistics students in professional and consultancy skills (Gillian Lancaster)
15.00 Small group discussion
15.30 Close and tea
Sponsored by the Higher Education Academy:
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