{"id":1510,"date":"2014-01-10T14:38:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:53:10","slug":"practices-in-peer-support-hea-stem-workshop-22-january-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/01\/10\/practices-in-peer-support-hea-stem-workshop-22-january-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Practices in peer support&quot; \u2013 HEA STEM workshop, 22 January 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0updated programme for the HEA STEM workshop\u00a0regarding <a title=\"Practices in peer support - exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/events\/detail\/2014\/22_Jan_14_HEA_STEM_Peer_Support_Lboro\">Practices in peer support \u2013 exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience<\/a> is being made available online.<\/p>\n<p>Further to previous <strong>Teaching and Learning Blog<\/strong> posts\u00a0\u2013\u00a0see <a title=\"Practices in peer support - exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1344\">HEA STEM: Practices in peer support \u2013 exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience<\/a> and <a title=\"HEA STEM workshop, 22 January 2014\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1451\">HEA STEM workshop, 22 January 2014<\/a>\u00a0for details \u2013 we are also encouraging those\u00a0wishing\u00a0to attend to register as soon as possible via the\u00a0<a title=\"Book on this event\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/events\/detail\/2014\/22_Jan_14_HEA_STEM_Peer_Support_Lboro\">Book on this event<\/a> link.<\/p>\n<p>Building upon\u00a0introductory remarks from colleagues representing\u00a0Loughborough University, Loughborough Students&#8217; Union, and the Higher Education Academy, this workshop will draw on a\u00a0series of short presentations delivered by students and\/or staff\u00a0from a range of STEM subjects (including Chemistry, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Physics, etc.) here on campus, as well as Professional Services; it\u00a0will also benefit considerably from the contributions of colleagues based at Coventry University and\u00a0the University of Bath.<\/p>\n<p>As noted previously, peer support essentially sees students supporting other students in a number of different ways during the course of, as well as in support of, their studies \u2013 it is a prime example of <strong>students as partners<\/strong>. This HEA STEM workshop will make specific reference\u00a0to case studies showing\u00a0students supporting students in the <strong>student lifecycle<\/strong> (i.e. in\u00a0transitioning to university,\u00a0within the curriculum, and\/or with\u00a0their employment prospects), as well as\u00a0broading the conversation out to <strong>peer support in STEM<\/strong> and indeed more generally.\u00a0Further information regarding this\u00a0is available <a title=\"online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heacademy.ac.uk\/events\/detail\/2014\/22_Jan_14_HEA_STEM_Peer_Support_Lboro\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An\u00a0updated programme for the HEA STEM workshop\u00a0regarding Practices in peer support \u2013 exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience is being made available online. Further to previous Teaching and Learning Blog posts\u00a0\u2013\u00a0see HEA STEM: Practices in peer support \u2013 exploring alternative approaches to enhance the student experience and HEA STEM workshop, 22 January 2014\u00a0for<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/01\/10\/practices-in-peer-support-hea-stem-workshop-22-january-2014\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-hea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3063,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/3063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}