CETL-MSOR Conference 2008: Shaping the Future of Maths & Stats in Higher Education

Introduction

The aim of this Conference is to promote, explore and disseminate emerging good practice and research findings in Mathematics and Statistics support, teaching, learning and assessment. CETL-MSOR 2008 will appeal to all those teaching Mathematics, Statistics or Numeracy, whether this is to specialist mathematics students or students studying components of mathematics within their degree programmes (such as bioscience, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, nursing, physics, psychology, social work, etc.).

The Conference will explore not only the issues at the transition to university, but any issues throughout the entire student learning experience – from foundation year through to post-graduate level. This will be achieved by a combination of key-note speeches, plenary sessions, hands-on demonstrations, workshops, poster sessions and discipline-specific discussion sessions.

Conference Themes

The Organising Committee welcome the submission of abstracts for presentation (20 minutes), workshop (60 minutes) or poster sessions under any of the following themes:

• Supporting the specialist student in Mathematics and Statistics
• Mathematics and Statistics support for the non-specialist
• Innovative uses of technology
• Pedagogic research
• Supporting students with disabilities
• Innovation in teaching and learning
• Postgraduate training and support
• Graduate skills and employability

Conference Programme

The Conference will take place at Lancaster University and registration will be available from 10:00 on the 8 September 2008, with the main programme starting at 11:00. The Conference will close at approximately 16:00 on the 9 September 2008.

The Conference dinner will be held at the recently refurbished Midland Hotel in Morecambe, and there will be an optional tour of Lancaster Castle prior to the Conference dinner. Please note, there are a limited number of places available for the tour of Lancaster Castle and these will be allocated on a first-come, first served basis.

The Conference will produce refereed proceedings of accepted papers. Guidelines will be sent to authors along with the notification that their abstract has been accepted. Abstracts accepted for sessions within the conference programme will be entitled to one residential delegate place at the reduced rate of £99

Pricing, Registration and more details are available at the CETL-MSOR 2008 Conference Website