UK subject meeting for classicists and ancient historians

Organised with CUCD.

Advance booking strongly encouraged.

Draft timetable 

9:45 – 10:30 Registration, coffee, networking 

10:30 – 11:15 Welcome (ICS Director and CUCD Chair). Updates on the present situation in UK HE and relevant discussions concerning classicists/humanities. 

11:15 – 11:30 Short break 

11:30 – 12 Update on REF (open access; people, culture and environment, procedure for panel/subpanel appointments)

12 – 1 Spotlight talks by colleagues on challenges their departments have faced and strategies to respond in times of straitened resources (3 talks, 10 minutes each) 

•  Maintaining a research culture when overwhelm and workload is constantly increasing (Roy Gibson, Durham)
• Institutional restructuring and how to survive it or possibly even leverage it in your favour (Kelli Rudolph, Kent)
• ‘Portfolio’ simplification and pressures on module size and variety of pathways, including keeping language modules alive (Oliver Thomas, Nottingham) 

1-2:30 Lunch (provided: please be sure to indicate dietary requirements when registering) 

2:30 – 4 Smaller-group discussions around topics emerging from the morning. Potentially to include: 

• Challenges around ancient language teaching: recruitment, retention, pedagogy 
• Challenges around portfolio simplification: fight to preserve diversity of honours programmes, differentiated core models 
• Challenges to PGT/PGR recruitment and strategies to ameliorate it 
• Challenges to research and research culture and how to address them 
  
  
4 – 4:30 Tea break 

4:30 – 6 Closing open discussion, including the question of what attendees feel should be CUCD’s and ICS’s priorities in supporting the subject community.