www.escalate.ac.uk

ESCalateThe Higher Education Academy

Education Subject Centre

Today’s ESCalate Team

Jocelyn Wishart

Senior Academic Advisor

Genna WestGraduate Projects

Officer

Julie Hughes

Academic ConsultantNTF

About us: ESCalate

• Part of the HE Academy Network: 24 Subject Centres;

• ESCalate based at GSoE, University of Bristol;

• Network of academic consultants and associates across the four countries of the UK;

• Departmental links and contacts plus ESCalate members and / or registered colleagues.

What do we do?Advancing and supporting good practice in

Teaching and Learning in EducationESCalate produces and disseminates resources for staff and students inHE and HE in FE.

For example:• Education Studies, • Family and Childhood Studies,• Continuing Education,• Lifelong Learning, • Initial Teacher Education.

ResourcesWebsite

Bulletin (bi-monthly)

Newsletters (termly)

ESCalate sponsored events

Workshops and Conferences

Being a Teacher Educator in an FE College – ESCalate and TEAN (formerly ESCalate ITE Cumbria);

TEAN Conference for all ITE;

Other – Student Conference, HEin FE ...

Funding 2010-11

• ESCalate offers awards for development of teaching and learning, pedagogic research, and resources;

• Awards offered to those in Education departments in universities and FE Colleges providing HE level programmes;

• Awards range from £50 to £15k;• Thematic, last one year, based on national and discipline

priorities in all four administrations of the UK. These are large awards requiring collaboration across institutions and across countries of UK;

• Open, several types, with applicants proposing their own focus.

Thematic and open awards

Thematic 2009-10• Student wellbeing (2 x £10k max) closed;• 21st Century teacher educator (2 x £15k max) closed.Open• Hot Topics – (£50) available - individual award to promote

discussion of an important current issue;• Sharing Ideas – (£500) available - for dissemination of good

ideas and interesting practice;• Student award – (from £200 - £1000) available - for supporting

individual or group learning; • Pedagogy and practice – October 2010 (up to £5k) for

development activity by individual or group.

• Everything is on line, including: guidance, FAQs, (EoI) form (Expression of Interest) where required, full proposal form;

• Applicants must first register online with ESCalate;• Where bids go to external evaluators, we receive an independent

recommendation on whether to make an award;• Themed awards application has two stages, first the EoI, and for successful

applicants, a second stage full proposal;• For bids over £1k, milestones, targets and expenditure details are required; • For bids over £1k successful applicants receive a formal offer which needs

to be signed by an institutional finance officer;• Payments of larger awards are phased through the life of the project,

against completion of agreed outputs with payments made on receipt of an invoice;

• For Hot Topics, Sharing Ideas, and Student Awards, the application and payment processes are simplified and kept to a minimum.

Additional ESCalate activity includes:• Leading HEA funded

Internationalisation project across all centres with Languages SC;

• Employability module – online for students and staff;

• Increasing Subject Centre Collaboration especially re: the Every Child Matters agenda e.g. the ICS-HE project;

• Work with CETLs and others (FDTL evaluation);

Contributor to HEA Evidence Net;

Supporting Discipline Focused Change Academy (Enhancing Learning through Technology).

So, please do consider getting involved by:

Attending further ESCalate linked or run events; Write a book review;Write articles for the Bulletin/ Newsletter; Apply for project funding for yourself or with a studentSet up a SIG (special interest group) for online discussion …etc.

Contact details

Any feedback or queries re ESCalate itself and how it could support your work, Email:heacademy-escalate@bristol.ac.uk

Thank you.