Staff Development Activities

OCIO and EDGE are producing two videos to walk teaching staff through the essential strategies to prepare for mixed-mode teaching under CityU-Learning 2.0. The first video will be released tomorrow. A second, more operation-oriented video will be released Friday morning, with versions for teachers and students. Two Q&A sessions related to the preparation for mixed-mode teaching under CityU-Learning 2.0 are arranged.

Mental, psychological, and emotional wellbeing of students in Hong Kong has drawn increasing public awareness in recent years. Student wellbeing in the higher education sector requires joint input and collaboration with stakeholders across multiple disciplines to foster a safe, healthy, and supportive environment, and facilitate students' whole person development.

This Conference will bring academics, educators, administrators, student support personnel, professionals from social services and relevant disciplines together to share research and experiences of practices in wellbeing of post-secondary students in Hong Kong.

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This event will focus on containment as a result of war and the lessons we can learn.

About this Event:
War Crisis and Confinement: Lessons from the Twentieth Century – online speed lectures

While the confinement which has taken place in 2020 may have no historical precedent in terms of its globality, containment as a result of war occurred regularly during the twentieth century. Using the example of the First World War and the Yugoslav conflict of the 1990s, two historians, together with De Montfort University (DMU) PhD students, will tackle these issues. A panel discussion will follow.

Panikos Panayi, Professor of European History, will focus upon the internment camp in Knockaloe during the First World War to demonstrate how, on the one hand, barbed wire disease developed amongst males who could face confinement for years, while, on the other a prison camp society also evolved as prisoners tried to cope with their situation by developing cultural activities.

Kenneth Morrison, Professor of Modern Southeast European History, will tackle 'Citizen Resilience in Besieged Sarajevo', which will focus on how citizens adapted to life in the besieged city - with no electricity, gas, domestic water supply and under sniper and shell fire. He will look at the lessons that can be drawn from the case of Sarajevo and how their historical experience helped them deal with the COVID-19 lockdown.

Registrants will receive a link to join the online talk 2 days before the event, via their provided email address.

Please contact the DMU Events Office on eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.

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This event will focus on the impact of COVID-19 in the context of National Stress Awareness Day.

About this Event:
Online speed lectures will be delivered by leading De Montfort University (DMU) research academics and reflect on how research can help deal with the crisis, ahead of National Stress Awareness Day. A panel discussion will follow.

Talks include:
Mind your Mind with creativity by Dr Indrani Lahiri, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications Digital Health: Technology around the research of ventilation equipment which can be monitored for ECG and stress by Professor Abbes Amira, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Isolation and Loneliness among Older People by Dr Malcolm Fisk, Senior Lecturer in Information Systems A talk by Raghu Raghavan, Professor of Mental Health

Registrants will receive a link to join the online talk 2 days before the event, via their provided email address.

Please contact the DMU Events Office on eventsoffice@dmu.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Event information:
Online speed lectures will be delivered by leading De Montfort University (DMU) research academics and reflect on how research can help deal with the crisis. A panel discussion will follow.

Talks include:
Food as medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic – is there scientific evidence? By Professor Parvez Haris (Biomedical Science)

The potential benefits of Elderberries during the COVID-19 pandemic by Dr Harprit Singh, Associate Professor

Eating in the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic; self-reported changes in eating behaviour and associations with BMI, eating style, coping and health anxiety by Dr Helen Coulthard, Senior Lecturer and Dr Maxine Sharps, Lecturer in Psychology

Poverty, Obesity and COVID-19: A Vicious Triangle by Dr Hillary Shaw, Visiting Fellow

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Dr Katie Laird, Reader in Microbiology and Head of the Infectious Disease Research Group and Mark Charlton, Associate Director of Public Engagement, will lead a series of short online talks and a discussion with De Montfort University (DMU) research students on multidisciplinary approaches to health hygiene education, specifically infection control and prevention related to infectious diseases and COVID-19.

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Ahead of World Homeless Day, this event will explore issues around homelessness, drawing on research in the faculty of Business and Law, and on practitioner engagement with our partners in the city. This session will reflect on the impact of COVID-19 and the responses to get ‘everybody in’ off the streets. It will also ask – what next, in the fight to end homelessness? A panel discussion will follow.

Talks include:
Rethinking public spaces to reduce hostility to homeless people by Dr Simon Stevens, Lecturer in Political Philosophy/Political Thought

Considering what we mean by ‘home’ and imagining a sustainable response so that we do not return to ‘business as usual’ for homelessness by Professor Jo Richardson, Associate Dean, Research and Innovation

Responding to the COVID-19 crisis – what happened in Leicester? By Mark Grant, Chief Executive of Action Homeless

A university with social value at its heart – what we have learnt from working with the agencies in the city and our hopes for the future by Mark Charlton, Associate Director of Public Engagement

About the webinar

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the global education landscape. Online instruction has become a dominant learning and teaching format, which has been leading to the worldwide emergence of eLearning.

In response to the needs of education sector in regard to eLearning development and implementation, advanced learning and teaching resources and high-quality educational practices for the new normal of education have been brought to the spotlight. Students are required to build up a character of interdependence, discipline and responsibility.

Given the new opportunities with the online mode, reshaping learning and teaching perspectives and practices should deliberate on why, who, what and how of education. This webinar will serve as a platform for students and educators to present and share their experience in the new normal. With the support of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) in the United Kingdom, her chair and students will exchange views on education in the new normal with the locals. Further, you will help students and staff feel secure and supported, and expand the diversity of Registration: https://www.fste.edu.hk/webinar/2020/