Bringing academic experts to your learners!
My West Wales correspondent has been in touch again and asked if I would help to spread the word about Aberystwyth University’s latest series of AberWorkshops, which are just starting up. The lists of sample workshops I’ve been sent look fascinating and offer enriching super-curricular insights for students, especially in Years 12 or 13. Being half-Welsh myself, I’m very happy to share the information.
As the uni’s own catchline says, “AberWorkshops are designed to bring Aber’s academic experts to your learners”. They’re available in a variety of different subjects and can be conducted virtually, or face-to-face at your school/college or even on the Aber campus. They’re also flexible in duration, suitable for small or large audiences and in some cases equally relevant to students with prior knowledge of the subject and to those without. Subjects already lined up are listed below, along with examples of the specific workshops available. I’ve also added links to enable readers to find out more about the content and context of each workshop and the department offering it.
All of the workshops are conducted in English, while those that I’ve marked (E/W) are also available in the medium of Welsh. I’m sure the Modern Languages workshops will dip into a bit of German, Spanish or French too.
Subjects currently on offer:
Law and Criminology
Law –
- Human Rights and Modern Slavery
- Walking the Plank: The Scourge of Modern Piracy
- Exploitation of Intellectual Property and the Global Economy (E/W)
- Let’s Explain the War in Ukraine
- Analysing Crime and Criminal Conduct
- A talk about the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees: Biodiversity protection in the UK and around the world
- Music streaming, copyright, and inequality
Criminology –
- Living in Fear: the Psychological Warfare of Terrorism
- Crime in the Media – influences, representations and the CSI effect
- “Call the cops!” COP culture and danger (E/W)
- The Forgotten Victims of Crime
- Miscarriages of Justice
- ‘Our House is On Fire!’ – Assessing The Climate Crisis from a Criminological Perspective (E/W)
- Serious Violent Crime
Click here for more detailed information: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/pdfmedia/AberWorkshops—Law-and-Criminology.pdf
Mathematics
- Mathematics in Sport (E/W)
- The Mathematics of Soap Bubbles (E/W)
- Along Came a Spider (E/W)
- Fractals (E/W)
- A differential equations whodunnit (E/W)
- Scaling laws and Dimensions (E/W)
Click here for more detailed information: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/pdfmedia/AberWorkshops—Maths.pdf
International Politics
- Crisis of Democracy in the USA?
- Global Governance and Climate Change
- A United Kingdom? (E/W)
- Russian Ambition and the Ukraine Conflict
- Can we control nuclear weapons?
Click here for more detailed information: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/pdfmedia/AberWorkshops—International-Politics.pdf
Modern Languages
- Refugees from National Socialism: Learning from the Past for the Future
- The Cuban Revolution: an ongoing process
- The Language of German Drama in the late 20th century
- “Me se ha rompido el español”: typical mistakes when learning Spanish
- Women of the Spanish Avant-Garde: Challenging Tradition
- Why does French have so many tenses?!
- Colonisation, Immigration, Integration
- An Introduction to Annie Ernaux
Click here for more detailed information: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/pdfmedia/AberWorkshops—Modern-Languages.pdf
If and when more subjects come on stream, I may post an update in due course. In the meantime, to book an AberWorkshop for your school or college or to make further enquiries, just contact the uni via the following email address:
Special thanks to Marc Pell on Unsplash for the photo, although I had to trim it slightly to fit the page and hence it doesn’t quite do full justice to Aberystwyth’s delightful seafront vistas.
Alan Bullock Careers, 15/2/2023
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