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Professor Vivien Hodgson

BSc Birmingham, PhD Surrey

Chair

Department

Management Learning and Leadership

Current Teaching

Postgraduate: MA in Management Learning and Leadership (part-time), MA in HR & Consulting (full-time)

Research Interests

I have carried out research on students' experiences of learning in higher education since the 70s. Since the 80s I have been particularly concerned with exploring the various initiatives that have taken place in management education with respect to more ‘open’ approaches to management education and learning.

My current interests are in understanding how theoretical debates that exist around notions of critical management learning and constructionist approaches to learning together with changes and advances in information and communications technology impact on the nature and experience of management learning. In particular, I am interested in exploring ideas about the way experience of relational dialogue with others and with online resources impacts on the learning process and what we learn about ourselves and how we view knowledge and our position in the world

Current Research

Together with other colleagues I organise an international series of Networked Learning conferences. The seventh conference was held in Aalborg, Denmark May 3rd-4th 2010.  Further information plus full proceedings from this and previous conferences are available at; http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk. We are currently preparing an edited book of selected papers from the 2010 conference to be published by Springer in 2011.

As part of my interest in Networked Learning I am currently developing, with Judi Marshall and other colleagues, a Leadership for Sustainability Learning Network (LSLN) - with the support of Higher Education Innovation Funding. The LSLN is intended to initially support the members of a Leading on Sustainability programme that we are running in partnership with Business in the Community North West as well as the participants of our new MA in Leadership for Sustainability. See http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/DML/lsln/for more information on the LSLN.

I continue to be involved in several networked learning research networks, including from the completed 'EQUEL' project (E-quality in e-learning) which was a consortium of 14 European partners to establish a virtual centre of excellence for research and innovation for e-learning for Higher Education. http://equel.net

Recent projects include the ELAC project with countries from Latin America and Europe, which was created with the objective of using Information-Society-Technologies (IST) to enhance continued education in environmental management and planning in Latin America. See: http://www.elacvirtual.net/ for full details.

Other projects in recent years include a DfES/ Centre for Excellence in Leadership funded project to carry out research on the theory and practice of networked management learning for educational leaders and a CEC e-learning programme project, ENSel (engaging networks for sustainable e-learning) which aimed to disseminate e-learning principles within a network of SMEs (small and medium size enterprises)..

From 1999-2001 I co-ordinated with colleagues from Sheffield, Coventry and Glasgow, an ESRC seminar series on Understanding the Implications of Networked Learning for Higher Education. During the series we developed and launched a Networked e-learning manifesto for discussion. This is available at; http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/esrc/

Research Grants

2003 - 2006 A DfES/Centre for Excellence in Leadership funded project to carry out research on the theory and practice of networked management learning for educational leaders. www.centreforexcellence.org.uk

2003 - 2006 Programme @lis: Alliance for the Information Society - an EU funded grant to the European Latin Americana Consortium (ELAC) project. This is with partners from Denmark, Spain and Latin America. The overall objective is to demonstrate and evaluate IST-based approaches that enable innovative and multilingual continuing professional education and learning in the field of Environmental Planning and Management within and between Latin American universities. http://www.elacvirtual.net/

2004-2006 ENSeL (Engaging Networks for Sustainable E learning), European Commission funded E-Learning Programme project The aim of ENSEL is to disseminate e-learning principles within a network of SMEs (Small and Medium Size Enterprises). Lancaster and ‘EQUEL’ are partners in the project. http://www.enselproject.org/

2002-2004 EQUEL (E-quality in e-learning) an CEC e-learning initiative project to develop a virtual centre for research and innovation in e-learning for higher education. The project involves 14 EUopean partners and focuses on 7 main themes/topics relevant to research and development of networked e-learning at the European level. Further information at http://equel.net

2000 – 2002 Click and Go, a JISC/DNER funded project with a consortium of Universities within Manchester which includes UMIST,.MMU and MU. Lancaster is the pedagogical and evaluation partner for examining the work on video streaming within 3 project case studies www.clickandgovideo.ac.uk

2000 –2002 Understanding the implications of Networked Learning for Higher Education, ESRC research seminar series with partners from Coventry, Glasgow and Sheffield Universities.  http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/esrc/

1999 –2001 Students Experience of Networked Learning; grant from the Joint Information and Systems Committee, HEFC to conduct field studies of the learners experience of Networked learning and to establish a National Advisory and Information Service On Networked Learning. Principle investigators Peter Goodyear and Christine Steeples from Educational Research plus myself. http://csalt.lancs.ac.uk/jisc/

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