Welcome
Third International Conference
on Value and Virtue in Practice-Based Research
2013 Theme: Influencing policy
through enhancing professionalism
Tuesday 9th and Wednesday
10th of July 2013
York St John University
Dear
Colleagues,
It is with the greatest pleasure that we bid
you welcome to our third ‘Value and Virtue in Practice-Based
Research’ conference. If you are returning you return as a friend.
If you are attending for the first time, be assured of a warm and
heartfelt welcome as you join our community of practitioner
researchers, and enrich it with your good work.
The conference has become a much loved
tradition in York St John University, and we look forward to
strengthening it even more this coming year. We believe the special
spirit that our community has developed together has given us a
unique personality that is also a feature of York St John as an
institution (look
at the pictures). We laugh a lot and we also work hard, for
there is serious work to be done. In a world that attends much to
business and finance, often with a singular focus, we also attend
to value and virtue in educational practices, and the form of
relationships that makes them educational. We believe that ‘virtue’
is not only a word we say but also a practice we do. We believe
that, by sharing our practices through the stories we tell at the
conference, we can contribute to making the world a more peaceful
and productive place, and you are part of that effort.
Our theme for the 2013 annual meeting is
‘Influencing policy through enhancing professionalism’. We invite
you to submit abstracts and papers that show how you are doing
this, wherever you are and wherever you work – in a hospital,
or a shop, or on a running track or in a classroom. All are welcome
to contribute, provided you are involved in a workplace and are
conducting research with other people. We welcome innovative forms
of presentation: dance, performance and group presentations as well
as straight spoken papers. If you have something to say for
yourself, and would like to meet like-minded people, then the
conference is the place for you.
As always, we aim to encourage a supportive,
welcoming and kindly atmosphere throughout. We encourage critique,
offered in the spirit of support to the person, and commitment to
high quality research. We aim to protect the integrity of every
participant and to ensure that your attendance at the conference
will contribute to your own sense of personal wellbeing and
intellectual potential.
We welcome abstracts by 28 February 2013,
and will respond by mid-March 2013 to allow you time to
organise the details of your visit – please see
Submission of Abstracts.
As before, the two days of the conference will
be made up of workshops, keynote presentations, and individual
papers. Further details regarding scheduling will be given as
planning progresses.
If you have any questions regarding the
organisation of the conference please contact the team at valueandvirtue@yorksj.ac.uk
and we will respond as soon as possible.
This is a real opportunity for celebration, so
come and join us. We look forward to welcoming you once again to
York St John University.
Jean McNiff and the Conference
Team
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