SSPEL Newsletter: Research and Scholarly Activities

On completion of their work on RLOs, and the issue of multimedia as opposed to single media versions, Ian Gilhespy and Dave Harris have received the balance of their award from HLST.

Overall, the College received about £40k, with Sport-related receiving just over £5k. Whether this funding will survive the predicted massive Government cuts in spending remains to be seen.

Harvey Grout, formerly of Southampton University, and Gareth Long of Marjon, already successful producers of Sport and IQ magazine for PE teachers, are about to release their new book: Improving Teaching and Learning in Physical Education, Open University Press, McGraw-Hill.
The book is an edited volume and contains chapters written by colleagues at Marjon: Gill Golder, Ian Luke and Stuart Taylor.
Congratulations to all concerned!

Dave Harris attended the BSA Annual Conference in Cardiff April 16--18 and gave a paper 'Work and Leisure in Higher Education'. He got some useful feedback and a couple of suggestions for additional reading. He attended other people's papers as well, including an excellent one on the knowledge economy and some sessions on teaching research methods. A bit of networking meant he has a couple of people keen to give papers at Marjon as well.
Classic conference outcomes, in other words