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International Threshold Concepts conference

9:00am IST

Opening address and welcome MacNeill Theatre

9:30am IST

Keynote 1: A Closer Look at Liminality: incorrigibles and threshold capital MacNeill Theatre

10:20am IST

Keynote 2: Threshold Concepts: Navigating the Route MacNeill Theatre

10:50am IST

Publication Launch: Developing an institutional framework for supporting supervisors of research students: a practical guide MacNeill Theatre

11:30am IST

1: Transforming Learning and Learners: The Promise of Process Oriented Threshold Concepts MacNeill Theatre 2: Still Lurking in the Background: Bottlenecks, Threshold Concepts, and Epistemology MacNeill Theatre

11:50am IST

3: Towards a Role-Reversal Model of Threshold Concept Pedagogy MacNeill Theatre 4: Threshold Concepts and Research-Informed Teaching MacNeill Theatre

12:10pm IST

5: Creating Optimal Distance Education Environments for the Emergence of Threshold Concepts MacNeill Theatre 6: A Shakespeare Threshold: Engaging Students in Understanding Prosody MacNeill Theatre

12:30pm IST

7: Art Education and troublesome knowledge: Helping students form identities as artist teachers MacNeill Theatre

2:00pm IST

1: I Hate Maths and Maths Hate Me" Analysing the Development of Threshold Concepts and Attitudes in Preservice Mathematics Teacher Education MacNeill Theatre 2: Experiences of Academic Staff in Using Threshold Concepts in Occupational Therapy Curricula to Engage Students MacNeill Theatre

2:20pm IST

3: Exploring the relationship between curriculum, learning process and the theory of threshold concepts in the context of dental education MacNeill Theatre 4: Contingency in Practice: Applying a Threshold Concept in Law MacNeill Theatre

2:40pm IST

5: Crossing a Threshold Concept in Biology: Variation in Student Learning MacNeill Theatre

4:15pm IST

1: Now I Know Why I Have Been Knocking My Head Against a Brick Wall: Doctoral Candidates and Stuck Places MacNeill Theatre 2: Doctoral Education at the "Eye" of the Perfect Storm MacNeill Theatre 3: "Enabling" Graduate Attributes as an Interdisciplinary Threshold MacNeill Theatre 4: The Experience of Interdisciplinarity in Doctoral Research: Threshold Journeys MacNeill Theatre 5: "Is there a Doctor in the House?" Pedagogical Portals and the PhD MacNeill Theatre

9:30am IST

Keynote 3: Threshold Concepts as an Analytical Tool for Researching Higher Education Pedagogy MacNeill Theatre

10:15am IST

1: Threshold Concepts in Introductory Engineering: Useful Metaphor or Empirically Based Construct? MacNeill Theatre 2: The Integrative Nature of Threshold Concepts in Financial Accounting - An Exploration of the Interdisciplinarity of One Threshold Concept. MacNeill Theatre

10:35am IST

3: What Science Academics are Missing MacNeill Theatre 4: Using Language to Transform Judgemental Attitudes MacNeill Theatre

10:55am IST

5: Understanding Phase as an Entrance to the Portal of Understanding in Physics and Electrical Engineering MacNeill Theatre

11:50am IST

1: Integrating Threshold Concepts Pedagogy into a Market-Value Education System to Reduce the “Plagiarism Epidemic" MacNeill Theatre 2: Towards a TCT-Inspired Electronics Concept Inventory MacNeill Theatre

12:10pm IST

3: The Emperor's New Concept: Vague, Postmodern, and Unfalsifiable - Is Threshold Concept Theory a Step Too Far? MacNeill Theatre 4: Scaffolding' v 'Digitally-Enabled Co-Construction of Troublesome Knowledge'. The Case of 'Engaging with Theory in Literary Close Reading'. MacNeill Theatre

12:30pm IST

5: The Geometry of Threshold Concepts MacNeill Theatre 6: Embedding Threshold Concepts into Hierarchical Concept Structures MacNeill Theatre 7: From Filling Buckets to Lighting Fires: Faculty at the Threshold MacNeill Theatre

2:00pm IST

1: Playing with Models to Conceptualise, Support and Assess Professional Learning MacNeill Theatre 2: Threshold Concepts and the Spiral Curriculum: Complementary or Conflicting Ideas? MacNeill Theatre 3: Threshold Crossings and Concepts in Teaching: An Exploration MacNeill Theatre 4: Up Close and Personal: Engaging Learners with Service-User Perspectives MacNeill Theatre 5: Threshold Concepts in the Professional Development of Second Language Teaching: teaching grammar communicatively MacNeill Theatre 6: What Concepts Underpin Skills Training in Community Services in Vocational Education and Training MacNeill Theatre

3:30pm IST

Keynote 4: From This Curriculum to That which is to Come: Threshold Concepts, Complexity and Change MacNeill Theatre

4:10pm IST

Publication Launch: NAIRTL Grants Initiative: Evaluation of Impact MacNeill Theatre