EVENT:  3rd Annual Conference of the National Academy for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NAIRTL)
THEME: Research-Teaching Linkages: PRACTICE and POLICY
DATE: 11-12 November 2009
VENUE: Hamilton Building, Trinity College Dublin

The aim of the conference is to uncover best practice in the development of research-teaching links and to identify potential policy supports to help shape these links.

The programme will feature keynote talks, invited papers, workshops, a poster session, and a panel discussion chaired by Dr John Bowman on the “role of national research funding organisations in shaping teaching and learning”. Panel members include:

• Dr Eucharia Meehan, HEA,
• Dr Mairéad O’Driscoll, HRB,
• Ms Dipti Pandya, IRCHSS,
• Mr Martin Hynes, IRCSET,
• Professor Nicholas Canny, RIA,
• Professor Frank Gannon, SFI.

Full details of the conference programme are available online at www.nairtl.ie/conference. To ensure your place at the event, please register online before 9 November. Registration for this event is free.

The conference dinner (€60) will take place in the Old Jameson Distillery Building. There will be a guided tour of the Distillery, followed by music and entertainment.

NOTE: The Graduate Education theme of the NAIRTL conference coincides with the second day of the 4th Level Network conference, organised by the Irish Universities Association (IUA) and titled: "The Evolving Landscape of Irish Graduate Education". Joint sessions between the two conferences will be featured under this theme.