Programme 2021

 

Timing (All dates and times as per UK British Summer Time)
Wednesday July 7  
Session 1  
09:30–09:45 TC2021 Intro and tribute to Mick Flanagan (Jason Davies)
Session 2  
09:45–11:15 Keynote: Julie Rattray. On the Threshold of Power and Privilege
  UK/Europe 1
Session 3 chair: Anne Tierney
11:30–12:00 Jessica Goebel and Suriamurthee Maistry. Liminality from the inside: Dimensions of students’ transformations in a threshold concepts-infused economics programme in South Africa
12:00–12:30 Philip Davidson, Ceri Butler and Sarah Rafferty. Medical Student Simulation Teaching and Novel Threshold Concepts
12:30–13:00 Leif Martin Hokstad and Bjørn Otto Braaten. The Many Faces of Liminality – Thinking with Liminality
Session 4 chair: Abel Nyamapfene
13:45–14:15 Francisca Perez Salgado, Bert Zwaneveld and Gé Nielissen. Threshold concepts in a physics course for students of environmental sciences
14:15–14:45 Jan-Martin Geiger and Andreas Liening. Effectuation as Threshold Concept in Entrepreneurship?
14:45–15:15 Matthew Dunn and Jenny Wynn. Threshold Connections: employing the Threshold Concept Framework to impact on classroom practice in secondary schools through collaborative research
Session 5 chair: Julie Rattray
15:30–16:00 Bjørn Otto Braaten and Leif Martin Hokstad. Spatial response to liminality in first semester architect student’s design work
16:00–16:30 Lucy Hatt and Julie Rattray. Bringing the student voice into threshold concept research – concept mapping in curriculum development
16:30–17:00 Virna Rossi. The case for using Threshold Concepts for Learning Design in Creative Education
  USA and Canada 1
Session 6  
17:30–18:00 Diane Boyd. Embracing Liminality: Tools for Negotiating Identity Shift in New-to-SoTL Colleagues
18:00–18:30 David Reeping. Mixed Methods Strategies for Handling Methodological Issues within Threshold Concept Features
18:30–19:00 Rachel Yoho. Mapping core and threshold concepts across the interdisciplinary fields of One Health
Session 7  
19:30–21:00 Keynote: Andrea Webb. Threshold Concepts to drive curriculum change
Session 8  
21:15–21:45 Craig Gibson and Sara Miller. Creating Networks of Practice through an Online Short Course
21:45–22:15 Virginia M. Tucker and Michelle Holschuh Simmons. Vital but not thresholds: Differentiating professional domain essentials and threshold knowledge
22:15–22:45 Yvonne Nalani Meulemans and Matthew Atherton. Teaching students the threshold concept theory: A potential tool to develop students’ capacity to cope with liminality
22:45–23:15 Natasha Hubbard Murdoch. Describing the healthcare student threshold concept of interprofessionality: A phenomenography
Thursday, July 8th  
  Australia, New Zealand and China 1
Session 9  
03:00–03:30 Trish Powers. Threshold Concepts in the online learning space: A Study of Adult Learners’ Transition, Attrition and Perseverance
03:30–04:00 Maria Northcote. Acknowledging the affirmative: Evidence of supervision learning thresholds in thesis acknowledgements
Session 10  
04:45–05:15 Dai-Ling Chen. The hidden threshold: the teacher’s bounded autonomy and tacit learning
05:15–05:45 Michelle Lazarus, Charlotte Rees and Georgina Stephens. Incorporating shades of grey into higher education: Can we affect students’ tolerance of uncertainty/ambiguity through curricular practices?
  UK/Europe 2
Session 11  
09:00–09:30 Lillian Byrne-Lancaster. Identity transformation: narratives of becoming a social care worker
09:30–10:30 Hilary Neve, Sarah Barradell, Deanne Clouder and Andy Wearn. Understanding the complexity of professional touch: combining qualitative research synthesis with threshold concepts
Session 12  
10:45–11:15 Larissa Kempenaar and Sivaramkumar Shanmugam. Design and delivery of a new pre-qualifying doctoral programme: The experience of liminality when threshold concepts are not, yet, defined.
11:15–11:45 Marina Orsini-Jones. Out of the comfort zone: the trouble with Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)
11:45–12:15 Julie Rattray and Isaac Calduch. Threshold concepts and unexpected transformations
Session 13  
13:00–13:30 Chenyan Shou and Julie Rattray. Research Title: How do undergraduate law students experience the learning threshold of law case reading?
13:30–14:00 Emanuel Mizzi. Threshold concepts in the Maltese secondary school economics classroom
14:00–14:30 Bert Zwaneveld, Hans Sterk and Jacob Perrenet. Mathematical proving as a threshold in undergraduate mathematics education
Session 14  
15:15–15:25 David Riley. Why are we here?
15:25–15:55 Hebatallah Shoukry. Threshold Concepts in Graduate Apprenticeships
15:55–16:55 Linda Martindale and Stella Howden. Roundtable: Upsetting the balance: liminality and academic identity during the Covid pandemic
16:55–17:25 Craig Allardice and Michael Allardice. Crossing the Threshold into Law as a Mature Student
  USA and Canada 2
Session 15  
17:30–18:00 Barbara Rose, Sheri Leafgren, Scott Sander and Brian Schultz. Getting to the Hard Stuff: Talking and Walking Threshold Concepts to Advance Social Justice Learning in Teacher Education and Beyond
18:00–18:30 Alison Murray and Kyna Biggs. Application of Threshold Concepts to the Science Taught in Art Conservation
18:30–19:00 Sharday Mosurinjohn. Threshold Concepts in Religious Studies: A Qualitative and Theoretical Exploration of Threshold Concepts in a “Nodal” Curriculum
Session 16  
19:15–19:45 Rachel Yoho. Developing interdisciplinary teaching resources for lexically ambiguous threshold concepts
19:45–20:15 Anne Marie Ryan and Kerrianne Ryan. Transfer-mational Journey: Exploring Routes through Tough Places Across the Sciences
20:15–20:45 Morgan Hanson. Negotiating Pedagogical Perspectives: Adapting Threshold Concepts for a Shared Language of Writing Instruction
Session 17  
21:30–21:40 Brenda Refaei and Ruth Benander. Threshold Concepts Associated with ePortfolios
21:40–22:10 Matthew Ravenstahl. Considering Art Education Through the Lens of Threshold Concepts and the Affective Dimension
22:10–22:40 Andrea Webb. Becoming and Being: Threshold Concepts in Teacher Education
Friday, July 9th  
  Australia, New Zealand and China 2
Session 18  
03:00–04:30 Keynote: Julie Timmermans. Failure as a Native Informant
Session 19  
04:45–05:15 Rachel Thompson. Crossing the threshold to expertise: Critical thinking for clinical practice
05:15–05:45 Susan Page. Rites of Passage in Indigenous Studies
  UK and Europe 3
Session 20  
09:00–09:30 Amani Albuwardi. Threshold Concepts in Translation Education: Investigating troublesome areas for undergraduate translation students in project-based learning
09:30–10:00 Anne Tierney. Faculty Learning Communities: Threshold Concepts on holding it together
10:00–10.30 Gina Wisker and Maggi Savin Baden. Getting published in the publishing shark pool: a conceptual threshold crossing
Session 21  
10:45–11:15 Declan Scully. Permanent Liminality Among Early Career Academics
11:15–11:45 Peter Jones. Knock, knock or Bang, bang? The moment when threshold concepts turn around a door
11:45–12:15 Marwan Alyafaee. The true nature of threshold concepts in teacher education as perceived of by Y1 and Y4 ELT student teachers in Oman
Session 22  
13:00–14:00 Iain Stalker and Rinkal Desai. Threshold Concepts: Universal or Contextual? A Round Table Discussion
14:00–14:30 Christine Bohlander. Don’t carry me over the threshold
14:30–15:00 Geraldine McDermott. Exploring the use of multimodal screencasts for knowledge development in Higher Education
Session 23  
15:15–15:45 Susie Wilson. Threshold graphics in occupational therapy: student learning in-between threshold concepts and inquiry graphics
15:45–16:15 Catherine Ross. Can an Arts-Based Liminal Learning Experience Change Learner Cognition?
16:15–16:45 Natasa Lackovic. Introducing threshold graphics: teaching and learning threshold concepts via inquiry graphics
16:45–17:15 Denise MacGiollari. Threshold Graphics. A critical visual approach to threshold concepts in social care
Session 24 Closing remarks and future plans (Anne Tierney)