D2 - BAFL or 'Business As a Foreign Language': how should we speak to PGRs from the Arts and Humanities in order to encourage engagement with enterprise and entrepreneurship education and training?

Day 2 at 13:45 - BAFL or 'Business As a Foreign Language': how should we speak to PGRs from the Arts and Humanities in order to encourage engagement with enterprise and entrepreneurship education and training?
Day Day 2
Session D
Start time 13:45
Strand Postgraduate Research
Code D2
Presenters

Dr Dawn Weatherston - Entrepreneurial Development Officer, Newcastle University

Jane Nolan - Teaching Fellow in Enterprise, Newcastle University

Workshop overview

This highly interactive session engages participants in a Researcher Development Workshop based on a workshop originally developed by the session presenters as part of a student led AHRC funded Collaborative Skills Project, which was co-created by Arts and Humanities Researchers. Participants will experience at first-hand tools, techniques and pedagogical approaches designed to provide knowledge and develop key transferable skills, to prepare researchers for freelance/portfolio careers or self-employment in the creative sector, and to enhance employability both within and outside the Academy.

Arts and Humanities Researchers and their supervisors can find the language of enterprise and entrepreneurship off-putting and jargonistic; this can be a barrier to engagement. The presenters will share their concept of BaFL, Business as a Foreign Language, and facilitate a discussion about how we might translate the language of business into congruent and engaging ways of speaking and understanding.

The session will also contextualize the workshop in the wider landscape of training and development for Arts and Humanities Researchers and reflect on its resonance with a number of key frameworks, reports and recommendations.

Workshop topics covered:

  • Introduction to BAFL or 'Business as a Foreign Language'/ sharing and development of glossary
  • Model for a one day workshop
  • The importance of values in the teaching of enterprise/ entrepreneurship
  • Business Model Canvas/ skills mapping exercise 

Themes covered:

  • New approaches to enabling researchers to reach their potential and make powerful career choices

Workshop outcomes:

  • Participants will take away ideas on how to use appropriate language to both attract and teach students about enterprise and entrepreneurship.
  • They will have shared ownership of ‘the glossary'. 
  • They will use some of the key pedagogical approaches, such as Business Model Canvas, which they can consider using in the future
  • They will be provided with a workshop outline for use with Arts and Humanities students.
  • They will identify ways in which to express entrepreneurial learning within the context of the Researcher Development Framework

Format:

80 minute interactive workshop