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HEFCE, whose funding supports university museums in England, welcomes the publication of ‘Impact and engagement: University museums for the 21st century’.

The University Museums Group and University Museums in Scotland launched the joint publication, which celebrates the outstanding contribution made by such museums across the UK, at the Museums Association Conference in Liverpool on 12 November. The report praises the growing success of university museums within the UK’s higher education sector, and their unique contribution to the public profile of universities.

Case studies illustrate recent changes in how university museums participate in the academic missions of higher education institutions, as well as their remarkable record for wider public engagement and community impact.

The report shows how university museums deliver unique benefits to the higher education sector and to the culture at large, including:

• nearly 4 million public visits to university museums last year
• 3,500 public events and 200 exhibitions held last year by university museums
• students learning from museum objects on more than 700 university courses
• university museums increasingly delivering and supporting collections-based research across multiple disciplines.

University museums also demonstrate exceptional performance in attracting funding, with HEFCE’s core museums and galleries funding generating an increase in funding from outside the sector of 179 per cent to over £20 million over the last five years.

The report is available on the University Museums Group web-site.

The discussions that took place during the IAU-ACUP IDEA Workshop on Doctoral education and e-Supervision at the Universitat Oberta de Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, on 31 October can be followed online here. 
Since 2011, the Catalan Association of Public Universities (ACUP) and the IAU brought together two projects: Innovative Approaches to Doctoral Education in Africa and the African-Spanish Higher Education Management Platform. One of the main outcomes of this collaboration is the development of the joint IDEA platform on innovative approaches to doctoral education. The joint initiative identified the issue of doctoral supervision as one of the key challenges African higher education institutions are facing. 
Through the recent Personal Learning Environment (PLE)-PhD project financed through the IAU LEADHER programme, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Kenyatta University (KU), ACUP and IAU looked at how digital technologies, more specifically the web 2.0 tools, can provide answers to the challenge during a one day Workshop on doctoral education and e-supervision. 
The workshop discussions and conclusions are available online at: http://plephd.blogs.uoc.edu/.

The international event will take place on 4-5 April 2014 at the University of Alcalá (UAH) in Madrid.
The conference aims to offer PSI&T researchers, practitioners, trainers, academics, public service authorities and people who are generally interested in intercultural communication, translation and interpreting, a forum for dialogue in this changing society, as well as an opportunity to exchange opinions.
The main theme of the Conference is "(Re)visiting Ethics and Strengthening Connections". Those who are interested should send proposals on the following topics (but not exclusively):
    Discussing ethical issues in both research and teaching
    Studying interpreters and translators in conflict
    Interpreting and translating for victims of war, sexual assault, survivors of torture and trauma, etc.
    Exploring connections with other types of interpreting such as conference or court interpreting
    Analysing advances in PSI&T between local, national, and international institutions.
The Conference will include plenary lectures, papers, seminars, posters and round tables. Participants delivering papers will have a maximum of 30 minutes (discussion/questions time included). The official languages will be Spanish and English. 
All those who are interested in participating are kindly asked to send a 200-word abstract by 29th November 2013 using this webpage. The decision of the Scientific Committee will be sent by 10th December 2013. 
For registration, click here.