This workshop focused on developing teaching and learning and SOTL in the professional context. They focused initially on the levels of investigation from Ashwin & Trigwell (2004) with a focus on level 2 where groups are informed within a shared context. This was linked to having identified two common trajectories of academics. The first was where individuals engage with colleagues in another context such as attending a national/international conference but then share none of this with colleagues in their own institution. The second trajectory was where individuals engage in discussions with colleagues both at external events but more importantly within their own context having conversations with colleagues.

They then also referred to Teaching and Learning regimes using the work of Trowler & Cooper (2002) and Trowler (2008, 2009). We were asked in groups to think about these 8 points and how they might work within our own setting.

This provided much discussion about how these regimes whilst being useful can also be constraining rather than empowering. Interdisciplinary groups coming together often want to explore their own regimes. We then discussed difficulties in shifting faculty from disciplinary teaching to SOTL.

The workshop then focused on sharing strategies that people had used which included:

• Interdisciplinary work common agreement that staff liked to discuss with others what they did and share practice
• Develop communities of practice focused on specific issues not problems
• Working with staff around scholarship and inquiry but using inquiry which is more acceptable to those with a focus on research
• Use clear language that is spelt out to all