W03: Enhancing collaborations: Designing and implementing university partnership evaluations [SOLD OUT]

09:00 – 12:30 CEST, 17 September 2024 ‐ 3 hours 30 mins

Workshop

This half-day workshop will guide participants through the process of designing and conducting an evaluation of a strategic partnership or other priority partnership between higher education institutions.Participants will learn about different types and methods of evaluation. They will be challenged to think about existing or potential partnerships and how to evaluate them at different stages. During the workshop, participants will familiarise themselves with an evaluation framework designed specifically for strategic partnerships.

The workshop will approach and explore this framework through hands-on exercises, case study examples and the sharing of experiences.By the end of the workshop, participants will be ready to design and implement an evaluation fit for their institution.

This workshop will help you:

• Summarise different methods and stages of the evaluation of strategic partnerships
• Demonstrate a familiarity with relevant resources (EVALUATE framework and handbook)
• Design an evaluation of a strategic partnership fit for specific institutional purpose

Who is it for?
This workshop is designed for higher education officers who work with university strategic partnerships and other priority partners such as partnership managers, student mobility coordinators and directors of international offices at university offices as well as those who are based in faculties and schools.

Speakers

Sara Dinesen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Thommy Gatling

The University of Sydney, Australia

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Sara Dinesen

University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Sara Dinesen, Associate Director of International Education, University of Copenhagen
Sara Dinesen is the Associate Director of International Education at the University of Copenhagen. She works with students mobility and with the development of international partnerships and she has been involved in the establishment and implementation of strategic partnerships at the University of Copenhagen. 
She has been part of the ERASMUS+ Key Action 2 project EVALUATE - Developing a Framework for Evaluation of International University partnerships, which focused on improving the quality and value of international strategic partnerships between universities through evalution.
 https://international.ku.dk/international_collaboration/partnership-evaluation/
Recently she has been engaged in the development of educational initiatives in the European universities alliance 4EU+, which University of Copenhagen is a part of. She is a member of the 4EU+ working group focusing on education  
Sara has worked in the field of international education since 2010. She has participated as a panel speaker in several EAIE conferences.  
 

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Thommy Gatling

The University of Sydney, Australia

Thommy manages the university’s international agreements team, which has a particular focus on agreements that formalise the university’s education, student mobility and general partnerships. Thommy works closely with faculties to support focused and strategic international engagement, and he has a keen interest in partnership evaluation and benchmarking.  A recent focus for Thommy has been on securing joint PhD and dual degree arrangements with key university partners.  With a background in legal private practice, Thommy holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Technology, Sydney and Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Queensland.  Thommy has taught English-as-a-second-language (ESOL) in South Korea, Ireland and Australia. 

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