Science Communication – Within the Community, Events and Cheltenham Science Festival

Convener: Aisling Carroll aisling.carroll2@hartpury.ac.uk

This community will focus primarily on two aspects: bringing science to the community and Cheltenham Science Festival. The hope is to achieve these aspects by utilising every opportunity to engage the public, industry and schools through all the events and activities we already run and to get the planning and preparation of CSF up and running so that we can make the most of this very worthwhile event. There will hopefully also be opportunity to get involved in STEM mentoring or education/career support with STEM learning.

Exotic Pet Health and Welfare 

Convener: Dr Alison Wills alison.wills@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice aims to investigate key issues associated with the health and welfare of common exotic pet species including rabbits, guinea pigs and rodents. Outcomes of research projects are intended to directly inform practice of pet owners and industry to promote improved welfare for these species. As many health and welfare problems of these species are linked to husbandry, both owner and veterinary understanding of the specialist requirements of these species is paramount.

Student Engagement

Convener: Dr Kate Wilkinson kate.wilkinson@hartpury.ac.uk

The Student Engagement Community of Practice aims to bring together projects and people from around the University looking into many aspects of student engagement.

It hopes the community of practice will encourage collaborative scholarship and research and bring together like minded staff. It is hoped that the community will have face to face conversations and continued online contributions to foster creativity and innovation and share best practice within the University.

Hartpury Sports Business Hub 

Convener: Dr. Alex Kay alex.kay@hartpury.ac.uk

The Hartpury Sports business hub aims to create a collaborative research and knowledge exchange environment between Hartpury University and industry professionals. Hartpury Sports Business Hub partners collaborate by developing joint research activities and consultancy projects for both scholarly and industry opportunities.

Human-wildlife Interactions

Convener: Lucy Bearman-Brown lucy.bearman-brown@hartpury.ac.uk

Our aim is to bring together stakeholders from different backgrounds and with diverse disciplinary expertise and interests, who have a common goal of understanding and ensuring positive human wildlife interactions.

If you're interested in wildlife, or people who engage with, live alongside, care or have views about wildlife then please join us. It is hoped that our activities will be as diverse as the subject, including practical activities on the Hartpury Campus and further a-field, conducting research and informing teaching.

Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research

Convener: Ben Brilot ben.brilot@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice includes weekly informal meetings in order to discuss current topics/areas of interest/research, encourage peer feedback, and to promote collaboration and opportunities for staff development

Pavia Rowing Project

Convener: Gareth Knox Gareth.knox@hartpury.ac.uk

The Pavia Rowing Project will set biomechanics and physiology investigations around rowing. This project will involve collaboration between Hartpury University and the University of Pavia, Italy. Reciprocal visits of rowers and coaches between Hartpury and Pavia will allow for data to be collected on water as well as in the laboratory. The collaboration will be celebrated by an annual boat race alternating each year between Hartpury and Pavia.

Hartpury Bee Research

Convener: Stephen Parker stephen.parker@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice plans to put together a proposal to research the Antimicrobial effects of dairy products against Paenibacillus larvae (the causative agent of American Foulbrood in honey bees) using the Hartpury bee collection. We hope the results could offer a tool for the beekeeping world in the fight to combat this disease.

Horses and society

Convener: Dr. Darcy Bornemann darcy.bornemann@hartpury.ac.uk

This is a diverse and interdisciplinary community of practice which considers the role of the horse and horse related activities within society. A wide range of topics are incorporated, from individual horse-human interactions, horses in rural/urban environments, business, and the equestrian (human) community/culture.

The group aims to offer members support via collaboration and has ambition to contribute to local, national, and international discussions regarding ways horse activity helps meet government agendas and the value of horses to individuals and communities.

Cardio-respiratory research group

Convener: Stephen Draper Stephen.draper@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice will offer free laboratory testing to staff and students as part of ongoing research into endurance performance. Staff and student athletes can be part of this group as researchers and/or participants.

Hartpury University Press

Convener: Jane Williams jane.williams@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice aims to establish an in house publication tool: Hartpury University Press to support students and staff to publish and disseminate their research.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Convener: Linda Greening linda.greening@hartpury.ac.uk

Equality, diversity and inclusion are of utmost importance globally and at Hartpury. This community of practice seeks to improve the practices at Hartpury and bring this to the forefront of what staff and students do. This will be achieved through research activity and science communication within and outside Hartpury. Doing this will create an environment at Hartpury, and in society, where everyone is able to achieve their goals and feels included. The group is open to anyone at Hartpury that has an interest in equality, diversity and inclusion.

Hartpury Sports Coaching Centre (HSCC)

Convener: Dr Martin Longworth martin.longworth@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice sets out to foster a collaborative sports coaching research and knowledge exchange environment between University sport, College sport and The Sports Academy at Hartpury University, with the aim of creating applied research and knowledge exchange outputs from staff, students and alumni. The HSCC also encompasses our collaborations with external organisations, our CPD offers, links with NGBs and consultancy work.

Problem Solving - an exploration of strategies used by college education instructional staff to deliver the problem-solving aspect of their courses

Convenor: Istvan Szabo istvan.szabo@hartpury.ac.uk

This community of practice will explore the delivery strategies being used for the teaching of problem-solving in college education, looking for both common features and innovative approaches.

The wide field of instruction in academic and non-academic activities makes for an interesting population to carry out the study in. We seek to identify commonalities and differences in teaching practice in the delivery of problem-solving.

PACK - Professionals and Academics Co-creating Knowledge

Convenor: Carol Gray carol.gray@hartpury.ac.uk

The Pack (Professionals and academics co-creating knowledge) community of practice gives the opportunity to share knowledge arising from veterinary nursing departmental research with participating veterinary practices. The aim is to widen the scope for research and find out which areas of research would be useful for practices. The hope is to achieve these aspects by canvassing opinions about curriculum design and involving practices in future research collaborations.

Let’s go APE (Anthrozoology, Psychology, and Ethology)

Convenor: Clare Thomas-Pino Clare.Thomas-Pino@hartpury.ac.uk

An interdisciplinary community of practice connecting students and faculty with Human-Animal Interaction (HAI) topics and collaborative research opportunities to foster recognition of the vast expertise in HAI within and beyond Hartpury. This Community of Practice aims to provide supportive opportunities for continued professional development particularly in multi-disciplinary approaches towards human connectivity with animals and nature.