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Mrs Sarah Hayes

Teaching Associate in Sociology 

Learning Technologist

Room: NX04
Phone: 0121 204 3797
E-Mail: s.hayes@aston.ac.uk

Aston Research Archive page: http://eprints.aston.ac.uk/view/author/40.html 

Academia.edu page:
http://aston.academia.edu/SarahHayes/    

Sarah

Current Research Interests

  • PhD research: The Political Discourse and Material Practice of Technology Enhanced Learning  
  • Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Use of technologies for learning in the Social Sciences
  • Sharing Open Educational Resources (OER)

Teaching has included

  • LY2021 Technology & Social Theory
  • LY3029 Tattoos, TV, Trends: Understanding Popular Culture
  • Web Development
  • Research Methods
  • Project Management
  • Creating Effective E-Learning

Qualifications

  • Hons Degree in Art and Design – Herriot Watt University
  • HNC in IT Management – University of Worcester
  • MSc in Advanced Learning Technology (Distinction)  – Lancaster University
  • PG Cert for HE - University of Worcester

Membership of professional organisations

Research Collaboration 

ESRC QMI Project http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/tools-and-resources/research-resources/initiatives/qmi.aspx

FAVOR Project http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/ukoer3/favor.aspx
Humbox Project http://www.humbox.ac.uk

Contributor to: Rothery, A (2010) Learning and teaching repositories –the personal touch Report from the Worcester symposium:Learning and teaching repositories – is this the last chance? http://wlbrproject.wordpress.com/learning-and-teaching-repositories-is-this-the-last-chance/symposium-presentations/

EUNIS E-Learning Task Force Meeting, E-Learning Case Studies presentation, February 2010, University of Catalunya, Barcelona

EUNIS E-Learning Task Force Meeting, E-Learning Case Studies presentation, January 2009, Universite P.M. Curie in Paris

JISC DRaW (Developing Repositories at Worcester) Project Manager, University of Worcester (2007 – 2009)

EUNIS E-Learning Task Force Meeting, E-Learning Case Studies presentation, February 2008, University of Malta

Publications


Conference and Other Papers 

Hayes, Sarah (2013) The Properties of Use and Re-Use in the OER Superstore. British Sociological Association Conference, London 3-5 April 2013

Hayes, Sarah (2012) Beyond the Liminal: exploring an epistemology of 'techne’ as an alternative discourse to 'Technology Enhanced Learning' British Sociological Association Conference, Leeds 11-13 April 2012

Hayes, Sarah (2011) Crossing the intersection between Philosophy of Technology and Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal new ways of thinking about how we develop Technology Enhanced Learning 1st Interdisciplinary Linguistics Conference (ILinC) at Queen's University Belfast on 14-15 October 2011

Hayes, Sarah and Pollard, David (2011)  Framing the distance experience: towards a critical understanding of distance teaching In: EUNIS 2011, June 2011, Trinity College, Dublin

Hayes, Sarah (2010) The politics of ‘best practice’ (BP) in the interplay of discourse about technology enhanced learning (TEL) in HE In University of Birmingham, School of Education, The Research Student Conference: 10 July 2010

Hayes, Sarah, Lowe, Pam, Gruszczynska, Anna,Marsh, Darren (2010)  Motivations to deposit: two approaches to Open Educational Resources (OER) within Languages and Social Sciences (LSS) at Aston University. In: EUNIS 2010, June 2010, University of Warsaw, Poland

Ferrell, G, Alves, P, Alves, M, Farrugia, M, Fernandez, C, Engert, S, Epelboin, Y, Grepilloux, Hayes, S, Leao,C, Madoz,E, Piteira, M, Restivo, T, Soares, F, Uhomoibhi, J (2010) The State of the Nations: Current and future developments in Technology-Enhanced-Learning In: EUNIS 2010, June 2010, University of Warsaw, Poland

Hayes, Sarah; Godsk, Mikkel and Andersen, Majbrit Vandso (2009) Inspiring lecturers: sharing e-learning practice through european case studies. In: EUNIS 2009, June 2009, Santiago de Compostela.

Rothery, Andrew and Hayes, Sarah (2009) Engaging tutors in using e-repositories for learning and teaching. In: EUNIS 2009, Santiago de Compostela.

Rothery, Andrew and Hayes, Sarah (2008) Repositories for learning and teaching materials: our recipe for success. Discussion Paper. JISC DRaW Project University of Worcester.

Rothery, Andrew and Hayes, Sarah (2008) Is there a role for online repositories in e-Learning? In: EUNIS 2008, 25 - 27 June 2008, Aarhus University, Denmark.