Welcome to Season 2 of the Sefi podcast!
In this episode we discuss how leadership is conceptualised within engineering education with Dr Madeline Polmear, a Marie-Curie, EUTOPIA Science & Innovation COFUND Fellow within the Law Science Technology and Society Research Group at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels. Her interdisciplinary background is in engineering education research with a focus on bridging technical and nontechnical competencies to foster engineering students’ societal responsibility, workforce preparation, and leadership. Madeline combines these expertise with those she holds in capacity building, to propose ways in which engineering educators can be empowered to develop their ability to teaching leadership to engineering students.
*must read show notes* https://www.sefi.be/2023/03/20/podcast-season-2-episode-1european-engineering-educators-is-online/
Madeline explains how the focus of leadership literature has shifted from considering traits and behaviours of leadership to taking more of a relational perspective, and the implications this has for the teaching practices we adopt. She also explains the role of capacity building in helping educators to develop the confidence and competence to teach leadership.
Join Dr Neil Cooke (University of Birmingham) and Dr Natalie Wint (University College London) to learn about how we can best support engineering students in developing their leadership skills.
Thanks to Madeline for helping us to kick-off the second series :-)
Timestamps
0.00 Abstract
0.31 Podcast Intro
0.44 Experiences of teaching leadership from Natalie and Neil
1.32 Madeline's Background
3.02 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
4.47 How is leadership conceptualised within engineering education?
5.37 Capacity Building
7.23 Breaking leadership down: the skills and competencies involved
9.05 What do engineering educators think about leadership?
11.21 How do students view leadership?
14.00 Teaching approaches
18.18 Capacity building activities
19.42 Capacity building models
22.42 Barriers to capacity building in leadership
26.31 Assessing leadership
29.00 Final advice from Madeline
31.00 Key takeaways from Natalie and Neil.
Resources
Some of Madeline’s work about leadership can be found below:
https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2022.2043243
https://peer.asee.org/37182
https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EI.2643-9115.0000031
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