Thanks to Margy for sharing information about her presentations at the Banff SoTL Symposium earlier this month.  Margy received a Going Public Award for presenting this work:

Phenomenography – A Research Method with a (Focus on) Difference (with Victoria Guglietti)

This presentation provided a brief overview of phenomenography as a research method for SoTL, contextualized within qualitative research and detailed through the experiences of two Nexen scholars who have used it on separate projects. There was a rich discussion of how phenomenography might be applied to some SoTL questions including the strengths and challenges of applying this method. Participants received a brief bibliography on foundational sources and recent applications for the method.
(see Symposium program to access resources (which will be posted soon!), scroll to Friday Nov 8 at 2:00 pm)

Connecting Students to Scholarly Readings

This presentation was a longer version of the one I did at ISSOTL, with most of the added time spent completing and discussing a reading activity similar to the one used in my research project. The project examined the connections students could make to a piece of scholarly writing and what those connections illuminated about how students were reading the piece. I used phenomenography as a method for analyzing the data and developing categories of connections.  The discussion also covered implications for teaching students to read in the disciplines, aspects to consider and address and concrete changes in my own teaching.