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Immersions and encounters: Fieldwork in landscape architecture

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

These snapshots recollect two fieldwork experiences, firstly, as a student, and more recently recalling work I undertook in the field as part of a collaborative research project. The practice of landscape architecture would be purely academic were it not for the field.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Object Based Learning at the Centre for Research Collections

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this post, Dr Francesca Baseby, Manager of the Centre for Research Collections, reveals the benefits of Object Based Learning, an experiential learning method available to students and staff at the university… The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) provides access to The University of Edinburgh’s unique cultural and heritage collections.

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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. students in robotics to advance mutual research priorities. UC Merced 2020 , a $1.3B What are the benefits for doing that?

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Maximizing Your Summer

The Scholarly Teacher

Work on a research project? Whenever traveling, research on a broad scale the things you like to do and what might be available in the area at the time you are there. Maybe you love looking at architecture, stained glass, or new-to-you grocery stores. I love to travel and have seen many places domestically and abroad.

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Painting and shaping Learning Landscapes with Assemblages in mind

SRHE

An alertness to relations and flux can sharpen our perception, but can an assemblage sensibility inform better architecture? She went on to offer an impressive array of spatially and materially-grounded example studies, illustrating her approach and also inspiring further research. Everyone has a role in this kind of place-making.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. For these reasons, I selected this as the measure of choice utilized within my research. .

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