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To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. Conversations between staff and students about such topics need to be further encouraged across the University, and initiatives such as Cake and Coffee Conversations could be one way to take this forward in Schools.
With this blog post we are delighted to announce the call for applications to participate in the curated week of the Festival, taking place from 19th – 23rd February 2018. This is a unique opportunity for you to embrace your creative spirit and find space for your imagination to flourish.
Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of studentemployability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.
Let’s continue giving students more chances to develop the skills and mindsets they really need to succeed in life after university. Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen is a 4th year psychology student graduating July 2018. May 22, 2018
From students to scientists: The impact of interactive engagement in lectures. Craig McMillan Craig McMillan is a former student and graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology in 2017. Craig McMillan Craig McMillan is a former student and graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology in 2017. Jun 19, 2018
I am certain I will greatly develop a broad skill set that will be invaluable throughout my university career … I am looking forward to continuing with it. – Anonymous student feedback from current year (2018-19) student at the end of Week Sarah Ivory Dr Sarah Birrell Ivory is a Lecturer in the Business School.
It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*. Dec 11, 2018
I also imagined that by creating interdisciplinary teams of undergraduate and postgraduate students to work on the research questions as part of their studies, they too could benefit from enriched learning experiences, learning alongside community partners and co creating the research together.
UCVME students receiving their Certificates at the Vet School prize-giving Summer 2018. We introduced the UCVME in 2014 as we wanted to formally recognise the important role our students play in our teaching and learning processes. Sep 11, 2018
Sep 18, 2018 Richard Gratwick Dr Richard Gratwick joined the School of Mathematics in 2016 as a University Teacher, and in the 2017/18 EUSA Teaching Awards won the van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering.
She has a special interest in career education and as part of her role she teaches a compulsory second year undergraduate course, ‘Career Development Planning’, in the Business School Mar 27, 2018
I have listened to the students’ insistence about the viability and longevity of Design Agency and, far from phasing it out, I have in fact expanded it into distinct 20 and 40 credit courses, some of which will be open to learners outside of the discipline in academic session 2018/19. Jun 7, 2018
He is a Fulbright Award Recipient for 2018-19 and will spend some of his time working on exchange of best practice in postgraduate teaching at the Biofrontiers Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Aug 15, 2018 He has worked in industry and academia and works at the interface between chemistry and biomedicine.
For the second semester of 2018-9, this course has been redeveloped by myself and Morgan Currie, as ‘ Data Design and the City’. This year, the course will focus on upcycling and the circular economy, and is open to all first and second year students. Oct 25, 2018 You can follow him on Twitter @jamesks and @edilivinglab.
Deepening expertise and support around reflection and curriculum design The Developing and Supporting the Curriculum Enhancement Theme increased attention on the support for staff in enhancing the curriculum.
Jan 16, 2018 He obtained his DPhil in Politics from Oxford University and has since held positions at the University of Louvain, Stanford University, the Asian University for Women and University College Dublin.
Kevin works within the project development team supporting on acquisitions, business case development, project implementation and financing and market research for renewable energy projects both in the UK and abroad. Oct 18, 2018
Photo credit: pixabay, HarryJBurgess, CC0 In this post, Vanessa Ombura, a third year Civil Engineering student, describes her experience co-creating an interdisciplinary, online University-wide course, with the city of Edinburgh as a site of learning… Over the summer of 2018, I had the wonderful opportunity of working under the Usher Institute (..)
Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen has been working with the University’s Employability Consultancy since graduating in the summer of 2018. Whilst a student, Tobias was involved with Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses , voicing a student’s perspective.
Ryan Gilmour Ryan Gilmour is an electrical engineering student in the School of Engineering, with a passion for renewable energy, teaching and developing solutions for the 1 billion people without electricity access. Nov 22, 2018
While we recognise the benefits of this initiative for our own students, we are also aware that we need to offer them more support. Starting from September 2018, students can take this previously extra-curricular activity as a university course, gaining academic credit to formally recognise their learning.
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