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Building bridges: Connecting minds in the global mental health community

Teaching Matters Academic Support

To enhance this, we have founded the Global Mental Health and Society (GMH&S) Alumni and Student Network. This online resource seeks to sustain connection and foster community for students and alumni of the GMH&S MSc programme. Augmenting the online resource were social media channels including LinkedIn and Discord.

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Data mindfulness: Teaching undergraduates data management skills

Teaching Matters Online Learning

With this in mind, we planned to employ a PhD student to carry out the project and were pleased to be able to recruit Candela Sanchez, a current PhD student in the School of Health in Social Science , who demonstrated a keen interest and enthusiasm for the topic of RDM. Feb 18, 2020

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A real leveller: Improving a year-long, team-based project for undergraduates and professional industry mentors during lockdown

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Parallels with industry were plentiful, which allowed us to continue to promote the Design Agency scheme at Open Days as producing graduates who are 100% employable. For example, students from all undergraduate levels, along with their voluntary industry mentors, have worked together remotely on TEAMS since March 2020.

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.

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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

SRHE

Based on findings from the project ‘Learning from Labour: Critical Pedagogy for Working Students’ carried out at Middlesex University in 2022-2023, the study explores the educational and employment challenges faced by working students in UK post-92 universities ( MDX News, 2023 ).

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Developing Emotional Intelligence

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Laura outlines for Teaching Matters the importance of developing emotional intelligence for career success… The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently asked 350 HR leaders from the world’s biggest organisations which skills will be in greatest demand in their business in 2020. Their findings?