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Mini-series: Water Logic: Designing for sustainability along the Union Canal

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The course is firmly embedded in a tangible place and contexts, encouraging students to start defining their own investigative agendas. The course assembles 14 students from around the world with different professional backgrounds, a majority of them in the field of architecture.

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The group project SLICC in medicine: “In this course, you can do anything you want to…”

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This whole assessment process is simple to manage and assess, with only about 35 reports covering the whole class of 200+ students. However, it is important to manage student expectations – all our medical students are so familiar with getting individual marks which they have full control over, and they are also competitive.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

The four research projects I have led so far are directly related to a part of my applied research work in proposing future-oriented collaborative solutions in a highly technical space access architecture domain ( Vidmar and Webber, 2017 ). A Pragmatic Modular Architecture for Space Access and Exploration. References Barrie, S.

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Mini-series: Turning internships into blog posts and friendship into teamwork

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In this article, Lila Pitcher, Student Intern with Information Services, talks about her experience of co-creating the Information Services Group (ISG) Intern Blog during the summer of 2018. With the help of our design intern, Annie Adam, we created our personalised banner based on a staple of Edinburgh architecture: Argyle House.

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Collegiate commentary: Five take-aways from 'Embedding Enterprise in the Curriculum' series

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The craft analogy also then opens doors to viewing entrepreneurship as a profession like medicine and architecture. Having graduated with a BSc in Geography from Durham University, Ross joined EY Management Consulting in London, eventually moving to Scotland in 1997 to work for Diageo, the global drinks giant.

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GeoScience Outreach: teaching science communication ‘beyond the programme’ and outside of the ‘Ivory Tower’

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

By combining these skills with scientific rigour and a passion for their discipline, students create unique outreach products and earn valuable experience in community engagement and project management.