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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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Searching Uncertainty – determining the value of your university experience

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I graduated, as a student of Architecture, in 2016; a year replete with uncertainty. Ruairidh Maxwell Having graduated from the MA Architecture programme at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, Ruairidh has started his postgraduate studies. So much change took place in such a short space of time. What future?

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

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was filled with an optimism and belief that has continued to grow over the two years since we started researching this subject. The craft analogy also then opens doors to viewing entrepreneurship as a profession like medicine and architecture. Learning by doing is critical.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This year on the course we have students participating from diverse programmes including ecology, geology, geography, psychology, archaeology and landscape architecture. She studies global change impacts and biodiversity change in tundra ecosystems and is the leader of ‘TeamShrub’ or the Tundra Ecology Lab.