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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? Feb 1, 2017

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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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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. M and Weber. Augrandjean, F.,

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Final projects are presented at a showcase event, and also as an open website showcase on the MBChB website to provide a view from outside the programme into the medicine curriculum and our students. Please take a look.

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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. Entrepreneurship is a “craft” as opposed to a science or an art (Bill Aulet, MIT) and therefore requires some learning of the basic concepts in classroom settings but also opportunities to learn by doing.

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

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

With the help of our design intern, Annie Adam, we created our personalised banner based on a staple of Edinburgh architecture: Argyle House. Setting up the blog itself was not the greatest challenge because I had past experience with WordPress, and it wasn’t long before Cecily and I picked a template.

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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.