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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

It’s the four or five “in the middle” who either have not thought about it or have not considered it as an option who are the ones that we are interested in engaging with to help them explore their potential. The craft analogy also then opens doors to viewing entrepreneurship as a profession like medicine and architecture.

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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

To find out more about course alumni check out the GeoScience Outreach website and read Isla Simmons’ Teaching Matters blog post: ‘ Teaching volcanoes: the Geoscience Outreach and Engagement course ’’.