Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 26, 2023

For many students – particularly mature students – MSc study is the chance to start exploring something new and fascinating, generating multiple research questions. But how can these ideas be developed after graduation? In 2021, a group of MSc Global Challenges alumni found themselves in exactly this position.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

In comparison, the challenges for conducting interdisciplinary research seem to be at a lower level, for instance with the funding of a research grant, or as a student project – they are discrete and have clearly defined objectives. Furthermore, those resources of money and researchers, act as great enablers.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 10, 2022

Reaching such an understanding involves identifying the factors which enable, but also constrain, students’ development of these attributes. The research participants were from the MSc Language Education programme.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR) at the School of Mathematics shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration. Do industry collaborative projects enhance students’ learning?,

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JUNE 19, 2018

These two questions formed the basis of my final year research project, which looked at interactive engagement lecture strategies in the second-year genetics course Genes and Gene Action 2 (GGA). But what skills/abilities are important, or rather, essential for becoming an effective scientist? Loads, D., & McQueen, H.

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JUNE 25, 2023

The National Assessment and Accreditation Council ( NAAC ) assessed institutions following CBCS and reported improvements in overall education quality, including outcome-based learning, research orientation, and industry relevance. Collaborate with experts to align courses with industry requirements and emerging trends.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JANUARY 16, 2017

Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses (SLICCs) offer another approach and way forward. This is a reflective framework for experiential learning, where students consider their learning gains through undertaking an activity of their choice, e.g. research, work experience, volunteering.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MARCH 27, 2018

With the group labour market project my aim was to make the assessment more relevant to the students (they will be entering the labour market at some point in the future after all) and to embrace the concept of students as co-creators of knowledge. So what was the result?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2025

With enrollment numbers dropping and student demographics evolving, corporate partnerships offer an opportunity to align academic programs with workforce needs , creating a win-win-win scenario for students, employers, and universities. And oftentimes, whether they don’t have time, there’s a lot going on.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

OCTOBER 11, 2018

She has been working at the University of Edinburgh for almost a decade, teaching MBA, Masters and Undergraduate students. Her research explores sustainability, social enterprise, and more recently, the pedagogy of critical thinking. Oct 11, 2018

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

In the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability, we collaborate with researchers and students across the University, and partner with the Edinburgh Living Lab. Students work over 11 weeks to research the problem and come up with solutions, liaising with the department to ensure the context has been fully understood.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Seeing the imperfections, assumptions and short-cuts needed to implement research into practice is revelatory to students. Students keep a blog (≥10 weeks) and write a reflective report of their experiences. The blogs give enlightening insights into the attachments as they unfold and develop.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 22, 2018

I had to critically reflect on my learning, develop communication skills, deal with clients, structure longer projects, and much more. These projects also develop research and critical skills obtained when writing essays.

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APRIL 4, 2023

It provides a level of assurance to students, employers, and other stakeholders that the institution meets certain standards for quality and effectiveness. The organization was founded with the goal of improving the quality of business education and promoting excellence in teaching, research, and service.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 15, 2018

sarcastically] Well, over a four-year PhD, we deliver a year’s worth of training in innovation and entrepreneurship in parallel to the students’ research projects. All students carry out an interdisciplinary project between supervisors in physical sciences and biomedical/clinical sciences.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 19, 2022

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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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Credit: Pixabay, shilmar, CC0 The Edinburgh Living Lab programme is part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, (EFI), which is building links between the university and the city to facilitate long-term multi-disciplinary ‘research in the wild’. Supported by Sally Kerr of the council Open Data programme.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Throughout this project, I researched technical aspects of solar energy generation as well as current UK energy policy, and I was required to do cash flow analysis. The nature of this exercise advanced my analytical abilities as I developed a much greater understanding of project financials and the proposing of business solutions.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 25, 2019

We had some pretty famous professors there, and the idea that they could do top research AND share it with us students was particularly attractive. Interestingly, this tends to happen fairly often: our students seem to be doing very well, and this is a source of immense satisfaction.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Next year, Teaching Matters colleagues will be undertaking a research project investigating how a multi-authored blog (Teaching Matters!) Lecture Recording: What does research say about its effect on attendance? creates different spaces for conversations around teaching and learning.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

His research interests include veterinary education, students as teachers, admissions and equine gastroenterology and welfare. In 2018 Neil was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons for his research thesis on veterinary admissions. Sep 11, 2018

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JANUARY 10, 2017

This led me to reflect on my previous teaching experience: how often had I asked students to really reflect on their learning and on the range of skills and experiences it provided?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The Historian’s Toolkit takes students through all steps of the historical research process. The starting point is the skillset our students require, based on the QAA/SQA History Benchmarking Statement , and the order in which they need to apply them.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

I was therefore keen to play a role in developing another online, interdisciplinary course based on my experiences and interests (for example, as is shared in this video that showcases part of the senate talk on research led-learning in May 2017), in addition to the numerous skills and networks I would gain and contribute to.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JUNE 7, 2018

Since that time she has maintained her professional practice and developed her research in the field of education. This has manifest itself in a number of design and teaching projects, the most significant of which won The Guardian University Award for Employability in 2013.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Maybe, in response to these questions, you thought back to a course that asked challenging questions and encouraged learners to research and find the answers independently. This critical examination of past experiences with the intent of learning from them is a part of what is meant by reflection.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The role of interdisciplinarity in training the next generation of researchers”. Some of her work on interdisciplinarity can be found on here including her report to the HEA on interdisciplinary learning and teaching provision in the UK and an advert for a new 1+3 PhD funded studentship “Disruptive influence? Feb 14, 2017

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Simon Riley Dr Simon Riley is Director of Student Selected Components for the undergraduate medicine programme, where students choose their field of interest, gain research experience and undertake career exploration.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 16, 2019

Just as Edinburgh was at the centre of the 18 th century Enlightenment era that sparked the modern age, today’s online learning technology enables our academic colleagues to foster new perspectives among researchers, students and thinkers based far from the physical confines of our Edinburgh campus.

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