Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 30, 2017

[image iStock Finland] Since 2012, Informatics has been developing a year-long training programme for tutors and demonstrators, initially with help from the Institute for Academic Development. The programme consists of a series of optional, themed workshops which have been devised to support teaching and are open to all students and staff with current teaching roles within Informatics, including teaching assistants, tutors, demonstrators, coursework or examination markers.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 25, 2017

Photo by Noesis at Morguefile.com If we were to start a game of word association with “writing” and “PhD”, you’d probably come up with “thesis” pretty quickly, whilst perhaps not considering the more fluid and informal options presented by blogging. It may seem counterintuitive to add to the significant task of writing a thesis with more writing, particularly when the blogging style is so different, but I hope here to convince you of the benefits for PhD students.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

MAY 18, 2017

As researchers, it’s important to share our findings with the public. However, when asked to explain what we do and the implications of our work, it can be difficult to come up with an engaging response on the spot. In fact, if you’re like me, the experience can be quite daunting. You might ask yourself: How much background do they need? Would they understand this terminology?

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Most final-year PhD students can probably identify with needing a break from thesis writing. The desire for a break motivated me to sign up for Edinburgh Local GRADschool, an annually occurring three-day workshop for PhD candidates in the last eighteen months of their studies. Vitae launched this intensive and highly rewarding professional development course in 1968, and GRADschools have taken place across the UK since then (2017).

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Hope College Network

MAY 1, 2017

Studying abroad opens up a lot of experiences that wouldn’t usually be available in the average semester at college. One aspect of the program with IES is the chance to apply for a part-time internship. While doing an internship in itself can be done any semester at home, interning abroad provides the opportunity to experience the work culture of another country.

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MAY 4, 2017

Gold Star for USFCA. We loved University of San Francisco’s #DayoftheDons fundraising campaign. We think you will too.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 23, 2017

Is it really possible to write a journal article in seven days? Edinburgh Journal Article Writing Week (or EdJoWriWe for short) first took place in December 2013, created and run by Muireann Crowley and Eystein Thanisch, PhD students in English Literature and Celtic Studies respectively. In part, the idea for a journal article writing workshop was inspired by an Institute for Academic Development event that Muireann and Eystein attended called ‘How to Write a Journal Article in Seven Days’ by D

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 9, 2017

How do you deal with a student who has spent weeks doing anything rather than writing their thesis? What do you do with a student who, after 3 years, still can’t write clear coherent English? All PhD students are different (some are more different than others), with their own unique combinations of strengths and weaknesses, but they all have one thing in common; they have to write a thesis if they want to get their PhD.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 4, 2017

The College of Science and Engineering has over 1700 registered PhD students at various stages of their programme. Each of the seven Schools exercise a large degree of freedom in organising a whole variety of research degrees most of which are funded by external organisations: UKRI, Welcome Trust, ERC, and other such research funding bodies as well as direct funding from Industry.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 2, 2017

Teaching Matters is the University of Edinburgh’s website for debate about learning and teaching, for sharing ideas and approaches to teaching, and for showcasing our successes, including academic colleagues who are leading the way in delivering brilliant teaching. Every month Teaching Matters takes a theme and explores it through a number of blog contributions over the month.

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MAY 25, 2017

The University of Toronto Mississauga is having an enviable year-long 50th birthday celebration.

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MAY 2, 2017

Another day another social media platform to add to the content strategy mix

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MAY 22, 2017

Keeping track of the winners in Social Media.

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