Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JULY 25, 2019

Students and staff from LAACLab enjoying some fresh air during their writing retreat In this post, Emily Harding, a MSc student studying Psychology of Mental Health in the School of Health and Social Sciences, reflects on a recent research writing retreat for students and staff… Earlier this year I received an invitation to join LAACLab. LAACLab is run by Emily Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at the School of Health in Social Science.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 24, 2019

Photo credit: Pixabay, milkyway 4567, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Dr Louise Horsfall, a Senior Lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences, showcase the SolidariTEA initiative, which is a supportive, confidential and relaxed coffee morning for PhD students to discuss problems affecting their work or personal life… In any professional environment it can take courage to ask for help with the technical aspects of a project.

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Teaching Matters Student Employment

JULY 24, 2019

Photo credit: unsplash, Nicole Honeywill, CC0 In this mental health and wellbeing mini-series post, Dr Deborah Holt, Bicentennial Fellow in the Moray House School of Education, discusses how she promotes learner wellbeing both for school teachers and for school pupils… Positive mental health promotion in education is defined as action taken to increase the social and emotional wellbeing of learners and their capacity to experience and maintain positive mental health.

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Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

JULY 23, 2019

‘Setting up a market stall’ – Time-lapse photographic sequence. Emma Bush, Master of Architecture fieldtrip to Cadiz, Spain, 2006. In this post, Suzanne Ewing, Professor of Architectural Criticism, reflects on the itinerant nature of fieldwork in architecture, where students travel back and forth from the stud io to the field as part of their acculturation into the discipline… [Architecture] students learn on fieldtrips to look for sites, to frame and limit sites, to project potenti

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JULY 23, 2019

Today's students are using a huge range of tools to help determine which university is the best fit for them.

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JULY 21, 2019

By DAVID WRIGHT. Today we build companies that are designed to meet a specified and known need. Most of these companies will not succeed in the future. Today, we educate and develop people based on defined careers or professions – many of which will not exist in the future. How do we create companies and people that are most likely to thrive in an economy already being disrupted by Artificial Intelligence and new automation technologies?

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