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Risk it, you’re worth it!: A cabaret of careers at Employ.ed

Teaching Matters Student Employment

A couple of webinars and applications led me to realise that this programme is highly competitive as it offers something I think most students would massively benefit from: the opportunity to experience a snippet of professional life in a highly protected and supportive environment. Joining the Employ.ed

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Report Shows the Shift Away from Tenured Faculty in the U.S. Academic Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing data from the National Center for Education Statistics on patterns of faculty appointments and graduate student employment, AAUP makes clear that there is an ever-increasing reliance on contingent faculty. The report’s author, Glenn Colby, AAUP senior researcher, said it’s the most common question he receives.

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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From PgCAP to PTAS: Co-creating a new Development Needs Analysis for PGRs

Teaching Matters Student Employment

I was motivated not only to gain professional accreditation via a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, but also to reflect on my teaching practice and pedagogical approaches within the context of my new role that involved designing and delivering training for postgraduate researchers and research staff across career stages.

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Co-creation, research work and collaboration: Developing graduate attributes through research practice

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

This stems from my passionate belief that students can make a real and valuable contribution to the academic research and that engaging in this kind of work is empowering them to recognise their transferable skills and exciting them to continue in study, research and other academic pursuits.

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Our Health: Interdisciplinary, community-based research projects

Teaching Matters Student Employment

My engagement practice provided me with many opportunities to observe researchers from different disciplines working together as a cohesive team to research some of the most urgent medical challenges of our time. What health research agendas would they set if they could?

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Meet the Syllabus: engaging in current research

Teaching Matters Student Employment

While many courses of this kind are excellent, there is nevertheless the danger of conveying an impression that research and teaching are disconnected. Research is something that happens upstream, where experts produce ideas. The course is designed to bridge the gap between teaching and research.