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Getting to Know You – Finding out who’s who in the Edinburgh Medical School

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Nevertheless, for undergraduate students, small class sizes in a large university can still mean that there’s lots of staff they don’t know, and sometimes it’s hard to feel part of a community. Developing a strong sense of community is something that is really important to us in the medical school. Sep 27, 2016

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Welcome to the October issue of Teaching Matters: Research-led teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Research-led teaching and learning This month, I have found defining research-led teaching and learning quite tricky as there seem to be a few interpretations of what it means in HE. Conversely, integrating research and teaching can be immensely rewarding for academics.

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Mini-series: Engaging with lecture recording: Learning from each other

Teaching Matters Online Learning

In addition, the group is responsible for monitoring the research work funded by the Lecture Recording Programme as part of PTAS. The team is using a “research through design” approach, working with students both as learners and as researchers. She is committed to public engagement and embeds this in her research practice.

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The Directors of Teaching Network: sharing good practice and discussing challenges in teaching across the university

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

From our perspective as education researchers, this network certainly feels like an effective way of disseminating information on university projects and resources that can help schools develop their learning and teaching strategies. You can find Hazel on Twitter: @hazelmarzetti.

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A network to support PhD students and engage staff members across imaging physics disciplines

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Mollie McFarlane (speaking) and Rob Williams (seated) from NHS medical physics, who spoke about the NHS medical physics training scheme. For the monthly meetings, we wanted to have a mixture of presentations from students, senior research and clinical staff and external speakers. Image credit: author. Nov 29, 2024

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Using Peer Observation to enhance teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Research shows shown that peer observation is an extremely valuable process (Irby, 1983; Brown and Ward-Griffin, 1994; Siddiqui et al., It is also made explicit that the peer observation is only for staff development purposes and is not used for any review or assessment processes. J Med Educ, 58, 457 – 461. Siddiqui, Z.

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“Coffee anyone?” Encouraging student and staff informal interaction in Biomedical Sciences

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

With this in mind, the deanery ran two new initiatives this year: “Meet the researcher Prize Draw” in semester 1, and “Student Staff Cake and Coffee Conversation” in semester 2. Celine Caquineau Dr Celine Caquineau is a lecturer at the Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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