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Taking a little bit of Scotland to Shanghai: Reflections on a research and teaching visit to Donghua University

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Complete concentration from participants at Shirley’s Personalised Mending workshop. I gave a lecture in the Textile Museum on my design practice, which is described as Making Modern Day Family Heirlooms , and my research, which for the past 20 years has been focussed on how to be a commercial sustainable textile designer.

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

In this post, Julia Lisa, a graduate of the MSc in Environmental Sustainability, tells us how participating in the workshop that investigated the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “how” of learning and teaching at the School of Geosciences inspired her to lead her own research project on undergraduate students’ participation in the University’s Nature (..)

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Why should students have a say?

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

These are questions that were raised in a workshop exploring student co-design of an undergraduate course. Within this workshop at The University of Edinburgh in May 2023, we investigated the “who”, “what”, “where”, and “how” of learning and teaching for GeoSciences. What does learning look like to you? Yes, you, dear reader).

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IntroAP: Recognising and developing postgraduate teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

How can we provide the best possible experience for our students, whilst also advancing our own practice and career, alongside our postgraduate studies or research? Online discussions between workshops also allow participants to crystalise their thoughts and gain peer and mentor feedback outwith the classroom. Jul 26, 2018

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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. A series of facilitated workshops is being planned to help academic colleagues and students to work together to consider how to make best use of lecture recording for both teaching and learning.

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CoDI Show: Hey, you at the back!

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Credit: Pixabay, CC0 Most of my research and practice focuses on academic development, more specifically, supporting university staff to enhance their teaching practice in ways that can enhance student engagement. For the last ten years I have been researching the ways that staff and students co-create curricula.

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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.