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Learning from each other: Adventures in student engagement with learning and teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Vet students work with a model of a dog’s head [Paul Dodds]. Some of the students also attend staff talks on educational topics, which they find helpful for their own teaching. Staff and student teachers from the 2018 cohort receiving recognition for their commitment to learning and teaching at the vet school. Stansbie, N.,

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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

Credit: EPSRC Proteus In this post, Dr Helen Szoor-McElhinney, an Engagement Strategist in the Deanery of Clinical Sciences, showcases the University of Edinburgh’s first Interdisciplinary Health and Wellbeing Science Shop, Our Health. 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. General discussion ensued.

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Sponsored dissertations: Connecting undergraduates with companies to research problems that matter

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Photo credit: thebostonpilot.com, CC0 In this post, Dr Sergei Plekhanov, a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Economics, highlights a sponsored dissertation scheme, which connects undergraduate economic students with organisations who need real-life problems researched… Do you remember you first big piece of individual work?

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this post, Kit Daniel Searle, University Teacher in Operational Research (OR)↗️ at the School of Mathematics↗️ shares their experience embedding a low-risk consultancy project within their course curriculum highlighting the perks of student-industry collaboration.

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What even is a University anyway?

Teaching Matters Academic Support

They progress to big picture thinking, drawing attention to the importance of a number of areas prominent in the wider Higher Education zeitgeist: student-owned spaces; citizenship; interdisciplinary research; forum; catalyst; community; and collaborative learning.