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This year we have begun a new collaboration between the Institute of Academic Development (IAD) and Clinical and Health Psychology; working closely together we have developed and delivered skill-based training workshops for students on the MSc Psychology of Mental Health (conversion) programme.
A final point to acknowledge is that, as individuals, everyone’s ‘reflective capacity’ differs and that includes staff as well as students! This surfaces, for example, when reviewing submissions for HEA fellowship applications – so as always, our curriculum evolution will need to be supported by aligned staffdevelopment opportunities.
It is in this context that the University was awarded its first Key Action 203 Strategic Partnership funding by the European Commission in 2017 to develop the Network for Intercultural Competence to facilitate Entrepreneurship (NICE) in collaboration with 7 other European universities*.
Credit: Dr Morag Treanor and Dr Alison Kozlowski with a student. Her assessment task for the option course on ‘Working with PGRs’ led her to develop a project for the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) on ‘ Co-Creating a New Development Needs Analysis for PGRs ’ (January 2024-July 2025).
Credit: Dr Morag Treanor and Dr Alison Kozlowski with a student. Her assessment task for the option course on ‘Working with PGRs’ led her to develop a project for the Principal’s Teaching Award Scheme (PTAS) on ‘ Co-Creating a New Development Needs Analysis for PGRs ’ (January 2024-July 2025).
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[image iStock Finland] Since 2012, Informatics has been developing a year-long training programme for tutors and demonstrators, initially with help from the Institute for Academic Development.
It is therefore important that postgraduates who teach are trained, developed, and supported in their roles. iStock [shuoshu] Many of us will have been taught by, or worked as a postgraduate tutor. Postgraduates make up a majority of those who work as teaching assistants, tutors, and demonstrators at the University of Edinburgh and elsewhere.
To wrap up the year, this editorial post celebrates the top ten viewed Teaching Matters blog posts in 2018. This list captures some of the prevalent teaching and learning issues that have been swirling around the general HE zeitgeist this year.
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