Alan Jenkins on mainstreaming undergraduate research
February 1, 2011
Video >> Alan Jenkins: “The serious issue is that the relationship between people’s interest in their teaching, and commitment to their teaching, and the role of research in the university is now a massive issue, as universities try to grapple with handling those two roles. “We’re also interested in the fact that there is cutting …
Developing curiosity
Video >> Saul Becker: “When our students come here we are giving them the best knowledge that is available at that time and we’re also teaching them how to make judgements about the quality of that knowledge, so we are hopefully teaching them that some things are pretty certain and some things are less certain …
Linking theory and practice: guiding students on a work placement
January 26, 2010
Video >> Alison: “In a lot of work related professions where there’s work experience and it comes across whether you have sandwich courses or courses where the practice is integrated in different ways. I think you’re in school one minute and you’re out of the practice setting, you’ve got classroom world-real world, and I think …
Publishing student research
November 28, 2009
At the e-learning community of November 2009, Dr Martin Luck gave a presentation on BURN (Biosciences Undergraduate Research at Nottingham), which is part of an intiative to get student research more widely published. You can see the powerpoint presentation and the video of the presentation. Biosciences Undergraduate Research @ Nottingham – BURN
Connecting international teaching with research
September 29, 2009
Video >> Nicola Pitchford, School of Psychology: “I’ve had students that have done projects in Hong Kong and China and Spain. I’ve had PhD students from the Netherlands and from Greece. And, you know, for me, it’s very interesting because my own research is involved with education and with language learning and literacy acquisition. So, …
Gina Wisker on supervising students
April 13, 2009
Video >> Gina Wisker: “I think about supervision as a form of teaching and teaching doesn’t mean thrusting things down people’s throats, it means bringing things out of people. Helping them develop. Enabling. And research at any level is, undergraduate, postgraduate, work based or whatever, it’s a form of learning, so when I’m supervising students …
Bringing research into the classroom
April 14, 2008
Video >> Paul Crawford: “In terms of health communication, I’ve worked over a number of years now to ensure that new evidence about how to communicate with patients is put before our students as well as developing too research knowledge nationally and internationally. “The key thing for me is that if we’re teaching health communication …
Linking research and teaching
February 21, 2007
Video >> Ed: “Normally we are lecturing in courses where we do research, on the whole we do. In engineering particularly we have a real problem in recruiting engineers to do PhDs and getting a good one is even harder. “So it’s part of my philosophy, that wherever possible we talk about research in the …
An approach to understanding and developing undergraduate students’ research strategies
September 12, 2006
Mark Bradley, Christian Haase, Helen Hill, Katharina Lorenz, Violeta Sotirova and Lloyd Weeks: “Scholarship at university incorporates a number of practices different from the study techniques students develop to succeed at school. A key aim of this cross-disciplinary project is to understand and develop academic learning and critical thinking among our students, and to explore …
Using laboratory classes to teach experimental design
March 31, 2006
John Harris, Martin Luck and Alan Waterfall: Background “In previous years Animal Physiology students have carried out set laboratory experiments to illustrate the effects of exercise on cardiovascular responses. These were prescriptive laboratory sessions, each resulting in a written report. The teaching team felt that many students were completing these with insufficient thought and without …
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