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 …

Publishing student research

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

Gina Wisker on supervising students

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 …