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  1. How Anglia Ruskin University’s Live Brief modules are enhancing graduate employability

    October 26, 2023

    …benefiting 5,989 students. All-round engagement with an active curriculum ARU’s investment in our Live Brief strategy has been considerable. It ensures that students relate the knowledge and skills they are developing to real-world problems. This not only improves engagement with employability, it also reshapes staff and student engagement with the active curriculum itself. Now two years into our Live Brief approach, our development focus is payin…

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  2. Continuous Professional Development

    June 16, 2018

    …trand of work? The TEA is a vehicle through which partner universities can share and develop exceptional CPD offers to the wider group, in the spirit of mutual enhancement. Where possible this will focus on collective/team-based CPD. Open learning opportunities may be: Formal CPD with or without assessment; Informal CPD, i.e. Tweetchats, open webinars, podcasts, teaching exchange and mentorship. The TEA will also connect partners to develop new CP…

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  3. Sexual consent education at Oxford Brookes University

    August 4, 2021

    …p a trauma-informed staff-student dialogue which breaks down issues of mistrust. This year the sexual consent modules were trialled by students studying from foundation to postgraduate level, and by a small group of staff. Their recommendations have influenced revisions to Brook’s modules and shaped our focus for 2021-22. For example, acknowledging that an isolated online resource does not make an effective education programme, we aim to expand mo…

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  4. The University of Hertfordshire’s holistic approach to research-led innovation and entrepreneurship

    April 12, 2024

    …n partnership with IP Group, developed a novel, controlled-release liquid drug formulation transforming drug intake methods for elderly and dysphagia patients that, following extensive research and funding, is now being developed on an industrial scale. ImmuOne is another Herts success story, set to expand internationally soon after having secured several rounds of significant investment for their in vitro, ‘3D human lung’. Our role as a catalyst…

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  5. Peer Review College

    June 17, 2018

    …e thinking and activity, with a focus of making innovative course designs ‘live’ Support team work through the practicalities of implementation. Help staff to think cohesively about the challenges they face in delivering their programme and the implications for professional practice Session suitable for: Programme teams entering a design / re-design process Multi-disciplinary groups or single discipline teams Length: half-day Provided by: a team o…

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  6. Vaccines, R&D and the Budget

    March 8, 2021

    …liver a R&D-led recovery that truly levels-up our regions. To realise this potential, we need a Levelling Up Fund that draws upon existing university expertise and infrastructure, and a UK Shared Prosperity Fund that integrates R&D and allows for the continuation of existing investment….

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    Beth Button

  7. Placed-based innovation at RGU Orkney

    November 29, 2023

    …Creating an evidence base to influence policy and practice in other remote rural regions through innovative research and teaching programmes. The plan aims to help the local community in Orkney while also contributing to the development of remote rural regions. Research projects in the community As part of RGU’s strategic priority to grow the quality and impact of its research, the University is committed to engaging in research and knowledge exch…

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    Elsa Cox

  8. COP26 needs to address air quality as well as climate change

    November 1, 2021

    …tions.’ It will not be sufficient to raise awareness and leave the rest to market forces (although a public awareness campaign on air pollution is arguably long overdue). The public must not only be informed but must also be facilitated and enabled to make changes to ensure existing inequalities are not reinforced. To do that, we need to better understand how people live and the challenges that they may face, so policymakers can co-develop solutio…

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  9. How volunteering for the NHS helped me become a pandemic-resilient PGR (and introduced me to the Queen!)

    June 10, 2021

    …the progress of knowledge in my specialist field, I could also support the lives and livelihoods of those in my local community. In fact, the latter can be deeply satisfying and could potentially be the grit to get your PhD over the line. Can spending five minutes of your time for someone in your community really be sufficient to turn you into a dauntless, extra-resilient PhD researcher? From my experience, yes! When I hear people whom I have supp…

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  10. Commuting students – enhancing a different student experience

    September 27, 2019

    …experiences: distance travelled to university and whether or not a student lives with other students. Considering both the risk of travel disruption, and the risk of social disengagement from other students can, they argue, identify those students most at risk. However, talk of ‘at risk students’ can also suggest a deficit approach, in which the middle class, on-campus model is held up as the gold standard, and where we aim to mitigate, as far as…

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