…UKRI’s patchy extension packages will do little to assuage worries. While the reforms promised in the UK Research and Innovation Roadmap will help address these for future generations, in the meantime, by adopting these recommendations providers of doctoral training can go some way to relieving the complex pressures faced by the current generation of PhD researchers….
…dents come from the local area, and then serve back into that community or communities nearby. But there are challenges: we need to be open and honest about the fact that if you are studying to become a healthcare professional, it’s not an easy course. It’s not easy to go into an environment where at times there are significant challenges, not least responding to a global pandemic. But it’s important to highlight how rewarding it can be. We need t…
…d diverse place, whilst also acknowledging the work that still needs to be completed to overcome the existing challenges. Fortunately, throughout my time at Sheffield Hallam University, as both an undergraduate Law student and now as a member of staff within the Department of Law & Criminology, I have avoided discrimination. However, this is unfortunately not the case for all students within UK universities, as research by Stonewall found that on…
…ty of practice has delivered strategic support and, through the sharing of services and expertise, helped the partners within the MAT overcome practical problems on school improvement, wellbeing, safeguarding, staff recruitment, professional development and raising aspirations. The aim of Coventry University’s sponsored MAT, meanwhile, is to bring together a community of sixth-form teachers and to enable smaller and less popular subjects to be del…
…at the best way to measure quality is to look at student outcomes, and the best outcomes to measure are continuation, completion, and progression to skilled employment and/or further study – the ‘holy trinity’ of quality according to the gospel of DfE and OfS. The focus on numerical student outcomes appears not only in the current and proposed OfS B3 registration conditions, but also in the current and proposed Teaching Excellence and Student Outc…
…cture & Built Environment at Robert Gordon University. A few months before completing his master’s programme, Husseini secured a full-time job as a Quantity Surveyor with Bouygues UK Construction, a leading construction company. Husseini Musa (Nigeria) – MSc Construction Project Management, Robert Gordon University. Having spent several years as Senior Architectural Designer at Places for People, one of the UK’s largest social hosing providers, Sh…
…. sandpit or workshop attendees; students; employers) will automatically become Associates. The composition, terms and activities for associate membership will be agreed in the second phase of development, once the core Membership is established, and once there is material to provide benefit to Associates. PRC Members gain development opportunities throughout the career-cycle through: Exposure to a national and interdisciplinary perspective on tea…
…. After a brief coffee and catch-up, the session was kickstarted with a welcome address by the Head of DTA Jennie Eldridge, followed by a conversation panel discussion on the topic: ‘What is Community in Research?’. The speakers, Dr Heather Sears, Professor Amin Al-Habaib, Dr Anna Seabourne, Dr Ellie Crabtree, Professor Mark Devenney, Professor Michael Cole, myself and Udit Tiwari discussed what research community means to them. This session was f…
…an make that overarching goal no longer feel insurmountable. Dedicated workspace Within two months of working from home, my living room was an exploded office. Diagrams pinned on the walls, books all over my desk, post it notes littering the dining table, annotated articles spilling onto the floor. Once I was able to consolidate the academic shrapnel, I had more room to breathe. Having space, however, is a privilege. If you are restricted in choic…
…e place, students reflected the many different aspects of the Lido and the community who use it in the flags flying in this prominent public space until the end of December 2023. Kate Hiseman from ARU’s Peterborough campus leads the module Environmental Challenge Project 2 for Level 4 students. In her collaboration with Natural England, Kate’s students were asked to investigate possible causes and remedies for some environmental issues affecting C…
