The University of Brighton has joined University Alliance. University Alliance is a group of modern civic universities working together to shape higher education and research policy for the benefit of our students and business and civic partners. With over 20,000 students studying across five campuses in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings, the University of Brighton is […]
Collaborative research on Teaching Age and Discrimination in Mental Health Nursing Two mental health nursing lecturers and three mental health student nurses at the University of Salford have been working as co-researchers on a project to investigate the extent to which a teaching session about age and discrimination contributes to changing attitudes to working with […]
Research-Based Learning module The University of Portsmouth wanted to use a specific unit to develop transferable skills in students (teamwork, problem solving, communication skills). However, this was not proving effective. For example, in the team work exercises students tended to work alone and pull their efforts together at the end rather than working together as a […]
Student as Producer The University of Lincoln’s Student as Producer initiative aims to reconnect universities’ core activities of teaching and research by encouraging students at all levels to view themselves as active producers of knowledge. Originally an HEA-funded project, this principle of research-engaged teaching, as a development of research-informed teaching, has become the organising principle […]
Employer Insights Module A Kingston University course module is connecting teaching and research by bringing students in to the heart of industry. Associate Professor Dr Deborah Anderson devised Employer Insights which stimulates new undergraduate research through students interviewing leading figures in the world of marketing. As part of their course, second-year undergraduate marketing students interview […]
Research-informed teaching (RIT) can take different forms. As the following case studies indicate, RIT offers many benefits to students, staff and higher education institutions as a whole. The case studies below seek to highlight the many different ways to bridge the gap between research and teaching and to provoke discussion on how RIT can be […]
Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers (SPUR) Scholarship Projects for Undergraduate Researchers (SPUR) is a Nottingham Trent University initiative which provides bursaries for undergraduates to collaborate with staff on cutting-edge research projects. Since 2007 SPUR has involved 166 students working on 122 projects in 46 subject areas including Biosciences, Architecture, Linguistics, Social Work, Photography and Education. […]
University Alliance and the Higher Education Academy have published a collection of case studies highlighting examples of research-informed teaching from across Alliance universities, covering a broad range of existing practice. These aim to explore what research-informed teaching looks like across different disciplines and how it benefits students, academics and universities, as well as employers and the wider […]
Excellent teaching goes hand in hand with excellent research. This blog prepared by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and University Alliance, ahead of its workshop event with senior university practitioners and key higher education stakeholders, explores the latest thinking on research-informed teaching and what it looks like. Diversity is a strength of our higher education […]
As higher education in England is poised for the largest transformation in recent decades, University Alliance and the Higher Education Academy (HEA) have collaborated to help institutions to demonstrate and further improve the quality of teaching and ensure students flourish within their institutions. The new Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) is intended to provide a mechanism […]