School

Project plan

Applied Social Sciences

Enhancing staff skills in relation to tutoring undergraduate students through: considering different models of personal tutoring, considering the relationship between academic and personal tutoring; identifying issues regarding student diversity and student disability; developing support mechanisms and materials. Contact names: Dawn Stephen and colleagues

Chelsea

Implementing a series of day-long Staff Development workshops (already piloted) within the three main Subject Areas. Main aims are to: improve culture of communication; enable collective critical reflection; enhance strategic thinking; contribute to problem solving.

Computing, Maths and Information Sciences

Develop staff expertise in teaching, learning and assessment across a diversity of provision (Fd - PG, incl. college based work). Particular focus on diversity and disability. Particular issues to include: assessment load reduction; honours project support and assessment; on-line learning; retention strategies; the HE ethos in colleges; mentoring of new staff.

Education

Development of a more appropriate induction programme; enhance relationship between scholarly activity, research and teaching; identify ways to enable the equality commitments to inform course development.

Engineering

To set up a system for staff to peer coach each other in areas of teaching and learning

Environment

Review assessment practices; develop new methods of teaching associated with sustainable development and citizenship; provide further training on supporting students with disabilities, particularly in practical and field based work; promote engagement with HE Academy.

Health Professions

Develop a series of workshops and supporting learning materials to introduce new and experienced staff to the process of course development, to enhance their skills as members of validation panels and to think about their roles as academics in the ongoing process of monitoring and evaluation.
Contact names: Phil Mandy, Heidi von Kurthy

Historical and Critical Studies

Integrate assessment regime into the curriculum as a learning/teaching benefit. Particular focus on: visual resources; electronic media; 'electronic assembly'; new School-based awards; team assessments and interchange of assessments to ensure comparability across the School.

Institute of Nursing and Midwifery

Further development of online learning opportunities, incl.: providing all staff with appropriate and easily managed means of accessing electronic information for learning and teaching; reviewing staff skills; involving students (incl. those with disabilities) in developing and evaluating online materials; underpinning developments with research evidence.

Languages

Electronic whiteboard development; induction practices; personal tutoring.

Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences

Evaluate methods of curriculum delivery in the MPharm and the BSc Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sciences, to incl. for selected modules: reviewing module description; reviewing delivery and assessment; considering staff/student opinions; internal and external benchmarking.

Postgraduate Medical School

Produce a Visiting Lecturer’s Handbook: a paper and electronic tutor’s guide for occasional teaching staff of which there are over 170 in the Postgraduate Medical School alone. They include existing HE lecturers, doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and other specialists. The handbook will cover everything from teaching philosophy and learning strategies to payment and how to get the building. It will aim to be a practical resource to equip visiting lecturers with everything they need to deliver the highest quality teaching possible.

Service Management

Review assessment strategies; distance learning in Europe-based MA courses; use of student focus groups; develop use of pedagogic research; ethical issues in the curriculum.