Overview
As student engagement takes centre stage in academic life, how can academics and university leaders engage with their students to connect research and teaching more effectively? In this highly accessible book, the contributors show how students and academics can work in partnership to shape research-based education.
Full Product Details
Author: Vincent C. H. Tong ,
Alex Standen ,
Mina Sotiriou
Publisher: UCL Press
Imprint: UCL Press
Weight: 0.555kg
ISBN: 9781787351127
ISBN 10: 1787351122
Pages: 346
Publication Date: 06 March 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'Shaping Higher Education with Students is a great start to addressing the issues raised here through its rich examples of SSP practice from a diverse range of contexts. This book will prove to be particularly helpful and insightful for academics striving to connect research with teaching, staff setting up or facilitating extended SSP projects, and students commencing research projects and other partnerships with staff.' International Journal for Students as Partners 'The book offers a useful set of tools that inspire new ways of connecting with students through research projects, and will appeal to a range of practitioners -experienced or otherwise.' Innovations in Practice
Author Information
Vincent Tong is a Principal Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education. Apart from being the strategic lead of the UCL Connected Curriculum initiative and a science educator, he is a Principal Investigator of an international research consortium in earth sciences. His research publications span a wide range of subjects, from astrophysical and earth sciences to pedagogy and research-teaching-outreach synergy. Alex Standen is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education. Alex leads UCL Arena Two, a development pathway for probationary Lecturers and Teaching Fellows. She joined UCL in 2013 in a student support and engagement role, prior to which she taught Italian and European Studies at the Universities of Birmingham and Auckland. Alex has published on the Italian author and playwright, Dacia Maraini, and is editor of a volume of essays on social and ethical engagement in twentieth-century Italian culture. Her current research interests relate to postgraduate research student development and student-supervisor relationships. Mina Sotiriou is a Senior Teaching Fellow in the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education, and her focus is on Quality Assurance. Her work is primarily on curriculum design for online courses and student learning experience. Mina has worked in a number of higher education institutes in the area of learning technology, and she has designed many online courses. Her research interest is on the impact of professional development of short courses to learners
