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February 28, 2006
MEDEV seeks case studies linking teaching and research
As part of the SNAS (Supporting new academic staff) project, we are seeking case studies of strategies for linking Teaching and Research by centres and individual teachers involved in medical, dental or veterinary education. These will then form part of the bank of such case studies covering all of the subject centres.
To join in and contribute to this study you will need to complete and email back to me, a short (one side of A4 will be fine) case study by answering the following questions.
Q1. Is your case study one that will help other staff as individuals or course teams?
Q2. What is the title?
Q3. What are your contact details including your name, work address, telephone and email address
Q4. Which of the following types of strategy does your case study illustrate (you may choose more than one)?
4.1 Developing student appreciation of research/consultancy in the discipline
4.2 Development of research/consultancy skills (explicitly, in addition to other disciplinary and generic skills)
4.3 Using teaching and learning processes, which stimulate research processes (e.g. project based modules, dissertation modules, inquiry based learning etc.)
4.4 Using assignments which involve elements of research processes (e.g. literature reviews, bidding for grants, drafting bids or project outlines, analysing existing project data, presenting at a conference.)
4.5 Giving students first hand experience of research based consultancy (whether commercial or pro-bono) (e.g. through SSCs as work-based learning, as a consultant assistant, or as a laboratory assistant)
4.6 Bringing data/findings from staff research/consultancy into the curriculum
Q5. What does the teacher do? (e.g. content, teaching and learning methods, assessment etc.) Please ensure that this section is written such that staff elsewhere can take the central elements from your practice. There is no minimum of maximum length to this section, but for entry to the prize draw (see question 6) it needs to be a minimum of 500 words. In preparing this section you might also like to consider such questions as:
5.1 What is the key advice you would give someone who has decided to adopt this method?
5.2 What kind of evaluations have you done?
5.3 What problems/issues have arisen?
5.4 What extra information/references can you suggest?
However even the basic outline of the content, teaching and learning methods etc would be extremely valuable, so please don't feel obliged to elaborate on your outline if you don't have the time to do so.
Q6. Do you want to enter your case study in a Higher Education Academy prize draw being held by the SNAS team at Academy York, that can win you a £50 Amazon voucher? A prize draw will be held every time SNAS receive 25 new case studies? Please note however that the closing date for entry into the draw is the 31st March 06 so you will need to move fast if you want to avail yourself of this opportunity!
Developing explicit links between teaching and research is potentially a valuable strategy for enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and these case studies provide an opportunity to share good practice in this area. If you have expertise and ideas of how to approach this, I do hope you will be able to contribute a case study. Please email your responses directly to me.
Best wishes
Nigel
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Nigel Purcell
Senior Education Advisor
Higher Education Academy Subject Centre
for Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine University of Newcastle
Email: nigel.purcell@ncl.ac.uk
tel: +44 191 222 5888
fax: +44 191 222 5016
http://www.medev.ac.uk/
direct line: 0191 246 4552
mobile: 07812 063320
Posted by at February 28, 2006 04:21 PM