R & D projects

 

In the R & D section you will find:

• Employability
• TRIPLE - Interprofessional education
• mhhe - learning and teaching about mental health in higher education
• ETHICS - Ethics Teaching Highlighted In Contextualised Scenarios
• Miniprojects the subject centre has funded over 70 mini-projects since 2001
• JISC projects Links to JISC website where >100M per annum is spent on infrastructure and development projects
• Disability (incl. DIVERSE) Links to HEFCE website
• All UK educational projects database
• Partner search (email link)
• Interoperability project
• See also 'Resources'

There are a huge number of projects underway which are researching new approaches to learning and teaching in medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom. Many will report on their progress in 01

The R & D section includes links to projects funded in our subject areas from a variety of sources (NB Most of the links in the left menu on this page will take you to different websites or alternative sections of this site).These include:

Subject centre projects

The Academy has funded subject centres to work on three projects which are concerned with:

• TRIPLE: Inter-Professional Education
• ETHICS: Ethics Teaching Highlighted in Contextualised Scenarios
• mhhe: Mental Health in Higher Education Teaching

There is a full list of R & D projects from the Academy Connect 'Project Finder'. As more information and resources become available we will announce them via our news services, and add more links to this and other pages.

Miniprojects

miniprojects - we have funded over 70 miniprojects since 2001. There is a full list of projects together with progress reports where available. Any further miniproject funding schemes are announced via our news alert services and via this website.

JISC projects including X4L

JISC projects - The JISC has funded many programmes and projects, two recent programmes include FAIR and X4L. Under these programmes projects of interest include:

• BioBank, which might be better known to you already as the Bristol BioMedical Image Archive.
• ACETS, Assemble, Catalogue, Exemplify, Test and Share is a project concerned with developing and evaluating strategies for the sustainable use of reusable learning objects (RLOs) in medical and healthcare education.

The full lists of X4L and FAIR projects can be found on the JISC website.

HEFCE projects

Improving provision for disabled students including:

• DIVERSE: Disability in Veterinary Education - Resources for Sustainable Enhancement (which includes work reaching out to other professions including medicine and dentistry)
• Accessibility on online learning in specific subject areas

FDTL4 - A full list of FDTL4 projects is available from the Academy website, (formerly NCT) including:

• 61/02 OCTAVE: Optimising Computer Aided and Traditional Assessment in Veterinary Education
• 91/02 Incorporating Disability Equality in Clinical Practice
• 127/02 Developing Tomorrow's Leaders in Healthcare Education
• 138/02 A Core Question Bank Linked to the Learning Outcomes for Undergraduate Medicine
• 141/02 Managed Environments for Portfolio-based Reflective Learning - Integrated Support for Evidencing Outcomes
• 162/02 Web-Based Inter Professional Learning Network

More projects

• Other projects - such as UCEL, and IVIMEDS.
• Educational projects over 500 JISC, Funding Council and DfEE/DfES funded projects are listed in our educational projects archive.
• Partner search - We run a partner search service. If you are looking for partners for a project you have in mind, we would be delighted to help pair you up with like minded institutions. Email enquiries@ltsn-01.ac.uk with your ideas.

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• Student essay competition: Deadline 1 April 2010. £300 for 1000 words on the 2010 title, which is “Constructively describe your experience of receiving feedback, with suggestions for ways in which feedback might be improved.” Details: www.medev.ac.uk/resources/competitions/
• MEDEV and HSaP are pleased to announced that the jointly run HEALTH Network Group has appointed Frances Gordon as Learning and Teaching Consultant - Interprofessional Education.
• You are invited to the Improving the future healthcare workforce conference (CETL4HealthNE) (19 March 2010, St James Park, Newcastle upon Tyne).
• You are invited to the 2nd International Conference on Virtual Patients and MedBiquitous Annual Conference (26-28 April 2010, London).

• Higher Education Academy
• Health Sciences & Practice Subject Centre
• The Academy Subject Network