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Project outputs

The unproofed final version of the report for this project can be seen here:
Attach:UnproofedFinalVersion.pdf

1. Handout from the QAA Enhancement Theme workshop (Heriot Watt, March 2008)
This workshop focused on introductory analysis of the interviews that we undertook, but it was also designed to disseminate a simple handout to be used when debating the links between research-teaching and graduate attributes.
Attach:QEDayHandout.pdf

2. Reflective questions to help stimulate discussion and understanding when starting curriculum / course review:
(Useful for teasing out discilpinary concerns about the normative assumption that research and teaching are intrinsically linked and that this is a 'good thing'.)
Attach:DiscussionQuestions.pdf

3. Handouts from the project's first dissemination seminar, held at University of Glasgow's Learning and Teaching Centre (19th March 2008)
Critically Thinking Graduates?

This consisted of two seminars exploring research-teaching linkages:

a. More than inquiring minds? Research-teaching linkages and graduate attributes in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Vicky Gunn, Steve Draper and Mel McKendrick, the team for the Research-Teaching Linkages project for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences will facilitated a seminar at Glasgow University to share their findings and disseminate case studies drawn from a variety of subjects within the Arts and Social Sciences (including Classics, History, Theology and Religious Studies, Literature, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Public Policy.). Workshop materials as follows:

handout 1 handout 2
handout 3 handout 4

b. The research-teaching nexus: the voice from academics in research-intensive universities.

To close this series of meetings Professor Jan Elen (K.U.Leuven) presented a seminar on his study into research-teaching linkages. His results suggest that the nexus is experienced as both important and suitable for the development among students of a mature epistemological disposition including ‘critical thinking’.
Attach:JanElen.pdf

A review of this day of activities can be found here: Attach:ReviewRTsessionMarch.pdf