Resources

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Linking Teaching and Research in Disciplines and Departments (2007)
Jenkins, Healey & Zetter
This document supports the effective links between teaching and discipline-based research in disciplinary communities and in academic departments.

Institutional strategies to link teaching and research (2005)
Jenkins and Healey
This work seeks to support policy-makers to enable their institutions to link teaching and discipline-based research more effectively. The focus is on supporting the relationships between student learning and staff discipline-based research in institutional policies and practices

References

Healey, M. (2005). Linking research and teaching: exploring disciplinary spaces and the role of inquiry-based learning, in Barnett, R. (ed). Reshaping the university: new relationships between research, scholarship and teaching. Maidenhead: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press, pp.67-78.

Levy, P. and Petrulis, R. (2007).  Towards transformation? First year students,inquiry-based learning and the research/teaching nexus. In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE), 11-13 December 2007, Brighton, UK.

CETLs, Initiatives and Projects
This page created by the HEA details CETLs, initiatives and projects focussing on linking teaching and research.

Assignment Survival Kit

First year students can find their first assignment at University a daunting prospect. This piece of software can help them to cope by giving them valuable insights in how to plan an assignment, search for information, critically evaluate, present and reference that information. It also helps students to plan their time and the steps they need to follow to survive and produce their first piece of assessed work.

RefZone

A comprehensive guide to referencing information using the main styles used by the university.  It gives many examples to illustate how to cite and reference information.

Values Exchange

An online tool to develop critical thinking capacity using social dilemmas. There are sample cases to try out.  Values Exchange gives tips and guidance for expressing an intelligent, thoughtful, reasoned response.

UK universities have realised their research informed teaching approaches in a diverse fashion.

Some examples are shown here:

Bournemouth University Research informed Teaching web pages

UCLan University of Central Lancashire Centre for Research informed Teaching

Northumbria University Research informed Teaching web pages

University of Winchester Research informed teaching web pages