Teaching Matters Edinburgh

Welcome to the Edinburgh University Student’s Association Teaching Award Podcast Series, working with the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange to celebrate those that have been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s awards. In this episode, Grace Lavender, Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student, talks with 2021 nominees Dr. Dimitri Mignard from the School of Engineering and Sam Nwokoro, PhD student and tutor in the School of Divinity.

The winners of this year’s Teaching Awards can now be viewed here. Congratulations to all nominees.

This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport.

In this episode, Dr. Fakunle talks to Professor James Smith. James is a Professor of African and Development Studies and Vice-Principal International at the University of Edinburgh.

In this wide-ranging and fascinating conversation, the University’s international activities and collaborations, serves as a jumping off point, for an in-depth discussion that speaks to many of the key themes of the University’s strategy for 2030, and possible directions for curriculum transformation.

This includes how Covid 19 transformed what’s core and what’s periphery in international research collaborations. At its heart this conversation is about celebrating the international community at the University and recognising the educational and civic value of having international and diverse classrooms and residences.

Welcome to the Edinburgh University Student’s Association Teaching Award Podcast Series. Working with the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange to celebrate those that have been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s awards. In this episode, Grace Lavender Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student, talks with 2021 nominees Dr. Crispin Jordan, a Teaching Fellow with a focus on data analysis in Edinburgh Medical School: Biomedical Sciences and Dr. Glen Cousquer, MSc Programme Co-ordinator in The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies.

You can also learn more about how Crispin adapted his pedagogy to hybrid teaching and learning including his replacement of lectures with ‘live sessions’ and ‘practice problems’ in his  Reflection on his nomination.

Presented By

Grace Lavender, Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student

Produced by

Rohanie Campbell-Thakoordin, Peer Learning Coordinator, Student Opportunities & Dr. Joe Arton, Institute for Academic Development.

Music Provided by HookSounds

This episode of the Teaching Matters podcast accompanies our March-April 2021 series on internationalisation curated by Dr Omolabake (Labake) Fakunle as guest editor. Dr Fakunle is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) and Coordinator of the MSc Education General Pathway at Moray House School of Education and Sport.

In this episode, Dr Fakunle talks to  Dr. Shari Sabeti, a Reader in Arts and Humanities Education at Moray House about her experience of working on an international academic collaboration project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. They discuss the hidden narratives of international academic collaboration projects, what it takes to balance 'the doing' and 'the managing' of research, and what gets left behind in order for the publications, conference presentations and institutional data to happen. We hope you enjoy this important, practical, entertaining, and very human conversation that normalises the messiness of international collaboration projects...

In this episode, we continue the story of how Covid-19 changed Assessment Design through an issue whose temperature has risen with the move to digital and hybrid; academic misconduct. We hear the voices of Neil Lent, a Lecturer in Learning and Teaching at the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh and Celeste Mclaughlin, the Head of Academic Development for Digital Education at the Institute for Academic Development.

In our previous March 3 episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast, we talked to Judy Hardy and Neil Lent about how Covid-19 impacted assessment design at the University of Edinburgh. We heard how for some the move from traditional in-person exams to open-book online exams and group projects had an unexpected positive impact on students’ learning outcomes. We also heard about how this change in assessment design led to increased workloads and pressures. This episode responds to many of these concerns and offers a roadmap for student success while supporting staff.

Produced and Presented by Dr. Joe Arton, Academic Developer, Institute for Academic Development.

In this episode of the Teaching Matters podcast, we continue our conversation with Dr Nina Burrowes, a psychologist and founder of the Consent Collective, an organisation that works with communities and institutions in helping navigate the complex terrain of consent and sexual violence. The Consent Collective has been working closely with the University of Edinburgh for over four years by providing expert psycho-education content and support in creative ways, including gameshow podcasts, panel events, cooking shows and more.

In this second episode, Dr Burrowes explores how consent is an interpersonal skill learned that takes lots of practice. She also discusses the role of higher education institutions in providing spaces for healing, learning, and making mistakes. 

In this episode of the Teaching Matters podcast, we speak with Dr Nina Burrowes, a psychologist and founder of the Consent Collective, an organisation that works with communities and institutions in helping navigate the complex terrain of consent and sexual violence. The Consent Collective has been working closely with the University of Edinburgh for over four years by providing expert psycho-education content and support in creative ways, including gameshow podcasts, panel events, cooking shows and more.

In this first episode of a three-part series, Dr Burrowes explores how consent is an embodied practice and ways of inviting bodies into the classroom. Dr Burrowes also shares insights about trauma-informed teaching, which is one of many research-based approaches for acknowledging trauma in teaching practices.

This week's episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast features a reading by Cathy Bovill, Senior Lecturer in Student Engagement at the Institute for Academic Development, University of Edinburgh and Visiting Fellow at the University of Winchester of her article 'Student Positivity and Creativity as a Source of Hope' that was featured in the October 2020 edition of Teaching Matters. 

In Teaching Matters Out Loud, Teaching Matters contributors read their blog posts out loud giving Teaching Matters readers an alternative way to enjoy current and previous posts. 

Episode 15 is an engaging and heated discussion between Poppy Gerrard Abbott and Amy Andrada, both PhD sociology candidates in the School of Social and Political Science. Poppy and Amy discuss issues such as the role of teaching from a feminist perspective, the link between feminist activism and teaching, and the place of peer support in the University. Amongst many other topics, they question the structural restraints around being a mother in academia, and delve into the way we use deficient language to describe these situations. They describe what sisterhood means to them, and ask if The University of Edinburgh has a ‘feminist’ community, as well as debating the emotional labour of building such a community.

In this episode of the Teaching Matters Podcast we examine how the various changes to assessment and feedback have impacted the staff and student experience and whether it reveals something about some of our preconceptions of the student experience. This episode features the voices of Judy Hardy, Professor of Physics Education and Dean of Teaching and Learning in the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and Dr. Neil Lent, Lecturer in Teaching and Learning at the Institute for Academic Development at the University of Edinburgh. 

To learn more about assessment and feedback in face-to-face, digital and hybrid modes of teaching and learning, visit the Teaching Matters Blog and the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange.