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Student Engagement in a Virtual Setting: A Departmental Society’s Experience

Aditya Mori, Arshiya Sawhney; Yash Dewan; Shivam Gujral; Raed Altaf (contributions from Amy Gardner; George Hawthorne; Anastasia Skuratova; Ed Collins) (Economics Department) 10 minute talk In this presentation we, the Senior Committee of The Economist’s Society (the student society of UCL Economics), will reflect on the content and the format of events we have organised duringContinue reading Student Engagement in a Virtual Setting: A Departmental Society’s Experience

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The benefits and challenges of designing programmes

Simon Walker, Sandra Lusk; Silvia Coliaicomo, Anne Preston, Martin Compton (Arena/VP education) 10 minute talk To support the development of new programmes at UCL East and the recommendations of the 2020 PGT review, UCL is piloting a holistic approach to its development of new programmes. As part of the preparation for Programme Module Approval PanelContinue reading The benefits and challenges of designing programmes

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Research projects from home: what skills do students acquire outside the labs?

Anne Vanhoestenberghe (Division of Surgery and Interventional Science), Michael Thomas (Biochemistry), Sara Ghoreishizadeh (Division of Surgery and Interventional Science) 45 minute discussion The panel will share their experience of leading project modules in undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes in the faculties of Engineering and Medical Sciences. Our approach is not to offer ready made “solutions”Continue reading Research projects from home: what skills do students acquire outside the labs?

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Connected Learning Internships – involving students in moving teaching online during the pandemic

Fiona Wilkie, Nick Grindle, Argyris Karapitsanis (contributions from Abbie King; UCL Arena Centre) 10 minute talk This presentation will share how Connected Learning Internships were created to address two major challenges as a result of the pandemic: summer internship cancellations for students, and a huge workload for staff faced with moving their teaching online, including inductionContinue reading Connected Learning Internships – involving students in moving teaching online during the pandemic

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Innovative assessment and students collaboration in online classroom

Silvia Dal Bianco (Economics), Chiara Amini (SSEES) 5 minute talk The pedagogical literature has demonstrated that an assessment strategy entirely based on examination might be biased towards particular learning styles (Jenkins et al., 2019). Moreover, the COVID emergency has accelerated the transition to digital assessment (Times Higher Education, 2021). Our research investigates how to dealContinue reading Innovative assessment and students collaboration in online classroom

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Benefits of joining the Student Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice

Mitesh Vagadia (Student Support and Wellbeing) 5 minute talk The Student Health and Wellbeing (SHW) Community of Practice (CoP) is sponsored by the Registrar and Director of Student Support and Wellbeing and has two leads Mitesh Vagadia – Head of Student Support and Wellbeing and Madiha Sajid – Teaching & Learning Officer for MSc HealthContinue reading Benefits of joining the Student Health and Wellbeing Community of Practice

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Student Wellbeing Questionnaires – a proactive approach to supporting students

Stefanie Anyadi, Kathryn Ball (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) 10 minute talk We will report on two different versions of student wellbeing questionnaires, which were piloted in Biosciences and in Psychology and Language Sciences during the 2020/21 session with undergraduate and Masters students. We will give an overview of the questionnaire design, messaging andContinue reading Student Wellbeing Questionnaires – a proactive approach to supporting students

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Science documentaries as a tool to ‘decolonise’ science education.

W Jacob (contributions from No) (UCL Cancer Institute) 5 minute talk Decolonisation in higher education refers to the movement to highlight and mitigate inequalities resulting from colonial attitudes and racism. The objective of this work is offer a platform to address topics regarding inclusivity and encourage active learning. I have used an award winning BBCContinue reading Science documentaries as a tool to ‘decolonise’ science education.

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Maximising student engagement through a novel interactive assessment

Mark Kristiansen (contributions from Paola Niola) (Genetics and Genomic Medicine, GOSICH) 5 minute talk This presentation will focus on how the use of a creative interactive assessment enhances student participation and engagement throughout the module and beyond. A major aim of this module is to equip students with critical key transferable skills that apply toContinue reading Maximising student engagement through a novel interactive assessment

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Teaching and facilitating learning during the Covid pandemic, academic year (2019/20): UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.

Lianna Bamberg, Steward C. Lee, David Blundred, Masuda Khanom, Sarah Lawson, Michael Moutoussis, Caroline Selai 10 minute talk Background: Given the timing of the first lockdown in the UK (March 2020), many of our Taught Masters students (2019/20) had to modify significantly their main research or switch to a different project altogether. Students were invitedContinue reading Teaching and facilitating learning during the Covid pandemic, academic year (2019/20): UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology.