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Bridging Employer and Student Connections

Weronika Benning, Patrick Molloy, Georgina Potts (UCL Careers) Asynchronous Submission Connection with employers is a key element of our students’ employability education. While huge swathes of summer 2020 internships were cancelled, employers themselves underwent a rapid shift to remote working, recruitment, selection, onboarding and induction – amidst slashed budgets and limited resources. The Careers teamContinue reading Bridging Employer and Student Connections

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Designing and developing e-portfolios in Reflect

Ellie Bates (contributions from Adam Phillips; Policy and Practice, School of Pharmacy) Asynchronous Submission The presentation will explore the design and development of e-portfolios for undergraduate and postgraduate students at the School of Pharmacy. Portfolios at the School of Pharmacy fulfil a number of functions depending on course requirements and student level; including the documentationContinue reading Designing and developing e-portfolios in Reflect

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Minecraft: hands-on & collaborative leaning in a virtual world

Rebecca Yerworth (MPBE) Asynchronous Submission How do you move an interdisciplinary lab project for ~250 students online?Somebody mentioned that UCL has access to Minecraft, Education Edition* …. I had visions of students ‘immersed’ in a Minecraft world, interacting with each other and a 3d simulation of the lab. Hours of work later, students were donningContinue reading Minecraft: hands-on & collaborative leaning in a virtual world

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Collaborative research with student interns during the covid-19 pandemic

Abbie King, Jesper Hansen (UCL Arena Centre); Gift Kalua (UG Student), Alex Drijver-Ludlam (PG student) Asynchronous Submission This presentation will draw on the reflections of two members of staff from the UCL Arena Centre and two students working with the team as interns on a research project to explore the experiences of staff and studentsContinue reading Collaborative research with student interns during the covid-19 pandemic

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UCL Careers: Charting a way forward for race equity at a departmental level

Nicole Estwick, Isobel Powell, Ash Talwar (UCL Careers and UCL Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) Asynchronous Submission Racial inequalities came to light more than ever in the last year. Recognising that anti-racism should not be an agenda pushed by those from ethnic minorities alone, UCL Careers established a group to bring racial equity to the coreContinue reading UCL Careers: Charting a way forward for race equity at a departmental level

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Learning robotics from home

Pradeep Devadass with Ben Spong, Martyn Carter, Viktoria Viktorija, Marielena Papandreou, Georgios Drakontaeidis, Vincent Huyghe. Asynchronous Submission How has the pandemic impacted the workshops & labs of the UCL’s architecture department? How has the B-made (Bartlett’s Manufacturing and Design Exchange) team addressed a complex subject like ‘robotics in architecture and construction’ in their teaching? The presentationContinue reading Learning robotics from home

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Applying a TBL model on Journal club sessions

Eleni Makrinou (Structural and Molecular Biology, contributions from Janice Kiugu, Amanda Cain) Asynchronous Submission Team-based learning is an active learning approach, that allows students to apply conceptual knowledge through a sequence of activities that involve both individual learning, as well as through teamwork, with immediate feedback. We have used the TBL model to run aContinue reading Applying a TBL model on Journal club sessions

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‘It’s kind of grow inside of me’: a structured approach for student peer support

Alexandra Wilson (contributions from Ann Parker and Carolyn Bruce) (UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences) Asynchronous Submission (You can reach Alex Wilson via twitter; this talk was originally submitted for the 2020 conference, which was cancelled). The project we describe was conducted prior to the pandemic, and the intervention used has now been successfullyContinue reading ‘It’s kind of grow inside of me’: a structured approach for student peer support

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From student feedback to marksheet renewal: making the grade in the time of Covid-19

Jennifer L Agustus, Adam Liston, Tim Young (contributions from Fiona Kinsella, Benadett Kalmar; Saiful Islam; Suman Gill; Amit Batla; Salam Haider; Caroline Selai; UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) Asynchronous Submission In 2019/20, IoN students used anonymised Unitu feedback to highlight inadequacies in the specificity of marksheets, transparency of marking, and clarity of feedback. AContinue reading From student feedback to marksheet renewal: making the grade in the time of Covid-19

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Promoting Collaborative Learning in Employability Workshops

Susanne Stoddart (UCL Careers, SRS) Asynchronous Submission I run employability workshops on Blackboard Collaborate, with each session attended by a maximum of 15 students from across any programme or year group. For one activity, students work in pairs in breakout rooms to provide feedback on each other’s personal application materials such as CVs. A keyContinue reading Promoting Collaborative Learning in Employability Workshops