Dr Verona Ni Drisceoil is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Her current research focuses on transition pedagogy, inequality in education and assessment for learning. …
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Now is the time to end awarding gaps in UK universities
Guest post by Mark Clark (Senior Lecturer in Management) Since 2015, Mark has been based at the University of Sussex as a Senior lecturer in the Business School within the Management department. During this time, he has achieved SFHEA and…
Fitting in and getting on: exploring the challenges and opportunities of an Education and Scholarship career pathway
Guest post by Paven Basuita, Jeanette Ashton & Kieran Durcan Paven Basuita is a Lecturer in Law (Education and Scholarship) and a Non-Practising solicitor. She joined the University of Sussex in 2019 from BPP Law School. Paven runs the Client Interviewing…
Tagged with: higher education, scholarship of teaching and learning
Posted in Blog, Education and Scholarship
Posted in Blog, Education and Scholarship
Practical approaches to teaching life science during the pandemic
Guest post by Lorraine Smith Lorraine Smith is a senior lecturer within the School of Life Sciences, and sits within the subject disciplines of biochemistry and biomedicine. Smith’s teaching responsibilities are varied and cover modules spanning foundation through to Masters…
LPS 2021 Employability showcase: making a difference through co-creation
Guest post by Jeanette Ashton. Jeanette Ashton is a Lecturer in Law (Education and Scholarship) and a Non-Practising solicitor, having joined the University of Sussex after 8 years at Brighton University. She is Employability lead for the Law School, leads the…
Tagged with: co-creation, higher education, reflection, students as partners, university
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Re-imagining approaches to supporting students’ learning from feedback – the hidden curriculum, care-based pedagogies and learning communities
The culmination of the assessment cycle at the end of what has been a particularly challenging year offers an opportunity (once we have caught our breaths!) to revisit our understanding of how we can best support our students to learn…
Tagged with: Assessment and Feedback, Curriculum, feedback literacy, online communities, pandemic, Pedagogies of care
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The ‘Law’ Critique and Question Reading and Writing Group: a space to connect ‘with’ rather than ‘for’ students
Guest post by Verona Ní Drisceoil (Senior Lecturer in Law, Sussex Law School) and year 1 students Ayodele Idowu-Bello, Tyrone Logue, Plum Philips, Judith Ohen and Miles Ratcliffe. Verona Ní Drisceoil is a Senior Lecturer in Law (Education and Scholarship) at…
Tagged with: inclusion, online communities, students as partners
Posted in Blog, Inclusion and Accessibility
Posted in Blog, Inclusion and Accessibility
How the pandemic covertly made teaching, learning and assessment more inclusive
Dan is an Academic Developer in Technology Enhanced Learning here at the University of Sussex. Inclusion, accessibility and digital capabilities are his areas of interest. Intro There is little doubt the pandemic has been overwhelmingly challenging for most, but there…
Tagged with: accessibility, covid-19, digital capabilty, digital skills, inclusion, pandemic, UDL, Universal Design for Learning
Posted in Blog, Inclusion and Accessibility
Posted in Blog, Inclusion and Accessibility
Reflections on different engagement techniques whilst teaching online
Guest post by Seun Osituyo Student engagement is a very useful part of our job as tutors as it helps us check that learning has taken place (Butcher, Davies and Highton, 2006). But what exactly do I mean by student…
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How can we improve Module Evaluation Questionnaires?
by Junko Winch Module Evaluation Questionnaires (MEQs) are an important source of student feedback on teaching and learning. They are also often relied upon as evidence cases for promotion and teaching. However, in their current form they suffer from low…