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Institution: London Metropolitan University
The team has developed a shared vision for their teaching and learning practice which emphasises relationship-based and creative critical approaches to learning. A relatively newly formed permanent team they are excited and inspired by the different perspectives each colleague contributes that shape their collaborative approaches to ensuring an excellent student experience.
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Institution: Ulster University
The Personalised Medicine Team at Ulster University brought together specialists from different disciplines in collaborative partnership, prioritising student experience and employability. Their holistic approach, integrating teaching and research, produced agile graduates, responsive to the needs of the sector and has benefitted the local economy through graduate training and job creation.
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Institution: University of Warwick
Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community is a cross-institutional community of practice: a professional learning space and site of advocacy for postgraduate researchers who teach (PGRs), typically PhD students. The team seeks to connect these early career teachers, both supporting and celebrating their unique contribution to Higher Education learning and teaching.
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Institution: University of Leeds
TALENT, the Teaching and Learning Enhancement NeTwork, is a wide-reaching community of like-minded staff who are passionate about learning and teaching. TALENT creates a space for sharing evidence-based best practices in STEM. It is an interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical, open platform for engagement and discussion in Learning and Teaching.
Faculty Departments: Institute of Education
Institution: University of Reading
The team’s key value is ‘collaboration’, at the heart of sustainability (Lozano, 2007). The collaboration created a mechanism for the team to work together, organically and with a wider team to develop and embed an initial teacher education (ITE) framework for climate and sustainability education across all ITE Programmes.
Faculty Departments: Law & Technology
Institution: London South Bank University
The LSBU Law & Technology team offer collaborative project-based learning that enhances student employability through real-world projects, community engagement, and innovative teaching methods. They prepare students for employment in the digital economy, contribute significantly to current academic debates and support access to justice within their local community.
Faculty Departments: RITE (Research and Innovation in Teacher Education)
Institution: Northumbria University
Research and Innovation in Teacher Education (RITE) is a team of nine academics and two school leaders from professional practice. Their work centres around developing innovative approaches to teacher education, supporting students to acquire essential competencies alongside the secure professional identity needed to prepare them for future employment and practice.
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Institution: The Open University
The Fieldcast team have created an authentic, inclusive and engaging method for teaching fieldwork for the environmental sciences. Fieldcasts are live, interactive broadcasts of lecturer-actioned but student-led investigations, allowing students from anywhere in the world to participate and making practical field experiments accessible to students remotely, at scale.
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Institution: University of Sussex
The Playful Learning Association (PLA) is driven by team of educators, researchers, professionals, and university leaders. They collaborate across institutions to promote playful learning approaches in higher education, inspiring educators and transforming teaching practices by challenging traditional views of play and emphasising its potential for learning.
