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                        • March 2024
                            • Co-creating a culturally responsive pedagogy
                            • Incorporating student perspectives towards Generative AI
                            • Open Educational Resources core engineering mathematics
                            • Commuter students’ experiences of assessment, degree outcomes and labour market prospects
                            • Embedding Accessibility into Higher Education Courses and Programmes
                            • Understanding and Shaping Generative AI Integration in Computer Science Education
                            • Clients as Partners in Education: Valuing and Developing Relationships
                        • October 2023
                            • Co-Creation of a New Development Needs Analysis for PGR Students
                            • A co-design approach to developing novel clinical reasoning assessments.
                            • Beyond the dissertation
                            • Investigating conceptions and conceptual change in the teaching of large STEM classes
                            • Hearing the silent voices
                            • Towards an ecological pluriversity
                            • A systematic approach to enable production of accessible course materials
                            • Generative AI in education
                        • March 2023
                            • Mentoring in partnership: Empowering School Based Teacher Educators to develop their practice
                            • Evaluating institutional approaches to portfolio use
                            • Developing evidence-based guidelines to reduce statistics anxiety among university students
                            • Nature connection sessions for student wellbeing
                            • Impact of frequency and scale of coursework in STEM subjects
                            • Sustainable Careers Project
                            • Social Theory Walks: The City of Edinburgh as a teaching space
                            • Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy: Reflections from Psychosocial Perspectives
                            • Computational thinking in data science: Strategies for Effective Learning
                        • October 2022
                            • Making connections to the ‘real’ world: further developing teacher vision in Initial Teacher Education
                            • Research staff: the missing link in teaching and learning?
                            • Paws on Campus: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study of a Canine-assisted Intervention for Student Wellbeing
                            • Crossing the Line: Developing an Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Higher Education
                            • An enhancement-oriented investigation of marking trends and practices in the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
                            • Sensing in the Community
                            • Set Them Free! Open Publishing of INF1B Course Materials
                        • March 2022
                            • Our sustainable campus: developing a technology-assisted tour of University of Edinburgh’s sustainable buildings
                            • How is statistical study design and statistical analysis taught in the life sciences?
                            • Assessing medical students’ preparedness to engage in clinical research practice.
                            • A gamification approach to enhancing student empathy towards laboratory animals
                            • Living and Studying at Home: Commuter Students in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
                            • Recreating the BBC class calculator: A project in open science pedagogy
                            • A Data-driven Approach to Supporting Reflection in Edinburgh Teaching Award Scheme Applicants
                        • October 2021
                            • Hybrid Pioneers: A cross-institute Action Group 2021-2023
                            • Improving the quality of assessment-feedback in postgraduate education; Co- creation of a digital training resource
                            • Enabling mature age working class undergraduate students to succeed at the University of Edinburgh
                            • Amplifying the student voice: co-creation of resources to facilitate student feedback
                        • March 2021
                            • Developing a framework for inclusiveness in internationalisation
                            • Open to All? Faculty Development for Equitable Participation in Clinical Teaching
                            • Equality, diversity and inclusion in the curriculum: developing a strategic approach in the medical school
                            • Co-creating curriculum through the course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World
                            • Co-creating an inclusive self-care curriculum to enhance wellbeing and learning for social work students
                            • Developing digital and hybrid mathematics support for long-term improvements in quality and accessibility
                            • Beginning university during SARS-CoV-2 restrictions: meeting the needs of students belonging to a Widening Participation group
                            • Critical Thinking Retreat: Using situated simulations to develop researcher positioning in master’s students
                            • Enhancing students' experience through co-constructing academic community
                            • Integrating student participation and EDI with Board of Studies: towards a community of critical readers
                            • VR Lab: Enable Online Laboratory Teaching through Virtual Reality
                            • Exploring and engaging with student perceptions of digital citizenship
                            • Exploring the relationship between Learning Technologists and teaching staff
                            • The creation and use of low-fidelity models - key surgical skill competence and confidence in final year veterinary students
                        • October 2020
                            • Student-led portfolio assessment - large pre-honours cross-university elective
                            • Decolonising the Business School Curriculum
                            • Decoding the Interdisciplines: Helping teachers & learners discover unfamiliar ways of thinking
                            • Empathy and compassion in work and life
                            • Supporting teacher reflection through visualisation of classroom practices data
                            • Empowering student teachers to improve classroom practice using the Lesson Study model
                            • Can a pandemic evidence-synthesis group become a model for student development and enhanced learning?
                            • Keeping the Door Open: Curating, developing and evolving University of Edinburgh teaching in spaces and places
                            • Researching widening participation in Engineering: Enrolment, Progression, Attainment and Support Strategy
                            • Exploring online learning as an avenue for equity and decolonial praxis amid the COVID crisis
                            • Developing a tutoring network in Informatics for young people in schools in deprived areas
                        • May 2020
                            • Predicting academic attainment in case-based discussion board assessments
                            • Using 3D-printing technology to create novel simulator models
                            • J-YAP Inter-University Support Project
                            • Assessment Literacy for Graduate Attribute Enhancement (ALGAE) in Biomedical Sciences
                            • Supporting criteria-based marking
                            • Promoting support to succeed and progress
                            • Personal Values in Postgraduate University Student Engagement
                            • Through the patient's eyes: using virtual reality to teach empathy to medical and nursing students
                            • Aligning skills, assessments and feedback: a programme-level scheme
                        • October 2019
                            • Do you really belong? Understanding the BAME attainment gap at Edinburgh University
                            • Establishing the Dick Vet Immersive Simulation Environment (DiVISE)
                            • Conversations, community and collegiality: Exploring the effect of blogging on teaching and learning practice
                            • Evaluation of the innovative, interdisciplinary, experiential learning opportunities EPSRC Our Health offer
                            • Developing a disability studies module in the School of Health in Social Science
                            • Mentoring for success: Co-producing a meaningful workplace mentoring scheme
                            • Creation and evaluation of immersive simulation digital media
                            • Student-led neuroscience outreach project aimed at a diverse range of high school pupils
                            • Enhancing International Student Experience at History, Classics & Archaeology
                        • March 2019
                            • Lecture recordings in everyday study practice
                            • Lecture segmentation and transcription
                            • Edinburgh Award Evaluation
                            • Supporting success for widening participation students
                            • Widening participation in Maths circles
                            • Supporting transition to university mathematics with blended learning
                            • Uncovering uncertainties linked to widening participation
                            • Widening Veterinary Outreach to the Scottish Highlands and Islands
                            • Using UX research methods to inform online course design
                            • Study abroad and disciplinary thinking and practising
                            • Building biological models in minecraft
                            • Understand learning pathways with curriculum analytics
                        • October 2018
                            • Classroom practices and lecture recording
                            • E-portfolios and developing awareness of graduate attributes
                            • Pre-entry online Chemistry course - widening participation
                            • HCA Writing Centre
                            • Engagement and feedback tools for students
                            • Learning glass: evaluating its use by teachers and students
                            • EdAR – Educational Apps in Augmented and Mixed Reality
                        • March 18
                            • Lecture recordings - domestic and international student comparison
                            • Teach learn replay
                            • Podcasts to enhance the online distance learning experience
                            • Lecture capture - online learning
                            • Preparing graduates to manage acutely unwell patients
                            • Employability mismatch in veterinary education
                            • Embedding a culture of career learning in the GeoSciences
                            • Students-staff partnership in Biomedical Sciences 2
                            • LLC Knowledge exchange
                            • Archaeology at the Centre for Open learning (COL)
                            • International students' participation PGT first semester
                            • Exploring learning and assessment practices in University and professional workplaces.
                            • Embedding employability in the course approval process
                            • Design-thinking frameworks for future-directing bio-innovation
                        • October 2017
                            • Lecture recording for inclusive education
                            • Enhancing Engagement with Media Hopper Replay
                            • RMDAS - Research methods, data analysis and statistics course
                            • High school mentoring - physics
                            • The Bottle Imp: a graphic adaption
                            • Supporting transition to the workplace
                            • Research-led virtual field trips
                            • Assessment literacy pyramid
                            • Comparing First Year Student Transition Experiences
                            • Using Media Hopper to enhance peer-teaching
                            • Engagement with the discourse of professional development
                            • Improving Data Science Teaching
                            • Vets at "Play"
                        • March 2017
                            • ShinyStats statistics training apps
                            • CollaboratED
                            • Lecture recording in mathematics and physics
                            • Enriching lecture recording
                            • Exploring engagement with lecture recording
                            • Corpus analysis of student feedback
                            • Students' experiences of academic writing support
                            • Playful Learning - OER Board Game Jams
                            • Promoting a learning community through peer feedback
                            • The role of the PGT Programme Director
                            • Helping students to write readable code
                            • Student nurses' learning - care home nursing
                            • Teaching for critical thinking in business
                            • Improving the mathematics diagnostic test
                            • Preparing students to face wicked problems
                            • A curriculum for climate justice
                            • Coding club
                            • Becoming Agents of Change
                        • October 2016
                            • "What are you going to do with that?" The HCA Degree and Employability
                            • Developing Context-Based Physical Chemistry Laboratory Investigations
                            • Experiential learning in communities: developing and testing a framework for evaluation
                            • 'From the door of our tent' : an online journal of creative and contemporary ethnographic work
                            • Formative assessment: how useful is it, who does it help the most, and how can we improve it further?
                            • Exploring flexible modes of online education
                            • Skills development and employability in the Business School Undergraduate curriculum
                            • Asking the right question
                            • Making students curious: using an app-based walking tour as a pedagogical tool
                        • March 2016
                            • "A live pulse": Yik Yak for understanding teaching, learning and assessment
                            • Physical activity in medical education: a flipped classroom approach
                            • The Law School history wall project
                            • Every student a researcher: blogging as a form of student assessment
                            • Learning about the limitations of medicine
                            • Embedding resilience training into the core veterinary curriculum
                            • The English Bonus?
                            • Theory on stage
                            • Empowering postgraduate students in history to become better teachers
                            • Implementing lessons learned on embedded study skills provision
                            • Developing an anatomy bodypainting workbook
                            • Nursing students exchanging knowledge and experience through stories
                            • Pre-laboratory peer assessed skills in inorganic chemistry
                            • Enhancing assessment literacy and scorer reliability
                            • Building competence in social sciences for students of medical sciences
                        • October 2015
                            • Diversity Reading List
                            • The disciplinary effect on early career teachers
                            • Approaches to teaching human empathy
                            • Trading simulation platforms in finance education
                            • How do students and staff view assessment: 'Of', 'In' or 'As' learning?
                            • Using gesture recognition system for hand hygiene training
                            • What does good teaching look like to students?
                            • Evaluating professional internships for PhD Students
                            • Ways of thinking and practising in IMES
                            • Peer assessing laboratory skills
                            • Understanding the learning experience from voluntary work
                        • March 2015
                            • Using feedback postcards
                            • E-Light: Edinburgh, energy and education exchange
                            • Masters degree perceived value
                            • Peer-led PhD training workshops
                            • Preparation for practice
                            • Developing learning for sustainability
                            • Art Beat: Art and anatomy Edinburgh
                            • Enhancing interdisciplinary learning
                        • October 2014
                            • Developing academic writing using Turnitin
                            • Widening participation - history of art
                            • Embedded study skills & student attainment
                            • Student-led media library development
                            • Teaching international students
                            • Social justice development
                            • Peer support for pre-arrival
                            • Learning in a living lab
                        • March 2014
                            • Co-development of a flipped classroom strategy
                            • Managing your digital footprint (research strand)
                            • Tactical decision games in teaching
                            • Early warning system - students at risk of failure
                            • A curly arrows app for Chemistry?
                            • Dissertations at a distance
                            • Third space: evaluating a pilot
                            • Doctoral students as (collaborative) writers
                            • Online training - good clinical practice
                            • Tutor feedback - online academic writing courses
                            • Interdisciplinary simulated learning
                        • October 2013
                            • Integrated assessment and feedback practices
                            • Online reflexive practice
                            • Musical improvisation in higher education
                            • Growing and sustaining an online community
                            • Personal tutoring in transition
                        • March 2013
                            • Digital detectives
                            • Personalised feedback - multi-station practicals
                            • 3-D models for undergraduate education
                            • Innovative environmental analysis teaching
                            • Interactive e-books for engineers
                            • Humanising an asynchronous online course
                            • Social media - teaching and community
                            • Transitions between academic cultures
                        • October 2012
                            • Data analysis and student support in maths
                            • Student perspectives: generic research methods
                            • Comparative study: expectations and achievements
                            • Peer Assisted Learning (PAL) in the vet curriculum
                            • Autonomous postgraduate learning abroad & VLEs
                            • Exploring online distance learning
                        • June 2012
                            • Critical skills
                            • Introducing psychology
                            • German in the workplace
                            • Ways of thinking & practising
                            • Engineering education & sustainability
                            • Medical students feedback
                            • Alumni mentoring scheme
                            • PeerWise: biology
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                            • Psychology research with young people
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